Benefits of Membership

NAPA aims at being non-discriminatory and invites submissions from artist irrespective of race colour or creed.

NAPA gives international status for a modest membership fee compared to other national art organisations.

NAPA prides itself that it gives a very careful and fair appraisal of an artists work, both at the selection into membership and exhibition stages.

NAPA has but one grade of membership and all members have the right to submit work for inclusion in exhibitions within Britain.

NAPA confers upon all members, who have exhibited in any of its exhibitions to date, the right to use the letters NAPA after their name.

NAPA additionally can at its discretion confer upon members a fellowship award, and permits the use of the letters FNAPA.

NAPA established the cost-effective way of using slides or photographs when selecting candidates for its worldwide membership and when selecting for all exhibitions.

NAPA members are required to submit laser copies, photographs or slides of their work for inclusion in any UK exhibitions that NAPA mounts.

NAPA seeks to find the best possible exhibition venues to display its member's work.

NAPA each year gives its international membership the chance to exhibit in a British gallery at least once every year.

NAPA encourages its members to organise regional exhibitions, using the official NAPA logo.

NAPA total international membership is included on the NAPA Website: art-arena.com/napa

NAPA national exhibitions are supported by various companies in the form of awards.

NAPA has achieved international recognition in art journals and magazines throughout the world.

NAPA members may be approached, via NAPA, by art journals and magazines for artwork or articles.

NAPA periodically produces The International NAPA Newspages, which is designed to keep members informed and also to give them a chance to write about their art or an art issue. Copies of the same are placed in the archives of the Tate Gallery, London.

NAPA on napauk.org produces a page that is entirely devoted to members’ works that have been exhibited at any of its national exhibitions.

NAPA is a member of the Fine Art Trade Guild

NAPA is affiliated with the Voluntary Arts Network, which is an organisation that works on behalf of non-profit making art movements.

NAPA members have the opportunity to be listed in the British Who's Who in Art.

NAPA has negotiated a reduced Life Membership rate for its members with the Design and Artists Copyright Society. DACS is an international society that protects your copyright.

NAPA's mission is to explore and promote acrylic painting through its membership, at international, national and regional levels. It will seek to fulfil this task by exhibitions, which aim to show the distinctiveness, versatility and the potential of the medium.

NAPA's aims are to attract into membership artists who use acrylic paint, and who are wanting to be associated with other painters who work in the medium, with the aim of organising collective, and cost effective, national or regional exhibitions. We will endeavour to fulfil our mission by inviting, electing and welcoming artists into membership.

Revised 08.12.2004

© 1998 K. Kianush, Art Arena

Join NAPA

Do you

• Paint in acrylics?
• Want the chance to exhibit in England and the USA?
• Want to mix with like-minded people?
• Want the opportunity to display your work on this website?

If so, why not apply to join the National Acrylic Painters' Association?

Applications should be sent with six recent slides/photos, a non-refundable candidate's fee of £6, and a stamped addressed A5 envelope. All payments should be in the form of cheques payable to The National Acrylic Painters' Association

Please send your application to:

Alan Edwards (NAPA),
NAPA Membership Secretary,
6 Berwyn Boulevard,
Bebington, Wirral
CH63 5LR

England, UK

An application form for you to print out is available here

If your application is successful, the annual fee at present is £30 for Members.

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