OPA welcomes representational oil painters of all levels. Join your peers: be a part of one of the leading arts organizations that supports traditional, representational painters.
We use a calendar-year membership model. Memberships are valid January 1 through December 31 of a given year, resetting for all members on the same fixed date regardless of when they originally joined.
The enrollment and renewal period opens on November 1 and closes after the submissions window for our last physical exhibition, Virtuosos of the OPA, usually in the third week of August. From then until November first, enrollment is closed to allow us a window to reset.
We encourage you to mark your calendar to join or renew before the first of the year to get the full benefit of your membership.
For new members joining in the fall, we apply your dues payment to cover the remainder of the current calendar year plus the entire next calendar year. (For example, if you join November 1, you effectively have an extended 14-month membership.) If you join before the Fall online Showcase submissions window, you can enter that; also, you can access all other member benefits as soon as you join.
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