Art Clubs, Leagues, Societies and Guilds

Last week I did a search for one of the guilds I would be visiting to do a demonstration for and in the process, I found hundreds of these clubs. It started me thinking about how wonderful it is that so many towns, cities and states have clubs like these for artists to join, at membership fees that are so reasonable for what these organizations do for their membership. 

Art Organizations like these usually have monthly meetings where they bring in artists to demonstrate their teachings to the group. Many of them also conduct workshops and most have shows and exhibitions of the members works. Then there are the specialty events that many of the clubs have that are special to that organization.... for instance, the "Paint-In" that the Geneva Lakes Arts Foundation runs where artists show off their paintings skills on the sidewalk in front of the stores in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, while also trying to sell their works of art to those that pass by and watch them paint.