PGE membership
All pastel artists, European or international, are warmly welcome to join PGE.
We offer three membership levels.
Associate membership
Anyone can join us as an associate
Fee: 20 €/year
This level is meant for beginners who are learning the medium and/or learning to paint, and supporters.
With this level your receive the following benefits :
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Participation in our monthly member competition, the Get Dusty
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All your Get Dusty entries will be shown in a public long term gallery
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Access to our online pastel magazine, the Pastel Scribbler
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An open invitation to publish articles in our pastel magazine
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An extensive members-only archive with articles about pastel painting techniques
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Networking with other pastel artists in our artist forum
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A public profile with link to your website and your personal gallery with up to three images of artwork
Journeyer membership
A juried membership level
Fee: 30 €/year
The Journeyer level is for the artist who is serious about their art and have attained certain skills with the medium and may sell their works professionally.
Associate members can apply for Journeyer level during the time period of December to March. To apply they must send a request to pastelguildofeurope@gmail.com with images of three paintings (JPG format only, minimum length or width 800 pixels, size minimum 300kb). Upon acceptance, they will receive an invoice for the additional fee.
With this level your receive the following benefits :
All the benefits of an associate plus:
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A personal gallery with 6 images of artwork
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Voting right in the Annual General Meeting (AGM)
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Eligible to join our committees
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Eligible to the board; for specifications, see Governance
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Eligible to apply for Signature membership
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Membership via PGE of IAPS (International Association of Pastel Societies). Journeyer Members may enter IAPS shows and contests. Be sure to sign up for the IAPS newsletter on the IAPS site!
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An open invitation to submit tutorials, demos and advertise workshops
PLEASE DO NOT PAY THE JOURNEYER FEE BEFORE YOU HAVE BEEN FORMALLY ACCEPTED!
Signature membership
A juried membership level. Fee: 30€/year
A PGE Signature member not only has to be an experienced and highly skilled pastellist, but someone who actively contributes to the guild by sitting on committees, writing articles, moderating in the forum, helping with the website, finding sponsors etc. This type of membership has to be earned. The board will meet once a year and consider which journeyer members deserve to be promoted to signature status. The candidates will then be contacted and asked to apply by sending in an artist statement, listing their artistic achievements (winning the Get Dusty, being juried into exhibitions, teaching pastel painting etc.) The final decision will be made by a jury of members of the PGE board who will later be joined by PGE signature members.
Benefits:
add PGE to your signature
a bio page on the PGE website
a personal gallery with 10 images of artwork
JOIN THE PASTELGUILD OF EUROPE
Every new member starts as an Associate. Completing the form below will create a member profile page for you. It is important that you fill out all the fields and please do not forget to add the country code to your phone number.
We will send you an invoice for the membership fee. This may take a while as we are all volunteers and work for PGE in our free time.
Below you can find information from our treasurer on how to go through the payment process.
'Screenshot 1 is from my email; it shows the sender address. The next screenshot is what you see when you open the email. You have to click VIEW INVOICE, then the actual invoice image appears (screenshot 3). You must then click PAY INVOICE. Finally, choose the option for your payment, either PAYPAL or MANUAL payment, click PAY NOW and follow instructions.
To get access to the member pages, click on the sign up/log in button in the upper right corner of the banner. The log in form appears first by default. Click on 'New to the site? Sign up' and the sign up form appears. Fill in your email address and choose a password, then submit.
Important: both steps have to be followed. Your membership will only be approved when we have received your payment and you have signed up as a site member.
After you have been approved as a member, please go to https://www.pastelguildofeurope.org/pge-members and edit your profile. Add a profile picture and change your display name from your user name to your real name. Without this, visitors cannot search for you in the member list.
Your PGE membership fee is to be paid once a year. The Associate member fee is paid when registering, and after that in January of each year. If the fee is not renewed by the member, the membership will be terminated by the end of March.
If a new membership starts during the year, the first fee you pay is for the period up to the end of the year. Depending on when you join, it can be a full year, 3/4 or half of a year's fee.
Upgrades to Journeyer level are possible at any time during the year. Send your application to pastelguildofeurope@gmail.com, and if the jury grants you the Journeyer membership, you are asked to pay the higher fee, for the period up to December, 31 of that year.
Payments are to be made in Euro using normal bank transfer. The necessary transaction data such as the IBAN and BIC/SWIFT code will be sent to you by e-mail during the registration process. You also have the choice to pay with Paypal.
Important: Do not forget to click on the confirmation link we include in our email, otherwise the registration process will not be finished!
Note to artists whose country uses a different writing system:
Our website's software can only handle the Latin alphabet, Chinese characters or cyrillic letters turn up as question marks. A valid registration is therefore not possible. Please use your country's romanization system e.g. Pinyin. When you are paying with PayPal, please make sure to add your romanized name in the notes, or our treasurer will not be able to recognise where the payment is coming from! Thank you!
Important: Please add pastelguildofeurope@gmail.com to your list of safe senders, otherwise our email may end up in your spam folder!'
