Rick Anderson Clinton, MS USA, "Brothers"

2019 NWS Members Exhibition

Nancy Livesay President 1986 - Award

Enter the NWS 2020 Annual Members Exhibition!

Be part of our centennial celebration! All NWS Members are eligible to enter. The deadline for entering the National Watercolor Society's Centennial 2020 Members Exhibition

is Friday, February 14, 2020 at 12:00noon MST

Don't procrastinate, enter today! 

CallforEntry.org

Prospectus - 2020 NWS Annual Member Exhibition

Exhibitors Documents

Juror:  Carlson Hatton  www.CarlsonHatton.com

Awards: Three (3) $1000 Awards and four (4) $500 Awards will be awarded

to honor our Past Presidents.

Questions: Contact Penny Hill, NWS Director - Exhibitions:

NWSMemberExhib@gmail.com

We're saving a spot in the NWS Gallery for your painting

"The new year lays before us, like a sketch for a painting, waiting to be created. Paint the painting with joy and courage." Denise Willing-Booher

NWS has entered our Centennial year. As artists we look back with awe to the painters that came before us and ahead with aspiration, determination and resolve to follow our own artistic paths to reach higher and create with courage. I am grateful, as your new President, for you our members/sponsors and those who came before us whom we revere. Join with NWS in Celebrating 100 years strong in 2020.

In Celebration 2020:

NWS Annual Members Exhibition - Submissions now 

Visions Adjoin - US/Canada Exchange Exhibition

NWS International Centennial Open Exhibition 2020 - Submissions online 4/1/2020

NWS 50 Stars Exhibition 2020 - Stars of the US Watercolor Societies

NWS Hilbert Museum Exhibition- The Art of NWS: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow -

         Submissions coming soon

Congratulations to our New Board and our sincere gratitude to Past President Robbie Laird and Kathleen Cornelius, our former secretary.

NWS New Board of Directors 2020

President: Denise Willing-Booher

Vice President-Newsletter: Matthew Bird

Secretary: Judith Zailo

Treasurer: Kathleen Mooney

Membership Director: Nancy Swan

Exhibition Director: Penny Hill

Education Director - Special Projects: Stephanie Goldman

Communications Director  - Publicity: Beatrice Trautman

Communications Director - Webmaster: Judy Saltzman

Development Director - Awards: Paula Fiebich

Centennial Promotions Volunteer: Joe Cibere

If you are interested in joining our great team, please contact me or a fellow board member.

These artists put down their brushes to promote, educate and create exhibition opportunities for their passion of the water medium through NWS.  Join us in our mission to continue elevating innovative water-media artists and the art for another 100 years worldwide through NWS. 

Thank you for your loyal NWS membership, sponsorship and donations. Together we will make our future shine!

NWS President

The NWS and CSPWC

Visions Adjoin 

                    Exchange Exhibition 2020                    

Celebrate Anniversaries Together

Exhibition Dates: Feb. 6—July 18, 2020

First exhibition will be held at NWS Gallery

Second exhibition will be held at the Helson Gallery in Canada

List of Accepted Artists

NWS 50 Stars Exhibition 2020

Exhibition Dates: July 9—Sept. 13, 2020  / Reception July 12, 2020

NWS 50 Stars Exhibition for Call for Entry 2020

Exhibition Guidelines

Fifty Stars Form

NWS 100th International Open Exhibition

Exhibition Dates: October 1—December 20,  2020

Entries Accepted: April 1—May 10, 2020 at www.CallForEntry.org

Jurors: Katherine Chang Liu, Dean Mitchell and John Salminen

Judge of Awards:  Mary Whyte

PROSPECTUS - NWS 100th International Open Exhibition

MARY WHYTE:  The Portrait and The Figure Workshop

October 14 - October 16, 2020

Accepting Early Registration  / Only 20 Spots

Click here for Flyer

Click here for Registration Form

NWS Members are eligible for member discounts from our Sponsors!  

Don't forget to check the Member Discounts page for new specials!

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Member Discounts