Northern Prairie Arts

Become a Member

Your membership provides the base funding for Northern Prairie Arts ~ Watertown’s Arts Council. Memberships enable the regularly scheduled events, classes and programs produced by NPA. With your support, you can be assured the quality programs of NPA will continue to entertain, educate and inform you of the rich artistic and literary talent in this region.

NPA produces regularly scheduled visual arts and literary exhibitions, classes in a wide variety of creative mediums, summer art camps and special community events. All intended to foster an appreciation for and involvement in the arts and humanities.

The volunteers of NPA work to keep the arts alive and growing though your membership, donations and fees for some events.  Additional funds are provided at times for specific programs by the Watertown Area Community Foundation, South Dakota Arts Council and South Dakota Humanities Council.

What's included in my membership?

Individual Memberships

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Artist & Business Memberships

  • Basic Artist - $40/year
  • Basic Artist - $40/year

    Your Basic Artist Membership puts your presence on the Artists’ page includes a brief artists’ statement, one large image of you or your work and 3 smaller images of your work. Contact information will include a link to your external website, an email address and phone number if you choose. At the basic artist level, you can sell books and/or notecards in the NPA Gift Shop. The annual investment of $40 puts you and your work on the NPA website for one year from the date you join. There are no set up fees for your page or gift shop items.

    **NPA recognizes that many crafts bridge into the area of fine art. For this reason, the marketing opportunities on the NPA website are subject to a jury process. The quality of the work, the subject matter of the work and mix of mediums will be considered by the jury. It is the goal to have a variety of mediums represented on the NPA website rather than heavy on any one artistic medium. Ie. not 75% photography

  • Enhanced Artist - $120/year
  • Enhanced Artist - $120/year

    With the Enhanced Artist Membership, you will receive the basic artist benefits plus your own page on the NPA website. Your webpage will include your contact information and approximately 250-300 words of promotional copy as you choose. The promotional copy can be your bio, awards, upcoming shows or telling what motivates you to create. Additionally, you will have up to 48 images of your work with titles which link to the NPA Gift Shop where you will sell your work. The annual investment of $120 puts you and your work on the NPA website for one year from the date you join. There are no set up fees for your page or gift shop items.

    **NPA recognizes that many crafts bridge into the area of fine art. For this reason, the marketing opportunities on the NPA website are subject to a jury process. The quality of the work, the subject matter of the work and mix of mediums will be considered by the jury. It is the goal to have a variety of mediums represented on the NPA website rather than heavy on any one artistic medium. Ie. not 75% photography

  • Business - $120/year
  • Business - $120/year

    Your $120 Business Membership puts your logo on the NPA webpage. At the bottom of the home page, there is a rotating gallery of our business members. On each page of the NPA website, your business logo appears in a rotating featured sponsor box in the upper right part of the page.

  • Supporter of the Arts - $250/year
  • Supporter of the Arts - $250/year

    At the Supporter of the Arts business, your logo will include a hyperlink to your website in addition to all the benefits of the basic business membership.

  • Patron of the Arts - $500/year
  • Patron of the Arts - $500/year

    As a Patron of the Arts business, your logo will appear on all print publicity that NPA uses to promote its events and programs. This is in addition to the benefits of the basic and supporter business membership.

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SD Humanities Foundation

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