Membership Benefits
Website Directory and Gallery Listings
The ASAI website typically ranks high in search for terms such as architectural illustrator and architectural illustration. The ASAI Gallery listing is a valuable membership benefit. Search criteria is based on gallery content including name, location, media preference, awards, publications…
*Student memberships are not eligible for a gallery listing on the ASAI website.
Architecture in Perspective Competition
Members are invited to submit their works to the Architecture in Perspective Competition, a juried international architectural delineation competition that has included work by the most accomplished contemporary architectural illustrators from around the world. The exhibition consists of approximately 60 pieces of artwork selected by a jury of respected professionals from the fields of architecture, illustration, journalism, and design education. This exhibition travels to various venues throughout the U.S. and overseas.
Catalog
In conjunction with the competition, a full-color catalog is printed. This catalog has become a resource for architects. All selected artists from the competition are published in the catalog. The catalog includes a membership directory as well as a designated artist section for those members that submitted their entries to the competition but were not chosen. The catalogs are sold and distributed world-wide. Members receive a discount on their catalog purchases.
Traveling Exhibit
The Architecture in Perspective exhibition consists of approximately 60 pieces of artwork selected by a jury of respected professionals from the fields of architecture, illustration, journalism, and design education. This exhibition travels to various venues throughout the U.S. and overseas.
Conference
The American Society of Architectural Illustrators challenges its members to become better illustrators, and rewards the architectural community and the community at large with a higher standard for visual communications. Each year in the fall, ASAI holds a worldwide conference providing an environment for the open exchange of ideas and practices, as well as many educational opportunities. Members receive discounted event fees for the conference.
Convergence
An online resource with highlighted news about member’s accomplishments and events, news, programs, and letters from headquarters. All members are welcome to submit articles through the Convergence Editor.
CEU’s
Seminars offered during the annual international conference can be submitted to the AIA by self-reporting.
Collecting societies are a new concept to most American illustrators. They exist in countries around the world, but currently, there are none for illustrators in the US. The Illustrators’ Partnership brought together 13 prominent visual arts organizations. (ASAI is one of six original founding members.) These groups have incorporated as the American Society of Illustrators Partnership (ASIP). ASIP, which has been chartered as a collecting society, hopes to begin the long-overdue process of bringing accountability to illustrators’ reprographic rights. The 13 founding groups of ASIP also formed the nucleus of the 85 organizations that opposed the Orphan Works bill.
LinkedIn and Facebook Groups
Members are given access to exclusive discussion groups on LinkedIn and Facebook. These groups are likened to a mastermind group for sharing ideas, work, posting questions, or posting general news from the architecture world.
Access to ASAI business practice and organization guidelines including:
- Standard Agreement for Services Contract and Notice of Copyright form
- Copyright information
- Regular email notices of events
- ASAI Bylaws
Other benefits include:
- Exclusive Health/Business Insurance Program
- Discounts and information on ASAI publications, lectures, seminars and workshops
- Eligibility to enter Architecture in Perspective competition.
- Current membership list with addresses, telephone, email and website to facilitate professional and personal dialogue*
- Full voting rights in annual officer elections
- Signature use of “ASAI” on signed artwork
- Discounts on annual event-filled conference
- Listing on ASAI website
- An international membership that includes countries from all over the world
*Student memberships are not eligible for a gallery listing on the ASAI website.
Additional Benefits for Corporate Memberships:
- Corporate membership benefits include the possibility of a maximum of 3 award winners (3 separate people) from a single corporate member (firm) in the Architecture in Perspective Competition
- All employees under a Corporate Membership are eligible for the benefits and discounts as listed above under “Other benefits include”
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