As a PCA member you will:
- Join a community of others who share your interest in paperweights, including museum curators, artists, dealers, and the most knowledgeable collectors in the field
- Have opportunities to expand and improve your paperweight collection
- Receive up-to-date information to help identify and value pieces in your paperweight collection
- Add to your reference library and receive information about paperweight collecting that is available nowhere else
Member Benefits:
- PCA Annual Bulletin. An electronic color copy of the Annual Bulletin is included in all memberships. A full color printed copy of the Annual Bulletin is offered as a membership add-on. Both versions of the Annual Bulletin contain articles about antique and contemporary paperweights and related objects.
- Four information-packed Newsletters per year. Electronic color copies of the newsletter are included in all memberships. Black-and-white printed copies of the newsletters are offered as a membership add-on.
- Access to the members-only portions of the PCA website
- Lists of PCA registered dealers and artists, museums with paperweight collections, and books on paperweights
- Members may also attend a biennial convention featuring presentations by experts in the field, exhibits, workshops, and displays of paperweights for sale.
- Artist and Dealer memberships include the benefits listed above and additional opportunities to promote their own businesses
- Members may elect to support the educational efforts of PCA with a Crown donation add-on to their membership
- Members who wish to contribute more significantly to the educational efforts of PCA may do so with the Crystal sponsorship add-on to their membership. Crystal sponsors receive a leather bound copy of the Annual Bulletin.
- Memberships are issued on a calendar year basis
MEMBERSHIP TYPE
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Annual Dues
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Student |
$10 |
Collector (Basic Household Membership, for one or two individuals per household) |
$25 |
Artists & Dealer (Includes Collector level membership plus additional $30 charge) |
$55 |
Additional Add-ons
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Annual Fee
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Printed Annual Bulletin |
$35 |
Shipping for Non-US Members (Covers shipping international expenses for Newsletter and/or Bulletin) |
$25 |
Printed B/W Quarterly Newsletter |
$15 |
Crown Charitable Donation |
$55 |
Crystal Charitable Donation |
$230 |
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