Membership Info

How to Become A Member

The membership application form for the current season is available for online registration with a credit card. Payment goes directly to Capitol Hill Arts Workshop and you will receive confirmation when your registration is processed. Click here for the online form:  here.

If you prefer to make your membership payment with a check, download a membership form here:  and make your check to Capitol Hill Art League  and mail it to Capitol Hill Arts Workshop, 545 7th St SE, Washington, DC 20003. You will receive a “welcome” gmail.

Our yearly season will run from January 1,  2022-December 31, 2022. Membership is open to artists 18 and over. The membership fee is $60 for one year plus a commitment to volunteer two or more times during the year. College students with valid ID pay $25; volunteering is required for student members. The membership application form for the current season is available here.

Membership Benefits and Involvement

Member benefits include submitting work for exhibits, online exhibitions, receiving juror feedback, attending openings for the juror’s talk, zoom meetings, art critique meetings, information about other class/exhibit opportunities, and meeting with fellow artists and gallery visitors and managing sales opportunities through gallery exhibits and events.

Members may choose to assist with a variety of activities including receiving, jurying, coordinating monthly openings, managing web design and maintenance, and developing workshop and exhibit events outside the CHAW gallery.

Submission of Artwork

Members can submit up to three pieces of work for each juried CHAL show for a non-refundable entry fee of $5 for one work, $10 for two works or $15 for three works.  If two or three pieces are sold as a unit (not separately), then these constitute a diptych or triptych and are counted as one submission. If an artist submits two or three pieces to be displayed as a unit but are to be sold as multiple units, then these pieces count as two or three submissions (respectively). Only original works finished in the last three years may be submitted. Copies are not accepted, even of your own work including giclées. Photos and digital manipulations are considered original. There are no size limits if we can accommodate the piece in our gallery.  Wall space will determine the acceptable sizes. There is a weight limit for two-dimensional wall-mounted pieces of 30 pounds.

Works must adhere to CHAL guidelines, framing and presentation requirements. It is important to understand the framing and presentation requirements. Any works that do not conform to these requirements will not be permitted to be submitted at in-person receiving. Any pieces accepted to a digital-submission exhibit that are delivered and do not conform to these requirements will not be hung in the exhibit until required changes are made. Work previously exhibited in a CHAL juried exhibit may not be resubmitted for any subsequent juried CHAL exhibits.  Your prices may NOT  be changed after work is entered. If you wish your work not be for sale, please list it as NFS in the price box on the label. All works accepted into and presented in a juried exhibit must remain in the show until it closes. An exception may be made only in the case of out-of-town buyers.

Judging

An invited juror, who is not a CHAL member, selects works for the exhibit. Our jurors are regionally or nationally recognized and are professors, art teachers, museum curators and gallery owners. Each exhibit is solely the choice of its juror—CHAL does not control the selection of work. Having a different juror each exhibition assures variety in successive shows and broader opportunities for member artists.