Well known SOVA artist STEVE WILSON was notified today that he has been accepted as an elected member to the ONTARIO SOCIETY of ARTISTS.
This is a major for artists. To get into this society, some artists try multiple times , (membership openings only once a year). The process is arduous, where they check your artistic accomplishments, exhibitions , bio, and whatever else, and that is just step one.
If you are fortunate to be juried past all of that, then you make it to the second stage , where you must present several individual pieces of your artwork to the society membership and then they inspect your work, and vote on whether or not they wish to admit you to the society . The vote itself is also a process, and is not done when the artist is there, so you go home and wait, and wait, and wait, for a decision.
Founded in 1872, the Ontario Society of Artists is Canada's longest continuing art society.
They are a professional association for visual artists living and working across Ontario with a mandate to promote the visual arts through exhibitions, special projects and arts advocacy, and their membership roster includes many of Canada’s best-known painters, sculptors, printmakers and photographers. Currently they have an active membership of over two hundred artists, working in a wide range of media and from diverse backgrounds and culture.
Steve says he is "thrilled and honoured to announce I have been accepted as an elected member to the Ontario Society of Artists".
Stunning accomplishment!
Congratulations !!!