How do I become a member?

Membership in the National Creative Society is by faculty or instructor nomination only and is based on evidence of high interest, exceptional skill and demonstrated production and involvement in any visual, written or performance art.  Nominations, as well, are based on sound character and adequate student progress in his or her school or educational system.

Membership, by nomination and acceptance into an active chapter, is currently open to “rising” fifth grade students (to be recognized and nominated and inducted at the end of their fourth grade year—in some sort of school or chapter awards ceremony) and it continues through  a student’s  senior year in high school. Once nominated as a member of an active chapter of the National Creative Society, the student remains in our registry through age 18 or through his or her final year of high school. However, if the student is not re- enrolled each year as a member in an active chapter, the student remains listed as an inactive member on our Society’s registry. If a  student matriculates to a post-secondary school or college that has an active chapter of the National Creative Society, it is also possible to be included in that chapter and continue as an active National Creative Society member through that student’s post-secondary, undergraduate years. In any event we expect the student’s membership in NCS to provide a very important listing for his or her resumé’.

Active student membership is defined by being nominated, accepting nomination  and being inducted into an officially chartered, active school chapter of the National Creative Society. Each student’s name will be listed on our website and found  under their local school chapter. List of Active Chapters.  Such chapters must first establish a charter membership with NCS,  and then, to remain active, annually resubmit each year’s student roster and other paperwork and fees—thereby demonstrating its intention to be active in the next school year.

Students are nominated to an active chartered chapter by any school faculty member or private arts instructor who knows the student’s work in the arts. However, the nominations must be formally made to and  processed through (and the invitations sent by)  the official, named advisor(s) of each chartered chapter.

Because each chapter is expected to establish a reasonable dues structure to allow it to function locally, active student membership will require the payment of these annual dues to the local chapter. A portion of these local dues, currently $5 per student, will be annually remitted to our National Office to establish and maintain each student’s file and to provide him or her with an  annual membership certificate. The official chapter advisor(s) will be responsible for submitting the total per student fee and a chapter roster to the National Creative Society office.

Any student interested in encouraging a chapter of the National Creative Society to be formed in his or her school should show this website information to a key teacher or  to the school Principal and invite this school leader to contact the National Creative Society Director for follow-up details.