A Full Member is defined as an individual or business entity who has been active for two or more years in the area of antique tribal arts such as dealers, restorers, appraisers, publishers, book dealers, show promoters, etc. Business entities must provide the name of the principals - anonymous business entities will be accepted in rare circumstances and only as approved in advance by the BOD (Board of Directors).
There is a membership application fee of $500 and the annual dues are $400 per member for 2008 and later years. Associates applying for an upgrade from Associate to Full Member are subject to the membership application fee and must complete the New Full Member application form. Membership dues and application fee are due at the time of application. Full members who operate two or more galleries may choose to list each additional gallery on an additional full page in the directory at an annual fee of $200 per additional gallery. Please mail a check made out to ATADA to ATADA, 355 Buena Vista East #710-W, San Francisco, CA 94117, USA. New applications received by November 15 can be approved in time for listing in the printed version of the next annual directory. Dues for renewal applicants must be paid by December 31 in order to be listed in the next annual directory, and the image and supporting text must be proofed and finalized by November 30 in order to be included in the next annual directory.
After approval of your application, your name, manager's name, business name, address, specialty, services, up to three phone numbers including fax and cell phones, up to two email addresses and web URL or eBay Member ID, will be listed in the ATADA directory. Starting in 2008, each Full Member will be allocated one full page in the annual directory including a large, high quality color image with caption - see http://www.atada.org/ImageTutorial.html for details. Send your image to ATADA Graphic Designer, Wes Pritts, Wes_Pritts@hotmail.com. The items in the image you use for your listing may be for sale. In fact, displaying images of fresh material should drive traffic to our site and can mean added sales for you. Although the image in the printed version will stay the same for a year, the online image can be changed as often as once a month. The web directory is in a similar format, will use the same image, and a draft directory will be posted on the web approximately November 25 as new full member data becomes available. The draft 2008 web directory is in a format that is close enough to the printed directory that it can be used to proof your directory listing. Note that the period between November 15 and December 10 has been reserved for proofreading and correcting any errors in your submission. For purposes of consistency in publication, no image with superimposed text will be accepted. There is space for only one gallery address per membership in the annual directory and on the web page. Full members who operate two or more galleries may choose to list each additional gallery on an additionalfull page in the directory at an annual fee of $200 per additional gallery. You may choose that your email and/or one of your phone numbers not be published. However, if your e-mail or phone number is not published, you must provide a protected (unlisted) email address and /or phone number for communication with ATADA. (Contact the ATADA Executive Director if this is a hardship for you).
Updates and corrections of contact information may be made at any time. The update will be posted on the web as soon as possible and will be published in the next newsletter.
ATADA Members are required to uphold ethical standards as defined in the ATADA Bylaws, and must agree to honor the ATADA guarantee of authenticity and condition for all American Indian and Tribal Art sales.
ATADA performs extensive background checks on all Full Membership applicants. The names of two Full Members who have had this status for two or more years and who support your application must be provided along with the membership information. The BOD will contact these sponsors on your behalf. (The application form provides for the names of three sponsors so that your application will not be unduly delayed in the event that one of your sponsors is temporarily unavailable.) The BOD must first approve your application, and has up to 30 days from receipt of your application to approve or disapprove. At this point, you will have Provisional Member status and your contact information will be printed in the web directory and in the newsletter. The ATADA Membership has thirty days from the date of publication in the newsletter to comment on Provisional Members. After review by the membership, you will be notified that your application has been approved or disapproved. Once full approval has been obtained, you may apply for ATADA group insurance benefits and a full listing with image will be published on the web and in the next annual directory. All fees will be returned to you in the event that your application is turned down.
The format of the ATADA Directory has been changed for 2008. We ask that Full Members reenter their data for 2008. (Note that the space provided for specialty and services text has been intentionally reduced in order to provide space for a larger image in the 2008 directory).
ATADA 2008 Full Member Application/Renewal/Update Form
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If you have problems with this form or wish to submit a hand written copy, please print out this page, fill in the form by hand, and mail to ATADA's Executive Director, Alice Kaufman at US mail address: ATADA, 355 Buena Vista East #710W, San Francisco, CA 94117, USA.
