Membership
Lehigh Valley ARts Council Membership
We are the region’s central voice for the arts. It’s our calling to promote arts awareness and advocate its value. Our vision is to ensure that everyone has access to a rich, diverse arts culture. We accomplish this by bringing people together to find solutions that advance greater arts participation.
Whether you’re an artist, arts patron, business, or cultural organization, you and the arts community both benefit when you join the Lehigh Valley Arts Council! Membership is valid for a full year from the date of joining.
join or renew your membership
Download the Printable Membership Application form and mail (with payment) to: Lehigh Valley Arts Council, PO Box 20591, Lehigh Valley, PA 18002.
Online:
Use the Online Member Application form, complete all fields and submit. Your payment is processed using Paypal. Convenience fees apply.
If you experience any issues processing your payment through Paypal, please contact our office at 610-437-5915.
Benefits of Membership
These member benefits are waiting on the state’s mandate for limited attendance to public events to be lifted. Check out the virtual events happening in the region on LAUNCH PAD.
In the meantime, your membership supports the Lehigh Valley Arts Council’s advocacy efforts behind the scenes to advance the arts and promote their value. These activities include the Arts & Economic Prosperity 6 study that measures the economic impact of the nonprofit arts industry in the region.
Individuals & Households
Members receive:
- Free subscriptions to our publications: Inside the Arts, Arts Advocate, and the Arts Calendar
- Free subscription to Lehigh Valley Style magazine
- Free ARTix Passport to the Arts, a buy one, get one ticket to twenty participating organizations in the Lehigh Valley
- Two ARTix for Household Members
- Invitation to annual Membership Receptions and numerous networking opportunities, including grant workshops and Arts Council activities
- For Individual Members, receive one complimentary ticket to our Membership Reception & Arts Count Celebration
- For Household Members, receive two complimentary tickets to our Membership Reception & Arts Count Celebration
- Sign up to be listed in our Arts Directory as an individual artist or supporter of the arts
- The opportunity for discounted advertising in our bi-monthly Arts Calendar
Organizations
With a Nonprofit or Business Membership, enjoy all of the above plus:
- Organizational listing for arts and cultural events, workshops and classes in the Arts Calendar for distributed throughout the Lehigh Valley in local hotels, bookstores, businesses, libraries, and art venues
- Complimentary listing on the online Cultural Organizations Directory
- Multiple ARTix Passport to the Arts, a buy one, get one ticket to twenty participating organizations, for staff and volunteers to enjoy arts experiences in the region
- Invitation to annual Membership Receptions and numerous networking opportunities, including grant workshops and Arts Council activities
- Receive two complimentary tickets to our Membership Reception & Arts Count Celebration for staff or volunteers
- Rush Ticket services, an email campaign offering discounted admission to your event
- Member discounts to run an organization ad or flyer insert in our Arts Calendar and Inside the Arts publications
- Reduced advertising rates for Nonprofits in ICON & The Morning Call’s Guide to the Lively Arts
- Cooperative Marketing opportunities, working together with other organizations to expand your marketing reach
- The opportunity to be an Exhibitor in Young at Art, an expo of arts camps and schools, that assists parents in selecting the educational programs for their children.
ARTix: Passport to the Arts
The ARTix: Passport to the Arts is a Buy One ticket, Get One free (BOGO) offer to twenty arts and culture organizations in the Lehigh Valley. Inside ARTix there’s something for everyone—from symphonic to folk music, fine arts to vintage cars, Shakespeare to Broadway musicals.
ARTix allows you and a friend to have twenty artistic experiences at half the cost!
Arts experiences build memories and nurture the community through a shared experience. Oftentimes, they provide the opportunity to get together and stay connected with our friends, neighbors, and family.
To take advantage of ARTix, join the Lehigh Valley Art Council as a member. The new edition of ARTix is released each year on July 1st and remains active through June 30th of the following year. ARTix may be used once per venue. Please call the venue ahead of time for information regarding reservations and restrictions.
Where will Artix take you?
- Act 1 DeSales University Theatre
- Allentown Symphony Orchestra
- America On Wheels
- The Art Establishment
- Bach Choir of Bethlehem
- Camerata Singers
- Chamber Music Society of Bethlehem
- Civic Theatre of Allentown
- Godfrey Daniels
- Historic Bethlehem Museums & Sites
- Lehigh Valley Heritage Museum
- Moravian College Music Institute
- Muhlenberg College Theatre & Dance
- Northampton County Historical & Genealogical Society
- Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival
- Pennsylvania Sinfonia Orchestra
- State Theatre Center for the Arts
- Touchstone Theatre
- Williams Center for the Arts
- Zoellner Arts Center
The Arts Council will periodically hit the road to visit these participating venues and highlight an ongoing experience through the lens of The Arts Traveler. To get a deeper perspective on the venue, the outing always consists of connecting with someone at the venue – a volunteer, a patron, a staff member, etc. We’ve captured a few experiences so far and produced a short video for each in response. They are all stored on our YouTube channel. Below, you can view one of the produced short videos, which features an experience at Muhlenberg College Theatre & Dance in Summer 2019.