[ABANA] Affiliates

ABANA is comprised of over 4,600 members and is affiliated with over 75 local groups all over the world. ABANA depends on the affiliates to professionally promote the art and craft of blacksmithing on both the regional and local level.

While it is not necessary to be an ABANA member to join an affiliate, it is a great idea to join both ABANA as well as an affiliate so that you receive information on the national and international level, as well as events in your own area.

Affiliate Resources

Provided below are valuable links to find affiliates in your own area or how to start an affiliate. Every two months, the Affiliate Liaison Letter is posted as a communication tool between ABANA and the affiliates. ABANA provides grants for affiliates to bring demonstrators to area meets and conferences or other blacksmithing-related events that would promote the art and craft of blacksmithing. You can download the official application below!

Rome and friend.

For additional information concerning affiliates in general and to enroll your group as an ABANA Affiliate contact Rome Hutchings, ABANA Membership Service Division Chair, at

Peyton Anderson is the Affiliate Liaison Board member and works with Rome and other Board members to keep Affiliate Groups up to date. Email Peyton at .

ABANA Affiliate groups may use the ABANA web site to help publicize their major events.

First, we will run your banner ad in rotation with the others that have been submitted. The banner ad appears at the top of most ABANA web site pages. We need a .gif or .jpg file of a graphic that is 390 pixels wide by 57 pixels tall. Also we need a web address that the site visitor should be directed to when the banner ad is clicked on.

Also your events can be included in the blacksmithing events calendar that is on the web site. Just send us the information which should include the beginning and end dates and a short description - generally not more than 1/3 of a page. That can include links to your web site where the visitor may get more information.

The calendar that is published in the Anvil's Ring is another resource for publicizing your events. But you must plan ahead! The event information must reach the Editor 6 to 8 months before the event.

In all cases, the request should be directed to the ABANA Central office at . Please indicate which of these resources you would like to engage so that they will direct your request appropriately.

ABANA Affiliates are independent organizations that are not agents of or subject to control by ABANA. An organization's status as an Affiliate does not indicate ABANA’s knowledge, approval or endorsement of the Affiliate's actions. ABANA is not responsible for the statements or behavior of its Affiliates or their or its individual members.

• ABANA Affiliate List

• Affiliate Downloads

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