The NSS Art & Music Salons promote and recognize excellent cave-related art, artists, and musicians. NSS salons are open to everyone; those who enter need not be members of the NSS. The best of the entries for each salon will be exhibited at the NSS Convention. The top award for each salon is presented during the convention's Thursday evening salon awards program. Portraits of award winners will be projected during the salon program. The top award winners will also be represented on the society's website and, other than music, in the NSS News.
Entries:
Several of the salons have entry forms available on the cave arts & music web site or directly from the salon chairperson. Navigate from the links below to the salon in which you are interested to see the entry requirements and to obtain the entry form(s) you need, or contact the chairperson directly.
Some salons impose limits on the number of entries. Most salons have entry fees. An image may be entered in one or more salons; for example, a photograph may be entered as a slide (or projected digital image), as a color print, as a black-and-white print, and as a newsletter cover.
Entries must be the original work of the entrant, and must relate to caves or caving. Entries that incorporate the work of others without their permission, or that promote practices which are unsafe, flagrantly in violation of NSS conservation policy, or would be detrimental to good landowner relations will not be accepted for judging. Entries that have been exhibited in past Salons cannot be entered again in those Salons.
Salon displays will be available every day during convention in the College of the Siskiyous Learning Resource Center.
The Cascade Arc includes nearly 20 major volcanoes, among a total of over 4,000 separate volcanic vents including numerous stratovolcanoes, shield volcanoes, lava domes, and cinder cones. Volcanism in the arc began about 37 million years ago; however, most of the present-day Cascade volcanoes are less than 2,000,000 years old.
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