2nd August 2011, 06:54 PM
Presumably IFA would like to absorb any organisation that would bump up its membership in support of its Charter ambitions, whether it's in the interest of the absorbed organisation or not? Suspect the AAIS would have been far better off in the long run staying seperate and following its own path. I'd imagine the IFA leadership couldn't really give a t**s about the more 'artistic' end of the profession (and will doubtless do nothing about the simply awful finds drawings etc. that many IFA members seem happy to publish), and the former AAIS membership will simply become another 'special interest group' like diggers are :face-stir: