He became an active member of the Art Students League, the Chicago ArtClub, the Society of Illustrators, the Association of Arts and Industries, and the Artists Guild.
In the mid-nineties, Bag (an art-world darling best known for the chameleonlike range of personae that she adopts in bitingly satirical videos) and Beckwith (of the cult-favorite collaborative ArtClub 2000) co-hosted a late-night public-access TV show.