How to Take a Great Booth Picture This article originally appeared in Sunshine Artist Magazine. It has been reprinted here with permission from Larry Berman. Contact Larry at 412-401-8100 or visit his website at  www.BermanGraphics.com. The importance of a good booth picture How important is the booth photo? Besides the artwork images, the booth image can easily make or break an artist’s ca...

This post was written in August 2013, at the close of Anna’s internship. The ZAPP® team will continue to post additional content Anna created during her time working with us over the next few weeks. An Intern’s Reflections On Her Summer At ZAPP® I will soon be returning to Chicago to continue my undergraduate degree at The School of The Art Institute of Chicago, where I am stud...

Justin Kern is the week one winner of social media contests that ZAPP has been running to promote the fifth annual Arts Festival Conference. Justin won a free registration to this year’s conference by applying to the 2013 Arts Festival Conference Public Portfolio Critique. ZAPP sat down with Justin recently to find out more about our winner from week one. ZAPP: Tell us a little bit about you...

Guest Post: Looking in the Rearview Mirror on a Road Well Traveled This is a guest post by watercolorist Larry Stephenson. Shooting Line, watercolor, copyright Larry Stephenson. Art fairs are a truly American phenomenon. Some say that the concept of art shows grew out of the hippy movement of the late sixties and early seventies when young people rebelled at the very thought of working for the &#...

Welcome to the Real World: My Experience as an Emerging Artist In December 2011, I applied to be part of the Emerging Artist Program at the 2012 Cherry Creek Arts Festival (CCAF). I fit the requirements well: I was 18 and halfway through my senior year of high school, and I had had no previous experience exhibiting or selling my artwork at any venue. The next six months marked that significant mov...