Add to the Show Scrapbook, Win a FREE Arts Festival Conference Pass!
Author: ZAPP Team
Date: July 29, 2013
The Week 4 contest is open to artists, administrators and anyone else in the art festival field! The art festival field is made great by the wonderful shows and artists who make up our industry. Help us in creating an art fair scrapbook by sending a picture of your event, staff, business, artist booth, studio, etc. — anything that makes you you! — to contactzapp@westaf.org. Together,...
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The Arts Festival Conference 2013: Why Professional Development Matters
Author: ZAPP Team
Date: July 25, 2013
By now you know that the Arts Festival Conference, presented by ZAPP®, features targeted professional and business development for artists and administrators in the arts festival field. But what does that actually mean? The wikipedia definition is long and amorphous. An internet search yields a lot of information from specific industries, such as education or healthcare. So what makes profess...
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Tweet n’ Teach or Post n’ Profess to Win a FREE Arts Festival Conference Pass!
Author: ZAPP Team
Date: July 22, 2013
The Week 3 contest is simple and open to artists, administrators and anyone else in the field! Enter for a chance to win a free Arts Festival Conference registration from July 22 – 28, 2013, by sharing some simple advice. Tweet us @ZAPPlication or post on our Facebook timeline with the most valuable piece of advice you have for emerging artists. Contest Details During the week of July 22 t...
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Guest Post: Looking in the Rearview Mirror on a Road Well Traveled
Author: ZAPP Team
Date: July 18, 2013
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 &#...
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Write a Guest Blog, Win a FREE Arts Festival Conference Pass!
Author: ZAPP Team
Date: July 15, 2013
Win a FREE Arts Festival Conference Pass! All you have to do is submit a short blog post telling us why you want to come to Louisville… Enter for your chance to win a free Arts Festival Conference registration from July 15-21, 2013, by submitting a short blog of 750 words or less that explains why you want to come to the fifth annual Arts Festival Conference, on Oct. 7 and 8, 2013, in Louis...
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