Start planning for the next Arts Festival Conference We’re headed west this year for our sixth conference, with great networking and professional development specifically for the art fair and festival field. Join us! Come for ZAPPcon, Stay for Art in the Pearl Extend your stay and enjoy all Portland has to offer over the Labor Day weekend; especially the artist-run fine arts and crafts fes...

This is part of a series of posts highlighting the art fair and festival industry. Know someone we should talk to? Email your suggestions! Creative Conversations: An interview with mixed media artist Kathrine Allen-Coleman Kathrine Allen-Coleman is a mixed media artist originally from Victoria, B.C., Canada, who now lives in Georgia. She has been doing art shows in America since 1998 and has also ...

Winter’s Greetings, This year has been filled with many exciting changes for ZAPP®, and we’re happy to announce that there are plenty more in store for 2014! As we close out the year, we want to wish you all happy holidays and catch you up on what’s been going on in the land of ZAPP®. New Feature Spotlight: Introducing Jury Bookends Shows use our monitor method to jury applicat...

This is part of a series of posts highlighting the art fair and festival industry. Know someone we should talk to? Email your suggestions! Creative Conversations: An interview with digital artist Michael Brown Michael Brown is a Chicago based artist who specializes in lenticular printmaking and 3-dimensional imagery. He has been exhibiting at art shows for 7 years now. You can find more informatio...

ZAPPlication® is proud to offer its newest application, an on-site adjudication tool that allows judges at art festivals to walk the show and score booths on an iPad. Judges using this application no longer have to carry around clunky notebooks and binders when walking booth-to-booth to determine Best in Show and other awards. Because ZAPP® Onsite syncs directly with the ZAPP® system, ...