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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Win a FREE Arts Festival Conference Pass! Public Portfolio Critique Contest Rules
Author: ZAPP Team
Date: July 5, 2013
Win a FREE Arts Festival Conference Pass! All you have to do is submit an application to the Public Portfolio Critique… Enter for the chance to win a free conference Arts Festival Conference registration from July 8-14, 2013, by applying to the Public Portfolio Critique. Share your artwork with the field and help educate yourself and your peers in the jury process! Apply to the mock-jury ses...
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Why the Saint Louis Art Fair Attends the Arts Festival Conference
Author: ZAPP Team
Date: July 2, 2013
Cindy Lerick, president and executive director of Cultural Festivals, Inc. — the producers of the Saint Louis Art Fair — was very first to register for the 2013 Arts Festival Conference when registration went live in May. Recently the ZAPP® team spoke with Lerick by phone to ask her thoughts on this annual professional and business development event created for artists and administ...
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Guest Post: Welcome to the Real World – My Experience as an Emerging Artist
Author: ZAPP Team
Date: June 17, 2013
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...
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Why Louisville for the 5th Annual Arts Festival Conference?
Author: ZAPP Team
Date: June 13, 2013
Why Louisville? It’s hard to believe that the annual Arts Festival Conference is about to turn five. ZAPP® has sponsored and presented the Conference over these past years to create a space for professional development, dialogue, and networking among art fair and festival artists, show directors, and staff. For the 2013 conference we choose to partner with a special city and an incredibl...
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