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...

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 &#...

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...

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...

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...