This is part of a series of posts highlighting the art fair and festival industry. Know someone we should talk to? Email your suggestions! Industry Spotlight: Photographer and Consultant Larry Berman Those who know Larry Berman only in the fairs and festivals industry might be surprised to know how he made the transition from a college student considering a career in music to artist resource. Alth...

Would you like to attend the Arts Festival Conference but don’t have much wiggle room in your festival budget? Now you have a chance to help cut costs and win a free Arts Festival Conference registration — a $315 value! See below for more details. Enter for a chance to win a free Arts Festival Conference registration in our Through the Grapevine contest in three easy steps! Send an em...

The following updates have been made to ZAPPlication® over the past few weeks. Most of these enhancements are based on user requests. To suggest an update to the ZAPP® system, please email the ZAPP® team at ContactZAPP@westaf.org. Changes Affecting Artist Users Multi-Archiving of Applications Artists can now archive multiple applications at once. After clicking the “archive” lin...

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 event producer Mark Loeb Mark Loeb is the president of Integrity Shows, an event production company in Michigan. Mark has been producing events since 1982 and, at one point, was producing over 200 events annually. Mark ...

In July we hosted a social media contest asking our Facebook and Twitter friends for the best advice seasoned art fair artists had for beginners. The winner of the contest won, by random drawing, a two-day conference registration to this year's Arts Festival Conference in Louisville, Kentucky. Thanks to artists Ben Bensen, Gloria Danvers, Sandi Finney, Rose Ann Gussy, RoseAnn LaPorta, Holly O...