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...

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...