I will be having my newest booth design professionally photographed next week and am looking for any final suggestions that will be easy to implement. I've attached a collage of my last four booths, so you can see the progression, and a blocked out
Read more…I could have added this discussion to the business or tech sections but it's really about jurying. There are a lot of new artists on the forum and I hope they've subscribed to be notified of new threads.
What you'll learn if you haven't yet is that
Read more…After Larry made some suggestions from my previous booth shot, I set this one up following his suggestions to make the shot simple. I would like some feedback on my new shot that I plan to use for jury review. Please tell me what you think. Any feedb
Read more…I'm getting organized and looking at all the winter shows I want to apply to......my question is related to the many checks I will be writing (yikes!). What is the practice for dating those big checks when it's months away from decision time? Can t
Read more…I set up my booth over the weekend to take new photos. I'm still planning on adding a banner to the back, but other than that, this is probably the new setup. I was wondering if anyone had any thoughts or suggestions. This photo will probably get
Read more…Hi I'm new here and I'm new to doing art shows/festivals -- although I did wholesale shows (BMAC, etc) for years and now do Portland Saturday Market, OR, every weekend - and have on and off for 16 years. I've done some really nice shows in the Pacifi
Read more…I have been involved in shows for about 5 years. I am trying to make the "leap" from high school craft fairs, to the more elaborate art shows. Since I am a jewelry designer, I am competing with some displays that cost thousands of dollars. I also don
Read more…I have read several different views on the booth shot image in comparison to the other images summited for jury view. Im a painter and my subjects are primerily children in my paintings. the 4 or 5 paintings I submit are consistent with this style, b
Read more…I autographed my paintings before they were photographed for jury review. Do I have to edit off my signature for jury review purposes?
Read more…Anything would be better than Slideroom from an artists prospective. I was preparing to apply to the Philadelphia Museum of Art photography competition this morning. I discovered that in the thumbnail gallery, where you can move your images around to
Read more…I can't seem to find a way to contact ZAPP but I have a question and feel sure someone in this group can answer it for me.
It involves the section on ZAPP called "My ZAPPlications". In the right-hand column it shows "1 x $20.00 Jury Fee" indicatin
Read more…I was wondering if anyone could help answer some of my questions:
How many different subject types are appropriate to sell at a show? I have tried to research this, I found a few posts saying that you should stick to one subject matter or niche. Bu
Read more…The St. Louis Open Jury was too long of a drive for me - plus it fell during my vacation. But I do intend to attend the Uptown Open Jury tomorrow in Minneapolis for the first time. There is a reception tonight from 5:30 - 7:30, and jurying starts t
Read more…I just had my pics redone and would like feedback. They are the new ones with the rich dark brown background. I am hoping for better results! http://www.artfairinsiders.com/photo/photo/listForContributor?screenName=2tawyogcg8ovu
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By paying an application fee an artist is buying a chance at being invited to a fair, and by accepting that application fee, that "chance" is a contractual guarantee. They are advertising and selling that "chance". So my question is this: If the dire
Read more…Here we go again. I thought this was years behind us. There are at least two mainstream jury slide photographers out there that are loading images onto ZAPP and JAS in the wrong color space, which makes the color look like crap. Six years and you'd
Read more…The notification date for Madison Art on the Square was yesterday, and now the status says Jury in Progress - 22 on the waiting list. Should I ignore this since it still says Jury in progress? (I know zapp can be misleading with the status updates s
Read more…Clark Crenshaw sent me a link to this web page where you can vote to who gets into Bayou City off the waiting list.
http://ktrh.com/pages/bcaf10.html
Larry Berman
Digital Jury Services
http://BermanGraphics.com
412-401-8100
I bet there are as many different opinions as there are people on this website.
The discussion about rejections seemed to be veering towards what is a good show as much as who is rejected and why.
To me a good show is one that has a variety of p
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