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Can I add MULTIPLE angles of a single artwork in one ZAPP 1920x1920 image?

Quick question.  Are you allowed to show multiple angles of ONE artwork in one 1920x1920 ZAPP image?  I have a wall sculpture that is 78"x24" and showing it in either a side view or a front view leaves plenty of negative black space. 

Preferably, I

Howard Alan Events Jurying

Get your ID ready if you sell in Alabama

A new immigration law was just passed in the state of Alabama.  If you are exhibiting in that state you will be asked to submit your birth certificate and driver's license to the county in which you are doing business.  One week before many artists w

Should jury choices be based only on scores?

"Are acceptances only based on score? I could see where for balance a director might switch out an artist that had very similar work to other accepted artists. For example all painters with high scores did landscapes or there were a lot of landscapes

Another Insight to Decision Making, for artists & jurors

Worth thinking about:

Here's a link from my friend, photographer Allan Teger,that will give you something new to think about, worry about or even slow down your decision making:  

"The very act of making decisions depletes our ability to make them wel

thunderbird artist

Hi Everyody

I am looking for information on 2 shows in feb. 2012 "talking stick fine art,wine and chocolate festival and waterfront fine art and wine festival" in Scottsdale Arizona.

Both are put on by Thunderbird artist.

I would have to drive from

Art Workshop Vacations???

Not sure where else to post this, so here we are.  Does anyone have any experience with/ or heard of Art Workshop Vacations in Boca de Tomatlan, Mexico?  There was an ad for this in the back of my Pastel Journal Magazine, so I checked out the website

Psychology of pricing

Thanks to everyone here who has been helping me transition into collage work. It has been a successful move. And a revelation.

We have discussed adding low priced items to aid the bottom line during these times and I have been one of the biggest advo

Pend Orielle Arts & Craft Fair

So, of all the shows we do, this one has to be in one of the most beautiful settings, City Beach Park in Sandpoint ID, on the shore of Lake Pend Orielle.  If you get bored during the slow afternoon, you can watch the many sailboats on the lake.  

T

Need to buy sidewalls - what do you have

I know I need a better tent but my FirstUp has served me well for 4 years so I'm postponing that purchase for a while. I want sidewalls that zip on all 4 sides and go around the outside of the four support polls. I found some at the hutshop link    h

Congratulations to Amy Taylor - winner of four DeBeers Awards

Has anyone done the Chicago Flower and Garden Show? It's at Navy Pier Mar 10-18, 2012.

I rec'd an email today to apply.  My stained glass is very garden orientated so I can see why they sent me the app.  However, I have not read any reviews on the show.  It seems the artists are a small grouping so I'm kind of skeptical.  Any advice wo

Houston Bayou Memorial Park Question

I have a question regarding the Bayou Memorial Park show.

The description of the show on Zap seems to imply that storage behind your booth is not allowed.  Am I misreading this?  If not, for those who have shown there, how big a deal to you find

Hello!

I just joined this site and I'm introducing myself. My name is Ralph Edward Sharp, but I go by Ed. My medium is metal. Mostly copper, some brass and bronze. I use an Oxygen/acetylene torch to braze my pieces together. I've been doing it about 15 year

Look what I got at Staples! ~ photo enlargements

I stopped into Staples on a whim to see inquire about photo enlargements.  I needed something to jazz up my very white booth.  Lo and behold - they're having a special until the end of September...

18 x 24 enlargement mounted on foam board and lamina

Any vets of the Penrod Arts Fair in Indy?

Heading with artist/wife Deborah to Indianapolis later this week to do the Penrod Arts Fair. 

Does anyone have experience one way or the other with this show?

It is just a one day show, but they go all out with music stages, food courts, and lots of

Need easier way to erect canopy

HI Folks

I have a 10x10 canopy with all steel tubing and solid steel braces on all corners its a very solid built canopy ,but very heavy.

It's also tall at the corners and it makes it very difficult for my wife and I to erect, trying to lift one end

Hello from Toronto

Hi all,

I am a newbie introducing himself to your community. I have only had a couple of art fairs under my belt, and I probably will find myself in a couple of fairs a year. That said, this community looks like it is full with wonderful things and

first EVER booth shots...please help these "newbies"

We have spent all week deciding what to hang, where- how to set up etc...

We don't even know which of our pieces to enter for a jury-- Claudia has figurative seires and abstracts, and Sergio has encaustics...plus we have a collaborations as well. 

We