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How Do Your Jury Images Stack Up and What is the Purpose of the Booth Shot?

Mock Jury - Rock Financial Showplace, Novi, Michigan - October 17 - 9 am

As a benefit to participating in the Great Lakes Art Fair, Connie Mettler, publisher of ArtFairInsiders.com and ArtFairCalendar.com, will be doing a special presentation for the artists at 9am on Sunday morning October 17 entitled “The Digital Jury Process.”

Connie will speak about the digital jury process, hold a mock jury, view digital images of the participating artists, discuss how to improve your digital images for the jury process, and do a critique of booth images along with a discussion on why booth images are important to the jury process. This presentation is free to exhibiting artists.

This is a great opportunity to see how your work looks to the jury and also to see how other artists present their work.

Connie has been active in the art fair community for over 30 years as an artist's partner, an art event organizer, an art fair consultant and publisher of the nation's most popular art fair related websites, ArtFairInsiders.com (the "Facebook" for art fair artists) and ArtFairCalendar.com - the #1 Google rated site for "art fairs". She has curated many art fair juries and been friends with the nation's top art fair artists, observing their struggles and successes.

Not participating in the Great Lakes Art Fair and would like to attend the seminar? A limited number of seats will be available for $20. Planning on joining us? Click here: http://greatlakesartfair.com/sundayseminar.html

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Larry Berman Rocks!

Many thanks to Larry Berman, an active member of this site, for his help today as I struggled with uploading images for a digital jury. I really thought this would be a snap, simply scan, crop, save upload...wrong! I couldn't get the sizes right but an email to Larry got it straightened out quickly.

For those of you who don't know him, Larry is a former art fair artist (photographer) who has left the art fairs behind to focus on his business helping artists get their art work from actual object to a good looking digital image to ready for Zapp and JAS. He is the recognized expert on these systems.

I know many of you do this yourself, but my feeling is I have enough jobs to do, and my time gets rewarded by doing what I do well and not by being a jack of all trades. There are times when it makes better economic sense to hire someone to take on some other of the other tasks.

Larry has donated his time to many artists who were in poor economic straits and has generously helped many people as they struggled with the move from slides to digital. I know many of you need new images for jurying -- Larry produces professional images of your work, quick turnaround and very reasonable prices. Visit his site for more information: http://www.bermangraphics.com/
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