May 23: Success Team Kick-off Party
APA Midwest is holding a Success Team cocktail party, on Thursday, May 23 from 7:00-9:00pm. This informational party is open to anyone who wants to learn more about how Success Teams can take your business to the next level. What the heck is a Success Team? Great question – Success Teams are small groups of ...
May 22: How To Be Your Own Best Rep
On Wednesday, May 22 Creative Consultant Debra Weiss presents: How to be your Own Best Rep. With or without representation, it’s still your career to manage and control. Now more than ever there are just too many photographers and too few reps. Many photographers believe that in order to be successful they must have representation, however the landscape is ...
Wednesday, May 8: APA Bar Night
APA Midwest monthly networking extravaganza returns on Wednesday, May 8, sponsored by Dodd Camera. This event attracts the Who’s Who in the photographic community; from A-list photographers to the all-important behind-the-scenes production personnel. This is the event to meet and greet someone new, exchange business cards, discuss war stories, and make the commitment to work ...
April 25: Members Only Portfolio Review
APA Midwest is hosting our annual agency art buyer portfolio review on Thursday, April 25 at Tom Maday Photography studio. This is your chance to get up close and personal with gatekeepers to the creative department. Do your homework and treat this as an interview. You’ll have 15-minutes with your hand-selected art buyer, so make ...
April 9: The Big Picture Roundtable
APA Midwest continues The Big Picture event series on April 9 to a sold-out audience. The Big Picture is an intimate roundtable discussion series developed by APA Midwest to connect agency creatives and PRO level APA photographers. The goal – enjoy drinks and dinner in a comfortable atmosphere and learn more about the issues effecting ...
March 18: Apple Store-Harold Lee Miller
Harold Lee Miller is a fine art and advertising photographer who lives in Indianapolis and travels the country on assignment and personal projects. Born in Arkansas, Miller was the child of an Army officer who was posted throughout the world. As a result he acquired an outsider’s eye, which serves him to this day as ...
Event Series: The Big Picture
APA Midwest has developed a new events series called The Big Picture. The Big Picture an ongoing series of intimate discussions between regional creative professionals presented by APA Midwest. The APA has developed this ambitious project for the following reasons: The business world is changing at internet speed. How many times has the project needed ...
March 7: Creative Estimating
APA Midwest brings to our members a special program – Creative Estimating with Frank Meo. Frank Meo, founder of thephotocloser.com, is a 25-year photo representative veteran and has estimated hundreds of projects – big and small. This hands-on seminar will teach the art and science to properly preparing an estimate and presenting it to the ...
February 27: Take Financial Control
Let’s face it – the government has us psyched out. Most of us don’t know the difference between form 1040 and form 941 or an S-Corp from a C-Corp. Most “creative” professionals screamed uncle long ago and buried our head in the sand hoping the accounting nightmare would just go away. However, the nightmare finds ...
Apple Store: Thursday, January 10
Photographer Brian MacDonald and Justin Ahrens, Senior Graphic Designer and Principal at Rule 29 will be presenting at the Apple Store (North Michigan Ave.) on Thursday, January 10. MacDonald owner of Wonderkind Studios started collaborating with Ahrens working for nonprofit organizations in 2007. Their partnership has taken them across the globe to the slums of ...