The Montreal Worldcon’s recent payment fiasco to Anticipation art show participants makes the following news from the 2011 Worldcon in Reno all the more refreshing. According to Colin Harris of the 2011 Renovation team, his Worldcon compatriots are willing to make the ironclad guarantee that they will pay the artists within 30 days of the…
If you’re an artist who participated in this year’s World Science Fiction Convention Art Show, or plan to participate in a future Worldcon Art Show, then the following is for you. The good news is that this year’s Worldcon in Montreal is supposedly getting ready to pay its artists their Art Show revenues. The bad…
(top left: Jordu Schell’s Werewolf sculpture / top right: Julie Bell paints. / Bottom: A view of IlluXCon 2.) Remember that FIELD OF DREAMS line “Build it and they will come”? Pat and Jeannie Wilshire have done just that — built the best annual sf/fantasy art event in their hometown of tiny Altoona, PA, and…
Wow. WFC’09, you were a blast. I had a terrific time as I always do at WFC. Hats off to the con com for a dynamite show. Although the Art Show was definitely not a highlight (low sales and poor turnout), I managed to sell my small display of work (hooray!) and enjoyed the work…
Thanks to everyone at MileHiCon 41 for a terrific time! I went straight from there to the World Fantasy Con so I’m only now getting to blog about it. I was Artist Guest of Honor over the weekend of October 23-25 and the MHC folks know how to put on a first class show. Artists…