Capricon question

[alicebentley]

Know of anyone who is attending Capricon and might be interested in putting some Foglio stuff in the Art Show?

I've recently taken on the task of getting some of Phil and Kaja's limited edition prints out to conventions that take mail-in art. But it's already too late to do that for Capricon. And I think that would be a particularly appropriate place to start with.

There's still plenty of time to ship the art to the Chicago area, but it would need a local handler from that point.

Any suggestions?

ETA: Turns out it is NOT too late to mail the art in - I was looking at an earlier year's web site. (doh!)

So I'm no longer looking for someone else to carry them in.

Comments

[lverhulst.livejournal.com]

Hi Alice. I am conchair of Capricon this year and I think that qnofhrt may be referring to the fact that there are a number of new people running departments at Cap this year. This is deliberate. I wanted to bring in a bunch of new people who were interested in learning how things ran and who were excited to be helping. Of course, as with any new people, there were a few bumps in the road. And there was a little bit of difficulty in finding staff members to help in art show. (And there have been problems there for a number of years, so this year is no exception.) But that has all been resolved and the person running art show is a very hard worker and will do a good job even though she may not be experienced. She and I and controuble (who runs Windycon's artshow) have had a number of meetings this past year talking about how art shows are run and I know that she'll do a good job.

I am not sure if qnofhrt will be at Capricon, but I know that daddy_guido will - he is one of the art show auctioneers! :-)

I have an excellent team of people this year who are really happy and excited to be helping to run Capricon and who are learning a lot!

I wish you could come to Cap. I think you would have a blast! And thank you very much for thinking of Cap when deciding where to send the limited edition Foglio prints. If you check out the Cap schedule, you will see that we have a number of Magic the Gathering events scheduled. So, thanks!!!

[alicebentley]

Having new department heads all the time is an old, beloved Capricon tradition. Back in the first handful of years, there were rules to *prevent* anyone from running the same department repeatedly.

If it's anything like usual, about 1/3 of the Capricon attendees will be friends of mine. I've always had a fabulous time when I went. But airfare to Chicago runs about $500, and that's more than I can justify even for a really fun weekend.

At least this year I'll be getting to several other conventions. I'm already set up to work at Potlatch, SakuraCon, Emerald City, ComiCon San Diego, Denvention, GenCon Indy, and World Fantasy Con. Yeay!

Thanks for putting in the massive amounts of time and attention needed to chair a convention.