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

[daddy-guido.livejournal.com]

Um, I think this is a case of someone having their head up their ass for a sufficient amount of time that they don't know the current score of the game.

I don't know why gnofhrt is making that statement, but she might be thinking of several years ago, when there was a transition in leadership that was less than smooth. Long since resolved, and it never affected the con itself, which still has the best-run and most profitable art show in Chicago.

She might be thinking of a different convention, or she might just be clueless.

I'd be willing to forgive ignorance, but ignorance coupled with absolute statements that are untrue is just rude.

[alicebentley]

I've heard nothing but good things about Capricon in the five or so years since I've been able to go myself. And while hearing about personality clashes can be delicious gossip when one is part of the community, it's been so long since I was involved with the running-of part of conventions that I don't even know the names of the people doing the work.

From a "been there, done that" stance, I still enjoy hearing how the ever changing challenges of organizing a convention are handled, especially since it's rarely just a reinvention of the wheel each time.

Anyway, I was with Capricon back at its beginning, was active concom for a good long while, and still think of it kindly even though I can't easily attend anymore. Which is why it was the first one that came to mind once I was given the task of getting art prints out into the wider world again.

So, are you going this year? I'd love to hear more about it.

[daddy-guido.livejournal.com]

hehe - I can't share info about the current politics/challenges, of conrunning as I'm on a grad-school induced gafiation period. I imagine the challenges, and for that matter the political issues, have not much changed since you were here in Chicago. Time marches on, fandom seldom changes.

[qnofhrt.livejournal.com]

My information comes from the person who has been part of the team that ran Cap's art show in the past and who was called at the last minute by the person running this year's art show for assistance because this year's person has apparently never run an art show before and had no staff, computer program or anything resembling a plan. If the status of the artshow has somehow changed in the past week, I apologize.

[daddy-guido.livejournal.com]

Cap has a (recent, past 5 years or so) history of trying to get new people involved, and it seems they may have placed a new person in Art Show. However, if she was smart enough to realize she needed help, and brave enough to ask for it, the show will likely run just fine.

In any case, one department head asking for help hardly qualifies as "organizational issues".