Artist Guest of Honor, Elizabeth Leggett! Elizabeth is a two time fan artist Hugo winner, gallery artist, and science fiction and fantasy novel cover designer. Her current clients include KEEP Contemporary gallery in Santa Fe, NM, Prince of Cats Literary Productions, Melinda Snodgrass, DreamForge Magazine, Lightspeed Magazine, Uproar Books, Houghton, Mifflin and Harcourt, Lisa Inman and more. Her work can be seen in Spectrum Volumes 22, 24, 26, and 27. She can also be found in Infected By Art Volumes 3-9. She is a five time Chesley nominee. She lives in New Mexico with two cats and an exceptionally patient husband! To view more of her gorgeous artwork, visit her websitehttps://www.archwayportico.com/
Author Guest of Honor, Vennessa Robertson! Vennessa Robertson is an author, a mother, a lover of all things weird and whimsical, and she loves to let her geek flag fly. She is active in the writing and historic reenactment communities. She taught high school in Colorado and Alaska with dueling degrees in literature and history until a traumatic brain injury in 2009. Now she lives in rural Colorado. When she is not writing or homeschooling she is managing the family’s ever-growing large and small animal sanctuary ranch. She is the author of the Victorian Paranormal Arcane Adventuress series and the StarHawks futuristic military scifi series. Check her out on facebook https://www.facebook.com/vennessa.robertson
Announcing our musical Guest of Honor, Dust Bowl Faeries! Dust Bowl Faeries began as an all women trio in 2014. Since that time, they have evolved to become a multi-gendered, inter-generational duet and/or five-piece ensemble. Dust Bowl Faeries have performed extensively in the U.S. from New York to New Orleans. Most recently the band released a new album, The Plague Garden, and a music video, Candy Store, produced and directed by Lisa M. Thomas of Thin Edge Films. In 2020 the band released ‘Vampire Tango,’ a 16mm noir film also produced by Lisa M. Thomas. In 2019 they published a six song EP, ‘Beloved Monster’, produced by Floyd Fisher of Upstate Brooklyn, and they debuted their award winning music video, ‘Zebra’, produced/directed by Lisa M. Thomas and shot at Lumberyard Performing Arts Center. In 2018 the band released a Remix EP, ‘The Dark Ride Mixes’ with Floyd Fisher and they launched their collaboration with filmmaker Lisa Thomas with the debut of Sirens, a music video about misogyny in the music industry. Dust Bowl Faeries were selected for a 2018 performing arts residency at The Church in Mt. Vision, and in 2017 they toured from New York to New Orleans where they attended a musical residency at Onelovenola Arts Collective. The band’s self-titled debut album, released in 2016, features Tommy Stinson (Replacements) & Melora Creager (Rasputina). Check them out and find out more at the links below! DBF Web: http://www.dustbowlfaeries.com DBF FB: https://www.facebook.com/dustbowlfaeries DBF Insta: https://www.instagram.com/dustbowlfaeries/Costuming Guest of Honor, Angela Hartshorn! Angela Hartshorn is the owner, designer, and seamstress behind Fogg Couture and Queen Mab’s Store. She spends most of her time traveling around the country to different shows selling her wares or preparing for fashion week. She is inspired by the dark and macabre as well and Victorian and Edwardian fashions. Now she also hosts a podcast all about people’s paranormal experiences. Check her out at the links below: https://www.facebook.com/QueenMabStore https://www.facebook.com/FoggCouture/ https://www.facebook.com/myhauntedlifepodcast/
Update 3/30/2021
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Shiny Garden, the nonprofit that hosts WhimsyCon, also hosts HexaCon, where we game all weekend (boardgames, roleplaying games, minitures games, train games and more!). Find out more at hexacondenver.org.
