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DragonCon 2010 Art Show Schedule
Our 2009 Art Show was a great success and we want to thank everyone who participated this year. We will begin to accept Jury Submissions for the 2010 show sometime in February or March. Please check this website frequently in the coming months for announcements when the Art Show will again be open for submissions. Thank you so much and have a great year!
The details of our exciting programming for this year are now available here.
Deadline for Waitlisted Artists
2009-06-23:Waitlisted artists will get a final answer on August 3 as to whether or not space has become available for the 2009 Art Show.
Jury Round 2 is Now Closed
Thank-you to all artists that submitted applications to our first jury round. Images will now be submitted to the jury and results should be emailed to you by June 15.
Jurors Announced!
Juror Biographies
website: www.stephenhickman.com
Rick Sternbach has been a space and science fiction artist since the early 1970s, often combining both interests in a project. His clients include NASA, Sky and Telescope, Data Products, Random House, Smithsonian, Analog, Astronomy, The Planetary Society, and Time-Life Books. He is a founding member and Fellow of the International Association of Astronomical Artists (IAAA), which was formed in 1981. He has written and illustrated articles on orbital transfer vehicles and interstellar flight for Science Digest. Beginning in the late 1970s Rick added film and television illustration and special effects to his repertoire, with productions like Star Trek: The Motion Picture, The Last Starfighter, Future Flight, and Cosmos, for which he and other members of the astronomical art team received an Emmy award, the first for visual effects. Rick also twice received the coveted Hugo award for best professional science fiction artist, in 1977 and 1978.
With the rebirth of Star Trek, beginning with The Next Generation, Rick was one of the first employees hired to update the Trek universe. He created new spacecraft, tricorders, phasers, and hundreds of other props and set pieces. Using pencil, pen, and computer, Rick added Deep Space Nine and Voyager to his spacecraft inventory, and kept his hand in real space design with Voyager’s Ares IV Mars orbiter (blessed by planetary scientist Dr. Bruce Murray). Rick contributed graphic designs for the Star Trek Nemesis feature film, including the new Romulan bird of prey and Senate chamber floor. He also provided computer playback graphics and animation elements for Steven Soderbergh’s Solaris.
Rick is currently running Space Model Systems Inc., an outgrowth of his space and science fiction art studio operation. SMS Inc. is dedicated to providing unique model and art products to the space science community, the space educator, collector, and hobbyist.
website: www.bobeggleton.com
Bob Eggleton is a successful science fiction, fantasy, horror, and landscape artist, encompassing twenty years of putting brush to canvas or board. Winner of 9 Hugo Awards, 12 Chesley Awards, as well as various magazine awards, his art can be seen on the covers of magazines, books, posters and prints, and of late, trading cards, stationery, drink coasters, journals, and jigsaw puzzles.
He also works as a conceptual illustrator for movies and thrill rides. The most recent movie work includes concept and character design for the animated feature ‘The Ant Bully’ for DNA Productions/Playtone Co./Warner Bros. Previous to that, Bob did conceptual art for the Academy Award nominated animated film ‘Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius’.
Between demanding deadlines for book covers and movies, Bob has managed to squeeze in time to illustrate two books of experimental artwork about dragons. ‘Dragonhenge’ (2002) and ‘The Stardragons’ (2005), allowed Bob to stretch his talents in a range of mediums and also to indulge in exercising his beloved pencil work. Both are narrated dragon-myth original stories conceived and written by the award winning author, John Grant.
Other books of Bob’s artwork include: ‘Alien Horizons: The Fantastic Art of Bob Eggleton’, ‘Greetings From Earth: The Art of Bob Eggleton’, and ‘The Book of Sea Monsters’. Currently, ‘Primal Darkness: The Gothic and Horror Artwork of Bob Eggleton’ is available from Cartouche Press.
And in amongst all of this, Bob still manages to sneak away sometimes and watch his beloved Japanese monster films, buy toys, fit in travel to strange and wondrous places, and do the odd bit of landscape painting.
Bob has been elected as a Fellow of The International Association of Astronomical Artists (FIAAA), and is a Fellow of The New England Science Fiction Association (NESFA). His work has appeared on professional publications and books in the world of SF, Fantasy & Horror across the world.
More recently, Bob has indulged his passion for painting fine art by starting a ‘Painting a Day’ personal project to refine his use of oil paint and to experiment with new fine art ideas. The results can be found online at ‘Bob’s ART du Jour’ - http://bobsartdujour.blogspot.com/
website: www.lrushart.com
Lindsey Rush Hawkins is an artist, designer, and educator in the Atlanta area. Currently she is the Program Director of Design at Westwood College in Atlanta Midtown. She has a bachelor degree in Visual Communication from Purdue University and a master degree in Information Design and Communication from Southern Polytechnic State University. Her art and design career has taken her to San Francisco, New York City, Indianapolis, Chicago and now Atlanta .
She is very involved in the local art community and her personal artwork can be found in Lola Art Gallery in Historic Roswell and in art shows such as Trinity’s Spotlight on Art and Folk Fest. Lindsey’s fine art specialties are: mix medium, drawing, acrylic paint, illustration and photography.
Lindsey was part of the Dragon*Con Art Show last year while hosting the Westwood College booth and presenting two lectures about interviewing and managing clients.
See artwork at Lola's:: Historic Roswell, GA
980B Canton St , Roswell , GA 30075
Dragon*Con is one of the largest annual Science Fiction and Fantasy theme conventions in the world with an attendance of over 35,000 people.
The Dragon*Con Art Show is a very large and diverse event. Thousands of art buyers from around the country and around the world come to the show every year to buy the great works exhibited. It is a very active, exciting function with dynamic programming which gives the participating artist a high potential for large sales. We believe art is all about capturing new ideas in one form or another and showing the world the awesome creativity within these works.
The Art Show, Artist's Bazaar, Art Gallery and Print Shop section will be located in the Atlanta Hyatt Regency West.
We invite you to look at samples of the wonderful types of art work presented each year at the Dragon*Con Art Show -- please feel free to explore the following web sites: