Art Show

A L Raden is a multidisciplinary storyteller who loves exploring layered, character-driven storytelling, especially with an emphasis on magic, myth, and nature. Her art features original whimsical fantasy and science fiction in multiple mediums, including traditional charcoal drawings, pointillism-style acrylic paintings, and digital inking.

Agathon McGeachy cut his teeth as a professional sand sculptor on commercial jobs and contests all over North America. As Manfred Kriegstreiber in the SCA, he made his own costumes and his skills as an armorer were always in demand. He competed at the elite level in tournaments. His skills include armor, fabrication, machining, and a backyard foundry. While working in medical research, he designed and built early prototypes of the Ames Device, a mechanical treatment for brain injuries. Agathon McGeachy is an award-winning figure sculptor. He has sold three short stories, including to the 2024 Northwest Independent Writers Association anthology, Illusion. 🌲

Alina Pete (they/them) is a nehiyaw (Cree) artist and writer from Little Pine First Nation in western Saskatchewan. They grew up urban, but spent summers wandering the Qu’Appelle Valley with their cousin from Cowessess First Nation. Alina, best-known for their Aurora award-winning webcomic, Weregeek (weregeek.com), also writes short stories, poems and RPG supplements, and their work has been featured in several comic anthologies, including the second and third volumes of Moonshot. Alina lives in Surrey, British Columbia, with their partner and three very silly parrots who enjoy sitting on their shoulder as they write. 🌲

Amy Rae Hill is a ceramic painter who uses glaze to illustrate dramatic celestial scenes on pottery. After receiving her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Western Washington University, she worked at a pottery painting studio to develop her craft. She paints with low-fire pottery glaze on earthenware. 🌲

Artist andyvanoverberghe focuses on high-detail illustrations using ink and charcoal on wood. His work provokes imagination and explores philosophy, psychology, nature, anatomy, geometry, spirituality, the cosmos, and the world observed. 🌲

Arlin Robins has been a sculptor, painter and jeweler for 50 years. Her jewelry graces the throats and ears of men and women in historical, fantastic and mundane environments. Her art is collected throughout the country. The smallest work Arlin has done on commission was a set of tiny gold charms for the Carousel Museum, San Francisco. Her largest sculptural commission is the set of mermaids and dolphins that have been the welcoming figures at the Mirage hotel in Las Vegas since opening day. Other public art by Arlin can be found in mosaics: the nine-foot Wind Dragon for Windrush School in El Cerrito, California, and a series of installations in the Natatorium in Richmond, California, when the historic landmark was renovated in 2013. The artist was honored with a Chesley Award (1989) for her four-foot bronze mermaids, and created the Heinlein Award for the Heinlein Society and the Hugo base design for 2002 ConJose WorldCon. Her new works in polymer and copper will be on display with her bronzes. 🌲

Ashley J Harper has been showing at science fiction conventions since the mid-1990s. In 2023, she discovered collage, an artform that allows her to utilize all of the art supplies she can imagine, and several she hasn’t encountered yet. Ashley has two kittens—which makes collaging interesting—and is a resident of the Seattle area. 🌲

Belsac has been creating leather art for more than 20 years, specializing in Celtic, Viking, and fantasy leather art mounted on wood. Each piece is made from hand-carved leather mounted on uniquely shaped wood. Examples of his art can be found at Belsac Leather Art on Facebook. 🌲

After nine years of college and master’s degrees in English literature and theatre, Betsy Mott decided to be a professional artist. For more than 40 years, her techno drawings and cosmic, mystic, and fantasy paintings have been seen in science fiction art shows all over the country. Her work can be seen on the Landmark, Great Warrior, and Great Space Ships series of published note cards; on CDs, webzines, books, and websites; and in personal collections. She has been featured in a PBS Northwest Profiles segment. She is a fourth-generation native of Spokane, Washington, a Mensan, and a lifetime member of the Mayflower Society. As part-owner, she helps her brother run The Corner Door Fountain and Books in historic downtown Millwood, Washington. Her hobbies include role-playing games, kayaking, researching obscure subjects, and playing trumpet in local wind ensembles. 🌲

Blane is a lifelong fan of fantasy and science fiction and loves to draw, so of course he draws a lot of sci fi/fantasy pictures. He favors a humorous angle for his work, though he has done plenty of serious scientific illustrations that have appeared in peer-reviewed publications and various educational and informational projects. Blane works in 2D and 3D mediums, and is a maker, producing improbable items in leather, wood, ceramics, and metal. As of Jan. 1, he wrapped up a 40-year career as a fisheries biologist and is looking forward to being a full-time artist. Blane has exhibited his work many times at Norwescon and OryCon art shows. He finds one of the best things about showing his art at conventions is seeing people’s reactions, though he is perfectly happy to accept a bit of money and let you take home some art. 🌲

Brittany is a paper artist known for combining layered paper and light into shadowbox sculptures that she calls Oneiroframes. Based in Seattle, Washington, since 2012, she made her first paper sculpture in 2016. She has since developed her own techniques of cutting and layering paper and light to create her own unique and illustrative voice. Each line is painstakingly handcut with a blade. Her work is influenced by her love of fantasy, biology, and struggles with mental health to create transformative, dreamlike portals which draw the viewer into expressive worlds that shine brightest when surrounded by darkness. 🌲

Brittany Torres is an award-winning digital fantasy artist whose artwork evokes the magic, mystery, and power of women through the female gaze. Armed with a medieval studies degree, an obsessive love for the fantasy genre, and a talent for being self-taught, Brittany developed a unique style of photo manipulation and digital painting that focuses on luminous, fantastical female portraits. Her artwork has appeared on book covers, is seen around the globe in viral collaborations with content creators, and is sold at conventions and comiccons. She is based in Seattle, Washington. 🌲

Bruce Brenneise is an award-winning illustrator known for world-building in creating vibrant, epic, otherworldly environments, and helping clients flesh out ambitious stories and excite their fans. He is best-known for his work on games, such as Magic: The Gathering, Dungeons & Dragons, Numenera, and Slay the Spire. Fun facts: Bruce received a Bachelor in Fine Arts degree in scientific illustration from the University of Michigan, lived in China for six years, buys his signature hats from the Amish, and has traveled to 39 countries and counting. He lives with his wife, son, cats, and carnivorous plants in the Pacific Northwest. 🌲

Pacific Northwest artist Camille Meehan spent much of her life exploring the wooded islands of Puget Sound. That time carried over into her work, which shows a love of nature and rich textured environments full of dynamic magical creatures. Camille, now deep in her “Unicorn Period,” is motivated by her family’s love of unicorns, creating unorthodox representations of the much-beloved equine. 🌲

Carole's detail focus works well with her interests in dyeing, costuming, wearable art, and upcycling. She is known for her dye work that combines traditional techniques (like shibori) with contemporary techniques (like ice dyeing), plus answering “what happens when I ...?” Carole's work has also been seen on the masquerade stage at the TorCon III (Toronto 2003) and Renovation (Reno 2011) Worldcons.

Celine, a French/Vietnamese-born artist who grew up in the United States, has brought her pop culture and fantasy art to conventions and events from sunny San Diego to the evergreens of the Pacific Northwest. She loves witchy fantasy, romance and quirky cuteness, and tries to incorporate these elements into her artwork any chance she gets. Watch out for the stealth horror as well!

Braden Duncan (aka Clockwork Art), is a full-time artist and animal rescue advocate based in Seattle, Washington. Braden’s work combines a love of pop culture, mythology, mysticism, the macabre, steampunk, cybernetics, and the natural world. Her cats are her main models, and she uses traditional media (primarily watercolor). Braden is the exhibitor coordinator for Sea-Meow Con, Seattle’s premier cat convention, and helps raise funds and awareness for animals and humans in need. You can find Braden and her work at comiccons, horror shows and cat events nationwide. 🌲

Cody Vrosh is a watercolor artist and illustrator based in California, fusing science fiction elements with bold women and playful creatures to create unique speculative illustrations. He is the creator of Coffee Creatures and Teeth Creatures. His work includes art for Sideshow Collectibles, Famous Monsters/American Gothic Press, and Printed in Blood. He received the judge’s choice award at the 2018 Worldcon 76 art show. Cody’s current project is Little Satellites, a collection of paintings of lost astronauts traveling the cosmos exploring themes of solitude and mortality.

Crystal lives on a small property in Central Washington, where she is supervised by her two dogs and M’ri, the at. Although much of her time is spent at the sewing machine, Crystal’s creative endeavors have recently branched into book fore-edge painting and creating EuroAsian-inspired leather armor and accessories. These are outgrowths of her love of fiction and her interest in mounted archery… because, every book creates a picture, and every sport requires a new wardrobe. 😉 🌲

Ctein is a professional photographer and writer, best known in the SF community for his photographs of eclipses, aurora, natural and unnatural scenics, and space launches; and for his hand-printed fine art books. His work can be seen at https://ctein.com and photo-repair.com. Fannishly, he is a longtime member of Pensfa and Minn-StF and he’s been artist guest of honor at Minicon (1992), the Honolulu Westercon (2000), and Armadillocon (2005). Ctein lives in Daly City with retired geologist Paula Butler, three demented psittacines, a half dozen more-or-less normal computers, and twenty kilobooks. He reports that the house seems to be shrinking.

BORN in the Great Pacific Northwest. RETIRED from the Everyday Realm. LIVES in Vancouver (not BC). Deborah Fay Morales is an artist whose pen and ink drawings and acrylic paintings bring the world of fantasy to life. Fay is her middle name and was her destiny as an artist, working in the magical realm of elves, faeries, and magical beasties. Some favorite sources of inspiration are Norse mythology, Mother Nature, and the Magical Realm. Her early interest in art was fueled by elementary school teachers and high school art instructors. Deborah continued her art exploration on her own, self-taught. No universities. No degrees. Finely detailed pen and ink drawings are Deborah’s specialty. After finishing a mind-bending large piece in black and white, she will dive into the refreshing rainbow of an acrylic creation. Deborah is working on a high-fantasy book filled with, of course, elves and dragons and fairies, oh my! 🌲

Donato's passion for narrative art has seen his work grace the covers of over three hundred science fiction and fantasy novels, placed in hundreds of private and public collections, and landed numerous peer honors including three Hugo Awards, two Gold and six Silver Medals from Spectrum: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, numerous awards from the Art Renewal Center, the prestigious Hamilton King Award from the Society of Illustrators, and recognition from the Association of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists with twenty-three Chesley Awards.

Erika Morton is a painter and photographer, creating works that prompt the viewer to wonder about the connection between magic and the physical world. Drawing on influences from fantasy literature, TTRPGs, and the intricacies of medieval marginalia, she presents pieces that spark stories and encourage the viewer to imagine. When not in her studio, she spends her time seeking out liminal spaces and creating art from the people and places she finds. Over a decade ago, she began studying medieval illumination styles and techniques in earnest, and now creates fantasy images in medieval ways with materials from around the world.

Echo has more than 30 years of experience as a professional commercial artist, creating book covers and interiors, posters, advertising, displays, packaging, games, editorial, and magazines. She is renowned for her fantasy and sci-fi illustrations as well as her art nouveau portraits. Echo is the coordinating judge for Illustrators of the Future, whose current and past judges include Frank Frazetta, Bob Eggleton, Wil Eisner, Larry Elmore, Ciruelo, and more. Every Saturday she hosts The Professional Artists Podcast, where she and her guests teach the next generation. 🌲

The work of Edna Mae Stevenson, a rare female artist who worked the pulp fiction and other illustration fields, prefigures artists such as Jack Gaughan and Ed Emshwiller. Stevenson (May 21, 1884–Feb. 25, 1955) is an alumna of School of the Art Institute in Chicago (1902-1906). She contracted for five Weird Tales covers in 1926, at a time when many magazines were pushing toward more salacious covers to attract a male audience. Considering Stevenson’s keen moral sense, she would do no more covers after her last in November 1926.

Ellis Bray began painting in an effort to manage his anxiety while his firstborn was in the NICU. His work reflects “pathological optimism,” finding hope in hopeless situations. Juxtaposing emotional light and darkness, Ellis portrays bright sunflowers before volcanic eruptions, cheerful plague doctors, and reflective robots. His acrylics are textured for tactile engagement, while his digital art blends photography and fantasy. By combining vivid colors, textured media, and imaginative themes, Ellis invites viewers to explore the range of human emotion and the belief that hope can thrive, even in the unlikeliest of circumstances. 🌲

Erin Cairns is a miniatures sculpture artist based in Dallas, Texas. She runs the speculative fiction discoverability and accessibility website Inkfoundry.net. You can see her past, current, and future projects at erincairns.com.

From a young age, Emily Fiegenschuh has been bringing fantasy worlds to life with her pencil. A graduate of Ringling College of Art and Design, Emily has illustrated for many clients, including Wizards of the Coast, Paizo Inc., Cricket Magazine, Inhabit Media, IMPACT Books and Llewellyn Worldwide, and her artwork has appeared in Spectrum: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art. Emily is the author and illustrator of The Explorer’s Guide to Drawing Fantasy Creatures, a how-to-draw book for creature enthusiasts of all ages. Recently, she worked with Llewellyn Worldwide on several faerie-themed projects. Emily prefers the feeling of putting pencil or brush to paper, and makes the majority of her work traditionally. Her illustrations are painted with gouache on watercolor paper. 🌲

Judy Peterson of Fantaminals designs and makes free-standing hardwood jigsaw puzzles, fretwork, and dragons. She participated in her first science fiction convention, Wiscon, in 1991. She won an art show award. Her first Worldcon was Buccaneer in 1998, where she dealt in the dealers’ room. Since then, she has attended many cons: world, regional, and local. She and her spouse, Dave, will celebrate their 61st anniversary the week after this Worldcon.

Fran is an artist working in oils, pen and ink, stone, wood, clay, polymer clay, fabric, weaving, and digital media. She writes science fiction and fantasy. She is an editor, formerly of medical, technical, and legal work. She is now editor for Cosmic Roots and Eldritch Shores, her online magazine of science fiction, fantasy, myths, legends, fairy tales, eldritch stories, art, podcasts, reviews, and interviews 🌲

Francesca Myman is a senior editor and art director at Locus magazine, where she has worked for 17 years. She has made over 120 Locus covers, most with her original artwork. She handles art and design for the business as well as editing, convention coverage and photography, event planning, art books wrangling for the Recommended Reading List, artist spotlights, and many other strange and wonderful tasks. Her interests include SF/F art, nonfiction, cephalopods, and social justice. If you want to know more about Francesca’s art you can support her at her Patreon.

Galen Dara’s accomplishments include a Hugo Award win for best fan artist in 2013, a historic nomination for best professional artist in 2014, and multiple Hugo, Chesley, and Locus Award nominations. In 2016, she won the prestigious World Fantasy Award. She is regularly an invited presenter at speculative fiction conventions, and her work is often included in exhibitions and publications dedicated to science fiction and fantasy. Her clients include TOR Books, DAW Publishing, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Subterranean Press, Wizards of the Coast, Scientific American, Uncanny Magazine, and Lightspeed Magazine.

Geek Calligraphy was officially founded in 2015, though Ariela and Terri began talking about the idea in 2010. Ariela and Terri are committed to providing high-quality art and exceptional customer service to geeks across the spectrum in a respectful and inclusive manner. 🌲

Goldeen Ogawa is a self-taught author-illustrator on a mission to change the world for the better through inspiring artwork and transportive stories. She uses traditional media to illustrate the magical, mysterious, and majestic aspects of everything from the mundane to the extraordinary. Featuring everything from star-studded horses to owls in funny hats, her art is sometimes epic, sometimes intimate, but always contains an essential element of fantasy. She lives, works, and plays in Bend, Oregon. 🌲

Grace P. Fong specializes in illustration for speculative fiction publications and promotional material for authors. Over the years, she has participated in multiple anthologies, galleries, and conventions. Her work has won the Ignyte Award and has been nominated four times for the Hugo Award. 🌲

Hannah Swedin is an award-winning artist, cosplayer, and prop maker. She specializes in the unorthodox and unusual. She has won top awards at various comic and sci-fi conventions throughout the years, and constantly engages with the community. She is most known for her plush-making skills, including a five-foot-long dragon plush and her cosplay of the character Springtrap from the Five Nights at Freddy’s franchise. She is working on creating fake diaphanized wet specimens of fantasy creatures. She also fosters kittens in her spare time.

Portland, Oregon-based artist K.L. Wollons creates abstract metal wall reliefs that evoke ancient mystique while embracing modern industrial aesthetics. Since his start in 2015, the idea of a “hyper relic” has been the driving theme behind every composition. He thinks of his pieces as being discovered in a ruin or unearthed in the far future, becoming storytelling conduits to an unspecified time. K.L.’s artwork has appeared in various galleries in Portland’s famous Pearl and Alberta art districts and has been accepted into distinguished fairs including Art in the Pearl, the Bellevue Arts Fair, and the Charbonneau Arts Festival. 🌲

Rumor has it that Ingrid Kallick was abducted by fairies as a child and returned unharmed. Soon after, she began to draw and has not stopped since. Ingrid mainly works in fluid acrylic and mixed media. Her art has appeared in Cricket Magazine, Communication Arts, Spectrum Fantasy Annual, Scientific American, the cover of Science, and in the picture book Two Troll Tales from Norway. Awards include the SCBWI Magazine Merit Award, the Society of Illustrators Los Angeles bronze medal, and the Chesley Bonestell Award.

Inkshark, a rampantly queer creator and editor, lives in the wilds of the Pacific Northwest, where he writes impossible things and paints what he shouldn’t. When his current meatshell begins to decay, he would like science to put his brain into a giant killer octopus body, with which he promises to be very responsible and not even slightly shipwrecky. Pinky swear. 🌲

Ivy Gilliam is a Seattle-based artist with a focus on visual storytelling. Her illustration work is inspired by animation and comics in fantastical environments. Ivy believes that art is a powerful tool for communicating and connecting as human beings. She hopes that her art can inspire others and make them feel invited into in a rich, complex world.

James Corey is an obsessive mask maker from Seattle. He specializes in leather and paper mâché masquerade masks. Corey learned his craft in Italy, and since March of 2019 has created over 1,560 unique and gorgeous masks. 🌲

Jeff Sturgeon is a Northwest artist known for his beautiful, award-winning metal paintings. His career spans more than 30 years, coming up through the ranks as a young fan artist in the ‘80s to being hired in the first wave of computer game artists in the late ‘80s and early 1990s. A long career in the ‘90s as an artist, animator, concept artist, lead artist, game designer, and art director followed, most notably for Electronic Arts. He continued to paint and display his work at science fiction conventions around the country, and created new cover and interior work for clients such as Harper Collins Publishing and NASA JPL. Jeff left the game business behind and went to painting full time, with aluminum as his new canvas, although he did not give up traditional canvas completely. In the new millennium, Jeff’s work has become nationally known with increased appearances as an exhibitor, guest, panelist, and guest of honor at conventions around the country. Jeff’s world-sharing anthology Jeff Sturgeon’s Last Cities of Earth was released in 2022 by Word Fire Press. His work in the Last Cities of Earth universe and book and magazine cover assignments now take up most of his time as he works towards releasing a second Last Cities of Earth anthology. A collectable card game is in the design stages. 🌲

Jeliza creates whimsical art and craft exploring the beauty of space, mysticism, and science fiction. The media she works in include reverse painting, woodworking, and digital. 🌲

Jocelyn Short is an illustrator and concept designer based in Maryland, creating artwork for fantasy, sci-fi, and horror in comics, video games, and film. She is currently developing Bearers, an art anthology filled with character designs and world art exploring unique spirit couriers. Professional credits include creating the banner artwork for Virtuous Con 2024, as well as on projects such as Black Feminist Video Game, a virtual play encasing a videogame component (for which she created all art assets), and character designs for the comic The Legend of Althea, created by Royce Adkins.

John Douglass kitbashes lighted spacecraft models out of plastic kits of anything not-a-spacecraft.

John Picacio is a three-time Hugo Award winner, nine-time Chesley Award winner, World Fantasy Award winner, and one of the most acclaimed cover artists in American science fiction and fantasy over the last 25 years. He has illustrated best-selling cover art for over 150 major SFF books, including works by George R.R. Martin, Michael Moorcock, Leigh Bardugo, Rebecca Roanhorse, Harlan Ellison, Silvia Moreno Garcia, Lauren Beukes, and more. His debut picture book The Invisible Parade, co-created with #1 New York Times-bestselling author Leigh Bardugo, releases August 26, 2025 in bookstores everywhere.

Joy Alyssa Day is a professional artist, working mostly in blown glass and reverse painted glass. Her artworks have appeared in books and magazines, on postcards and billboards, and she has shipped her blown-glass planetary ornaments all over the world. Joy is also a master costumer and has been a part of the convention culture since her teens when she helped her mom tabulate questionnaires about fandom from over 2,500 fans. Joy designed the Hugo bases for Seattle Worldcon 2025.

Seattle-based artist K. Amarak Waters’ sculptures are inspired by popular culture, mythology, religion, dreams, and the animal kingdom and evoke the darker, more primal regions of the psyche. Incorporating traditional figurative art with fantastic imagery, these images represent his exploration of what it means to be human and our experiences in the spiritual realms. As he says, “We are often defined by what fascinates and frightens us.” 🌲

Kaitlyn Grubb—alias Katharos Meraki—specializes in portrait work in painting and digital forms. Making both personal and fan artwork, she loves to share her vision and unique taste for the imagination. From vent works using an animal motif to fan work for My Hero Academia, Arcane, Bojack Horseman, Tokyo Ghoul, and so much more, Kaitlyn continues to share her mind and creativity. Her work has been displayed in magazines, journals, and art vending events. To further her artistic career she wishes to reach for the stars and vend at conventions and Comic Cons throughout Washington State. 🌲

Karisu is an artist/illustrator/cosplayer who has been creating science fiction- and fantasy-related art in several types of media, most recently exploring digital art (absolutely no AI involved). They are a frequent collaborator with their spouse, Richard Man, and they co-own the ImageCraft.Art gallery-hosting artists’ platform. They are in the process of debuting a science fiction graphic novel.

Katie Croonenberghs is a fantasy artist based in the Pacific Northwest who works primarily in watercolor and gouache. Her current ongoing series has a strong focus on dragons inspired by vibrant PNW landscapes from the Oregon Coast to Banff, Canada, and everywhere in between. Birds and wildlife often make appearances in her detailed and lush environments. 🌲

Kendra Tornheim has been creating jewelry with wire, hand-colored brass, and antique keys for more than 15 years, adding on new designs and techniques regularly. Besides art, the bulk of their time goes to a devops engineering job, occasional songwriting, and a great deal of reading.

Kestrel Michaud is a classically-trained, award-winning, and internationally-recognized fine art quilter who specializes in illustrating in fabric. Her art is made from thousands of tiny pieces of fabric fused together and quilted into large wall hangings. Kestrel and her art quilts have been featured on The Quilt Show and Quilting Arts TV on PBS. Kestrel’s art quilts have been displayed in six countries around the globe, and they’ve been juried into (and won) grand prizes at the largest quilt shows in the world.

L. F. Ross is an illustrator and comic artist based in Seattle, Washington. Working both digitally and with traditional mediums, her style centers around vibrant colors and textures. Her work is heavily inspired by vintage animation and classical folklore. 🌲

LA Wildsun Bradley creates both edible and display-only art inspired by the eerie beauty of their Pacific Northwest island home. Surrealist romanticism, folklore, and cosmic horror contribute to their work. But so do pastries, anime, and a feisty zest for finding beauty in the wild and strange hidden in the mundane. 🌲

A lifelong fan of science fiction and fantasy, Laszlo Jakusovszky draws upon a wealth of inspiration for his artwork. His influences include SF&F literature and films, comics, and role-playing games. His artistic influences include 19th century French academy painters and classic SF&F illustrators (especially early pulp and paperback covers). He works primarily in traditional media, emphasizing fine details, crisp planes, and bold colors. He is equally adept in creating art in a retro pulp or realistic oil painting style. Laszlo is available for professional illustration work and personal commissions. 🌲

Lea Farr has been a con runner since the early 1970s. She started doing art in 2019 and makes SF and fantasy-themed tiaras, headpieces, suncatchers, mirrors, and lamps. Her favorites are the tiaras and headpieces. Lea delights in people playing dress-up with her work. She invites you to stop by and try on the headpieces and tiaras.

Lee Moyer is a two-time Hugo Award-winning artist, designer, and writer in Portland, Oregon. His credits include lead artist for Dungeons & Dragons, 13th Age, and Cursed Court; art director for EA; cover artist for Seanan McGuire, Caitlín R. Kiernan, and Iain Banks; poster designer for Stephen Sondheim, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Tori Amos, and The Call of Cthulhu; and docent for the Smithsonian Natural History Museum. His comic trilogy, The Trident of Aurelia, concludes this year with Corazon. All this may sound impressive, but he once told Hugh Jackman he was too tall to play Wolverine, so really, what does he know? 🌲

Li is 30 years old and lives in Shoreline, Washington. As a mindfulness tool to manage the stress of chronic illness, Li transforms intricately-folded paper into art. They create handmade origami jewelry and sculpture, made from colorful Japanese papers and reclaimed damaged sci-fi books. All their origami jewelry is hardened and waterproof, specially designed to withstand any Seattle weather. Li's favorite activities are audio-booking sci-fi novels and walking in the forest. Li owns Chronic Baubles Origami Jewelry. 🌲

Lisa Hertel is an artist from a long line of artists, working in a variety of media, including pottery, alcohol ink (an alcohol-soluble dye), watercolors, encaustics (painting with hot wax), and wire sculpture. Search for The Cogitation Zone website to see everything.

Lizzy D. Hill grew up on a farm in Southern Idaho, where she was free to explore the world around her. She enjoys fantasy books, researching fashion, exploring nature, and especially listening to music. Lizzy D. got an associate of fine arts at BYU-Idaho, and has displayed her whimsical art at conventions and stores. She has illustrated a variety of books, including making her own coloring book. She is happily married to her best friend and lives in Washington with their son and noisy blue eye kitty. 🌲

Where others see junk, Lynne Taylor Fahnestalk sees potential as she creates one-of-a-kind robot sculptures from upcycled metal objects. Each bot is securely constructed using drilling and screws and she uses the metal pieces as she finds them, never polishing, painting, or shaping. When people ask, “Do the bots move?” her answer is, “Not when I’ve been looking.” Lynne is a two-time recipient of the national Canadian Prix Aurora Award for artistic achievement, and her work has appeared in numerous galleries and publications. She lives in British Columbia, Canada with her husband and a house full of bot parts. 🌲

In another life, Madeleine Robins has been a nanny, an administrator, an actor, and a swordswoman, and she has trafficked book production, edited comics, and repaired hurt books. She’s also the author of the New York Times notable urban fantasy The Stone War, Daredevil: The Cutting Edge, historical novel Sold for Endless Rue, and alt-Regency-noir mysteries Point of Honour, Petty Treason, and The Sleeping Partner. While working at Klutz Press, she tested instructions for—among many other things—making beaded jewelry. This led to a nasty beading habit, and when not writing she can now be found stringing and weaving tiny beads into sparkly jewelry.

Mark Ship is a New York City-based science fiction artist and the creator of The Futuristica, a sprawling space opera comic series to inspire meaning in a turbulent world on the brink of unprecedented change. The project has been his ambition for over 13 years, and it explores the hopes and pains of a science-fictional generation through a five-year story. If you still believe the future is something worth fighting for, then get on board and prepare for a time-bending, cosmic adventure in the year 3000.

Maurizio Manzieri is an Italian digital illustrator honored as grand master by the European Science Fiction Society. A three-time Hugo Award finalist for best professional artist (2021, 2022, 2025), he has also won the 2025 Premio Italia, alongside a Chesley Award and four Asimov’s Readers’ Awards. Over his 30-year career, his clients include Subterranean Press, Centipede Press, MacMillan, Infinivox, and magazines like Interzone, Asimov’s Science Fiction, Analog, and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. Renowned for pioneering digital techniques, his work merges traditional artistry with cutting-edge technology in fantasy and sci-fi genres.

Meg Frank is an artist, baker, and jewelry maker who lives and works in New York City.

Megan Wyreweden is an Asian-American illustrator living and working out of a tiny cottage in Seattle. Her work is inspired by nostalgia, natural history, folklore, and a very nerdy childhood filled with books. She has created fantasy and horror artwork for games and publishers, with past clients including Metal Weave Games, The Bookish Box, Fairy Loot, and Illumicrate. She especially loves depicting moody, atmospheric landscapes, forgotten ruins, monsters, and feminine rage. When not making art, Megan loves traveling, cooking, rock climbing, video gaming, and foraging in the woods. 🌲

Michael Brugger is a digital artist residing in the Pacific Northwest. As a clinical engineer specializing in radiation oncology, Michael started making art to deal with the stress of watching people in the most challenging days in their lives. Michael draws his inspiration from a lifetime of reading science fiction and fantasy, with a healthy dose of tabletop gaming. A typical day sees him wrangling electrons at work on high voltage equipment and later at home pushing pixels around on his monitor. He has won several best science fiction and people’s choice awards at conventions around the Pacific Northwest. 🌲

Michelle Morrell, division head for exhibits for Seattle Worldcon 2025, has also held numerous positions at her home con, Norwescon, including member services director and secretary. Her special passion project is the Norwescon Little Free Library book exchange, where thousands of books get rehomed each year. A 2025 Hugo Award finalist for best fan artist, she reviews contracts by day, prowls the Seattle goth scene by night, looks for any excuse to wear elf ears, and lives by the creed “I read, therefore, I am.” 🌲

As a former software engineer, Mike Rerick now expresses his creativity via kiln-formed (fused) glass. This has allowed him to explore a variety of techniques that he uses in his work. 🌲

Natalie Metzger is a Pacific Northwest-based illustrator and designer. She’s the creator of the webcomics Tidal Farce and Over-Encumbered, the illustrator of You Can Do Anything, Magic Skeleton! by Chuck Wendig, Miniatures and A Very Scalzi Christmas by John Scalzi, and has provided illustration and design for several tabletop games. Her illustration work focuses on the weird and fantastic fueled by a love of storytelling, humor, and the bizarre natural world. 🌲

N.D. Rossignol is a Montana-based visual artist, poet, illustrator, and educator. She is a former ballet dancer who has turned her attention to creating fantasy, surrealistic, and mythological-based works. She lives with her warlock husband, goblin daughter, and a menagerie of animal familiars.

Northern Star Art Inc. is one of the foremost dealers in illustrative art focusing on science fiction and fantasy art in the U.S. We have been in business for almost 30 years and represented a number of major artists in the field. Currently, we have art panels (paintings, drawings, sketches) from the estate of Darryl Millsap, who was a major illustrator in the science fiction and fantasy world in the 1950s–1970s, including doing all the early covers for Casca by Barry Sadler. He is also quite well known for doing many LBGT covers for various book covers. 🌲

Oakley Forge Collective is a small collective of longtime friends, living in the Mid-Atlantic. They show their wares at local craft shows, and internationally at science fiction conventions, most recently in Dublin, Ireland; Glasgow, Scotland; and Baltimore, Maryland. Products include jewelry designed and made by twin sisters; household and decorative ironwork made by blacksmith; trivets, bookends, and boxes resembling books, made from native and exotic woods; hand-cast and hand-painted stone tea-lights; and knitted sculptures and apparel pieces designed and made by fiber artists.

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Ray has been attending science fiction conventions since the early ‘80s. That’s where he started producing art on T-shirts to sell, under the label OffWorld Designs. He has designed and/or produced thousands of shirts for many conventions. He works primarily in graphite, ink, acrylics, and watercolor for traditional mediums, but does some digital art, often combining mediums. He is always experimenting with color and space to create a sense of wonder and stories. The bulk of his art is fantasy/sci-fi oriented, with landscapes and spacescapes. His wide range of subjects also include surrealistic, imaginary, cosmic horror, and monsters.

Rebecca Scarborough is a traditional painter in Seattle who specializes in oils, gouache, and watercolor. She creates whimsical and colorful illustrations ranging from clever to downright stupid. 🌲

Richard Man is a Hugo Award-winning artist and photographer. His passion is portrait photography and monumental scale Chinese calligraphy. Since 2015, he has been taken portraits of genre creators with his 4x5 large-format film camera, for a body of work called Worldbuilders of Science Fiction and Fantasy. He hopes to publish a book of these photos by the Seattle Worldcon.

Featured here are two paintings which are the first painting that Richard Powers submitted to Berkeley for the cover art for Phillip K. Dick’s final novel, The Transmigration of Timothy Archer, and the actual painting Berkeley published as the cover art on the first edition. The paintings were loaned to the Science Fiction Hall of Fame the year Powers was inducted. They are still in the MOPOP museum’s frames for display. From Jane Frank’s The Art of Richard Powers: “Richard Powers is credited with single-handedly revolutionizing the look of science fiction.” Powers’ paintings are in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. 🌲

In 2007, Rob Carlos started showing his work at Norwescon, other conventions across the U.S., and at the Helsinki and Dublin Worldcons. For years Rob primarily illustrated for independent creators, like S. J. Tucker and Alexander James Adams. He has been invited to be the artist guest of honor at Radcon, Dragonflight, MisCon, Great Falls Gaming Rendezvous, OryCon, Norwescon, and Philcon. Rob stays busy doing both self-directed and commercial projects and murals. He is currently the artist for the Twitch stream Legacy of Fools, a live actual-play D&D game, and the art director and primary artist for Beach House RPGs, which released Start Here: The Introductory RPG in 2024. 🌲

Working across many genres, Ruth Sanderson is perhaps best known for her illustrated fairy tales and scratchboard art. Winner of two Chesley Awards, she has been guest of honor at many conventions, including World Fantasy and San Diego Comicon, winning many ribbons and best in show awards. Ruth is currently illustrating a number of horror novels in scratchboard for Centipede Press, and her first novel for young adults, titled The Mirror of Truth.

Award-winning artist Sandra SanTara specializes in visionary, fantasy, and symbolic animal art painted in acrylic on traditional surfaces, wood panel or 8-ply museum board; nontraditional organic surfaces, legal feathers and stretched skin hoop drums; and digital art on an iPad in Procreate. She makes jewelry and talismans of her paintings. On the lighter side, she makes emotional support plush critters with gear. Do Not Pet, We're Working!

Sara Felix is a Hugo Award-winning mixed media artist working in clay, resin, and inks. She has designed multiple Hugo and Lodestar Awards. She creates a weekly tiara for Tiara Tuesday since the beginning of the pandemic, and in that time, she has created over 300 tiaras for the weekly event, plus commissions and workshops. She is editor for Journey Planet as well and the president of ASFA, the Association of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists. Look for her art on most social media platforms under sillysarasue.

Sarah Clemens is best known for her award-winning paintings of Magnus and Loki, the cat and dragon companions. She works in a realistic style in oil and acrylic, on canvas, panel, and stone slab. Fantasy is her mainstay, but her erotic art has been featured in Volumes 2 and 3 of The World’s Greatest Erotic Art of Today.

Trippy and colorful artwork for your eyeballs! Silas sells prints, stickers, keychains, and desk mats. 🌲

SmallRiniLady is a Seattle Asian-American artist who transforms layers of cut paper into 2.5D portraits of our favorite pop culture characters. Each piece she makes is a handmade original. 🌲

Snail Scott has been a sculptor since childhood, when she annoyed other children by carving their crayons into tiny artworks. She eventually earned degrees in both art and architecture, exhibiting nationally, and she also taught at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. Her surrealist sculptures in ceramics and metals explore transitional states of being using imagery from engineering and the natural world, with influences ranging from science fiction to history. She presently lives near St. Louis, Missouri, where she maintains a studio in a barn, lives underground, and herds cats.

Stephanie Cost grew up in Upstate New York and moved to Seattle when she was 22 to pursue a career in the art industry. She loves to travel. Her art is inspired by history, nature, and mythology. Beginning in 2020, Stephanie has begun art directing with the founding of the Color Tarot Project. 🌲

Phil Foglio has been active in science fiction, comics, and gaming for 50 years, and has several Hugos to prove it. He has never had a real job. 🌲

Ed Matuskey is the designer and producer of The Tarot of Brass & Steam, a steampunk-themed tarot deck released 2018. He has worked with artists from the United States and Europe to bring to life a world where Tesla’s bargain with Edison was honored, and a technological revolution swept the globe. 🌲

Speculative fiction author and artist Raven Oak (they/them) is best known for their creative world-building, unique characters, and geeky art. They are a nonbinary queer who uses digital art to better accommodate their disabilities. Besides art and writing, they enjoy getting their game on, indulging in cartography, or staring at the ocean. They live in the Seattle area with their wife and three kitties who enjoy lounging across the keyboard when deadlines approach. Their hair color changes as often as their bio does. 🌲

Frank Kelly Freas is recognized as the most prolific and popular fiction artist worldwide. Author of three books of his own illustrations, Freas was the first to receive 10 Hugo Awards (nominated 20 times), plus numerous national and international art and graphics awards. He was a cover artist for Mad Magazine for several years, and as an official NASA mission artist his space posters hang in the Smithsonian. His commissioned design for the Skylab I crew patch became the focus of his article and cover painting for Analog Magazine of Science Fiction and Fact. Freas’s original paintings hang in museums, universities, and private collections.

Theresa Halbert is passionate and inspired by working with textiles, whether it’s in a costume or in the textile arts. She has been playing with the sewing arts ever since she can remember and has worked professionally in costuming and apparel for over 30 years. She infuses her love of fabric, beads, and thread (and whatever else works) with her love of science fiction and fantasy to create original artwork and costumes. Theresa believes that art and costume are not just something to look at but something to experience. 🌲

Theresa Mather’s work explores the realms of fantasy creatures and some that are closer to home: dragons that love to read, cats that love to cause mayhem, noble unicorns, and many more. Theresa’s favorite medium is acrylic paint on traditional and non-traditional surfaces, but she also works in colored pencil. She previously worked in the field of antique carousel restoration.

Thomas draws and paints, sometimes with sticks and colored goop, sometimes with electrons and pixels. Occasionally, he even sells it!

A Lord of the Rings nerd, Tomi has been quilting for decades and displaying in con art shows for 20 years. She has received multiple art show awards including best of show at Detcon NASFiC. Tomi earned a BFA in studio art, but rather than be a starving artist, she found a place at the local community college. Now retired, Tomi and her human and animal family reside in Austin, Texas.

Tyler Clark is a Seattle illustrator with a lot of experience in digital illustration for science fiction and fantasy role-playing games, books, and posters. More recently he’s been developing comics and graphic novels, and he has started to get into acrylic painting. 🌲

Vincent Villafranca has been making small-scale sculpts in wax and casting them in bronze for over 30 years. He mostly produces science fiction imagery.

Weyodi OldBear is a Comanche writer and painter from a family of Comanche painters. She writes and paints in her home in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and occasionally leaves the house to eat goat.

Shelly Cunningham is a classically-trained artist who paved her own path into illustration. Being inspired by fairytales and storybooks, her works ring with whimsy and the comfort you find in darkness. She primarily works in ink and watercolor, but loves to add in other media such as marker, colored pencils, and acrylics. In 2023 her first picture book was published, Pig's Can't Look Up, written by Vincent D'Onofrio. She hopes to publish many more books in the future, along with the story of her little forest spirit, Franklin. 🌲