How the Art Show Works

Welcome to the DemiCon Art Show Web Page. This year our artist Guest of Honor (GoH) is Lubov, whose colorful scenes of delicate fairies have delighted fans for years. The DemiCon art show is open to all interested artists, both professional and amateur, and encourages them to share their work with our attendees. So please send your artwork to us. We look forward to promoting Fantasy and Science Fiction art by helping artists to display and sell their work.

In the Display Area of the Art Show, we show original works of art (in painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, and other media) as well as single copies of prints of original art. Unless an art piece is marked NFS (Not For Sale), our convention attendees may bid on, or buy via quick sale, any pieces in this area. Attendees will also be able to vote for the show's best amateur artist, professional artist, amateur art piece, and professional piece of art.

Pieces in the Print Shop are usually prints or reproductions of published artwork (book covers or magazine illustrations), and will be available for immediate sale.

The Artist Workspace is open to attending artists who wish to work at the convention, perform demonstrations, create works of art to auction for charity, share ideas with other artists, and anything else that they wish to do. There will also be an artist tour, where con-goers and attending artists can stroll through the art show together and talk about specific pieces or art in general.

Like many convention art shows, DemiCon's is run entirely by volunteer workers. In order to protect the artists' work, all con-goers who visit the art show are must check their bags and drinks with the volunteer stationed at the art show's entrance. Volunteers also help hang and organize the displayed artwork.

General Sales Information

• Print Shop sales are handled on a cash-and-carry basis.
• All Display Area pieces with two or more bids, as well as all prize-winning art (excluding Not For Sale items), will go to voice auction on Saturday evening. The pieces are then sold to the highest bidder.
• If a quick sale price is available for a Display Area work of art, a buyer may purchase that piece immediately for that price, but only if the piece has received no bids. Artwork that has received even one bid are not sold via quick sale. Unsold art can be purchased at the quick sale price on Sunday.
• Although artwork receiving no bids may be purchased for the quick sale price at any time, no art will be removed from the Main Display area before the auction Saturday night. Buyers may pick up their quick sale purchases on Sunday. If the buyer will not be attending the Convention on Sunday, they can pick up purchases after the auction Saturday night, if such arrangements have been made with the art show department head.

• Convention Contact: info@dmsfs.org