Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2002 17:38:45 -0500
From: Ted White <tedwhite at compusnet.com>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Capclave: What do we want it to be?
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

lee gilliland wrote:

> ----Original Message Follows----
> From: "Erica VD Ginter" <eginter at klgai.com>
> Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
> To: "'WSFA members'" <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
> Subject: [WSFA] Re: Capclave: What do we want it to be?
> Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 17:19:56 -0500
>
> I really liked Capclave, except for the lack of an art show. That's
> something I'd like to bring back, although we have to remember it's a big
> labor sink. If we have a bigger huckster room, tho, how about encouraging
> artists to come and get tables (maybe several artists could share a table).
>
> Erica
>
> We NEED an art show - do you guys have any idea how many of the major SF
> artist got started at cons?  This should come as no shock:  ALL of them.  I
> know it sounds a bit strange coming from me, but we do have a responsibility
> to the future here - it's where we're gonna live.

Nonsense.  Any artist who depended on a convention art show to launch his or her
career would be foolish indeed.  Nor are there any lack of *other* conventions
with art shows.   Why not keep Capclave a) distinctively different and b) easier
to run?

--Ted White