From: Steve Smith <steve.smith at zipbeep.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Fwd: Lee Kuruganti Won Competition to Design the Hugo Award Base
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:02:34 -0400
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Begin forwarded message:
> From: "Laurie Mann, Denvention Webmaster" <webmaster at denvention.org>
> Date: April 13, 2008 5:55:09 PM EDT
> To: editor at wsfa.org
> Subject: [WSFA] Lee Kuruganti Won Competition to Design the Hugo Award Base
> Reply-To: Laurie Mann <webmaster at denvention.org>
>
> Lee Kuruganti Won Competition to Design the Hugo Award Base
>
> Denvention 3
> The 66th World Science Fiction Convention
> P.O. Box 1349
> Denver, CO 80201
>
> hugoadmin at denvention.org
> http://www.denvention.org/press/pr080413.hugodesigner.php
>
> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
>
> Denvention 3 is pleased to announce that Lee Kuruganti has won the
> competition to design the 2008 Hugo Award statue base.
>
> Lee Kuruganti is a professional, digital artist based in Colorado.
> Her fantastic art has been published by Baen, Static Movement
> Online, Withersin, Spacesuits and Sixguns, the Lorelei Signal and
> Sorcerous Signals. She created the poster for the recent film
> Extinction. Kuruganti reports that "One of my favorite moments was
> being selected as an artist for an international mural project for
> Olympic Games Seoul."
>
> Kuruganti was a semi-finalist in the L. Ron Hubbard Illustrators of
> The Future Contest. She's also done several solo shows, and has
> exhibited in many galleries.
>
> Kuruganti graduated from Metropolitan State College of Denver with
> a B. A. in English and a minor in Fine Art. She's long been
> interested in the science fiction field. In high school, she
> refused to rewrite her class paper on favorite author because the
> teacher said that the author she chose was not a real writer.
> Rather than rewrite the paper, Kuruganti took an F...on a paper
> about the "unreal author," Philip Jose Farmer.
>
> For more samples of Kuraganti's art, visit her Web site at: http://
> solarnrg.deviantart.com/
>
> Lee Kuruganti's winning Hugo base design will be unveiled at
> Denvention's Hugo Awards Ceremony on Saturday, August 9 in the
> Wells Fargo Theater of the Colorado Convention Center. The ceremony
> will start at 7:30pm.
>
> For the last few years, Worldcons have held an open competition for
> the design of its Hugo bases. Denvention 3 solicited artists and
> designers to design a base worthy of the Hugo Award. The design
> competition instructed the designers to incorporate an aspect
> relating to the Denver region or Colorado, and the convention's
> theme, "A Mile Closer to the Stars." Devention's competition ran
> last fall through the end of the year.
>
> As winner of the competition, Kuruganti will receive a free, full
> attending membership for Denvention 3 and will introduce this
> year's Hugo base design at the Hugo Awards Ceremony.
>
> Photo of Lee Kuruganti:  http://withersin.com/withersin004006.jpg
>
> More of Lee's art: http://www.denvention.org/images/
> leekurugantisample.jpg
>
>                                          -- 30 --
>
> "Worldcon," "World Science Fiction Convention," "Hugos," and "Hugo
> Awards" are service marks of the World Science Fiction Society, an
> unincorporated literary  association.
>

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