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The Dragon*Con Art Show honored its former director, Dr. Patrick James Roberts (1962-2008), with a memorial Saturday evening and dedicated this year’s Dragon*Con Art Show and awards to his memory. Co-director Jon Parise narrated a video featuring Patrick and his interests.
The video included many candid photographs of Patrick taken by jewelry artist Scott Hancock at previous Dragon*Cons. Descriptions of Patrick’s volunteer efforts as art director and his professional work in aeronautical engineering, including development of the F-35 military aircraft and space shuttle tile reinforcement program, highlighted the ceremony.
Patrick was also honored posthumously with this year’s Fandom Award. His daughter Nicole accepted the award on her father’s behalf.
Also to honor Patrick, the “Dragon Heart” box Special Artists’ Project was held to benefit the American Heart Association. The 12 entries submitted by Dragon*Con artists will be available for bidding at the Voice Auction to be held Mon 12PM in Hanover C-E. The heart-shaped art was also judged and included in Art Show awards.
| Amy Herring grew up beneath NASA’s shadow in Rocket City, USA (Huntsville, Alabama). Herring writes genre and mainstream stories and novels with an eye toward a career change from her current law practice (including over a decade protecting the rights to sexual privacy for Alabama citizens). Three of her genre stories have been published under her nom de plume, Louise Herring-Jones: "Colony Earth Redux" in Footprints (Hadley Rille Books, 2009); “Slimed” in Northwest Passages: A Cascadian Anthology (Fandom Press/Windstorm Creative, 2005) and “. . . would smell as sweet” (shorthorror.com, 2006) Although her first print article, "A Georgia Yankee: The Legend of Johnny Mize," appeared nationally in bookstores in the 2010 Maple St. Press Yankees Annual, she hasn’t given up her day job...yet. |
