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kevin.p.roche 6:25 AM
kevin.p.roche
On
behalf of outgoing ICG president Mera Rose Babineaux, I wish to announce the recipients of the
2019-2020 ICG President's Awards. I shared this in person with the remaining
attendees of the sadly cancelled Costume-Con 38. Kevin Roche, ICG
President pro tem
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President’s Award for Excellence in Service to the Members: Vicky Assarattanakul
Over
the last year, Vicky has worked tirelessly to ensure that the members were kept
up to date with the information that was being presented across the guild
communication platforms, and gave copious amounts of her time to that endeavor. This
award is given in gratitude for her hard work and dedication to ensuring that
communication was presented to the members in a timely fashion and also
preserved and archived for posterity.
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President’s Award for Leadership in the Costuming Community: Elaine
Mami, Byron Connell, Bruce and Nora Mai, and Lorien
Fletcher
This
award is being given to five tireless Costuming advocates who have inspired
countless others to costume in their communities and led their chapter’s growth
and continued success through their dedication to the costuming arts, their
chapters, and the organization.
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President’s Award for Excellence in Stewardship:
Jacalyn Boggs and Sarah Richardson
While
the last year has been challenging on many fronts, these two women stepped
forward to steward the organization through their tireless commitment to their
chapters and the Board of Directors and gave of their time and resources freely
and without hesitation to ensure the future of the organization for generations
to come.
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President’s Award for Technological Advancement: Andrew Trembley,
Kevin Roche, and Leslie Johnston
Though
the path of technological advancement has been difficult, these three members
have dedicated their time, efforts, and energies to ensuring that our archives
are preserved and accessible, our website and technologies are current and
relevant, and our future footprint online continues to meet the requirements of
our educational goals for the Costuming community and the communications needs
for the organization.
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And finally,
President’s Award for Excellence in Costuming Leadership and Inspiring Hope: Marianne
Pease
Marianne
is shining example of what the ICG’s Costuming community has to offer. Her
costumes are well-researched, meticulously documented and executed, and her
dedication to educating others through her website and online forums on each of
her cosplays as they are made and worn is an inspiration to many in our craft. She
has inspired hope through her ideas and presentations, and is recognized and
awarded for her excellence in leadership and Costuming.
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Cordially,
Mera Babineaux
Patrick 12:11 PM
I'm
old enough to remember Summers when the City I live in shut down all the public
pools for polio outbreaks, and it looked to me like that this might be the case
with cc38. Sadly, it was.
kevin.p.roche 6:22 PM
kevin.p.roche
Tonight
I have the honor of announcing that Sally Fink has been selected as the
recipient of the ICG Lifetime Achievement Award
Kevin Roche
ICG President pro tem
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2020
ICG Lifetime Achievement Award
Sally C. Fink
She
was there at Costume-Con number 1 wearing an "omigosh!”
costume in the F&S/F masquerade (and thereby setting the high standards for
subsequent Costume-Con masquerades). - Karen Dick
Very
active from 1970's to the late 80's, and still participating today, Sally
C. Fink is the recipient of the 2020 ICG Lifetime Achievement Award.
Photographs
from many conventions demonstrate the breadth of her design skills.
Originally recognized for glitzy science fiction and fantasy confections, her
later expansion into historical garments and elaborate millinery means that she
is an influence on a wide variety of "next generation"
costumers.
From
2004 to 2011, one of her fantasy costumes, “The Iron Orchid,” was on exhibit in
the Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame in Seattle, Washington. She has
also mounted over a dozen one-woman costume and art-to-wear shows at local
venues in western Pennsylvania, exposing the public to our
hobby.
Johnstown
Magazine had this to say about her shows: Pattern drafting, machine
embroidery, millinery, beading, soft and clay sculpture, wire work, velvet
embossing, fabric deconstruction and manipulation — Sally C. Fink has done it
all. Considered a master costumer by the International Costumers Guild, Fink, a
Westmont resident, has crafted hundreds of costumes over the last four decades,
each one a beautiful display of handcrafted creativity.
Sally
is also active with her local chapter of the Society for Creative Anachronism
under the sobriquet Mistress Charmaine of Falkensee
where she acts as a consultant on Garb research, sewing, and sources for
fabrics and period patterns. In addition to costuming for full sized humans,
Ms. Fink is also noted for her dolls.
After
many years concentrating on historical clothing, Ms. Fink returned to science
fiction/fantasy competition costuming in 2009. These days she sometimes
transfers her formidable skills from working on her own designs to the area of
interpreting and constructing the designs of other costumers by participating
in the Future Fashion Folio or Single Pattern Competitions at Costume-Con. Her
entry in the Future Fashion Show at CostumeCon 30 in
Tempe, "Empress in the Court of Jewels" not only won "Best in
Show" for that competition, but demonstrated her continuing commitment to
our craft; her steampunk hall costume at the same event shows that this veteran
costumer is still taking on the challenge of new genres and putting her own
stamp on them.
Sally’s
donation of her photo collections to the ICG Gallery documents an otherwise
difficult to find era in our collective history.
Please
join the ICG in congratulating Sally C. Fink on her recognition as the
2020 ICG Lifetime Achievement Award recipient.