Henry Osier
August 29, 2023. The Fund approved Henry Osier’s application on behalf of Costume-Con 43. The $500 grant will supplement revenue from early memberships to help cover startup expenses for the convention.

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• View 2023 grant application

Philip Gust
August 1, 2022. The Fund approved Philip Gust’s application on behalf of the Silicon Web Costumer’s Guild (SiW) to support the development of a webinar series that draws on the expertise of presenters located anywhere in the world, who will provide talks, workshops, tours, and how-to demos about topics of interest to costumers The webinar series will utilize the ICG’s Zoom conferencing system.The grant will help SiW to cover expenses associated with developing and presenting an initial series of webinars and making them available at no cost to participants to help build an audience for the series. The initial series of webinars will enable SiW to gauge interest, establish a format, and explore ways to make the webinars sustainable and self-supporting in the long-run. SiW will share this experience with ICG chapters and SIGs.A number of organizations have found that webinars launched during the pandemic resulted in significant growth in their audience beyond their traditional base, and are continuing them even when in-person events are possible. A webinar series produced by SiW helps promote the ICG and furthers its educational mission. It will also offer presenters from diverse communities world-wide an established channel for sharing their expertise.

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• View grant application 
• View Sept 18, 2022 webinar report 
• View Dec 18, 2022 webinar report 
• View Dec 2022 grant variance 
• View Jan 29, 2023 webinar report 
• View Mar 12, 2023 webinar report 
• View “Using Zoom for Virtual Event Registration” report 
• View fillable Guest Speaker Release Form 
• View “Final Report on 2022 Marty Gear Fund Grant” 

Betsy R. Marks and Karen Schnaubelt
April 29, 2022. The Fund approved Betsy Marks and Karen Schnaubelt’s application on behalf of Costume-Con for one-time funding to purchase professional-grade software for the on-line version of the Costume-Con Visual Archive. Ms. Schnaubelt is the founder of Costume-Con and Ms. Marks is its Archivist. The grant is for $279.The Costume-Con Visual Archive is a freely accessible site comprising over 10,000 images, competition rules, participant lists, statistics, and other content for 40 years of Costume-Cons. The professional-grade software will provide a rich search function and additional display options for the images. Access to the search function will assist with research using the site’s information.

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• View grant application 
• View September 2022 interim report 

Richard Man
December 15, 2016. The Fund approved Richard Man’s application for a grant to further support his Transformations: CosplayPortraiture Project. The $1000 grant will enable Richard to complete photography for a first volume of a planned book on the project, and also enable him to exhibit his photos at convention art shows.

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• View 2016 grant application

Richard Man
April 5, 2015. The Fund approved Richard Man’s application for a grant to support his Transformations: CosplayPortraiture Project . In this project, Mr. Man will examine “how costumers/cosplayers transform themselves from their ‘mundane’ daily appearance to temporarily ‘become’ the characters they portray.”Mr. Man sees the purpose of Transformations Cosplay as to “raise the awareness of and respect for costumers and our costuming arts and techniques; not just within the SF&F communities, but also in the general public and the greater art community as a whole. Additionally, this provides opportunities to promote awareness of the existence and history of costumer organizations such as the ICG and its various chapters.”The juxtaposition of the costumers both in costume and also in their ‘regular lives’ (in regular clothes, often with some representation of their daily jobs) is intended to show costumers as ‘regular’ people of all ages and from all walks of life who also happen to engage in this amazingly fun and highly creative hobby; costumers/cosplayers are not a ‘bunch of crazy fringe weirdos’ or ‘just skimpy soft-core exhibitionists’ that media portrayals often make them out to be.”The ICG’s grant, for $750, will provide additional general support for the Transformations: Cosplay Portraiture Project. Mr. Man intends to present the project at Costume-Con and other science fiction, anime, and genre conventions. He seeks to publish the results in book form and to display the photos on websites, at convention art shows, and in galleries. He will submit web sized images for permanent retention in the ICG’s Pat and Peggy Kennedy Memorial Archives.

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• View grant application 
• Transformation: Cosplay Portraiture Project Facebook page
• View 2016 annual report 

Lisa Ashton
December 31, 2014. The Fund approved Lisa Ashton’s application on behalf of Miss Lizzy’s Traveling Historical Fashion Show for a grant to support the Show’s efforts to increase knowledge of the clothing of the Victorian and early 20th century periods as well as better understanding of their culture and mores, politics, and daily life.. Ms. Ashton is the Show’s founder and curator.The grant, for $656, will enable Ms.Ashton to participate in the spring 2015 Civilian Symposium: Mid-19th Century Clothing and Culture, in the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, area. This will help the Traveling Show to enhance its display of vintage photographs and clothing. As a result, Ms. Ashton will provide docent-led tours of the collection and other educational programming at Costume-Con 33, in Charleston, South Carolina, in May 2015. She also will prepare articles about the collection enhanced by her participation in the Symposium, as well as articles resulting from that participation, for ICG-related journals.

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• View grant application