{"id":55,"date":"2013-07-19T17:03:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-19T17:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/2013\/07\/19\/stand-with-texas-women-at-worldcon\/"},"modified":"2014-12-14T18:43:11","modified_gmt":"2014-12-14T18:43:11","slug":"stand-with-texas-women-at-worldcon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/2013\/07\/19\/stand-with-texas-women-at-worldcon\/","title":{"rendered":"Stand With Texas Women At Worldcon"},"content":{"rendered":"<body><p><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/2013banner2a.jpg\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/2013banner2a.jpg?resize=203%2C640\" width=\"203\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>How many of you are coming to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lonestarcon3.org\/\">Worldcon in San Antonio<\/a> and wish you could do something to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/StandWithTXWomen\">\u201cStand With Texas Women\u201d<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>If so, maybe together we can \u2014 and in doing so, you could be the lucky person that takes home a unique art memento.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the scoop \u2014 I\u2019ll have a full display of art in the Worldcon Art Show, and amongst the artworks for sale will be a 7-foot tall banner of my Chesley Award-nominated artwork for Brenda Cooper\u2019s novel <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/book\/9781616146849\">THE CREATIVE FIRE<\/a>, as pictured here. This artwork is one of the highlights of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnpicacio.com\/portfolio\/2012\/index.html\">my 2012 body of work<\/a> that has been nominated for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lonestarcon3.org\/hugo-awards\/\">this year\u2019s Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Back in November, I did <a href=\"http:\/\/muddycolors.blogspot.com\/2012\/11\/guest-blogger-john-picacio.html\">a writeup about the making of this artwork<\/a>. This one\u00a0was always more than just a book cover art job. The art was created to sell a book, but it was also intended to be something <i>more<\/i>. That\u2019s why the alternate title of this image has always been \u201cGirl With Microphone: You Say You Want A Revolution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The banner is printed on vinyl, measures 24\u2033 wide, and is one-of-a-kind. It will be available at my Worldcon Art Show display as an auction item all weekend long. Bidding starts at $100, and the highest bidder wins the banner, while all of the proceeds for this item will go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plannedparenthood.org\/greater-texas\/\">Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas<\/a> and their ongoing \u201cStand With Texas Women\u201d fund.<\/p>\n<p>Worldcon (AKA LoneStarCon 3, or the World Science Fiction Convention) happens August 29th thru September 2nd in San Antonio at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center. See you there!<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How many of you are coming to Worldcon in San Antonio and wish you could do something to \u201cStand With Texas Women\u201d? If so, maybe together we can \u2014 and in doing so, you could be the lucky person that takes home a unique art memento. Here\u2019s the scoop \u2014 I\u2019ll have a full display [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":575,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conventions"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/2013banner2a.jpg?fit=328%2C1024","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5te7x-T","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}