Convention Terminology (1)
Many conventions have a Dealer Room or Artist Alley. Penguicon’s community has many makers, artists, and inventors, and we have asked them to set up tables in our Maker Market so our attendees can support that work by buying art, crafts, games, and electronics projects from their own community during Penguicon.
Makers are carefully selected based on quality, variety, type of merchandise, relevance to the Penguicon, and whatever adds the most to the Penguicon experience. Makers offer their own work; we ask resellers to reach out to us about our Sponsor tables.
Maker Market (2)
Many conventions have a Dealer Room or Artist Alley. Penguicon’s community has many makers, artists, and inventors, and we have asked them to set up tables in our Maker Market so our attendees can support that work by buying art, crafts, games, and electronics projects from their own community during Penguicon.
Makers are carefully selected based on quality, variety, type of merchandise, relevance to the Penguicon, and whatever adds the most to the Penguicon experience. Makers offer their own work; we ask resellers to reach out to us about our Sponsor tables.
We like to see a wide variety of makers every year, but we do have a preference for local makers that handcraft their own goods. We will typically not accept a vendor that resells items, with the exception of a bookseller or someone selling limited electronics. Along with the typical science fiction and fantasy-related vendors, we are also interested in vendors of Steampunk gear, portable technology, or pro-hackerspace vendors with soldering equipment and the like.