03/05/2008--Nominations for ICG Officers are now officially open until March 26, 2008. Qualifications can be found at http://www.costume.org/documents/bylaws.html and at http://www.costume.org/documents/StandingRules.html. Positions available are: President, Vice President, Treasurer, Recording Secretary and Corresponding Secretary. Nominations should be sent to the ICG President at icg-president@costume.org.
03/03/2008--Lifetime Achievement Award nominations are now closed as of 3/3/2008.
The ICG is accepting nominations for the 2008 Lifetime Achievement Award. The LAA, the highest honor the ICG pays to costumers, recognizes "a body of achievement in the costuming art and service to the costuming community." Candidates for the award:
01/14/08--We are most pleased to announce that the Kansas City Costumer's Guild has joined the ranks of the ICG! Details can be found over on the chapters page.
12/27/07--Updates have been made to the BOD motions page (you should go out there for some big upcoming news!), the officers and chapters pages, and the conventions page. More to come!
11/19/07--A laurel and hardy handshake to the Denver Costume & Cosplay Society! Details can be found over on the chapters page.
10/23/07--Effective this month the dues for ICG membership have been increased to $8 for an individual, and $4 per household membership.
08/23/07--Two October conventions--MileHiCon and VCon--have been added to the Conventions page.
07/15/07--The ICG is pleased to debut the Contributors' Photo Galleries and the Pat and Peggy Kennedy Memorial Library Gallery for your viewing pleasure!
05/16/07--A big welcome to the Middle Tennessee Costumer's Guild! Details can be found over on the chapters page.
04/13/07--A big welcome to the Armed Costumers Guild, led by Henry Osier! Details can be found over on the chapters page.
Updates have been made to the BOD motions section, the Lifetime Achievement Award page, the Convention listings, the costuming resources page, the chapters and the officers' pages. See left side for links. Congratulations to Kevin Roche, winner of the 2007 Lifetime Achievement Award! The ICG Officers for 2007 are:
02/08/07--Added a new section to the ICG Website: The ICG Financial Statements page.
01/16/07--A very special welcome to the ICG's newest chapter, The SouthEastern Costumers' Society! Details can be found on our Chapters page.
01/09/07--President Nora Mai is taking nominations for the 2007 ICG Lifetime Achievement Award. Any ICG member in good standing can nominate someone for the LAA by sending their nomination
(including a paragraph or two on why you wish to nominate said person) to the ICG President either via snail or email. For more information read this post to the ICG list. Deadline for nominations is January 30, 2007.
11/01/06--Updated the Dallas-Fort Worth Costumer Guild's contact information. Their website is located at http://www.dfwcg.org. Be sure to pay them a visit!
10/15/06--Convention listings have been updated for your reading pleasure.
09/18/06--The July and August BOD minutes are available for your reading enjoyment.
Aurora Celeste suggests you check out the Dragon*Con Masquerade review and winners list over at http://dailydragon.dragoncon.net/2006/29.htm
09/13/06--You can all breathe a relative sigh of relief; Worldcon and Dragon*Con are over and done with. Of course there's still Archon coming up early next month, so don't think you're off easy!
According to Martin Jacquish, this year's Worldcon masquerade had 33 entries, 15 of which were re-creations, 17 original designs, and 1 with both original and re-creation elements.The largest group numbered 14, making for a total of 90 participants plus one small dog!
We'll have a complete list of winners shortly, but the "Best In" winners include:
09/07/06--Costumers Guild West has chosen to withdraw from the International Costumers Guild. Updates to the officers and chapters pages have been made per their decision. We have added CGW in our resource links page.
08/09/06--Added more costuming resource and costumer web site links. Also, for those attending Worldcon we especially want to point out the importance of voting for Hollister in 2008! For more information, visit the Hollister in 2008 website.
08/09/06--Updated the convention listings, the costuming resource links page, and added the latest Board of Direction motion.
07/23/06--The Annual Meeting minutes for 1998-1999 and 2002-2006 have been given a page of their own under the BOD header to the left. June and July BOD minutes have been posted to the Minutes section.
07/09/06--The link to the Southwest Costumers Guild has been updated.The convention listings have been brought up to date. The Standing Rules reflect the recent vote regarding multiple-chapter memberships. We've changed the mailing list page to reflect costuming related forums as well. If you know of any conventions or forums that we don't list, please--EMAIL ME!
06/28/06--We've added email information for contacting the Fibre Artists and the Western Pennsylvania chapters. We've also installed the ratified Masquerade Guidelines--see the link to the left to check them out.
06/14/06--We have some contact information available for the new Dallas/Ft. Worth and Canadian Fibre Artists chapters on the Chapters listing. We will be making further updates as they come in. 06/08/06--Barb Schofield has been added to the Lifetime Achievement Award page as its 2006 recipient. 05/31/06--The 2006 ICG Officers are: Welcome to the three new chapters of the ICG: the Dallas/Fort Worth Costumers Guild, the Fibre Fantasy Artists of Canada, and the Costumers Guild of Western Pennsylvania! Details will be made available soon.
05/22/06--The ICG is pleased to announce the grand opening of Glitziana's Gear! 05/20/06--The ICG-D list now has an RSS feed available on LiveJournal. http://syndicated.livejournal.com/icglist 05/10/06--Signe Merrifield has provided us with a Media Costuming Resources List, courtesy of the efforts from several people, including Mary Alice Ladd (moderator), Maggie, Shanti Fader, and Kim Kindya. Maggie believes that the original list may have come from a Balticon panel that she was on with Sue Toker and others; this list was used at the Media Costuming Panel at Lunacon 2006. Our grateful thanks to these intrepid costumers for allowing us to post the list here. 05/03/06--The Candidates for the 2006 ICG Officer positions are: Several candidates have introduced themselves either on a web page or in the ICG-D list--links to those posts have been added for your benefit.
Please also note that the Board of Director Mailing List archives are now available for all and sundry to peruse. The link to the archives can be found in the list on the left side of this page.
04/24/06: The final version of the proposed changes to the ICG's Masquerade Guidelines has been added. We urge everyone to read them over at http://www.costume.org/guidelines-committee/.
04/23/06:The tentative agenda for the Annual Meeting (held at CC24) is now available at this location for your viewing pleasure. 03/24/06:Carl Mami has resigned as President of the ICG. Nora Mai has become Acting President (A-Pres) for the remainder of the term.
03/24/06: The Greater Bay Area Costumers Guild has withdrawn from the ICG.
CostumeCon 24 is set for May 26-28, 2006 in Des Moines, IA. You can find out more about the convention by visiting http://cc24.dmsfs.org/.
The ICG's annual meeting is scheduled for Friday, May 26. Among the issues to be discussed and voted on are the proposed changes to the ICG's Masquerade Guidelines. We urge everyone to read them over at http://www.costume.org/guidelines-committee/.
If you're unable to attend the meeting at CC24, you can still make your thoughts known by filling out a proxy statement (found at http://www.costume.org/documents/proxy.html) and handing it to someone who will be attending.
The ICG will begin taking nominations for the 2006 Lifetime Achievement Award on February 25, 2006. More information on the LAA and a gallery of past winners can be found at http://www.costume.org/lifetime/lifetime.html.
01/05/2006--The chapter information for the Greater Delaware Valley Costumers' Guild has been updated on the chapter information page.
12/01/2005--The 2002-2004 issues of the ICG Newsletter are now available in .pdf format. They can be found on the brand-new Newsletter section of the site. Also, congratulations to Denisen Hartlove, our new editor!
08/07/2005--As you might have noticed on our front page, Barbara Ann Butcher "Bobbie" Gear, fellow costumer and wife of Marty Gear, passed away on June 25. A special memorial service was held on August 6. The ICG web site was darkened in her honor.
05/16/2005--Updated the ICG Standing Rules.
05/02/2005--Congratulations to Cat Devereaux, the 2005 Lifetime Achievement Award Winner!
03/03/2005--The ICG has officially disbanded the Greater Sacramento Area Costumers Guild.
03/02/2005--Added bios for all of the Lifetime Achievement Award winners.Thank you Karen and Ricky Dick for all your help in getting that done.
02/23/2005--Updated the Silicon Valley Guild's contact information, updated the "Helpful Hands" section of the ICG Officers page, added the 2004 budget and the 2005 Personal Property report to the Documents section, and had a nice cup of tea afterwards.
02/16/2005--Mike Bollow is planning a re-enactment convention for the Chicago area, and he's looking for input. Mike has a ten-question survey he'd like interested parties to fill out at http://members.aol.com/soldaten/reenactor_fest.html.
02/15/2005--Added two new motions being discussed by the Board of Directors.
01/31/2005--Added SiliCon 2005 and updated the dates for Anime Central in the Conventions section.
01/25/2005--"The ICG Guidelines Committee has released the second draft of the new
proposed Fairness Guidelines. You can review the draft at http://www.costume.org/guidelines-committee/.
04/12/2004--Updated the ICG Officers and Contacts page to reflect the election of Sandy Pettinger to the position of Corresponding Secretary. Also updated the Chicago and Greater Bay Area chapter presidents. More to come.
Also updated the Board of Directors voting page to reflect the results on Motion 0304-01 (Establishment of a committee to review and revise the ICG Masquerade Guidelines) and added Motion 04004-01 (Raise dues from $4 to $6 per person per year).
Most importantly, Pat Kennedy has been added to the ICG Lifetime Achievement Award Winners Page.
02/08/2004--Added the 2003 Annual Meeting Minutes to the documents section.
02/07/2004--Made the following updates:
9/24/03--Added the President's message for September 2003.
7/29/03--Added the brand new ConJose (Worldcon) Masquerade Photo Section to the Gallery page.
7/15/03--Added the chapter representatives of the ICG Board of Directors to the Officers page.
7/11/03--Added the President's message for July 2003.
7/05/03--Made some layout changes and updated the site here and there. Compliments and complaints can be sent to the webguy.
6/29/03--The Chicago Costumers Guild has a new address for their web site:http://ChiCostume.org.
6/25/03--Torcon3, site of this year's Worldcon, has added the stage diagrams for the masquerade. View them at http://members.rogers.com/pxlbarrel/torcon3costume/stage.htm.
6/11/03--The Publications Page has been updated with some important information concerning the Costumers' Quarterly and the ICG Newsletter.
6/5/03--The new President's Message for June has been posted.
4/27/03--CostumeCon 21 has ended, and new slate of ICG officers has taken office (see below). Congratulations to each and every one of them, and a heartfelt thanks to those who served the Guild during the past year. The ICG is pleased to announce that the 2003 Lifetime Achivement Award has been given to Victoria Ridenour and Adrian Butterfield. A photo has been added in their honor to the Lifetime Achivement Award page, but if anyone has a photo they feel is better suited to the page, please contact the Web Guy.
Here are a few links to photos taken at CC21:
Special thanks to Mary Alice for providing the links. If you've got photos up and want to share them with everyone, contact the Webguy and give him the links.
The 2003 budget for the ICG has been finalized and can be found in the documents section. You can view how the chapters voted on the issues by clicking here. The ICG Survey Results can be found by clicking here.
4/05/03--It is with great pleasure that the ICG welcomes The Silicon Web Costumers Guild to its ranks! More information on the new chapter as it becomes available.
Nominations can be made by any ICG member and are due by the end of February. Send your nominations to the President at icg-president@costume.org. For additional information and a display of past winners, go to the Lifetime Achievement Award Page (link at left) .
Updates to the Officers page will be forthcoming as soon as we have details.
Ron Robinson, Nora Mai