The Big Convention List

2012

Katsucon 18
To be held February 17-19, 2012
Gaylord National resort and Convention Center, National Harbor, MD.

Farpoint
To be held February 17 - 19, 2012
Baltimore, MD.

Lunacon 2012
with Timora Pierce, John Ringo, Howard Tayler, Andy and Kristin Looney
To be held March 16-18, 2012
Rye Town Hilton, Rye Brook NY
This is a Pups' Home Town Convention!!!

I-Con 31
To be held March 30 - April 1, 2012
Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY

Mythic Faire
March 29 - April 1, 2012
Atlanta Regency Hyatt, Atlanta GA

Castle Point Anime Convention
To be held Sunday April 1, 2012
Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken NJ

RavenCon 2012
To be held April 13-15, 2012
Richmond, VA

Chillertheater
April 27-29, 2012
Hilton Parsippany, Parsippany, N.J.

National Haunters Convention 2012
Greater Philadephia Expo Center at Oaks
2011 Show Dates!
May 4 - 6, 2012

Zenkaikon 2012
To be held May 11-12, 2012
King of Prussia, PA

Costume-Con 30
"The Sands of Time"
May 11-14, 2012
The Tempe Mission Palms Hotel & Conference Center
Tempe, Arizona USA
This is the holy grail of costume conventions!

International Steampunk City
May 12 - 13, 2012
Waltham, MA

Steampunk World's Fair
(Steampunk Empire - a site to find other events everywhere and people!)
To be held May 18-20, 2012
Radisson of Piscataway, Piscataway, NJ

Big Apple Comic Con Spring Edition
To be held May 19 - 20, 2012
Penn Plaza Pavillion, NYC, NY

Balticon 46
To be held May 25-27, 2012
Marriott's Hunt Valley Inn
Baltimore, MD

Anime North
To be held May 25-27, 2012
Toronto, Canada
Anime North is an ICG International Convention!

Dress U
Dress U LiveJournal
To be held June 1-4, 2012
Great Valley Sheraton
Malvern, PA 19355

Philadephia Comic Con(Wizard World)
June 1-3, 2012
Pennsylvania Convention Center, 1101 Arch St.
Philadelphia, PA 19107

Museum Mile Festival
To be held June 14, 2012 from 6pm - 9pm
Nine major museums along Fifth Avenue from 82nd Street to 105th Street
(basically, from the Met to El Museo del Barrio) are open late with free
admission. Fifth Avenue is closed to traffic; there are street performers,
artists, food vendors, etc. Fifth Avenue from 82nd Street to 105th Street, NYC NY

AnimeNext
To be held June 8 - 10, 2012
Garden State Exhibit Center, Somerset NJ

Otacon 2012
To be held July 27 - 29, 2012
Baltimore, MD

Confluence 2012
To be held July 27 - 29, 2012
Pittsburgh, PA

Pennsic War 44 (SCA Event)
To be held July 27- August 10, 2012
Cooper's Lake Slippery Rock, PA

Shore Leave
To be held August 3-5, 2012
Marriott's Hunt Valley Inn, Baltimore, MD

Costume College
To be held August 2-6, 2012
Woodland Hills, CA

Star Wars Celebration VI
To be held August 23-26, 2012
Orange County Convention Center, Orlando, FL

Upcoming Worldcon Info
2012: Chicon 7, the 70th World Science Fiction Convention
Chicago, IL,USA to be held August 30 - September 3, 2012
Our own Byron Connell is Masquerade Director!!!

Dragoncon
August 31 - September 3 2012 Atlanta, GA
Tons of Costuming!

New England Comic Con (Wizard World)
October ?? 2012
Boston MA 03115

Big Apple Comic Con
Sept ??, 2012
Penn Plaza Pavillian, NYC, NY

2012 Medieval Festival at Fort Tryon Park
Sunday ??, 2012 from 11:30 am to 6 pm.
Ft. Tyron Park NYC, NY
One day, $2 voluntary donation and the Cloister Museum is located there too!

NYC Comic Con
October 11-14, 2012
Jacob K. Javits Center, 655 West 34th Street, NYC

Albacon
October 18 - 21, 2012
Albany NY

Chillertheater
October ??, 2012
Hilton Parsippany, Parsippany, N.J.

FaerieCon 2012
To be held November 9-12, 2012
Baltimore Marriott Hunt Valley Inn, Hunt Valley, MD.

Philcon 2012
To be held November ??, 2012
Crown Plaza Hotel, Cherry Hill, NJ
This is a Pups' Home Town Convention!!!

DarkoverCon
To be held November 23-25, 2012
Timonium, Maryland

2013

Arisia '13
To be held January 18-21, 2013
Westin Boston Waterfront, Boston MA

Costume-Con 31
"Costume-Con or Bust"
May 17-20, 2013
Red Lion
Denver, CO USA
This is the holy grail of costume conventions!

Aeternitas 2013
To be held May 16-19, 2013
The Margate on Winnipesaukee, 76 Lake Street in Laconia, NH 03246

North American Discworld Convention 2013
To be held July 5-8, 2013
Baltimore Marriott Waterfront, Baltimore, MD

National Geographic Society Museum
Anglo-Saxon Hoard: Gold from England’s Dark Ages
On July 5th 2009, Terry Herbert, a metal detector enthusiast, discovered the largest collection
of Anglo-Saxon gold ever found. From farmland near Lichfield in Staffordshire, England, Terry
and a team of archaeologists unearthed more than 3,500 pieces from hundreds ofindividual objects
dating to about 650 A.D. Valued at close to $5 million, the hoard includes exquisitely crafted
artifacts, most of which are military in nature.
More than 100 of these artifacts will be on exhibition at the National Geographic Museum including
elaborate gold and garnet sword fittings, decorative elements for helmets, crosses, and a gold strip
bearing a Latin inscription from the Bible.
October 29, 2011 - March 4, 2012
1145 17th Street NW
Washington, D.C. 20036

Bard Graduate Center Gallery
Hats: An Anthology by Stephen Jones
Hats: An Anthology by Stephen Jones is a collaboration between the Victoria and Albert Museum,
London and Stephen Jones, the world's foremost hat designer.
On display are more than 250 hats ranging from a 12th century Egyptian fez
to a 1950s Balenciaga hat; motorcycle helmets, turbans, berets and a child's plastic tiara.
The exhibition is divided into several sections that reveal the practice of creating hats,
how they are worn, by whom, and how they are presented to the client.
September 15, 2011 - April 15, 2012
18 West 86th Street
Bet. Central Park West and Columbus Ave. New York City, NY

James A. Michener Art Museum
Offering of the Angels: Treasures from the Uffizi Gallery
April 21, 2012 - August 10, 2012
138 South Pine St
Doylestown, PA
Recent:
Quilt Art: International Expressions

American Folk Art Museum
Recent exhibit:
Super Stars - Quilts from the American Folk Art Museum
2 Lincoln Square (across from Lincoln Center)
New York, NY

Fashion Institute of Technology Upcoming Exhibits:
Seventh Avenue at 27 Street, NYC, NY
(World-wide exhibit list)

Great Designers Part I
November 29 - May 8, 2012

IMPACT: 58 Years of the CFDA
February 10, 2012 - April 17, 2012

Youthquake! The 1960s Fashion Revolution
March 6, 2012 - April 7, 2012

Visit Their Online Exhibit Galleries:
Daphne Guinness
"Japan Fashion Now" will be the first exhibition to explore how Japanese fashion
Vivienne Westwood 1980-89
"His and Hers" examples from 250 years of fashion

Discovery Museum Exhibit:
CSI Exhibit
Starting October 1, 2011 Until ?
Dead Sea Scrolls
Starting October 1, 2011 Until ?
Discovery Times Square Exposition
226 West 44th Street (between 7th & 8th Ave), NYC, NY

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston:

Global Patterns: Dress and Textiles in Africa
To be held April 13, 2011 - January 8, 2012
Also
Embroideries of Colonial Boston: Domestic Embroideries
From September 17, 2011 - June 3, 2012
465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA

Beauty as Duty: Textiles and the Home Front in WWII Britain
To be held October 8, 2011 - May 28, 2012

Scaasi: American Couturier
There is a book "Scaasi: American Couturier"
Jewels, Gems, and Treasures Ancient to Modern

Philadelphia Museum of Art:

Recent Exhibits of interest:
Tailoring Philadelphia: Tradition and Innovation in Menswear
Drawn from the Museum’s collection of menswear: tailoring by Francis Toscani (1915–1973)
one of the city’s most successful tailors, is featured, with over fifteen of the designer’s innovative garments on view.

Roberto Capucci: Art into Fashion
The Peacock Male: Exuberance and Extremes in Masculine Dress

Main building: 26th Street and the Benjamin Franklin Parkway Philadelphia, PA 19130
Perelman building: Fairmount and Pennsylvania Avenues Philadelphia, PA 19130

The Metropolitan Museum of Art NYC

Upcoming: Elsa Schiaparelli and Miuccia Prada: On Fashion
May 10, 2012 - August 19, 2012

The Renaissance Protrait from Donatello to Bellini
December 21, 2011 - March 18, 2012
Special Exhibition Galleries 2nd floor

The Coe Collection of American Indian Art
December 6, 2011 - May 28, 2012

Fabergé from the Matilda Geddings Gray Foundation Collection
November 22, 2011 - Long Term

Tibetan Arms and Armor from the Permanent Collection
Spring, 2012

Recent:
Art in Renaissance Venice 1400-1515
Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty
Alas, it is over, but the book is excellent and available!

And many more Exhibits here and the Cloisters
check out clothing from the previous exhibit:
American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity the modern American woman from 1890 to 1940
Look here to find the Collection Database

Harry Potter - The Exhibition
To be held Nov 19, 2011 - March 18, 2012
Powerhouse Museum
Sydney, Austrailia

Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Recent:
The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier
More than 100 ensembles, plus photographs and film clips,
from Gaultier's 30-year career as a fashion designer.

Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute
310 Genesee Street
Utica, New York

The Morgan Library and Museum

Penn Museum
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
3260 South Street, Philadelphia, PA.

Liberty Hall Museum at Kean University
1003 Morris Ave.
Union, NJ 07083

The Brooklyn Museum
Check for Current and Upcoming Exhibits
The Brooklyn Botanic Gardens are across the way.
You can enjoy Walking through the park and greenhouses so its worth waiting for a nice day

King Tut Exhibition
To be held October 16, 2011 - April 15,2012
Museum of Fine Arts
Houston, TX

The Innovative Beads Expos
Feb 18-19 Clarksville, MD
Feb 25-26 Fishkill, NY
March 10-11 Niagara Falls,NY
March 17-18 Fredericksburg, VA
March 24-25 Seekonk, MA
March 31-April 1 Edison, NJ
April 21-22 Syracuse, NY
April 28-29 Cromwell, CT
May 4-6 New York, NY
May 11-13 Marlborough, MA
May 19-20 Allentown, PA
June 2-3 Chesapeake, VA
June 23-24 Doylestown, PA
July 14-15 Edison, NJ
July 21-22 Clarksville, MD
July 28-29 Fishkill, NY
August 4-5 Concord, NH
September 15-16 Allentown, PA
September 22-23 Syracuse, NY
September 28-30 Marlbourough, MA
Go to the website and check their calender! They have shows in NY, PA, MA, NH and NJ

Stitches East
Stitches East is October 11-14, 2012
ETC. October 15-16
While aimed mostly for knitting and crochet, you can find information
about felting and dyeing there as well.
Connecticut Convention Center,
Hartford Downtown Marriott, Hartford CT

Quilt Festival XXII
February 23-26, 2012
Hampton, Virginia

Quilt Fest of New Jersey
March 1-4, 2012
Somerset, NJ

World Quilt Show - New England
March 1-4, 2012
Manchester, New Hampshire

Pennsylvania National Quilt Extravaganza XIX
September 13-16, 2012
Philadelphia, PA