Geek/Art CONfluence

05/29/2026

We are excited to get these photos of many of the cosplayers (and a cat!) at the CON from photographer Pic.By.Ryan, who generously shared them with us. Pic.By.Ryan is also at the same handle on Instagram, he has been taking lots of great pics of local cons.

Also--we'll be tabling at Nococon next weekend with our 2026 t-shirts for sale as well as some interactive art/comics projects you can do.

04/29/2026

Here's a video of this year's CON made by Wilson Ye, one of our talented student volunteers!

https://geekartconfluence.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/pr.mp4

04/24/2026

We're selling our remaining t-shirts! Get 'em while ya can!

$20, including shipping. Just comment below or message us to order and I'll work out the payment process with you.

Here are the number we have left in each size:

3XL: 1
2XL: 3
XL: 3
L: 2
M: 4
S: 3

Drawn by our talented student Julia English.

04/23/2026

Only 2 days til Ithacon!

Three more days till ITHACON 49!!! Get excited for a free cosplay live drawing event on Saturday!!!

04/20/2026

If you took photos at the CON, and are OK with sharing them publicly--and having us possibly use them in future promotion, for instance on our website or social media--you can share them with us here.

Just drop them in this Google Drive folder. You will have to log in to Google to drop them in. If you want us to attribute your photos to your name if we use them online, then create a subfolder with your name and drop them in there. If you don't care about that, just drop them in the main folder:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1HO0w_fZO_SU2CY-7qLnpXIIPslhHTSTh?usp=sharing

We will also be posting a folder of all of the pics taken at the cosplay photo booth, as requested by the people who had their pics taken. That will go up in the next few days.

04/20/2026

One word says it all: THANKS

But I'll add a few more words:

The CON was a great success yesterday thanks to YOU--you the vendors, the speakers, the volunteers, and of course our many guests. I don't have an exact count yet but we clearly had more people than ever before. THANK YOU for participating and coming.

This is a work of love and it is a great joy to frankly just feel the positive vibes coming off of so many of you yesterday. That's what we're for.

We will be back next spring in March or April, on a Sunday, as always. We hope to see you then!

04/18/2026

We've got some fancy Risograph-printed badges for all our vendors and guests, get one at the Info Table tomorrow! Designed by our talented student Rivers Torres and printed by our other talented student, Emmet Kobasa!

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04/18/2026

The Geek/Art CONfluence is TOMORROW, April 19 from 11am-5pm in Schine Student Center, Syracuse University. It is FREE and open to all!

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04/18/2026

Our Art Contest judge, James P. McCampbell, Jp images, was so inspired by our Wonder Woman prompt that he made his own version. (Here's both him and his drawing.) Look out for this print at the con! And then make your own! I'm really looking forward to seeing what entries we get this year. You can make them at the CON and turn them in at the Info Table. Winners announced at 3:30 on Sunday--cash prizes for both the kid and adult categories!

https://geekartconfluence.com/2025/11/05/art-contest-2026/

04/17/2026

We've got lots of contests at the Geek/Art CONfluence, and lots of prizes for those contests!

ALL winners will receive one of our 2026 t-shirts, which were drawn by our talented student artist, Julia English.

Another of our talented students, Kelsey McMillin, has also designed 3D-printed trophies for all of our Cosplay winners!

The awesome comic creator Joe Sikoryak has generously donated a complete collection of his "When We Were Trekkies" comic series (issues 1-10) to EACH of the cosplay prize winners (except for the kids category, due to content). "When We Were Trekkies" is a really cool series documenting Joe's personal history as a cosplayer in the '70s as he and his friends rocketed into success in the burgeoning New York cosplay scene of the time. He shows what the early comic cons of the era were like and how early cosplayers researched and made their costumes--all in comic book form. This series is now hard to find so this is an amazing thing for Joe to donate to us!
https://www.joesikoryak.com/when-we-were-trekkies
https://www.joesikoryak.com/product-page/when-we-were-trekkies-complete-collection

We have cash prizes for our Cosplay Contest's Grand Prize and Excellence in Construction categories, as well as for our Art Contest's Adult and Kid categories. (They ALSO get swag, the shirts, the trophy, and "When We Were Trekkies.")

Then we have swag prizes for several other contests and categories! If you win Best Closet Cosplay, Best Expression of Character Cosplay, Best Group Cosplay, Favorite Kids Cosplay, Most Fun Cosplay, the Cosplay Dance Contest, any of our three Trivia contests, or our Comic Battle Debating activity, you get a cool collection of donated toys or art, including Funkos, action figures, pins, and signed prints by comic artists--PLUS the t-shirt for all and the trophies for the cosplayers!

Contest Schedule:
Trivia Contests: 11:30, 1:30, 2:30, main stage
Battle Debating: 12:30, room 128
Art Contest: turn your drawing of Wonder Woman in to the Info Table any time during the day, winners announced 3:30
Cosplay Dance Contest: 3:00
Cosplay Contest: 4:00

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April 19, 11am-5pm, Goldstein Auditorium Schine Student Center, Syracuse University