Costuming Guests, Pros, and Panelists
MisCon 34
Everything related to costuming: learn how to make your own costumes of different types from steampunk to Star Wars to Victorian dresses to monsters.
- Eekie and Snow Cosplay
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Montana natives Eekie and Snow are ready to help you create and conquer the costumes of your imagination. Eekie has been an active performer for 6 years and a costumer for 10 years: crying and sewing her way through many an event and creation. She specializes in cosplay that can be worn for performance purposes whether it be for dance, music, or LARP as well as thermoplastics and EVA foam armor. Snow has been an active costumer and prop builder for 4 years. She specializes in working with thermoplastics, craft/EVA foam, and electronics to bring an otherworldly flair to the design. They have been a team for the past 6 years and look forward to sharing their passion with you.
- BJ Allen-Prudden
- John Barba
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John Barba is a local Missoula artist and cosplayer who got into MisCon and fandom at MisCon 27 because his kid runs MisCon and he couldn't escape it any longer.
In both his art and his cosplay, he works mostly with sheet metal, leather, fiberglass, and paint. Most of his artwork is the old art of chasing and repousse.
He has created a number of memorable costumes, including Indiana Jones, Iron Man, Magneto, a Cylon, Stan Lee, and the Rocketeer. In creating these costumes, he uses a variety of things, including pepakura, 3D printing, metalworking, leatherworking, building small electronics for light and sound, etc.
- Chris Blazer
- Kara Chandler
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I started my sci-fi fandom life at the age of three, when my mom took me along to see Star Trek: The Motion Picture. I started my costuming life at the age of five, when my mom taught me how to sew clothes for my Barbies. Thank you, Mom! I've been a costume technician at Missoula Children's and Community Theater for 17 years, and I've been assistant costumer for MAT's Rocky Horror Show Live for the last three years. This is my first MisCon!
- Diz Fai
- Gail Glass
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Gail is a retired recreational therapist who has done con costuming for 20 years as well as workshops on healing dance.
- Katelynn Greenberg
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I am a graduate of the Costume Design and Technology program at the University of Montana. I have been practicing the art of costume crafts for over 20 years. My first introduction was sitting in a laundry basket, at the age of 2, behind my mother who would sew for hours on end. Her mother did the same with her. When I was old enough to operate the machine, I did. I have always had a fascination with creating and fashion. Never did I think I could make a career out of both combined. I have designed both historical costume and modern. All things from creating custom jewelry to patterning a garment simply from a list of measurements. I am excited to share my love for what I do!
- Becky Harouz
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- Miss Jade LaRose
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Miss Jade was born in St. Ignatius MT, born into this world as a child of two spirits, Sam/Jade found life on the reservation to be very sheltered. The son of a single mother, Sam found that he had a talent for the arts and music.
- Matt McAdoo
- Andy Nickerson
- Erika Noble
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Slightly eccentric computer tech with a love of costuming and dance.
- Lily Oliver
- Cale Patenaude
- Nikki Rossignol
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Nikki Rossignol is a mom, illustrator, art teacher, dancer, mythology buff, and poet from just outside of Missoula, Montana. She has illustrated a mythology-based brand for Down The Road Brewing Company in Boston, MA, worked as a court-room sketch artist for Dateline NBC, and as a concept artist for Peach Pit films. She has danced with Donlavey and Mimoda dance companies in Los Angeles, and for Chicago Opera works.
- Meagan Scruggs
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Hair and makeup artist: I can make you pretty or scary....or both!
- Cody Vincent
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I am a nerd has attended Miscon regularly for the past 4 years. I spend my free time making costumes, acting in small films or on stage and I have a deep passion for comic books and Star Wars. I have spent many hours watching and analyzing Marvel films and the Star Wars franchise as a whole and as such can provide an in depth opinion about both subjects. I've also been making costumes and props since I was 12. They haven't always been of the highest quality but i have found some creative ways to get around some of the obstacles I faced making costumes on a low budget.
- Lesley Washburn
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Lesley Washburn has her BFA in Technical Theatre from Wayne State University in Detroit, MI. She has been in Missoula since 2004 and has been the Properties Master for MCT INC., since 2006. Having been crafty and interested in the many facets of the arts since childhood, Lesley has accrued a wide skill set which includes carpentry, sewing, painting, drawing, welding, sculpting, jewelry making, photography, basic wiring, and wielding a glue gun like a sharp shooter; all while staying within a fairly tight budget. Thankfully her many mistakes and mishaps in each of these fields keeps her quite humble. There are always new skills and manors of production to learn.
- Lacy Zee
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Lacy Zee is an international tattoo artist with over 19 years in the industry. She is capable of any style of tattooing but prefers realism and new skool. Lacy is also known as "Her Sexcellency" Vox Moxxi of The Cigarette Girls Burlesque, with whom she has been teasing and tantalizing audiences for the last
seven years.
