JordanCon Art Show Awards

Each year the JordanCon Art Show awards four awards to recognize the most outstanding works by our exhibiting artists, a Judge’s Choice and 3 “People’s Choice” awards selected by you, the JordanCon attendees.

The Judges’ Choice Award is presented for the best work of art in that year’s show, as determined by a panel consisting of our Art Show Director and the Artist Guest of Honor. This award doesn’t necessarily have to go to a single work; it can be (and has been) awarded to a group of works that work together as a thematic whole. The winner of the Judge’s Choice Award is presented with a trophy and a framed certificate. Some past winners of the Judge’s Choice can be seen below.

Our other three awards are determined by a vote in which any JordanCon attendee can participate. These are the aptly named “People’s Choice” awards, and starting in 2022 are awarded for “Best Original,” “Best Print,” and “Best 3D.” Ballots for these awards are available at the Art Show and are counted at the end of the Art Show’s silent auction Saturday.

  • Best Original is awarded to one-of-a-kind works of art created with traditional media. Prints and Digital Works are ineligible for this award.
  • Best Print is awarded to either digital works or prints of traditional media works, that are recreated using a printing process (inkjet, lithograph, etc.). Any artwork created through a reproduction process are eligible for this award.
  • Best 3D is awarded to three-dimensional works of art, in a variety of media.

As with the Judge’s Choice awards, if a group of pieces work as a whole, the entire group can be awarded a People’s Choice Award in a specific category. All People’s Choice award winners are presented with a framed certificate and a medal. Click on the links below to see some of the past award-winning works of art, as selected by the members of JordanCon.

Art Show Award Winners and Artist Guests of Honor

2023

Artist Guest of Honor: Omar Rayyan

Judge’s Choice: Amanda Carman for “Writing Knight”

Honorable Mention: Melissa Gay for “Star Horse”

People’s Choice Award, Best Original Art: Stephanie Pedersoli for “Nightlight”

People’s Choice Award, Best Print Art: Madolyn Locke for The Summoning

People’s Choice Award, Best 3D Art: Amy Brewer-Davenport forTime Moves Stranger There

2022

Artist Guests of Honor: Annie Stegg Gerard and Justin Gerard

Judge’s Choice: Joe Slucher for Draugr’s Helm from Kaldheim

People’s Choice Award, Best Original Art: Amy Brewer-Davenport for As Above So Below

People’s Choice Award, Best Print Art: Madolyn Locke for Space Fighters

People’s Choice Award, Best 3D Art: Rick Martin for Wheel of Time Chess Set

2021

No Artist Guest of Honor

Judges’ Choice: Amy Ashbaugh for “Their Touch, Without Feeling

Judges’ Choice, Honorable Mention: Kaylani Poluri for Samsar

People’s Choice Award, Best WoT Art: Ariel Burgess for Legendary City

People’s Choice Award, Best Non-WoT Art: Paul Bielaczyc for “Prophecies of the Dark Dragon”

People’s Choice Award, Best 3D Art: Nick Stapleton for “Tempest of Peace”

2020

No Art Show

2019

Artist Guest of Honor: Don dos Santos

Judges’ Choice Award: Amy Ashbaugh for She Brought the Night to Me

People’s Choice Award, Best WoT Art: Paul Bielaczyc for “Prophecies of the Dark Dragon”

People’s Choice Award, Best non-WoT Art: Michael Reber for “One Thousand and One”

People’s Choice Award, Best 3D Art: Leia Powell for The Florentine Carousel

2018

Artist Guest of Honor: Stephanie Law

Judges’ Choice Award
Michael Reber for “Weightless”

Weightless by Michael Reber, winner of the 2018 JordanCon Art Show Judge's Choice award.

2017

Artist Guest of Honor: Stephen Hickman

Judges’ Choice Award: Angela Sasser for “Lady of November”
Creating the “Lady of November”

Lady of November by Angela Sasser, winner of the 2017 JordanCon Art Show Judge's Choice Award.

People’s Choice Award, Best Wheel of Time Art: Paul Bielaczyc for “May You Always Find Water & Shade”

People’s Choice Award, Best Non-Wheel-of-Time Art: Melissa Gay for “The Strix Nebula

People’s Choice Award, Best 3D Art: Lisa Sell for “Snow Gryphon”

2016

Artist Guest of Honor: John Picacio

Judges’ Choice Award
Sam Flegal for “King’s New Crown”

Creating “King’s New Crown”

King's New Crown by Sam Flegal, winner of the 2016 JordanCon Art Show Judge's Choice Award.

People’s Choice Award, Best Wheel of Time Art: Ariel Burgess for “Saving the Hornsounder

People’s Choice Award, Best Non-Wheel-of-Time Art: Paul Bielaczyc for Just Your Imagination”

People’s Choice Award, Best 3D Art: Linda Taglieri for “Nynaeve”, a quarter-scale, fully costumed character doll
Nynaeve

2015

Artist Guest of Honor: Todd Lockwood

Judges’ Choice Award: Amanda Makepeace for Renascentia”

Renascentia by Amanda Makepeace, winner of the 2015 JordanCon Art Show Judge's Choice Award.

People’s Choice Award, Best Wheel of Time Art: Ariel Burgess for Mat Cauthon: Son of Battles”

People’s Choice Award, Best Non-Wheel-of-Time Art: Sam Flegal for Liberty or Death”

People’s Choice Award, Best 3D Art: Amy Romanczuk for The White Tower Collection”

2014

Artist Guest of Honor: Larry Elmore

Judges’ Choice Award
Sam Flegal for “Elf Gate”

Elf Gate by Sam Flegal, original work for the Elves of Uteria and winner of the 2014 JordanCon Art Show Judge's Choice Award.

People’s Choice Award, Best Wheel of Time Art: Ariel Burgess for “Rand al’ Thor, The Dragon Reborn” from The Officially Licensed Wheel of Time Calendar (2014)

 

People’s Choice Award, Best Non-Wheel-of-Time Art: Melissa Gay for Medusa at Home”

People’s Choice Award, Best 3D Art: Paige Gardner for “Siri”

2013

Artist Guest of Honor: Michael Whelan

Judges’ Choice Award
Edsel Arnold for “Selene” prints

Selene by Edsel Arnold, winner of the 2013 JordanCon Art Show Judge's Choice Award.

People’s Choice Award, Best Wheel of Time Art: Joe O’Hara for “The Last Battle

People’s Choice Award, Best Non-Wheel-of-Time Art: Paul Bielaczyc for “Counter This

People’s Choice Award, Best 3D Art: Linda Taglieri for “Four Faces of a Volcano

2012 – Inaugural Year for the JordanCon Art Show

Artist Guest of Honor: Sam Weber

Judges’ Choice Award
Joe O’Hara for “Wheel of Time Characters,” an entire panel of 18 original Wheel of Time character portraits (three of which are shown below).
“Wheel of Time Characters” portrait prints

A selection of work from Joe O'Hara's Wheel of TIme character portraits, which won him the 212 JordanCon Art Show Judge's Choice Award.

People’s Choice Award, Best Wheel of Time Art: Paul Bielaczyc for Prince of Ravens

People’s Choice Award, Best Non-Wheel-of-Time Art: Sam Weber for Mistborn

People’s Choice Award, Most Unique: Dim Horizon Studio for “Blood River”

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