Amazing Guests at WWWC14!
The Faces and Forces Behind an Unforgettable Weekend!
WWWC14 unites an inspiring roster of steampunk specialists, from performers and characters to craft masters and community leaders.
Each amazing guest brings passion and personality to the frontier, offering experiences you won’t find anywhere else!
A.S.G.A.R.D. and Lady Wheelsworth
Steampunk Xena
Madame Askew and the Grand Arbiter
The Grand Arbiter is an authority on compliments, wit & Tea-based Justice. He leads a deeply hedonistic lifestyle when not judging matters of honor. Beginning as a Steampunk event host, the Arbiter and his best friend, Madame Askew, have grown to encompass more than a single genre. Together they host a weekly live Tea Time Talk Show where they are known for dissecting media for philosophical and queer themes, leading jovial improv games, and working to build a better fandom through compassion.
Time traveling, tea drinking, and professionally cheeky, Madame Askew is a comic performer, expert panelist, and presenter at fandom conventions across North America. Madame hosts a weekly live talk show with her best friend, the Grand Arbiter, as well as her monthly interview podcast. She has also had the privilege of working on programming, audience development, and outreach behind the scenes at multiple conventions. When she’s not at conventions, she can be found teaching sewing for cosplay.
Donald Dodson
Donald R. Dodson Jr. is the founder of Dodson Designs, a maker of fantastical and practical custom leather creations for over 10 years. With a degree in history education – and apparently a short memory of that experience – and a background in both design and art, it’s no surprise that he is drawn to Steampunk and other fantasy genres.
Dodson enjoys pushing the boundaries of materials (often entirely inappropriately), to create new uses, techniques, and effects. Rules, once you learn them, are meant to be broken. Tooling, wet forming, stamping, dye and paint effects are great ways to push boundaries in the craft. Add this with a backwards nod to history and historical techniques, and that’s the approach he likes to use.
As an artificer of some renown and a former educator, he is passionate about creating and sharing his knowledge and encouraging others.
Dodson currently resides on Terra in a small town in Pennsylvania, surrounded by various other lifeforms, feathered, furry, and otherwise, but he is ever-vigilant for the multi-dimensional entities that hound him.
Dodson Designs
Specializing in leather, wood, and Industrial creations
