Windycon 51 | Rise of the Machines | November 7 - 9, 2025 | DoubleTree By Hilton Chicago - Oak Brook

Windycon Art Show

2025-06-13

The Windycon art show exists to give artists a place to show and sell their work. We strive to encourage the new, blossoming artists while also providing professionals with access to our convention attendees as an audience. In order to facilitate that encouragement our art show is not Juried and our artist costs are low to anyone who wants to participate. We also offer the service of handling mail-in art, this helps remote artists grow while expanding the variety of art displayed for the Windycon attendees.

If this is your first time buying, selling, or just browsing our Art Show, please take a moment to review the detailed information below. If you will be unable to make it yourself, you can still mail in your art. Our staff will be happy to hang your art for you!

Art Show Hours

Friday

Artist Setup: 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM
General Public: 4:00 PM – 9:00 PM

Saturday

General Public: 10:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Art Auction: 8:00 PM

Saturday

Pick-Up & Print Shop: 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM

Special Events

As always, we have our Art Auction on Saturday night. Make sure you set aside the time so you can defend your bid!

Art Show General Rules

Cameras are not allowed in the Art Show.
Food and beverage are not allowed in the Art Show.
During normal operating hours Windycon art show is open to the public. Bidders/Buyers must be members of Windycon.
AI Generated images are not allowed in the art show. This pertains to images that are completely created using only AI engines. The Windycon art show, and Windycon, want to support the people involved in creating their works and we do not consider prompt engineering to be an activity that truly supports the people executing the act of art work creation.

If there’s something that’s not covered in the above rules, we’ll talk it over and try to come up with a reasonable rule to cover the situation. And, yes, we really will try to be reasonable.

Please remember that Windycon is a volunteer organization. Everyone here is doing their level best to act in a courteous and professional manner—while making you some money—because that’s the way we ought to do it. If somebody’s doing a good job for you, thank them. It goes a long way. And if they’re not doing a good job, let the Art Show director know—or, if they're the one you think has created the problem, let the Windycon Chairperson know. Either or both can be contacted on the Contact Us page on the web site. We want to know what the problems are and we want to find solutions.

Buying Art

Bidders must be members of Windycon. As a handy side effect, we’ll give you a card to record the pieces that you’ve bid on for your reference (it’s the back of your badge).
Bidders may write in bids on pieces in the Art Show until 6:00 PM Saturday night. Bids must be in whole dollars.
Pieces with one or two bids as of closing on Saturday are sold to the current high bidder.
Pieces with three or more bids as of closing will be sold at the voice auction on Saturday night. The starting bid will be the last, highest written bid amount.
There will be no Sunday sales in the Art Show.
Pieces in the Print Shop may be purchased at any time when the Print Shop is open. Buyers may take these items at the time of purchase.

Picking Up Purchased Art

If you are the high bidder on a piece of art, you must pick up and pay for your purchase using cash, checks, travelers checks, or credit card. We use Square for credit card processing.
Art must be picked up Sunday before 2:00 PM.
If you are unable to pick up your art please contact the art show staff, we'll work with you. Other wise you run the risk of getting your registration put on hold until you can pay for your art work.

If there is a question we have not answered here, then please contact us at artshow@windycon.org .