Creative Women Mini-Con 2025 Line-up
/Five years have passed since we filled the shop with Sacramento, CA's most creative ladies, and we know our community is excited to show them the love and support they deserve.
We have a great group of guests this year—some of your favorites from years past and new creatives also. We have pencillers, painters, jewelry makers, novelists, sculptors, zine creators, and others. Below, you’ll find out who.
Event Details
Date: Saturday, October 11
Time: 12:00 pm - 5 pm
Location:
Empire's Comics Vault
1120 Fulton Avenue, Suite K
Sacramento, CA 95825
Meet This Year's Exhibitors
AMBER RANKIN is a freelance 2D animator, illustrator and muralist. She previously worked as a 2D Designer with a tech company designing and animating mobile ads. Amber has worked on several short films as a 2D animator, including Pixar Co-op film “Amped,” “Fitting In,” directed by Aproova Gaitonde, and is currently working with Karen Zipor on “Worm.” As an illustrator, Amber have worked on several public art projects in Northern California, including poster illustration, murals, vinyl wraps and concrete pavers. Past clients include Crocker Art Museum, Town of Windsor, City of Sacramento, Town of Galt, and Napa Valley Transit, among others.
Connect with Amber: @ambermations (Insta) | @ambermations (X) | Ambermations (FB) | ambermations.com (website)
ELLA DOYLE is a new member of our creative community and is joining us for this year's event.
Ella loves comics, cows, space, and Batman.
She’s excited to be making her solo convention debut at this year’s Creative Women Mini-Con.
HEATHER AUTUMN LEE is a multimedia artist who grew up in the UK and is now based in Sacramento, CA. She is currently working on her MFA in Interdisciplinary Art from University of Nevada, Reno. Autumn creates in multiple mediums, though she usually incorporates at least one of her two biggest focuses, textiles and photography. Textiles are her first love, starting at age 8 with embroidery. She's spent the last four decades working in fiber art. Photography is a more recent, decade-long passion. Autumn’s work often focuses around nature, paganism and spirituality, or social justice--explicitly circling feminine or LGBTQ themes. She strives to find beauty in the everyday, the mundane, and the unexpected. Her work has been shown in several places, including the SMUD gallery, the Crocker Art Museum, and the 57th Motherlode Show at MACC.
Connect with Autumn: @autumnleecreations (Insta) | @autumnleecreations (TikTok) | autumnleecreations (FB) | AutumnLeeCreations.com (website)
THE HEROIC GIRLS FOUNDATION will be represented by Iris Dimond and Sarah Phillips. The Heroic Girls Foundation is a pop culture-based nonprofit that advocates for better representation of women and girls in movies, television, books, comics and other mass media in order to combat harmful gender norms that hold women and girls back in the real world.
Connect with Heroic Girls: HeroicGirls.com (website)
JEN MONSON creates art, no matter the medium--drawing, painting, working with resin, etc. She enjoys the challenge and discovery of learning through her own creative process as she finds new ways to showcase her creativity. Her ultimate creative goal is to help others feel a sense of peace and joy.
Connect with Jen: @Jenuoneart (Insta) | @Jenuoneart (TikTok) | Jenuoneart.com (website)
JOHANNA PACK has a Bachelors degree in Studio Art from CSU Sacramento. She loves watercolor painting and enjoys trying different types of arts and crafts. She has developed a particular abstract style that incorporates her love of flowing lines and intense color over the last decade. This style is inspired by a variety of influences, including the illustrations of Trina Schart Hyman, sewing, nature, and patterns from cultures all around the world.
Connect with Johanna: @Packjohanna (Insta) | JohannaPack.com (website) | Art-by-JohannaPack (website) | johannapack.bsky.social (BlueSky)
KELLY VIRENS is a fantasy author and bookbinder who tells stories about trees. When she is not writing, she is usually off hiking or exploring somewhere in the Northern California region where she finds inspiration.
Connect with Kelly: @fireflirt (Instagram) | @KellyVirensBooks (Bookstagram) | portfireflirt (LinkTree) | portfireflirt (Etsy)
PATRICIA BOSSANO is an artisanal wordsmith and old-school scribbler of non-A.I., philosophical fictions and supernatural escapes, some of them *en español*. She serves as the managing editor of WaterBearer Press. Regarding indie publishing , Patricia explains: "Traditional meant changing my stories to suit a market. So, I chose the indie route with my first novel and never looked back. Aware that my books are not for 'everyone', I aim to connect with that unique audience composed of supernatural 'someones'." We welcome her to her first Creative Women Mini-Con.
Connect with Patricia: PatriciaBossano.com (website) | WaterbearerPress.com (Etsy) | PatriciaBossano.bsky.social (BlueSky)
RENéE HYATT THOMPSON is an artist and zine creator, working across print mediums including serigraph, linocut relief, letterpress, and xerography. This is her first Creative Women Mini-Con.
Connect with Renée: @dangersquirrel (Insta) | DangerSquirrel.com (website) | DangerSquirrel (Etsy)
SACGEEKS will be represented by Bex Francis. SacGeeks is a non-profit with the mission of fostering geek culture in the Sacramento and surrounding region's creative economy through engaging geek enthusiasts, businesses, professionals, and creatives.
Connect with SacGeeks: @SacGeeks (Insta) | sacgeeks (FB) | SacGeeks.org
SACRAMENTO ROLLER DERBY will be represented by Annie Rexic. Sacramento Roller Derby features the best skaters in the greater Sacramento region and has represented Sacramento at national and international tournaments within the Women’s Flat Track Derby Association (WFTDA). The league will continue to function under the WFTDA. Sacramento Roller Derby is a non-profit organization dedicated to the empowerment of youths, women, and the Sacramento community through acts of philanthropy and volunteerism, participation in public events and entertainment, and by fostering athletic competition and camaraderie in the sport of flat track roller derby at local, national, and international levels.
Connect with Sac Roller Derby: @sacramentorollerderby (Insta) | sacramentorollerderby (FB) | @SacRollerDerby (X) | SacramentoRollerDerby.com (website)
