Potlatch (wikipedia) was a “small literary speculative fiction” con in the Pacific Northwest, typically alternating between the Bay Area and points northern, held from 1992-2016 (a solid 25 years). Freddie was a reliable attendee & con-member, and frequently contributed art for posters and silk-screened t-shirts. We do not have a comprehensive collection of these! If you have some, please send photos & info.
For instance, a con-report by Eric Lindsay (in Gegenschein, his fanzine) about Potlatch 9 (2000) references “The otherwise excellent and inexpensive Freddie Baer T shirt was basically black. Dark colours just don’t go with our tropical climate, so although tempted by the design, I didn’t buy one. Jean did.” Please share a copy of this design!
We know Freddie was involved in at least:
- Janecon (1991) – Jane Hawkins & Luke McGuff’s wedding / con. A predecessor to Potlatch!
- ?? Potlatch 1 (1992) ?? – not known if Freddie did art or other work for Potlatch 1
- ?? Potlatch 2 (1993) ?? – not known if Freddie did art or other work for Potlatch 2
- Potlatch 3 (1994)
- Potlatch 4 (1995)
- ?? Potlatch 5 ?? – not known if Freddie did art or other work for Potlatch 5
- Potlatch 6 (1997)
- Potlatch 7 (1998)
- Potlatch 8 (1999)
- Potlatch 9 (2000)
- Potlatch 10 (2001)
- Potlatch 11 (2002)
- Potlatch 12 (2003)
- Potlatch 13 (2004)
- Potlatch 14 (2005)
- Potlatch 15 (2006)
- Potlatch 16 (2007)
- Potlatch 17 (2008)
- Potlatch 18 (2009)
- Potlatch 19 (2010)
- Potlatch 20 (2011)
- Potlatch 21 (2012)
- Potlatch 22 (2013)
- Potlatch 23 (2014)
- Potlatch 24 (2015)
- ?? Potlatch 25 (2016) ?? – not known if Freddie did art or other work for Potlatch 25
CREDITS: Thanks for scans & photos to Ian Hagemann, Liz Henry, Luke McGuff, Tom Whitmore. Laura Quilter organized & dug up additional photos from the Potlatch website & the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. The gallery below includes duplicates, sometimes because they are different prints, colors, or contexts; sometimes slightly different versions; and sometimes there are multiple imperfect, low resolution, or blurred images, and it seemed useful to have variants for comparison.
