Paige Gardner
Cosplayer
Paige Gardner is an award-winning costumer who regularly appears as a guest presenter on unconventional costuming at science fiction and fantasy conventions in the U.S. and Canada. While Paige has created recognizable cosplay from the Sci-Fi universe, she is mostly recognized for her “costume as art” ethic through her original projects constructed from found, salvaged or vintage items.As a costumer who doesn’t sew, Paige is a popular panelist who shares her enthusiasm for costuming with the minimum of resources and the maximum of tenacity! Paige’s humorous approach to daunting projects features shocking shortcuts, fresh ideas, and eccentric tips for building costumes using salvaged items, thrift store finds and other unlikely oddments.
Paige’s costuming work has appeared in national news outlets, magazines, television and independent film as well as being featured in books, including “1000 Steampunk Creations”, “1000 Cosplay Creations” and “The Steampunk Users Manual” by Jeff VandeMeer. Her ‘costume art’ projects have been exhibited at various venues around the U.S.