Hello, Virtual Doll Convention,

Remember our doll collector friend Joshua who is a fan of Alan Scott Pate? I told ya we were going to hear more from him and here it is. On Instagram last week he sent me an email about what the Convention experience has meant to him, and what antique dolls mean to him and the world from his perspective. I loved it so much I posted it on the Virtual Doll Convention Blog. (Oh, it also turns out Joshua is 31 and not 19! He had me fooled.)

“For over a millennia, mankind has preserved its hopes and ideals in miniature. If you want to know what people considered important, look at what they reduced in size and in their own way, enshrined. Dolls and their accoutrement forever will be tiny mannequins of humanity’s ideals and hopes. That's what they really are. They are us-- in miniature. Read more of this essay here!

And we have some Maggie Bessie News, Y’all!

If you are in the June Virtual Convention Group, DO NOT MISS the new program on Maggie Bessie Dolls from Billye B. Harris. Her original presentations in the January Virtual Convention were fabulous! She filmed an impromptu program at the UFDC Doll Museum in Kansas City recently and posted it in the June Virtual Convention group for us to enjoy. Click here or the photo below to view Billye’s Follow Up on Maggie Bessie, Yall! (The video is posted in both the January and June groups.)

Have you registered for the June ‘Art of the Doll’ Virtual Doll Convention?! Part of the FUN is the community and follow up TO the Convention. Register today and join the group. We are waiting to meet you!