Southern Graphics Council
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| March 25 - 29, 2009 The 2009 Southern Graphics Council Conference, hosted by Columbia College Chicago, will examine the Global Implications of our interdependence and cultures. Printmaking is the art medium most responsive to changing technologies, but also retains many otherwise obsolete techniques. As print artists, we find ourselves uniquely situated. We employ the latest digital imaging tools and centuries-old techniques for hand mark-making. We make exquisite, precious objects and democratic gestures. We are able to share our imagery and processes with anyone, anytime while also creating community, dialog and collaboration in our own shops. As our world becomes increasingly interdependent, local practices are at once threatened, celebrated, worthy of preservation and dangerously divisive. As printmakers, our medium is likewise evolving, its borders increasingly permeable. Our traditions are a source of strength, but also a source of isolation. We now realize that our resources are limited, that what is done in one location will probably affect someone, somewhere else. Our community of supportive souls is part of a world in which time has become compressed: digital files can circle the world in seconds, and new technologies change the nature of exchange. Prints can be made and exhibitions can be mounted in ways that break away from sterile white walls to include installations, printed artists’ books, graffiti prints and paste-ups on city streets, 'zines and comics, even work that exists only in cyberspace. Information on Proposals for Panels, Demonstrations, Portfolios, Exhibitions and Events can be found at the links on the right-hand side of this page. Proposals Deadline: Postmarked April 25, 2008. | |||