Welcome Party Featuring the music of Bangers and Mash
Coordinator: Stephanie Standish
Location: Columbia College, Conaway Center,
1104 S. Wabash Ave, 1st floor
Date: Wednesday, March 25
Time: 7 pm - 10 pm

 With finger food and a cash bar!

Collaboration with Enrique Chagoya at Anchor Graphics
Coordinator: Phil Sanders
Location: Columbia College, Anchor Graphics, 623 South Wabash, 2nd floor 
Date: Wednesday - Saturday, March 25 - 28
Time: Noon - 6 pm Wednesday, 9 - 6 pm Thursday - Saturday
Link: www.colum.edu/anchorgraphics

Phil Sanders, Director and Master Printer of the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, will be collaborating with Enrique Chagoya on a special print project in Anchor Graphics studio. Enrique Chagoya is a Bay Area artist whose imagery and tableaus channel Goya's concerns of the politics of racism, culturalism, war, bigotry and our obsession with manifest destiny.

Image: Enrique Chagoya, La Portentosa Vida de la Muerte II, 2008. Published by and image courtesy of Shark's Ink.

Corner to Corner: Urban Poster Explosion
Coordinators: Stacy Elko and Sang-Mi Yoo
Location: Columbia College, Conaway Center, 1104 South Wabash Ave, ground floor
Time: Wednesday – Friday, March 25 – 27, 1 - 5 pm
Reception: Friday, March 27, 5 - 8 pm

Referencing urban practices of wall pasting of posters, four artist teams will 'paste' different sets of printed posters, covering up the previous day's set of posters. This event will be both a collaborative installation and performance involving national and international artists interested in collaboration and community-based projects. Each team will develop two interrelated posters, different from the other teams but related to the larger theme of Global Implications. The topics will include, but not be limited to, community collaborations, dissemination of information, public consumption of information, and the disassociation with the physical. Participating Artists: May Aboutaam, Corey Escoto, Anita Jung, Sang-gon Chung, Dirk Fowler, John Hitchcock, Stacy Elko, Denise Bookwalter and Sang-Mi Yoo

Museum of Contemporary Art 2 for 1 Tickets
Coordinator: Stephanie Standish
Location: Museum of Contemporary Art, 220 East Chicago Ave
Date: Wednesday - Sunday, March 25 - 29
Time: 10 am - 5 pm
Link: http://www.mcachicago.org

Two general admission tickets will be sold for the price of one during the entire SGC conference. Show your badge to redeem this offer.  

Directions
From the Hilton, walk to the corner of Michigan Avenue and 8th Street. Catch the northbound King Drive bus (#3) to Chicago and Mies van der Rohe Avenues

Travel time: allow 30 minutes 

Complimentary Coffee and Pastries
Location: Columbia College, Hokin Gallery, 623 S. Wabash Ave, 1st floor
Date: Thursday, March 26
Time: 9 am - Noon

Free coffee and food!  

Newberry Library Tour
Coordinators: Karen Skubish and Stephanie Standish
Location: Newberry Library, 60 W. Walton St
Date: Thursday, March 26
Time: 3 - 4 pm
Link: www.newberry.org

A staff member from the Newberry Library will escort two groups of ten through the library on a guided tour.  Please sign up while registering online, space is limited.

Directions
From the Hilton, walk west on Balbo Avenue to State Street.Walk north on State Street to Harrison Street. At the Harrison stop, catch the northbound red line to Clark/Division. Walk south on Clark Street to Walton Street (about four blocks). Walk east on Walton Street to 60 (less than one block)

Travel time: allow 30 minutes

Image: Dill Pickle Club Records Box 1, Folders 17-19

River North and West Loop Gallery Openings
Location: multiple locations in River North and West Loop
Date: Thursday, March 26
Time: 6 - 8 pm

Opening receptions for SGC Conference exhibitions at River North and West Loop galleries including the Polish Museum. A shuttle bus will take conference attendees to these neighborhoods starting at 5:45 pm and leaving from the Hilton Hotel, 8th Street entrance. Shuttle service stops at 9 pm. Check the Exhibitions link for participating galleries and exhibition information.

Directions to River North
From the Hilton, walk west on Balbo Avenue to State Street. Walk north on State Street to Harrison Street. At the Harrison stop, catch the northbound red line to Chicago. Walk south on State Street to Superior Street (about one block). Walk west on Superior Street to Franklin Street (about five blocks). The intersection of Superior and Franklin Streets is the focus of the River North gallery district.

Travel time: allow 30 minutes 

Directions to West Loop Galleries 
From the Hilton, walk north on Michigan Avenue to Madison Street (about seven blocks). Walk west on Madison Street to Wabash Avenue (one block). Catch the westbound Madison bus (#20) to Morgan Street. Walk north on Morgan Street to Lake Street (about 3 blocks). The intersection of Morgan and Lake Streets is the hub of the West Loop gallery district.

Travel time: allow 30 minutes 

Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art Collection Viewing
Coordinator: Debora Wood
Location: Mary and Leigh Block Museum, Northwestern University, 40 Arts Circle Drive, Evanston
Date: Thursday and Friday, March 26 and 27
Time: 10:30 - 11:30 am on both days
Link: www.blockmuseum.northwestern.edu

The Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University will open its doors to the Southern Graphics Council Conference with a viewing of select prints from its collection, including several recent acquisitions of computer generated works on paper. The print viewing will be accompanied by the anecdotes of Block senior curator Debora Wood. Limited number of participants, please sign up during online registration.

DIrections

From the Hilton, walk west on Balbo Avenue to State Street walk north on State to Harrison Street. At the Harrison stop, catch the northbound red line to Howard. Transfer at Howard and catch the northbound purple line to Davis, walk north on Benson Avenue to Church Street (less than one block). Walk east on Church Street to Chicago Avenue (about three blocks). Walk north on Chicago Avenue to Sheridan Road (about two blocks). Walk east on Sheridan Road to Campus Drive (about two blocks). Walk north on Campus Drive to Arts Circle Drive (about 150 yards). Veer right onto Arts Circle Drive. The Block Museum is located behind the Theatre Interpretation Building.

Travel time: allow more than 90 minutes 

Tableau Vivant: Warrington Colescott's History of Printmaking
Coordinator: Jeffrey Ginsberg
Location: Columbia College, Classic Studio Theatre, 72 East 11th Street
Dates: Thursday and Friday, March 26 and 27
Times: Thursday, 4 - 5 pm and Friday, 11 am - 12 pm and 3 - 4 pm

Using their unique blend of vaudeville, hot music, wildly audacious movement, gesture and sense of fun, Silent Theatre creates a unique performance from selected prints of Warrington Colescott's series The History of Printmaking. The prints come to theatrical life in this exciting new work as the audience is invited to reflect on some of the seminal images in American politics, art and popular culture in this artful Colescott "history" as re-imagined by the Silent Theatre. A world premiere by one of Chicago theater's most acclaimed new ensembles, all alums of the Theater Department of Columbia College Chicago. Limited seating, please sign up during online registration.

Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings Collection Viewing
Coordinators: Stephanie Standish and Mark Pascale
Location: Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawing Room, 111 S. Michigan Ave (meet in the Michigan Ave lobby)
Date: Thursday and Friday, March 26 and 27
Time:10:30 am - Noon on both days
Link: www.artic.edu

A viewing of prints selected from the Art Institute of Chicago's collections. Space is limited to 25 people per visit, please sign up during online registration.

Directions
From the Hilton, walk north on Michigan Avenue to 111

Travel time: allow 10 minutes

Image: Albrecht Dürer, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, from The Apocalypse (detail), c. 1496-98, Woodcut on white laid paper

Complimentary Coffee with the Vendors and Publishers
Location: Hilton Hotel, Northwest Hall, Lower Level, 720 S. Michigan Ave
Date: Friday, March 27
Time: 10 am

Vendors and Publishers will be giving away gift cards for free Caribou Coffee.  See the Vendors link and Pulishers link for more information on who will be exhibiting.

Satisfaction Town
Coordinator: John Hitchcock
Location: Columbia College, Conaway Center, 1104 South Wabash Ave, ground floor
Date: Friday, March 27
Time: 5 - 8 pm

Satisfaction Town consists of the new breed of printmakers, artists, musicians, performers, poets, activists, and makers. We plan to create an interactive collaborative print environment with a parade of dimensional and flat prints.  Traditionally in museum and gallery settings, art is put on a pedestal or framed under glass, removing it from the audience. Our approach for Satisfaction Town  will be interactive. We will bring the art directly to the viewer, to distance the work from this hierarchical standard. We will create an active live print space with collaborative teams handing off prints to each other and to audience members.

Image: John Hitchcock

Columbia College and Loop Gallery Openings
Location: multiple locations at Columbia College and in the Loop
Date: Friday, March 27
Time: 6 - 9 pm

Opening receptions for SGC conference exhibitions at Columbia College and Loop galleries. Check the Exhibitions link for participating galleries and exhibition information.

Wicker Park and Pilsen Gallery Openings
Location: multiple locations in Wicker Park and Pilsen
Date: Friday, March 27
Time: 9 - 11 pm

Opening receptions for SGC conference exhibitions at Wicker Park and Pilsen galleries. Check the Exhibitions link for participating galleries and exhibition information.

Directions to the Wicker Park area
From the Hilton, walk west on Balbo Avenue to State Street. Walk north on State Street to Harrison Street. At the Harrison stop, catch the northbound red line to Jackson. Transfer at Jackson and catch the northbound blue line to the Damen stop. The Damen/North/Milwaukee intersection is the heart of the Wicker Park gallery district.

Travel time: allow 45 minutes 

Directions to Pilsen Galleries 
From the Hilton, walk west on Balbo Avenue to State Street. Catch the southbound Archer bus (#62) to Halsted Street and 19th Street. Theintersection of Halsted and 19th Streets is the epicenter of the Pilsen gallery district.

Travel time: allow 30 minutes 

Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection Viewing
Coordinators: Doro Boehme and Stephanie Standish
Location: School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 37 South Wabash
Ave, suite 508
Date: Saturday, March 28
Time: 9 am - 12 pm and 1 pm - 6 pm, 50 minute viewing sessions start on the hour
Link:http://digital-libraries.saic.edu/jfabc

The Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection is part of the John M. Flaxman Library and one of the School of the Art Institute's Special Collections. It currently houses well over 4,000 artists' books, multiples, video and audio recordings, periodicals, digital works, reference books, ephemera, exhibition catalogs as works of art, and examples of other experimental art practices, all created over the last four decades by artists of local, national, and international significance. 

Renowned and unique in its vast scope and easily accessible for students and the general public alike, this collection is housed in its own study room on the fifth floor of the School's Sharp Building at 37 South Wabash. Walk-in visitors are welcome during the following hours: Monday-Thursday, 8:30-7:30, Friday, 8:30-5:00 Saturday, noon-3:00

Directions
From the Hilton, walk north on Michigan Avenue to Monroe Street (about six blocks). Walk west on Monroe Street to Wabash Avenue (one block). Walk north on Wabash Avenue to 37 (less than one block).

Travel time: allow 20 minutes

Image: Wolfgang Luh, Zeitschrift für tiegel und tumult

Reading: A Selection of Artists' Books
Coordinators: Brandon Graham and Jill Lanza
Location: Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 37 South Wabash Ave, suite 508
Date: Saturday, March 28
Time: 10 am - 5 pm with a reading at the beginning of each hour
Link:http://digital-libraries.saic.edu/jfabc

Artist's books are greater than the sum of their parts: they are unique - at once a book, an art object, a texture, a sculpture. They are not just read; they are experienced, and there is nothing less enjoyable than being separated from a book you want to read by a plexiglass box and getting only a notion of what the book experience in total would be. Without the images, typography, design, and construction, the words read aloud are only a small part of experiencing this book work. One solution is artists' books presented by the artists themselves in an effort to give a book experience through various performance strategies. Please join us for a reading of artists' books, presented by the artists who made them, using visual and audio aids to communicate to the audience a more complete encounter with their work.

Directions
From the Hilton, walk north on Michigan Avenue to Monroe Street (about six blocks). Walk west on Monroe Street to Wabash Avenue (one block). Walk north on Wabash Avenue to 37 (less than one block).

Travel time: allow 20 minutes

Image: Emily Martin, Vicious Circle Series

Fresh Prints: Wear Our Art
Coordinators: Jessica Taylor and Katy Collier
Location: The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 280 South Columbus Ave, street level sidewalk
Date: Saturday, March 28
Time: Noon - 5 pm

Fresh Prints: Wear Our Art will offer freshly printed t-shirts in DIY style at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. We want to show how accessible and exciting printing can be. Using recycled and donated relief blocks and screens Printers Like You will print on available and functional materials in a customized way. This event will point to the democratic aspects of printmaking, and provide viewers with personal demonstrations and functional souvenirs. The one-on-one nature of this project highlights the questions: How are commodities made, who makes them, and what greater purpose can commodities have? Visitors can bring their own t-shirts or totes (or pick one up from us) and then select the block, color and placement of their choice.

Directions

Travel time: allow 15 minutes 

Chicago Printmakers Collaborative Open House
Coordinator: Megan Sterling and CPC Founder and Director Deborah Maris Lader
Location: Chicago Printmakers Collaborative, 4642 North Western Ave
Date: Saturday, March 28
Time: Noon - 5 pm
Telephone: 773-293-2070
Link: www.chicagoprintmakers.com

Come mingle and see what’s up at the Chicago Printmakers Collaborative, Chicago’s longest-running independent printmaking workshop, located in the heart of Lincoln Square (where all the best restaurants are!). The CPC provides press access for professional printmakers, and offers an array of classes and an in-shop gallery featuring prints from around the globe. A reception, open house, workshop and tour will convene Saturday, March 28th, from noon - 5pm. The CPC is located right off the Western stop on the CTA Brown Line. For information on Rebellious Integration and Global Fusion, both on view during the open house, navigate to the Exhibitions page.

Directions
From the Hilton, walk north on Michigan Avenue to Adams Street. Walk west on Adams Street to Wabash Avenue. At the Adams/Wabash stop, catch the northbound Brown Line train to Western. When exiting the station, the CPC is directly across the street (4642 N Western).

Travel time: allow 60 minutes 

Hummingbird Press at The Lillstreet Art Center Open House
Coordinator: Thomas Lucas 
Location: Lillstreet Art Center, 4401 North Ravenswood Ave
Date: Saturday, March 28
Time: 12 - 5 pm
Link: www.lillstreet.com

This open house will feature Hummingbird Press artists, portfolios from Lillstreet printmaking classes, and the exhibition The Ceramic Print a group show focused on works that incorporate printmaking and ceramics curated by Thomas Lucas and Matt Harris, with a lecture and demonstration during the open house.

Directions
From the Hilton, walk north on Michigan Avenue to Adams Street. Walk west on Adams Street to Wabash Avenue. At the Adams/Wabash stop, catch the northbound Brown Line train to Montrose. Walk east on Montrose Avenue to Ravenswood Avenue. Walk north on Ravenswood Avenue to 4401 (less than one block).

Travel time: allow 60 minutes

Image: Thomas Lucas

One Horse Press at the Noyes Cultural Arts Center Open House
Coordinator: Julian Cox 
Location: Noyse Cultural Arts Center, 927 Noyes Street, Evanston
Date: Saturday, March 28
Time: Noon - 5 pm

Visit the printmaking studio of One Horse Press and view the exhibition Hand-Made Prints during this open house.

Image: Grace Kroll

Directions
From the Hilton, walk west on Balbo Avenue to State Street. Walk north on State Street to Harrison Street. At the Harrison stop, catch the northbound red line to Howard. Transfer at Howard and catch the northbound purple line to Noyes. Walk west on Noyes Street to 927 (less than one block)

Travel time: allow at least 90 minutes

Morpho Gallery Open House
Location: Morpho Gallery, 5216 N. Damen
Date: Saturday, March 28
Time: Noon - 9 pm
Link: www.morphogallery.com

Visit Morpho Gallery and view Chicago Print Makers Exhibition during this open house.

Directions
From the Hilton, walk west on Balbo Avenue to State Street. Walk north on State Street to Harrison Street. At the Harrison stop, catch the northbound red line to Berwyn. On Berwyn Avenue, catch the westbound Foster bus (#92) to Damen Avenue (about 12 blocks). Walk north on Damen Avenue to 5216 (less than one block)

Travel time: allow 65 minutes

Image: George Mueller, What Then Shall We Choose?

Pilsen Gallery Walk
Location: Pilsen, Chicago
Date: Saturday, March 28
Time: 2 - 5 pm
Link: www.chicagoartsdistrict.org

The Chicago Arts District welcomes 2009 Southern Graphics Council Conference participants to visit one of the city's most vibrant art communities. Over 35 galleries surrounding South Halsted and 18th Streets showcase an exciting display of art and artists from Chicago and beyond. This unique art community opens its doors, free of charge, and lets you get up close and personal with the art and artists.

Directions
From the Hilton, walk west on Balbo Avenue to State Street. Catch the southbound Archer bus (#62) to Halsted Street and 19th Street. The intersection of Halsted and 19th Streets is the epicenter of the Pilsen Gallery District – within(Reason), Vespine, and Logsdon are all within walking distance

Travel time: allow 30 minutes 

The Heartland Cafe
Location: 7000 N. Glenwood, Chicago IL,
Event "ART SURGE & GLOBAL INSTIGATIONS"
Time: March 28, 2009 at 5pm to?
Link:The HeartLand Cafe

Organized By: Colm McCarthy, Lester Dore, John Hitchcock, Steve Chappell, Mike Duffy, Eric Hagstrom

Event Description:
ART SURGE, a collective of Wisconsin based artists, hits the road for a month long exhibit of socio-political themed art at the Heartland Cafe in Chicago.
Artists tentatively scheduled to take part include: Matthew Bendert, Steve Chappell, Michael Connors, Pamela Cremer, Lester Doré, Mike Duffy, Patrick JB Flynn, Eric Hagstrom, HighFlyer #13, John Hitchcock, Samuel D. Johnson, Mike Konopacki, Colm McCarthy, Ana Nimo, Nino Rodriguez and Jason Ruhl.

"GLOBAL INSTIGATIONS" opens during the Southern Graphics Council Conference - one of the country's largest printmaker conferences - so Chicago will be hopping, with exhibits all over the city.

"GLOBAL INSTIGATIONS" opens on Saturday March 28 at the Heartland Cafe, 7000 N Glenwood from 5pm until closing time, and it promises to be a fun night. So we hope you can make it for some fine art, good food and libations from the Heartland's two bars.

The show is scheduled to run at the Heartland until April 25 or thereabouts.

Directions: Get on the Red Line @ Harrison travel about 45 minutes or until you get to the Morse Stop - Walk to the Norht end of the platform, down the stairs, turn left and you are on Lunt Ave walk to west to the next corner and you will see the Heartland on your right.

A Day In DeKalb
Coordinator: Michael Barnes
Location: Northern Illinois University, DeKalb
Date: Sunday, March 29
Time: Bus will leave from the Hilton Hotel, 8th Street entrance at 9 am and return at approximately 4:30 pm
Link: www.niu.edu

A bus will take participants to the NIU School of Art in DeKalb for a print studio open house where breakfast will be served and to view exhibitions at the NIU Art Museum. The bus will then travel to the DeKalb Area Women's Center and Nehring Gallery for additional exhibitions before stopping for lunch in downtown DeKalb. Exhibitions viewed on this trip will include Jay Ryan: Flock, David Driesbach: Moonlight Cocktails are the Thing, Käthe Kollwitz: Images of Death and Life, David Johnson: The Mayor of Palookaville, NIU Graduate Printmaking Exhibition, Play Up!, Scottish Print Folios from the Gray's School of Art, and P2: The Prints and Drawings by Peter Olson and Peter Van Ael.

Image: Jay Ryan