Global Implications: Southern Graphics Council Conference 2009


	Disturbed Places: International Panel Chair: Alicia Candiani Panelists: Margarita Fernández Zabala (Puerto Rico); Guy Langevin (Canada) and Richard Noyce (UK) Location: Columbia College, Hokin Lecture Hall, 623 S. Wabash Ave, Room 109 Date: Thursday, March 26 Time: 11:30 am - 1 pm This panel will focus on three interrelated themes: 1. Printmaking and the Crisis of Categories: Many cultural artifacts now compete to be included in the category of "contemporary art" and old categories (like traditional prints) are beginning to take apart in it. How has printmaking been transformed in order to get over this crisis of category? 2. Printmaking and the International Art Biennials: What is the role of the biennial in the emergence of international criteria for the arts? What is the impact of print biennials on local culture and host cities? What is the role of biennial curators and art/print biennials as a space for legitimization? 3. Printmaking and Networks: What are some of the consequences of the circulation of people and ideas on established and new (trans-) national relations, artists' lives, and the development of arts? How are artists/printmakers networks established and how do they relate to other networks?

	Prints in The Present Tense: Collaboration Across Cultures Chair: Vanessa Vobis Panelists: Craig Dietrich, Anita Jung, Melanie Yazzie, Malgorzata Malwina Niespodziewana Location: Columbia College, Hokin Annex, 623 S. Wabash Ave, 1st Floor Date: Thursday, March 26 Time: 11:30 am - 1 pm As new media emerge, printmaking often contends with its identity. What does printmaking mean when video cameras, audio devices, and printers continually take recordings and create duplicates? This panel suggests that printmaking's meaning includes new notions of cross-cultural collaboration, communication, new ideas around tools, and demonstrative ideas. Discussion will include current collaborative projects of the panel participants, research in new and alternative technologies that promote collaboration and more points of entry for diverse communities. In this context, printmaking engages in conversations surrounding globalization, the languages of print and digital distribution, and the ways artists work.

	Performance Prints: Taking It to the Street and Stage Chair: Le Green-Schubert Panelists: Kathleen Baker Pittman, Jenny Leblanc, Greg Nanney, Barbara Koenen Location: Columbia College, Hokin Annex, 623 S. Wabash Ave, 1st floor Date: Thursday, March 26 Time: 1:30 - 3 pm Panelists who have been instrumental in creating and presenting printmaking performances such as steamroller prints, performances combining print and dance and public street printing will share their experiences. Each participant will present his or her project for public performance art events that incorporate the actions of hand printmaking into the event. Panelists will describe the motivation for creating each performance event, logistics, and audience response.

	Printmaking as a Grass-Roots Form of International Cooperation Chair: Candy Nartonis Panelists: Renee Covalucci, Liza Folman, Zhang Minjie, Andrew Polk Location: Columbia College, Hokin Lecture Hall, 623 S. Wabah Ave, room 109 Date: Thursday, March 26 Time: 1:30 - 3 pm The Boston Printmakers have an unusually global reach for a US print organization traveling to China in 2005 and then to Vietnam in 2007 presenting exhibitions, demonstrations, and panel discussions, as well as visiting artists' studios, creating portfolios, and conducting workshops while abroad. The printmakers who organized the China and Vietnam trips will offer tips on making contacts in the host countries, locating venues for exhibitions, contacting schools and other organizations interested in the exchange, setting up the key contacts, and continuing the relationships after the trip. Two members who accompanied the organizers on the trips will be part of the panel and will discuss making the most of the opportunities the trips offered.

	Is Printmaking Going Green? Chair: Friedhard Kiekeben Panelists: Dr David Hinkamp, Keith Howard, Susan Groce, Indrani Gall Location: Columbia College, Hokin Lecture Hall, 623 S. Wabash Ave, Room 109 Date: Thursday, March 26 Time: 3:30 - 5 pm This panel will present and discuss recent research into alternatives to traditional printmaking methods, by a number of key innovators in the field. The need for change in the field of printmaking is compelling. Scientific studies confirm the toxicity of many of the solvents, acids and other materials that are found in the traditional print shop. New safer methodologies have emerged over the past 25 years which are now widely used, both in education and in independent print studios.

	Trilogy: SGC Award Winners Panel Panel Chair: Anita Jung Panelists: Ray Martin, Leonard Lehrer and Virginia Myers Location: Columbia College, Ferguson Lecture Hall, 600 S. Michigan, 1st floor Date: Thursday, March 26 Time: 3:30 - 5 pm This year's Southern Graphics Conference Award Winners will present their work over the span of their careers showing the development of themes as well as their influences, aspirations and plans for the continuation of their practice. Ray Martin, Printmaker Emeritus Award, Leonard Lehrer, Lifetime Achievements in Printmaking Award, and Virginia Myers, Excellence in Teaching Printmaking Award.

	Printmaking and Papermaking in India Chair: Catherine Bebout Panelists: Kavita Shah, Hanuman Kambli, Marcia Nesblit, Zarina Hashmi Location: Columbia College, Furguson Lecture Hall, 600 S. Michigan Ave, room 101 Date: Friday, March 27 Time: 10 - 11:30 am In January of 2008, Catherine Bebout spent approximately six months as a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar where she was actively involved in both research and investigating India's art scene. This panel will discuss the multi-faceted topic of how printmaking and papermaking continue to impact the contemporary art scene in India. Panelists will give presentations with regard to the the Global Implications of the medium, as well as how both processes combined are evolving in a country that is fast becoming a world leader in the growing field of technology.

	Getting Off Campus: International and National Professional Development Opportunities for the Emerging Printmaker Chair: Nicole Pietrantoni Panelists: Heather Foster, Jessica Langley, Lee Marchalonis, Kate Davis Location: Columbia College, Hokin Annex, 623 S. Wabash Ave, 1st floor Date: Friday, March 27 Time: 10 - 11:30 am In our role as students our mission is to make work— but during those BFA and MFA years, it's worthwhile to consider opportunities outside of the classroom and to plan what we will do once we graduate. Internships and cultural exchanges can enhance our education, provide professional experience, and offer a glimpse at alternative career paths for printmakers. Many artists assume that the MFA is a path into academia and teaching, but our panelists will share the many different paths they have taken during the first few years after graduating from BFA and MFA programs. From Fulbrights in Iceland to independent travel in China, from printing in Tennessee at Yee-Haw Industries to printing in New York City at Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, from curating galleries to managing grants for artists—we'll touch on the challenges, expectations, and lessons learned during those years in-between and after school. Practical information about how to prepare applications for internships and residencies as well as how to search for funding resources and make a financial plan for the year after graduation will be covered.

	Printmaking with Extreme Technology Chair: Erik Brunvand Panelists: Stephen Hoskins, Edward Bateman, Mike Lyon Location: Columbia College, Hokin Lecture Hall, 623 S. Wabash Ave, room 109 Date: Friday, March 27 Time: 10 - 11:30 am Printmaking is an art form that celebrates and embraces new technology in a way that other media do not. This panel gathers an international group of artists that are using extreme technology to make works that can only be called prints, but that are far removed from traditional printmaking techniques. These techniques include printing on silicon chips with image sizes measured in micrometers (millionths of meters), prints that include LEDs and other electrical components, 3D printing where the result is a solid object, the use of 3D computer modeling tools to create virtual worlds that are then printed digitally, and a wide variety of ways to use CNC routing in the printmaking process.

	Canadian/ American Printmaking: Cross Fertilization or Cultural Imperialism Chair: Edward Bernstein Panelists: Walter Jule, William Pura, Mark Bovey, Guy Langevin Location: Columbia College, Ferguson Lecture Hall, 600 S. Michigan Ave, room 101 Date: Friday, March 27 Time: Noon - 1:30 pm This panel will examine Canadian contemporary printmaking and the question of cross-fertilization or American cultural imperialism between our two cultures. How has each panelist's culture influenced his work as practicing artists both visually and technically from the perspectives of working and teaching in Canada? Have American ideas been a smothering burden on the development of a Canadian voice in printmaking or is Canada beginning to show a unique role?

	International Embrace: SGC Educational Panel Chair: Eun Lee Panelists: Stanislaw Wejman, Heather Muise, Mariana Depetris, Joe Sanders Location: Columbia College, Hokin Lecture Hall, 623 S. Wabash Ave, room 109 Date: Friday, March 27 Time: Noon - 1:30 pm The world today embraces international interaction by supporting multi-cultural exchange, research and education. Our institutions have multiple sites and abroad programs, our classrooms reflect the growing number of international students, our colleagues’ portraits mirror academia’s dedication to international faculty and our own resumes echo that enthusiasm in the form of residencies, workshops, conferences and exhibitions. How has this international reception effected our interactions within the classroom? This panel of speakers represents a variety of national and international educational backgrounds and academic experiences. Each panelist will discuss how the exposure to multiple cultures and environments has influenced his or her own teaching philosophy and the pros and cons of foreign affairs.

	The Green Printshop: A Model for the 21st Century Panel Chair: Liz Chalfin Panelists: Zea Mays, Curtis Wright, Morgan Calderini and Mark Zaffron Location: Columbia College, Hokin Annex, 623 S. Wabash Ave, 1st floor Date: Friday, March 27 Time: 2 - 3:30 pm This panel will present four different green print studios as models for environmentally friendly, health conscious printmaking environments outside of the academic setting. Each studio will do a brief overview of their facilities, philosophies, community and offerings followed by a discussion of how to set up a green studio, why we should, the obstacles we face and the amazing pay-offs. The studios represented are models of both profit and not-for-profit entities, community based and private. Liz Chalfin is from Zea Mays Printmaking, Morgan Calderini is from AS220, Curtis Wright is from Anniversary Year Press, and Mark Zaffron is from CRATE.

	Migratory Adaptations: Mingling Cultures, Nostalgic Hearts Chair: Shaurya Kumar Panelists: Koichi Yamamoto, Justin Diggle, May Hariri Aboutaam Location: Columbia College, Hokin Lecture Hall, 623 S. Wabash Ave, room 109 Date: Friday, March 27 Time: 2 - 3:30 pm This panel will address the impact of globalization and dissolving boundaries, as well as the perceived opportunities and threats in front of the contemporary generation of artists. It will bring together individuals who have in the past few years migrated to the west and are now working as artists and educators in the US. Each panelist, coming from different countries, bring with them their own history and culture. They voluntarily or involuntarily adapt and get influenced by the foreign land and philosophy. The panelists will share their experiences, discuss the artistic and personal adaptations made by each of them, and how migration has influenced their work as an artist, educator and a person.

	From Shower Stalls to Gallery Walls and Back: A Screenprinting Overview Chair: Hester Stinnett Panelists: Shelley Langdale, John Caperton, Virgil Marti, Caitlin Perkins Location: Columbia College, Hokin Lecture Hall, 623 S. Wabash Ave, room 109 Date: Friday, March 27 Time: 4 - 5:30 pm Curators Shelley Langdale and John Caperton will trace the media's development from its commercial mass production origins and its depression-era struggle for artistic legitimacy, through the peak of artistic production in 60s - 70s Pop Art and protest culture, to its use by today's networks and artist collectives who use the streets for art and activism. We will hear from artists Virgil Marti and Caitlin Perkins, who use the ability to screenprint on almost any surface as an important part of their cross-disciplinary studio practice. They will discuss their own work and their involvement in collaborative projects at the Fabric Workshop and at Space 1026 respectively.

	International Cultural Exchanges: Going East, China, the New Frontier Chair: Waverly Weiqun Liu Panelists: Brian Shure, Li Jianshen, Brian Linden, Christoper Mao Location: Columbia College, Ferguson Lecture Hall, 600 S. Michigan Ave, room 101 Date: Friday, March 27 Time: 4 - 5:30 pm The panel will allow each participant to introduce his or her ongoing cultural exchange projects. It will explore the obstacles for exchanges and collaborations between different cultures and languages. In particular it will focus on different ways of doing business, thoughts on art, and communication styles. Each panelist will share his or her experiences, including the frustration, conflict, government policies and logistics they have to deal with in order to set up a cultural program, whether as an unknown outsider, or as a native who is familiar with the system. They will also share their stories of success, how they leaped over the hurdles to negotiate and navigate their way through almost impossible or despairing circumstances. Last but not least, they will address how the medium of printmaking has enabled artists to engage in a conversation never possible before, helping them to cross cultural and language barriers, transcend different beliefs, and achieve a mutual understanding.

	Global Implications Panel Chair: Andrew M. Rubin Panelists: Enrique Chagoya, Jane Hammond, Nicola Lopez, Sandow Birk Location: HIlton Hotel, Continental Ballroom, 720 S. Michigan Ave Date: Saturday, March 28 Time: 11 am - 12:30 pm Enrique Chagoya is a Bay Area artist who's imagery and tableaus channel Goya's concerns of the politics of racism, culturalism, war, bigotry and our obsession with manifest destiny. Sandow Birk is also based in California. His work has dealt with contemporary life in its entirety. With an emphasis on social issues, frequent themes of his past work have included inner city violence, graffiti, various political issues, travel, prisons, surfing, and skateboarding. Jane Hammond is a New York based artist, primarily a painter and printmaker. Her dimensional prints push the boundaries of print media. Nicola Lopez, a young, up-and-coming artist is also from the New York area. Her room scale installations provide us with the experience of saturating our senses with a post-industrialized /environmental landscape. Panelists will discuss the conference theme Global Implications in regard to their work, studio practice and the artworld at large.