Media Contact: Elizabeth Burke-Dain 312.369.8695
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February 24, 2009
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SOUTHERN GRAPHICS COUNCIL CONFERENCE 2009
GLOBAL IMPLICATIONS
HOSTED BY ANCHOR GRAPHICS COLUMBIA COLLEGE CHICAGO
MARCH 25 – 29, 2009
Anchor Graphics at Columbia College Chicago will host the Southern Graphics Council's (SGC) annual printmaking conference that will include over 40 venues across the city of Chicago. SGC’09’s title and theme of the conference is Global Implications. SGC’09 explores the artistic and social currents found in printmaking throughout the world. The printmaking community is part of a world in which time has become compressed: digital files can circle the globe in seconds, and new technologies are changing the nature of exchange. As resources become increasingly limited, what is done in one location undoubtedly affects someone, someplace else. As we become more and more interdependent, local practices are at once threatened, celebrated, worthy of preservation and dangerously divisive. The printmaking medium is likewise evolving, its borders increasingly permeable. Prints can be made and exhibitions can be mounted in ways that break away from sterile white walls to include installations; stenciled graffiti and paste-ups on city streets; limited edition, hand made and printed books, 'zines and comics; even work that exists only in cyberspace.
Global Implications will feature exhibitions, demonstrations, lectures, panel discussions, collection viewings, and special events at over 40 locations around Chicago. Keynote speakers include Kathan Brown, Enrique Chagoya, Anne Coffin, and Jane Hammond.
WHEN: March 25 – 29, 2009
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INFO: For a complete schedule of events, openings, lectures and registration to the conference, please go to www.colum.edu/sgc
Note: All exhibitions are free and open to the public.
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CONTACT: Elizabeth Burke-Dain, 312.369.8695 or eburkedain@colum.edu