David Hammons: Body Prints, 1968–1979 at The Drawing Center

“The first museum exhibition dedicated to David Hammons’s pivotal early works on paper, David Hammons: Body Prints, 1968–1979 brings together the monoprints and collages in which the artist used the body as both a drawing tool and printing plate to explore performative, unconventional forms of image making. More than a half century after they were made, these early works on paper remain a testament to Hammons’s desire to reinterpret notions of the real; his celebration of the sacredness of objects touched or made by the Black body; his biting critique of racial oppression; and his deep commitment to social justice.” #davidhammons #contemporaryprintmaking #bodyprints ...

Announcing... SGCI ELECTIONS!
Vote between now and February 15, 2021! Link in bio.

Dear Members,

SGCI is pleased to announce it’s first-ever popular vote for Board Members and Subcommittees. Voting is open to any active SGCI member, including our $5 Friend members.

Voting is accessible through MakeReady, our new online resource center, voting site, and social platform. Log into your account today to vote for a special election to fill the roles of: VP of Outreach, Web Editor, and Bylaws Subcommittee members. Information about each candidate is available through the drop-down arrow; You can learn more about each of these roles on our website.

We are grateful to these individuals for their willingness to help guide the direction of the organization during this exciting time of change and development.

Thank you for being part of our democratic process!
SGC International ...

New! Tiered Memberships starting at $5! Link in bio. Image credit: @tugboatprintshop
SGCI is pleased to announce a new Tiered Membership structure, designed to address flexibility, inclusivity, and our new virtual connectedness. Tier One starts with a $5 SGCI Membership rooted in MakeReady, our social platform, now available in desktop and mobile App formats. Like a makeready process of preparing a work for printing, this platform allows our members to and share resources, ideas, projects, observations, and inquiries to broaden our discourse. It also allows for voting on organizational decisions, giving each member a direct voice in SGCI’s governance.

We are also introducing a mid-level, $35/$15 Tier Two, which will give members access to a new series of virtual events that we will be running in the coming months. Tier Three represents the traditional $75/$35 SGCI Membership, with the ability to be an attendee at the conference or in-person events.

We also offer Sustaining and Patron Memberships, for those who choose to support SGCI with an additional donation. Your support makes a difference! Please note that in January of 2021, our Lifetime Memberships will be increasing to $1000 from the current amount of $500.

SGCI is committed to creating a non-profit that is equitable, accessible, and relevant to our printmaking community. After a one-year trial process, SGCI is hopeful that this tiered structure can become permanent for the organization. We invite you to join us in this experiment to create a new model for SGCI: Sign up today, spread the word, and download MakeReady to your phone! ...

Prayer Flags for Puerto Rico, a Special Event organized for Puertográfico 2020, has taken shape despite the conference postponement! SGCI Member's Prayer Flags are being exhibited in Puerto Rico by Proyecto Matria, Inc., an organization dedicated to feminist entrepreneurship and human rights. In this new project, called Arepa Chic, Proyecto Matria are creating jobs for 30 women heads of households.

Four organizations in Puerto Rico were selected to receive sets of the flags, with each getting more about 200 flags: @Hispanic_Federation @pecesinc @ProyectoMatria @TallerSalud . Each are using the flags in their own unique way.

Thank you to all SGCI members who participated, and to the organizers, Beauvais Lyons and Justin Lenton at @utkprint

Learn more about @arepachic on their Instagram page.

Participating artists include:
@ink_beard
Peter Borsay
@fuzzyscout
@teresacole
@murielcondon
@beatafilipowicz
@raluca_iancu
@brookeanninman
@cosmicgoat
@cosmicgoat
@justn.gli
@beauvaislyons
Gloria Maya
@thatvegansemoartprofessor
@curlymeg88
Katie Emily Redd
Brian Reeves
@alxrob
@orangebarrelindustries
Jennifer Scheuer ...

Five Reasons to Give to SGCI this Giving Tuesday! 🎁 Link in bio to donate!
1️⃣Help us provide the highest level of closed captioning possible during MakeReady, our virtual event
2️⃣Provide honorariums to artists during MakeReady.
3️⃣A donation to SGCI is a donation to community. The arts are a vital tool for unifying communities. Members donations will help SGCI's support its mission to connect artists making original prints, drawings, books and handmade paper.
4️⃣”As someone coming from another country, building a network of colleagues and friends is never easy but the SGCI conferences have given me so many opportunities to contribute to growing the relationship between artist and community.” --Mizin Shin, Graduate Student Award Winner 2017
5️⃣As the nation’s first non-profit dedicated to the support of educators in printmaking, we’ve been fighting for printmaking’s worth in our world for a long time! We advocate for printmaking to be held in the highest esteem amongst the arts. You can help lift our voice!
#givingtuesday #contemporaryprintmaking @mizinshin @randy.garber2 ...