Ericka Walker virtual event from iea

Wednesday, March 25, 2026

7-8:30pm EDT

Holmes Auditorium, Alfred University

In-Person + Zoom

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This is a free event for ANYONE! Tell your friends. Throw watch parties in the print shop!

A collaboration with SGCI and the iea – Ericka Walker is an artist who specializes in printmaking and large-scale graphic arts. Her print works and site-specific murals subvert the propagandistic function of nostalgia in contemporary culture, disputing the civilizing influence and assumed moral authority of nation building in North America. Learn about her recent body of work and current print edition being made in the iea during her two week visit.

Walker, Ericka b. 1981, Hartford, Wisconsin, USA. Active in Canada.

Ericka Walker received a BS from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and an MFA from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. She lives and works in Mi’kmaqi (Atlantic Canada), where she is a practicing artist and an Associate Professor at NSCAD University.

Walker’s practice operates on vernacular histories of the graphic arts. Her print works and site-specific murals subvert the propagandistic function of nostalgia in contemporary culture, disputing the civilizing influence and assumed moral authority of nation building in North America. 

Walker exhibits widely throughout North America and internationally, with pieces housed in multiple public and private collections. Her work appeared recently in exhibitions at the Palace of Arts in the Egyptian Opera House Square, Cairo, Egypt; Milwaukee Art Museum, WI, USA; Musée Pierre-Boucher, Trois-Rivières, QC, Canada; the Knoxville Museum of Art, TN, USA; the Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna, BC, Canada; Huron Arts Gallery, San Francisco, CA; the Civic and Cultural Center Numancia, Santander, Spain; Novosibirsk State Art Museum, Russia; The Reach Gallery and Museum, Abbotsford, BC, Canada, and the International Print Center, NYC, NY. 

Fulbright Panel

Thursday, April 2

7:00-9:00pm EDT

An all-star cast of SGCI members share their experiences applying to be Fulbright scholars and using the honor to pursue international print research. If you’ve ever wanted guidance on how to take your print experiences overseas this panel is for you!

Panelists:

Hilary Lorenz
Laura Berman
Ruthann Godollei
Katie Baldwin
Cayla Skillin-Brauchle
Beauvais Lyons
Kate Copeland
Jasmine Linder

This event is available only to SGCI members in good standing. Renew your membership here.

International Mini Print Cantabria Info Session

Wednesday, April 8

12:00-2:00pm EDT

SGCI Executive Director, Blake Sanders, joins Mini Print Cantabria founders Andrea Juan and Gabriel Penedo Diego to discuss the 8th annual offering of the Mini Print Cantabria exhibtion. 

This event is available only to SGCI members in good standing. Renew your membership here.

Guanlan Original Printmaking Base Virtual Tour

Tuesday, April 14th

8:00-9:30pm EDT

Join SGCI president, Myles Calvert, for an exclusive tour of facilities with Zhao Jiachun, Deputy Director of the Guanlan Print Base in Shenzhen, China. Get a behind the scenes look at their spectacular space and learn more about their world class residency that has hosted a number of SGCI members over the years.

This event is available only to SGCI members in good standing. Renew your membership here.

What’s New at Conrad Machine Co. 

Thursday, May 21

7:00-9:00pm EDT

Join SGCI president, Myles Calvert, and members of the Conrad clan for an exclusive tour of facilities, discussion of presses and maintenance, and the roll out of some new developments! 

This event is available only to SGCI members in good standing. Renew your membership here.

“Border-line(s)” Themed Portfolio in Portugal!

Exhibition Dates: Friday, November 6, 2026 (opening) to Friday, January 8, 2027
Location: Atelier Ghostbirds, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal

Organizer: Mika Aono

Jurors: Mika Aono, Myles Calvert

Border-line(s) Abstract

The Southern Graphics Council International (SGCI) and Atelier Ghostbirds (Portugal) invite submissions for Border-line(s) — a juried Portfolio Exchange and Exhibition.

In an age marked by displacement, migration, and division, borders have taken on new meanings. They are no longer only geographic — they are emotional, psychological, cultural, and deeply personal. How do we navigate these visible and invisible lines that shape our lives?

We welcome fine art prints created using traditional and experimental printmaking techniques — including, but not limited to, relief, intaglio, lithography, screenprinting, and letterpress — on any flat surface or material.

Artists are encouraged to interpret the theme broadly and poetically: Where do you encounter edges? How are boundaries crossed, blurred, or redrawn? What exists in the in-between? How do we define ourselves in relation to others? Can a line be porous, flexible, or undone?

Selected works will be exhibited from Friday, November 6, 2026 (opening) to Friday, January 8, 2027 at Atelier Ghostbirds in Caldas da Rainha, Portugal, and again at the SGCI conference in 2027. This exhibition seeks to foster an international dialogue on borders, identity, and belonging — through the language of print. SGCI and Atelier Ghostbirds will be partnering with the local art school, ESAD (Escola Superior de Artes e Design) who have been asked to respond to this portfolio project.

Specifications:

Size: 22 x 15” (landscape or portrait)
*Paper, fabric, plastic, any materials that will not damage stacked prints above or below your submission. Indicate in your application if any embellishments are included.
Please ensure your prints are collated between identically sized glassine sheets. Please do not use tissue paper.

Edition Size: 18

(16 Participants / 1 Portfolio for the archives at the Zuckerman Museum of Art and exhibition at the 2027 conference / 1 Portfolio for Atelier Ghostbirds)

Timeline:

Deadline to Submit Free Application: March 31, 2026

Notified of Acceptance: April 15, 2026
Acceptance / Payment by: April 22, 2026

Deadline to receive completed, dry, signed, editioned prints: Wednesday, September 30, 2026

*Include one 300dpi / .tiff image of the completed print (22×15” actual size) uploaded to provided Google Drive folder

Location to send prints:
Alfred University
150 N. Main Street
℅ Myles Calvert Harder Hall 429
Alfred, New York
14802
(519) 993-8813

Free to Apply!

Eligibility: Open to all SGCI members with an up to date membership at the time of acceptance to the portfolio.

Participation Fee for Accepted Artists: $45

Application Materials:

– 200 word short proposal covering concept and print processes anticipated.

Please include: Name, Email Address, Shipping Address/Phone, And Social Media Handle (optional)

– 3 previous print examples

(Submitted as one pdf) 

Send applications to help@sgcinternational.org

About the Jurors:

Mika Aono is a multidisciplinary artist living in Caldas da Rainha, Portugal. Her recent work explores humanness in absurdity and futility through laborious processes, giving meaning to the meaningless. Her fascination for relationships between humans and nature has driven her projects and installations utilizing discarded objects. She cherishes serendipitous moments and believes art has the power to solve the mystery of life and connect all sorts of beings on earth. She wishes she were a gentle superhero.

Born in Sendai, Japan. Received BA in Primary and Special Ed from Miyagi University of Education in Japan, BA in Art from the University of Oregon, and MFA in Printmaking from San Francisco Art Institute. She was an instructor/studio technician in the Department of Art at the University of Oregon for 12 years. Currently, she is a director of Atelier Ghostbirds, a contemporary art gallery & printmaking studio. Her work has been shown at various venues nationally and internationally; Some are in museum/public collections.

Myles Calvert was born in Collingwood, Ontario. He attended the University of Guelph with a focus in printmaking, before traveling to London, UK where he completed his MA in Printmaking, at Camberwell College of Art (University for the Arts, London). During this time, he worked for the National Portrait Gallery before moving to Hastings in East Sussex, to teach printmaking at Sussex Coast College (now East Sussex College) and become the Duty Manager of the newly established Jerwood Gallery (now Hastings Contemporary).

Four formative years were spent as a Visiting Professor in Expanded Media at Alfred University (New York State College of Ceramics) and Alfred State College of Technology, teaching across print-based mediums including core foundations programs, senior advising, and graduate mentorship. Four additional years were spent at Winthrop University within the department of Fine Arts as an Associate Professor with a focus on printmaking and foundations courses.

Recent residencies include Art Print Residence (Barcelona, Spain) and Proyecto’ace (Buenos Aires, Argentina), a lecture/workshop at PUCP (Pontificia Universidad Catòlica del Perú) in Lima, the Tamarind Institute (Albuquerque, NM), and the McColl Center (Charlotte, NC). Myles is currently the Director of the iea (Institute for Electronic Arts) at Alfred University, New York and President of the Southern Graphics Council International (SGCI).

 “Catalonia Colour Palette” Themed Portfolio at Art Print Residence in Spain!

Jurors:
Ariadna Abadal, Jordi Rosés, Clàudia Lloret

Portfolio Details 

Printmakers attending the Excursion to Catalonia in August will create an edition at Art Print Residence. In addition, SGCI members are welcome to apply to share in the portfolio even if you can’t make the trip. The portfolio will be exhibited at Taller Galeria Fort, held in parallel with the 46th Miniprint Internacional de Cadaqués. Excursion artists will have the opportunity to attend the opening on August 8. The portfolio will also be shown at the 2027 conference in Pittsburgh, and published in Graphic Impressions. 

All Excursion artists attending Art Print Residence are automatically included in this portfolio if they choose!

The fee for Excursion artists is $0. In addition, APR has offered to cover your paper for this portfolio if you choose to participate.

$30 is the fee for artists not making the trip.  We just need your commitment by the deadline of May 29. See below!

Timeline

Application Deadline: April 30, 2026 (free) 
Notified of acceptance by: May 22
Deadline to pay $30 and accept by: May 29
All prints due by: Sept 30

Application Materials:

– 200 word short proposal covering concept and print processes anticipated.
– 3 previous print examples

Submitted as one pdf. Please include:

Name

Email Address

Shipping Address/Phone

And Social Media Handle (optional)

Please email application to help@sgcinternational.org

Notified of Acceptance: May 22, 2026
Acceptance / Payment by: May 29, 2026 

Theme and Description

“Catalonia Colour Palette”
Each print reflects a unique palette, creating a vibrant collection of personal perspectives on Catalonia’s identity and landscape.

This project invites artists to research and interpret the visual, cultural, and environmental characteristics of Catalonia through color. Drawing on historical references, geographic features, architectural traditions, and contemporary social contexts, each participant develops a chromatic palette, which is translated into the final print.

Print Requirements

– Limited to 20 participants
– Edition quantity must be exactly 5
– Each print should be folded in a sheet of glassine for protection

– Prints may be pulled using any matrix with the caveat that they should be uniform across the edition and should not be digital-only work, though digital-adjacent methods such as Risograph and laser engraving are acceptable.
  #1 – One for the SGCI archive and 2027 conference exhibition
  #2 – Art Print Residence archive
  #3 – donation to Carnegie-Mellon University / conference host institution
  #4-5 – for the artist for whatever purpose, sales, exchanges amongst other participants, etc. Do
            not ship edition #4 and #5.

Love your print? Good! Make more but please edition separately and change it via color or paper choice, etc.

– ***Prints to be shipped rolled in a tube.***
– Heavy rag papers are not permitted for this exchange portfolio. Why? APR offers an incredible selection of Japanese papers alongside Western papers, and we wish to encourage diversity and experimentation with different types and variants.
– Focus on thin (rollable) papers such as Japanese, Chinese, Thai, etc. fiber and cotton mixtures accepted
– Paper size should be approximately 19.5 x 26” / 49 x 65cm (this is based on a half sheet of Sekishu Shi, for example)

Learn more about the portfolio AND the excursion to APR at the upcoming info session, March 17th. Please preregister for the event here