Althea Murphy-Price virtual event from iea

Wednesday, February 4, 2026

7-8:30pm EST

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 the iea (Institute for Electronic Arts) and SGCI – live virtual and in-person artist talk with Althea Murphy-Price, Professor of Art at University of Tennessee at Knoxville, a specialist in printmaking. Her work “contemplates the power of hair as a signifier of cultural self-identity.” Learn about her recent body of work and current exciting print edition being produced in the iea during her two-week visit.

Althea Murphy-Price’s (b. 1979 San Jose, CA) variable practice often involves printmaking, photography, and sculpture. The inherent duality of print provides a platform to explore these characteristics under the lens of deception. Motifs of race, hair culture, and feminine identity serve as tools of decoration. Bright colors, shiny surfaces, texture, and dimensional forms extend off the page in a suggestion of play, celebration, and analysis. Murphy-Price is the recipient of the 2024 Individual Artist Fellowship in Photography from the Tennessee Art Commission. Her works have been exhibited in cities such as Spain, Paris, China, Italy, and Sweden. She is included in public collections such as Thrivent, the Cleveland Arts Clinic, the Knoxville Museum of Art, the Huntsville Museum of Art, and The British Museum. Her work has been featured in the publications of Art Papers Magazine, Art in Print Magazine, Printmaking Today Magazine (UK), and Printmaking: A Complete Guide to Materials and Process. Murphy-Price lives in Knoxville TN and is a Professor of Art at the University of Tennessee since 2010. She received her BA in Fine Art from Spelman College, her MA in Printmaking and Painting from Purdue University and her MFA from the Tyler School of Art, Temple University.

Ericka Walker virtual event from iea

Wednesday, March 25, 2026

7-8:30pm EST

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. 

“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

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).