Puertográfico Events
Demos
3 in 1 Uses for Photo-Litho Plates
From commercial reproduction applications to hand-drawn graphics and original fine art, photographic printing plates have been an integral part of printmaking for over 100 years. For artists, these possibilities open wide vistas of image possibilities, either as stand-alone imagery or in combination with hand-drawn elements. Treating Photo-Litho plates as a hybrid between traditional aluminum plates…
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Stacy Friedman - sfriedman107@gmail.comCarolyn Muskat - lithoqueen@muskatstudios.com
3D Printing Intaglio Matrices
I will demonstrate my process and discuss the many conclusions I have been made which are very important for the development of graphic techniques and other sciences in the field of art. The annexation of this new technology to traditional techniques provides many opportunities for artists from new ways to create artworks to facilitating the work of art restorers to enabling people who are ill and…
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Ewelina Kolakowska - ew.kolakowska@gmail.comCast Typography
I will demonstrate how to cast handmade abaca paper onto letters created on a CNC router. The viewer will select letters to spell a word of their choice, and cast handmade abaca onto their letters. Then they will come back later that day (or the next day) to pick up their word. Meanwhile, the words will be on display among other samples.
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Delaney Smith - delaney.smith@gmail.comDIY Cameras for Printmakers
Participants will gain an understanding of the process of designing, building, and using a well-crafted, aesthetically pleasing DIY camera. Examples of the various phases of construction will be displayed. The demonstration will focus on the fundamental considerations of design, including both optimal function as well as aesthetic value of the camera as tool and as an object. Instruction will be given…
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Neal Cox - cox.neal@gmail.comExperimental lithography techniques from Polish perspective
At the Lithography Techniques Studio at the Strzemiński Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź we constantly run new researches expanding the possibilities of classical and experimental lithographic techniques.
Depending on the interest of the public we can present various methods of obtaining graphic matrices developed at our Studio. We experiment with different supports such as aluminum foil, aluminum…
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Alicja Habisiak Matczak - alihabis@wp.plTomasz Matczak - to-mash@wp.pl
Generating Cyanotypes with Sound
A 1.5-2 hour demonstration of the my sound based exposure system and the tools used to create the images.
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Aaron Artrip - aaronartripprints@gmail.comPaper Plate Lithography
Using photocopies or laser prints as a matrix is a cheap, fast and effective means of printing images lithographically without the need for litho stones, aluminum plates, solvents, acid or even a press. This demonstration details a method that is excellent for creating lush and layered monoprints, as well as a quick way to transfer images to canvas, wood, or even etching plates. What’s more, images…
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Heather Muise - heathermuise@gmail.comPrinting with Dyes on Textiles
“Printing with Dyes on Textiles” will demonstrate the possibilities of using vibrant, transparent dyes on plant (cotton, linen) and protein (wool, silk) based fabric using silk-screen printing methods. The resulting work produced can take the form of fabric for fine art, interior design or fashion related projects.
Demo will include: How to prepare dye and print paste. How to print on fabric…
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Rachelle Hill - lovelorrae@gmail.comTaller de Experimentación Gráfica MOKULITO/MOKULITO Workshop for Graphic Experimentation
Se propone un taller, denominado grabado Mokulito o litografía en madera, como una alternativa procedimental, con manejo de materiales de uso común y ordinario. Esta práctica menos tóxica o sostenible nace de la necesidad de incorporar nuevos procedimientos y características amables para el medio ambiente, minimizando así, los riesgos en la salud de quien los práctica, sin disminuir la calidad…
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Vanessa Nieto Romero - Vanessologia@gmail.comThe Handy Dandy Screen
This demonstration will explore hand drawn processes accessible for anyone with limited equipment, time, and funding. Virginia Sitzes will show three different techniques using the screenprinting process to create monotype prints that contain hand drawn and painterly properties. We will explore the effects of watercolors, markers, and graphite as they apply to screenprinting, and investigate how this…
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Virginia Sitzes - virginiasitzes@gmail.comTypecasting At Home: Replicating Movable Type Without a Foundry
Building a collection of type is a costly endeavor. The scarcity, rarity, and the necessity for multiple typefaces in multiple sizes has historically created an economic barrier of entry to establishing or enriching a letterpress printmaking studio.
These hardships can be overcome with the aid of modern mold making materials. In this demonstration you will learn how to construct a silicone mold…
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Michael Leeder - mcleeder@asu.eduYarn printing
This low-tech workshop will start with a short demo of basic crochet technique, including slip knot, single crochet, and double crochet. We will show some readymade crochet structure that has more complex designs. Then we will demo how to glue and seal the crochet to chipboard for printing with water-thinned down mod podge and let it dry aside. In case the glue needs time to dry, we will bring a readymade…
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Lindi Shi - lshi@risd.eduGeneral Conference
Keynote Addresses: Consuelo Gotay & Nelson Sambolín
Consuelo Gotay
Bayamón, PR, 1949
Printmaker, designer, and teacher. Gotay graduated from the University of Puerto Rico in 1970 and completed her master’s degree at Columbia University in New York in 1971. She began as an apprentice in the Graphics Workshop of the School of Architecture, with José A. Torres Martino as her teacher, and in Lorenzo Homar’s studio. She also…
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Membership Meeting
At every conference, a Membership Meeting is held for open discussion about the state of SGCI. Reports are given by the President and Treasurer, and a general discussion of board activities occurs.
Members are invited to pose questions, new proposals, and changes to the operations of the organization.
Please join us in shaping the future of the organization! Add the Membership Meeting to your…
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Mentoring
Mentoring Sessions are one-on-one, and are available for individuals at all stages of their careers – whether you are an undergraduate student thinking about an MFA, a graduate student seeking career advice, an independent artist looking to start a press, or someone in a tenure-track position looking for advice about navigating academia. There are a limited number of spots, so sign ups will be first-come,…
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Valerie Dibble - vdibble@kennesaw.eduOpen Portfolio
Open Portfolio is one of the most popular events at the conference! Visit this page for detailed info on the event and how it’s structured.
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Press Fundraiser
Help us raise funds for a new Takach press at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras! Learn more about this project here.
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Printmaker's Ball
All registered conference attendees are invited to come to our closing event, the Printmakers’ Ball, free of charge. This event will feature a buffet dinner and dancing. Attendees to the Printmaker’s Ball are encouraged to wear fun, festive attire.
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Registration and Check-in
First things first: get your I.D. badge at the Registration Desk! Say hello, pick up some swag, and get answers to general conference questions. Keep your badge on you at all times to pass through checkpoints and get access to ALL conference events!
Registration rates: You may register on-site, but please note that fees are higher. …
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Kate McQuillen - kate@katemcquillen.comStudent Critiques
SGCI is excited to announce a new opportunity for students this year. We’re introducing student critiques to our roster of events. We want you to get to know each other even better and create a forum for you gain feedback on your work from each other. If you indicate that you are interested in student critiques when you register, we’ll place you in a random critique group of undergraduate or graduate…
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The 2020 SGCI Awards Ceremony
Presentation of the SGCI Lifetime Achievement in Printmaking, SGCI Excellence in Teaching Printmaking, SCGI Printmaker Emeritus, Honorary Members of the Council, and SGCI Student Fellowships.
Consuelo Gotay: The Lifetime Achievement in Printmaking Award
The Lifetime Achievement in Printmaking Award is given annually to individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to the professional…
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Three-Minute Thesis
Inkubators
Artwork/Artjob: professional practice and self promotion
Increasingly, artists do not have the assistance of a gallery and must navigate their careers with little guidance or assistance from an experienced mentor. Our education typically gives us the instruction we need to make our artwork, but often we lack the tools for making the artjob: all of the tasks associated with being an artist that aren’t the actual art making. We’ll share tips on resume building,…
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Camilla Taylor - camilla.a.taylor@gmail.comBuilding Community: better connecting artist run spaces
The Do It Yourself nature is inherent to printmaking mentality: we work with what we have and make it better. Not unlike how printmakers problem solve in the studio, we also forge new spaces and tactics for working. Yet many resources for studios or prints shops revolve around academia. Where do artists go when they are looking to start working independently? What resources are available to the individual?…
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Ani Volkan - akvolkan@comcast.netInternational Perspectives
Minority Reports 2: Cultural Diversity
While last year’s Minority Reports discussion topics revolved around the issues of identity politics and accessibility, this year’s focus will be given to understanding the cultural diversity and celebration. The audience will learn the history of the conference site, Puerto Rico and its cultural heritage along with celebrating art and printmaking in the island.
The key points to be addressed…
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Sangmi Yoo - sangmiyooartist@gmail.comSabrina Pastard - artandquestions@gmail.com
Paper and Printmaking Out of a Suitcase
There are individuals who have put together their own shops, building what they need, like La Ceiba Gráfica near Coatepec, Mexico (https://www.laceibagrafica.org/), where they manufacture their own equipment and materials, including an etching press built out of wood. They work with local community tradespeople, offer residencies, and specialize in “teaching, production, and research into printmaking…
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Jessica Meuninck-Ganger - meuninck@uwm.eduDavid Jones - proppjonesstudio@gmail.com
Marilyn Propp - proppjones@gmail.com
Print Day in May: Building Community Through Printmaking
Building Community Through Printmaking
Print Day in May, founded in California in 2007, is an annual, global event that celebrates printmaking through a community of tens of thousands of printmakers in over 60 countries. Every year on the first Saturday in May, printmakers all over the world do what they love; make prints. An artist working alone in the Canadian woods, festive groups of printmakers…
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Michael CRAINE - michael@cranfield-colours.co.ukRobynn Smith - robynn@cruzio.com
Queer Space: Queer Conclave
Our vision for this session is to continue to examine the relationship of our Queerness to our artistic practice, and examine how this shapes our community at large. For us, they are closely connected. Our practices are related, with Mercy’s comprised of prints taken from images inside local Queer bars & the significance they hold within our community, while DeRuvo’s focuses on images of Queer…
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Paul DeRuvo - paulderuvo@gmail.comJessica Marie Mercy - jessicamariemercy@gmail.com
Sea Change: Connecting printmakers, climate change, and research
Moderated by Barbara Putnam, Richard and Deborah Cornell, the session will extend the issues that inspired the installation Sea Change, focusing on the connection of island environments such as Puerto Rico to the surrounding web of influences – weather, ocean currents, and cultural movements. Discussion will focus on collective efforts that advance dialogue, cooperation, and policy to mediate the…
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Deborah Cornell - dcornell@bu.eduBarbara Putnam - barbarapetterputnam@gmail.com
Richard Cornell - rcrnl@bu.edu
Student Perspectives: The Next Generation
The Inkubator will begin with the introduction of Eliana Rodriguez, the SGCI Student Representative and a 2018 BFA Graduate, and Alexandra Couch a student at the University of Akron. Couch will describe her experiences as an undergraduate student and the tools she is using to establish herself as an artist. Rodriguez will discuss the experiences she had when she was a student and her opinions about…
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Eliana Rodriguez - elianaerodriguez@yahoo.comThe New Naturalist
This INKubator session is to encourage the use of naturalist techniques from scientist, printmakers and like minded individuals from the Age of Enlightenment to look at the current world around us in a different way. Everyday it seems that what we thought we knew about the past has changed. Our world is rapidly changing and with technology we forget to look at the details of the world around us,…
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Claudia Wilburn - cwilburn@brenau.eduThe Workshop and the Community - Responsible Printing
Questions to be considered during this Inkubator session might include the following:
—How does a workshop contribute to the community?
—How does giving valuable time to the community in turn help sustain the workshop?
—What does a workshop have to offer a local community?
—How can the services that make you money be adapted for use with the community?
—How does working with the…
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Brandon Gunn - gunnb@unm.eduMember Print Exchange
Member Print Exchange
This is a print exchange open to all active SGCI Members. SGCI Members create an edition that is turned in during the first half of the conference, and receive an exchange portfolio of 10 prints at the end of the conference to take home! Your work from this Member Exchange will be collected by the SGCI Archives at the Zuckerman Museum of Art, as well as local conference area institutions. There is…
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Member Print Exchange Drop-Off
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Member Print Exchange Exhibition
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Mobile Events
Bingo de Grabadores
Bingo de Grabadores is a bingo game made especially for printmakers at SGCI Puertografico 2020. To commemorate the first off-continent SGCI, this game combines aspects of Boriqua culture and printmaking history. Nick Naughton of the Print Cast hosts the game, reading off the names of iconic cultural or print related things, and players have fun, learn, and compete to win a free t-shirt (first place)…
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Nicholas Naughton - nicknaughton@gmail.comPanels
Color Perception and Etymology
The education plenary panel will discuss color, human perception, and how our languages impact our ability to perceive color. Panelists include Dustyn Bork, Wuon-Gean Ho, Irena Kečkeš and Brian Sago.
The panel will look at how a few specific languages either meet or diverge from Berlin & Kay’s 1969 theory of the origin of color terms across cultures. We will discuss practical uses of color…
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Brian Sago - bsago@blakeschool.orgCurator's Forum
The Curatorial Teams will present their reflections upon the 2020 Open Portfolio Exhibitions at the Curators’ Forum. Find out more about Open Portfolio Exhibitions here!
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De Aquí y de Alla
This panel will present on marginalized visual and musical intersecting histories (reggaeton, cumbia, etc); and then move into examinations of current work based on the ideas of constructing identities, centering artists of the Latin American diaspora (however also open to other examples of culture/genre exchange). Finally, the panel will move into a roundtable discussion on two points: how these recent…
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Stephanie Cuyubamba Kong - s.cuyubambakong@gmail.comDiversity Panel: Changing Tides
Chair: Faisal Abdu’Allah
Panel: Jessica Marie Mercy, Eliana Rodriguez, and Sangmi Yoo
Jessica Mercy will be talking about the Queer Space in education, the art world and the SGCI community. Emphasis will be centred on the lack of LGBTQIA/QTPOC representation and the challenges as a queer maker trying to find a community within the art world. Eliana Rodriguez will discuss diversity issues in the…
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Faisal Abdu'Allah - abduallah@wisc.eduElastic Memory
Printmedia is well positioned to speak about the imprints and tracings of history, a dialogue that distends into dissemination and layering that evinces the complex relationship we all have to memory and place. It serves as a germane language to speak of a malleable state and to the suspended nature of our contemporary condition, due to political instability, ecological disasters, massive migration…
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Patricia Villalobos Echeverría - patricia.villalobos@wmich.eduEddy Lopez - eal024@bucknell.edu
Entrelazado: In Between Cuba and The United States
This panel invites proposals from Cuban and Cuban-American print artists, artists from other nations who have worked in printmaking ateliers in Cuba, faculty who run printmaking study abroad trips to Cuba, and scholars or curators working on Cuba related printmaking projects. The goal of the panel is to share examples of Cuban printmaking with American printmakers, and to connect Cuban and American…
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Sarah Marshall - smarsh@ua.eduIntersections of Academia: Diversity in Printmaking
This panel will discuss experiences in academia and the professional art world that are tied to intersectional identities. Diversity includes differences in ethnicity, race, gender, sexual orientation, physical abilities, and more. These experiences include resources for opportunities (such as jobs, residencies, visiting professorships, exhibition opportunities, graduate programs, etc), how printmaking…
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Becci Spruill - beccispruill@gmail.comMapping Personal Histories / Navigating Political Tides
This panel brings together artists who use print to map current political and cultural tides through the lens of personal and familial histories. These artists uncover and examine stories, contextualizing them within broader dialogues concerning ecology, race, gender, and/or immigration status. By drawing upon familial and historical research, they connect the personal and the political. Panelists…
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J. Leigh Garcia - j.leighgarcia@gmail.comMatriz, estampa y huella: Trazando cartografías de la gráfica/Matrix, Print and Remnant: Tracing Printmaking's Cartography
Nuestra propuesta para este panel surge desde necesidad de contextualizar la producción gráfica actual en Colombia por parte de colectivos de artistas que han venido dinamizando dicha práctica y ampliado reflexiones en torno a la matriz y la huella, más allá de sus concepciones tradicionales. En particular, partiremos de nuestra experiencia como taller de gráfica, de las aproximaciones y reflexiones…
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Taller Circular - contacto.circular@gmail.comPrint Projects as a Vehicle for Cultural Exchange
Canada has a rich and multi-faceted history of fine art printmaking. NSCAD’s internationally renowned Professional Lithography Workshop (1969-1976) is at the forefront of this history. Its influence in establishing a practice of collaborative printmaking throughout North America re-defined the art potential of print in the 20th century. In April 2017, NSCAD University’s Anna Leonowens Gallery,…
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Jill Graham - jgraham@nscad.ca“El barco tiene puerto, el puerto tiene barco” (The Boat Has A Port, The Port Has A Boat)
“The boat has a port…” refers to the SGC International as the graphic boat that departs for the first time from mainland USA and arrives at the port of San Juan, Puerto Rico. The SGCI brings as a freight its history of promotion and development of printmaking in the USA. At the same time, and metaphorically, it is found that “… the port has a boat” thinking the island as a boat that will…
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Alicia Candiani - alicia@proyectoace.orgPop-Up Exhibitions
Atlas del Centro de Bogotá/Atlas of Downtown Bogotá
Link para visualizar imágenes del proyecto: https://tinyurl.com/y6l9wl2e
Este libro de artista se concibe como una pieza itinerante. Consta de una caja portable convertible en mesa en la cual se puede interactuar con el libro. La exposición Pop Up contaría con la muestra del libro de artista portable, una lectura en vivo de las historias de los “atlas” del centro de Bogotá. Igualmente instalaríamos…
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Taller Circular - contacto.circular@gmail.comCan U See Her Project
The Can U See Her project is an ongoing series of original prints, buttons, and stickers that feature Black Women of the Civil Rights movement, spanning from the 1800s to now. The main goal of this project is to help get the names of the featured figures back into the view of the public, so that their hard work can be recognized. The prints on display feature a portrait, name, and quote. The stickers…
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Lillian Young - lymkid10@gmail.comConsejo Grafico Nacional: Homage to Master Printmakers
We would like to exhibit our latest portfolio entitled “La Huella Magistral: Homage to Master Printmakers”. The topic of this portfolio is especially pertinent to this year’s SGCI location. Many of the printmakers that have influenced Latino printmaking in the USA and abroad have their origins in Puerto Rico or have a connection with the island.
Homage to Master Printmakers features works…
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Sandra C. Fernandez - sebandos@yahoo.comEl Encuentro
A print installation consisting of using found materials on the beach in Puerto Rico. These palm fronds, sticks, sand and other items will make a dome-shaped structure that will have hand-printed woodblock flags surrounding it. It will also have woodblock prints hanging on the inside of it. This structure will be totally eco-friendly and will create an interactive installation. The woodblock prints…
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Jacoub Reyes - jacoubreyes@gmail.comEverything Is Not Yours/Todo No Es Tuyo
This interactive piece asks viewers to fill out a standard questionnaire of questions asked at the U.S. border and on census surveys. Some of the questions: “Are you an American citizen?” “Are both your parents American citizens?” “Are you bilingual?” “Were you born in the U.S.?” Based on the answers, viewers pick a colored bottle that they must break to read a message inside that reveals their fate…
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Lauren Cardenas - lgcarden@go.olemiss.eduExtra Pulp
Extra Pulp is a unique portfolio exchange, set for completion in November 2019, featuring 20 artists focusing specifically on handmade paper. Extra Pulp not only underscores the impact paper has on contemporary fine art printmaking, but zeroes in on a diverse group of practicing east coast papermakers from New York, Philadelphia, Connecticut, Ohio, North Carolina, Mississippi and Florida. These artists…
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Ingrid Schindall - ischindall@gmail.comGaia's Revenge/Gaia's Return
“Gaia’s Revenge/Gaia’s Return” is a series of photolithographs ranging from sizes between 30” x 60″. I travel to photograph meaningful and relevant sites for my audience to experience the concept of the Anthropocene, the oncoming, and possible current era our planet is in. These images are then collaged together and turned into four color photolithographs. With the guidance of Mullowney…
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Schuyler DeMarinis - sdemarinis@pnca.eduIn Transit
As immigrants, international students, travelers, and dual-citizens participants may have at some point been affected by various changing governmental policies or other restrictions that have impacted their ability to travel within the boundaries of the United States and beyond. These life experiences and faced encounters bring to question our identities and the effects of our surrounding environments…
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Marchelo Vera - marchelovera@gmail.comQIAOYI SHI - shiq0331@gmail.com
Marked Lands / Tierra Marcada
How can print, with its emphasis on layering, multiplicity, and the passage of time, be used to explore the complex identity of place? This exhibition will focus on print-based work that tackles the politics and history of landscape. Preference will be given to work that addresses the legacy of colonialism and migration in the Americas. Any digital or traditional print processes will be considered…
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Brendan Baylor - brendan.baylor@gmail.comMurmuración
English translation: Gossip. Like a juicy rumour, print proliferates through repetition. It contains a layered story told through many fragments. As a vehicle for sharing information, it shapes community bonds. It can be disruptive. It can be fun.
Murmuración expands Open Studio’s 50th anniversary project, “Murmuration.” Based on Charles Eames’ House of Cards, Murmuración is part site-specific…
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Andrea deBruijn - andrea.debruijn@gmail.comHeather J.A. Thomson - thomson.ht@outlook.com
Navigating Journey Across Land, Sea and Time
One day exhibition, of approx. 40 (three groups: mini prints 180 x 180mm, medium 500 x 360 mm, and the larger prints 500 x 650 mm.Unframed hand printed photopolymer etchings, some with hand coloured and chine colle backgrounds. Hung in Salon style by magnets depending on the venue. I will be travelling to Puerto Rico for the conference from New Zealand so will be installing and deinstalling my work…
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Prue MacDougall - prue.macdougall@slingshot.co.nzPlants Arriving by Sea: Island Environments in a Changing World
It seems that no matter where you are in Puerto Rico, if you look out into the distance, you are likely to see a tree that looks like a red fountain. If you examine the flowers you will see brilliant orange-red petals much like the shape and color of tulips. Its origin is west central equatorial Africa, thus the name “African tulip tree.”
Indeed, the dispersal of species around the world is…
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Rachel Singel - singel.rachel@gmail.comPrint Pública
Print Pública will connect 10-15 artists with a Puerto Rican organization working in the social or public health sphere to create silkscreen posters that respond to the public messaging needs the organization identifies. This exhibition is inspired by the public print work that came out of Puerto Rican organizations such as the El Taller de Gráfica del Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña and the…
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Jade Hoyer - jade.hoyer@gmail.comAngela Sprunger - sprunger@ohio.edu
Print/Synth: Audio Matrix
Print/Synth: Audio Matrix is a pop-up exhibition showcasing exploratory pairings and collaborations between printmakers and sound/synth artists. Collaborations will be organized around “Time” as an approach to process or concept.
Recorded sound art, like printmaking, can document a fleeting sensory experience. In the case of modular synth sound, wires are patched together to form a matrix which…
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Carrie Scanga - cascanga@gmail.comPrintCard
I, Mariusz Gorzelak,together with Majka Dokudowicz and Ioannis Anastasiou we would like to present the prints of the international artist participants from the series: “Change”, “Jottings from nothingness”, “Beyond control”, “Stranger prints: whatever happened tomorrow” and ” Uncanny Valley. A picture without us”. Prints represent great artistic and intellectual value. We would also like to invite…
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Mariusz Gorzelak - mariusz.gorzelak@wp.plRetratos en la Cuerda - Portraits on the Rope
I will be displaying up to 30 of my linocut prints which vary in size. These prints have been produced over the last three years and have as common denominator of portraiture. Much of this body of work has to do with images of people addressing cultural issues, aspects of identity, as well as social and political concerns.
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Rene Hugo Arceo - renearceo59@gmail.comSea Change
Sea Change is an installation/environment of printed surfaces, video, and sound. It will include video projected onto print, and audio as a loop. The audio/video signal run from a mini-computer running a multimedia player. The video is projected onto a mounted print mural, and creates an immersive experience together with dimensional sound activating the gallery space.
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Deborah Cornell - dcornell@bu.eduBarbara Putnam - barbarapetterputnam@gmail.com
Richard Cornell - rcrnl@bu.edu
Self Help Graphics & Art exhibition: Utopia/Dystopia
Utopia/ Dystopia is a portfolio of fine art prints created in the form of a deck of 52 playing cards. Curated by Artist and Printmaker, Miyo Stevens-Gandara, twenty-six artists were invited to create two cards for the deck to create their interpretation of utopia and dystopia. The deck of cards allows the project to bring many different artists and styles together creating one unified artwork- a full…
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Betty Avila - betty.avila@selfhelpgraphics.comSistema
Printmakers understand the power of the multiple repetitions for them isn’t redundancy, it’s the backbone of their craft – but it is Nature, more wise than human beings, who truly understands the power of repetition.
Silent, simple, built up over centuries, tiny coral lived, died, and calcified to build the ground on which we’re standing, the very walls surrounding us. This installation…
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Sheila Goloborotko - goloborotko@yahoo.comThe Ocean Inside - A print-video project
In my practice, I explore a general question: what is nature and how do we position ourselves in it? My interest in natural history and concern for the environment, were fostered by growing up in the Caribbean during the 70’s and returning in recent years. I have observed both the beauty of coral reefs and their current demise as a result of the ocean’s changing chemistry. The Ocean Inside is based…
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Eveline Kolijn - evelinekolijn@gmail.comThe Smallest Distance Between Us: Challenging Otherness and Telling Stories – a Pop-Up Print Exhibition in Conversation with Puerto Rican Literature
This pop-up exhibition asks: Can we develop and deepen our cultural understanding by
engaging in others’ stories? What roles do imagery and material play in telling our own
stories and in bearing witness to the stories of others?
Storytelling is central to cultural survival and the ability to thrive. This pop-up exhibition
invites artists who identify as women, queer and/or people of color…
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Kelda Martensen - kelda.martensen@gmail.comKamla Kakaria - kkakaria@pratt.org
Traveling Gallery: Postcards from Poland
The “Traveling Gallery” is an ephemeral project, an idea of nomadic art in constant motion, in a journey. It is an artistic project based on the presentation of works closed in a suitcase available in different places and times, always breaking down the barriers of access to art. This idea is an attempt to experience art on the road, outside the official institutions of culture and art. Art is not…
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Maciej Zdanowicz - maciej.zdanowicz@ujk.edu.plWomen of the World
A series of prints based on the daily concerns of women around the globe, covering all seven continents.
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Valerie Dibble - vdibble@kennesaw.eduSpecial Events
++++++++++++++ /etching the beach for each life lost/ tracing the sand for significance/stenciling resilience
Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico as a high-end Category 4 hurricane on September 20, 2017, resulting in the island’s most severe natural disaster in modern history. A series of cascading infrastructure failures compounded the direct effects of the hurricane; scores of people died from lack of aid, electricity, water, and access to medical care. At least 4,645+ people died amid the devastation wrought…
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Martyna Matusiak - martyna.matusiak@westliberty.eduEXHIBITION: “El barco tiene puerto, el puerto tiene barco” (The Boat Has A Port, The Port Has A Boat)
A special exhibition to be held at El Arsenal de la Puntilla celebrating the richness of Latin american printmaking.
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Alicia Candiani - alicia@proyectoace.orgMake a Zine!
In this mini bookbinding workshop, participants will learn to make zines by folding a sheet of paper into a book. Content can be added and the zines can be photocopied and traded with friends or distributed at events. This is an ongoing activity that participants can join at any point during the event hours.
Zines are small books that are often quick and inexpensive to create. They are perfect…
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Elizabeth Castaldo - elizabeth.louise.castaldo@gmail.comMemorias Elásticas
Printmedia is well positioned to speak about the imprints and tracings of history, a dialogue that distends into dissemination and layering that evinces the complex relationship we all have to memory and place. It serves as a germane language to speak of a malleable state and to the suspended nature of our contemporary condition, due to political instability, ecological disasters, massive migration…
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Patricia Villalobos Echeverría - patricia.villalobos@wmich.eduEddy Lopez - eal024@bucknell.edu
Orbis Exterior. Greetings from … – Mail Art Project
When was the last time you received or sent a handwritten postcard?
The act of sending postcards has been replaced in the digital era by instantaneous sharing of snapshots and messages by social media.
Within the project, 2000 blank postcards (A6, 105 x 148 mm) will be printed and distributed among printmakers around the world with a request to refer in a visual way to the subject Orbis Exterior,…
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Aleksandra Janik - ajanik@asp.wroc.plPRINTKITE
I have gathered 35 artists making kites.
List of participants for Rokkaku Project:
Nick Ruth, Beauvais Lyons, Emmet Merill, Aaron Coleman, Stefanie Dykes, Mizin Shin, Jon Swindler, Jeff Dell, Koichi Yamamoto, Art Warger, Kalra Hackemiller, John Hichcock, Tim Musso, Bob Fleming, Jeff Sherven, Jun Lee, John Hanckock, Jon Goebel, Miguel Aragon, Bill Fick, Erik Waterkotte, Anna Kenar, Matt Egan,…
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Koichi Yamamoto - kyamamo2@utk.eduPrayer Flags for Puerto Rico
Format: Project participants are invited to create a set of 20 flags with a common design. The flags should be printed by screen print or relief print using one or two colors, with sufficient contrast to be seen from a distance. Traditionally, prayer flags are printed on blue, white, red, green, and yellow, though the fabric colors for this project are not limited. The fabric must be 11 x 17 inches…
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Beauvais Lyons - blyons@utk.eduRemnant
The plan for Remnant involves two stages. The first requires searching for and collecting physical remnants from the hurricane in advance of the conference. These items will be collected by the project organizers with the help of two student-assistants, one from each respective institution (though help from local students or residents will be most welcome). The second stage will involve setting up…
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Jon Swindler - swindler@uga.eduSAND MONOTYPE IN MOTION
SAND MONOTYPE IN MOTION
Participation is based on a first come basis. To reserve your 30 minute time slot to play on the monotype in the sand, registration is recommended. To register send email to SusanRostow@gmail.com. Once our times and dates are set Susan will email you back with time options to choose from and confirm.
BEACH EVENT
From dusting plates with resin for aquatints to applying carborundum…
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Susan Rostow - susanrostow@speedballart.comSalt water etching - Evolution of Print
Salt water etching – Body of Water. Body of Print. Beach event.
This demo and workshop will introduce participants to my latest salt water etching research. Many examples of prints and various plates will be passed around during the demonstration.
The most Non-toxic etching approach using salt water from the Caribbean Sea and North Atlantic Ocean will be performed during this occurrence.
This…
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Malgorzata Oakes - oakesm@newpaltz.eduScreen Printing and Dyeing with Natural Pigments
Over a couple of hours, guests will screen print and dye their own bandana using natural materials. Using an alum mordant, the bandanas are treated before the event ready to use the day of. Also prepared beforehand is an iron solution mixed with sodium alginate, a substance that is extracted from brown seaweed. Visitors will screen print a Puertográfico and environmentally friendly inspired image…
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Schuyler DeMarinis - sdemarinis@pnca.eduSeascape Print wheat paste
We will create a wheat paste of printed images for a wall in Puerto Rico. We will pre print the images in the USA and bring all materials needed to install. The concept of the work would center around the flora and fauna of Puerto Rico. It will be a research-based project that we would start in the Spring semester printing all the images and finish at the conference doing the install.
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Valerie Dibble - vdibble@kennesaw.eduVuela tu propia bandera / Fly Your Freak Flag
This Is a one-day event, materials will be provided as well as the opportunity to collaborate. Conference attendees can drop in and make a flag or spend the day collaborating and helping others create. The artists will provide some starting points, pre-existing matrices and flags for printing. We will employ immediate print processes such as stamping, screen printing and linocut. We plan to either…
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Jenny Schmid - jrschmid@umn.eduMichael Krueger - michaelk@ku.edu
Zine Club: a reproducible xerographic structure for community building
1-2 hour* activity based discussion wherein participants make a single-sheet zine on a theme to be decided, engage in ideas of community-building as a core component for the discipline of printmaking, and gain the tools and templates necessary to reproduce the zine club model in their own communities.
*Duration of event is up to the individual, you could stay for 45 minutes or the whole 2 hours.
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Emmeline Solomon - emmelinecady@gmail.compine|copper|lime - LIVE
pine|copper|lime, the internet’s number one printmaking podcast, is coming to Puertográfico! Since November 2018 PCL has been releasing bi-monthly podcasts featuring some of the most interesting and ambitious printmakers and print advocates working today. Host Miranda Metcalf chats with guests about their early art influences, how they came to printmaking, their current practice, life, love, and…
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Miranda K. Metcalf - mirandakielland@gmail.comThemed Portfolios
Carpeta Gráfica: Cuentos, Mitos y Leyendas de América Latina y el Caribe
This portfolio exchange will collect and visually register a serie of popular stories from the Americas that have been passed orally from generation to generation. Printmakers will be challenging to study, recreate, illustrate and interprete a “Cuento”, “Mito” or “Leyenda” (told tale, Myth or legend) from a particular part of the Americas evaluating the influence of current times on the…
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Reinaldo Gil Zambrano - reinaldoagil@gmail.comManuel Guerra - gumanuel@utep.edu
Celestial|Terrestrial
Celestial |Terrestrial
Since the Age of Exploration discoverers and artists are mesmerized by the Celestial |Terrestrial. Collectively, we stared at the oceans and became watchers of the skies; we developed systems to chart, measure, and calculate the position of where we are, someplace we have been—and most importantly—aim to arrive.
Our ability to brave the unknown made us cross Oceans…
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Andrew Kozlowski - kozlowskiap@gmail.comSheila Goloborotko - goloborotko@yahoo.com
Jill Parisi-Phillips - jillparisistudio@gmail.com
Dimitry Tetin - tetind@txstate.edu
Certum Tempus
This portfolio will be co-curated by Stephanie Alaniz (Morgantown, West Virginia, USA) and Edie Skeard, http://edithskeard.com/ (Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada) The mission of this portfolio exchange is to create a group of prints that address the history of the portrait through a contemporary lens. This exchange will critique the purpose of portraiture through deconstruction, misrepresentation, creating…
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Stephanie Alaniz - Stephanie.alaniz.art@gmail.comDisaster Relief
In Disaster Relief artists will come together in the form of a themed exchange portfolio to address issues of climate change and the myriad problems associated with it. From rising oceans, temperatures, and storm frequency, to food inequities, refugee crisis, and perpetual war driven by a reliance on fossil fuel; artists will look at these complex issues with an eye towards solution and political solidarity…
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Jaime Knight - jaimecknight@cca.eduDissent
The motivation of this exchange fits well with the themes of the 2020 conference, and it will help illuminate the paramount role that cross cultural exchange plays in our contemporary world. 26 participants from KSU, OSU and OU will allow for a diverse and varied portfolio surrounding the social and political issues that each individual hopes to express dissent towards. While Ohio is not an island…
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Connor Furr - cjfurr@gmail.comEarth / Mother
I am happy to announce the participants in this exchange portfolio:
Hannah Adair
Breslin Bell
Kalaiakea Blakemore
Laura Byrne
Etc. Press (Cynthia Lollis and Daniela Deeg)
Elizabeth Castaldo
Sue Carrie Drummond
Brandie Dziegiel
Jamie Lee Girodat
Anna Brooke Greene
Nicki Koning
Tikva Lantigua
Heather Leier
Melissa Mandel
Lujan Perez
Hailey Quick
Ashley Schick
Catherine Stack
Kaleena…
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Elizabeth Castaldo - elizabeth.louise.castaldo@gmail.comInternational Standards/Printshop Signage
Every instructor and printshop manager has their own unique policies and procedures for how things must be done in their shop, procedures that range wildly but often have regional commonality.
This exhibit will consist of specific signage from printmakers in print shops from many countries in the language of the shop. This exhibition will promote community and history of travel for many artists.
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Camilla Taylor - camilla.a.taylor@gmail.comLawful/Unlawful
In this call we will explore the political landscape of the female anatomy. Woman’s bodies are systematically regulated under government regimes all around the world. The colonization of female bodies, results in a women’s gift of procreation being commodified and used as reproductive systems to benefit the governing state.
Thinking nationally and globally, the female body suffers both from over…
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Clare Samani - clare.samani@gmail.comMAPPING THE ANTHROPOCENE
MAPPING THE ANTHROPOCENE
Curated by: Karen Oremus + Catherine Bebout
Hurricane Maria has been regarded as the worst natural disaster to the Caribbean islands in recorded history. This catastrophic storm not only took a devastating toll on Puerto Rico but signaled a call to action to bring into check human climate change so as to avoid global destruction. The Anthropocene has become the scientific…
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Karen Oremus - oremusk@winthrop.eduMestizaje
Mestizaje is about the unique experience of being at the intersection of cultures. This is an outgrowth of Gloria E. Anzaldua’s writings on mestiza consciousness and culture. Often the mestiza can feel that they belong without fully belonging, embracing who they are while trying to balance who they are expected to be. Code-switching, defiance of false binaries, identity politics and internalized racism,…
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Becci Spruill - beccispruill@gmail.comPaper Boats
“Paper Boats” is a 3D installation of prints that interpret the theme of water.
Water has long been an exciting subject for printmakers to interpret and there are many thematic designs that contemporary artists have incorporated into their work. The fragility of the paper boats is significant as well in context to the island identity, one noted for resourcefulness and for respect of the water that…
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mary sherwood brock - studiosherwood@mac.comPerspectiva es 20/20 (Hindsight is 20/20)
Perspectiva es 20/20 • Hindsight is 20/20: “What lessons will we take from our past? What topics can we identify for our future?” University students from New England and Puerto Rican printmaking programs tackle these questions to reveal issues and topics for a themed portfolio. From trade and commerce, to human rights, climate change or immigration, “Perspectiva es 20/20” will raise student…
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Renee Covalucci - rcovalucci@yahoo.comPrintilla
Impress ideas. Print propaganda. Stamp solidarity. In this portfolio edition of 24, each participant will adopt one of 22 Puerto Rican ports to create a printed flotilla, armed with cultural ammunition. Expression is couched in Boriken’s rich history of cultural exchange and its role in the concepts of the American melting pot and global connectivity. Consider characteristics and histories of both…
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Kelly Nelson - nelsonkm@longwood.eduReDivEdCo
ReDivEdCo invites artists to study the work of Puerto Rico’s División de Educación de la Comunidad (DivEdCo 1949-1989) and use this historical movement within Puerto Rican graphic arts to inspire their socially engaged printmaking practice in their local communities.
Puerto Rico’s División de Educación de la Comunidad or DivEdCo was founded in 1949 by Puerto Rico’s first freely elected…
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Barry O'Keefe - okeefebw@vcu.eduResurgimiento : Over Land and Sea
This will be an evolutional project involving the creation of one print that manifests itself through awareness of transformation. Where there will be a finished print, all participants will be asked to reconsider their original, and with the air of change, begin to approach the work with renewed eyes and modification. How might this work become influenced by the development (ie. The artists ability…
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Myles Calvert - mylescalvert@gmail.comSumergir y Resurgir/Submerge and Reemerge
Submerge can signify immersing a person in liquid that totally covers them. Leaving a person, country or government in a generally negative, underwater, condition. Or completely concentrating one’s attention. Reemerging implies returning to life or being seen, after falling or going under. /Sumergir puede significa: Introducir a una persona o una cosa en un líquido de manera que quede completamente…
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Ruthann Godollei - godollei@macalester.eduTidalectics: A marine biology print portfolio
TIDALECTICS is an art-science portfolio, in which invited printmakers are paired with marine biology researchers, to create a print based on/inspired by the research from the scientist. I invited ten international artists to participate in the portfolio.
The portfolio edition of 14, will consist of 11 prints, 11 letterpress pages with text by the scientist on the referenced research, a forward, a…
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Eveline Kolijn - evelinekolijn@gmail.comTrazando las líneas / Tracing the Lines Portfolio Exchange
(en español abajo)
Trazando las Líneas / Tracing the Lines is a portfolio co-organized by Corinne Teed and Dr. Sandy Plácido, a historian of Puerto Rican social movements. The prints in this portfolio will act as a testament to the survival, healing and rebuilding of Puerto Rican communities and will connect to other communities surviving the devastations of climate change and global capitalism,…
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Corinne Teed - corinneteed@gmail.comWashed Over – Lithographic Stone as a Vessel of Resilience and Metaphor
Abstract:
Puerto Rico’s long history of natural and imposed devastation, has shaped its geography and impressive culture of resilience. Thinking about the “Island as Vessel” that the world descended on, and methodologies of making relating to cultural or geographic histories, this land of Biorken (land of gold and great lords) suggests many connexions through metaphor to the processes, histories…
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Mark Bovey - mbovey@nscad.caWe all come from Somewhere
Migration, Immigration, and Emigration are all terms that are tossed around in U.S. politics to address displacement of marginalized groups of people. These methods of travel often force communities to flee their homes for a chance at a better life.
This exchange provides an opportunity to foster a dialogue and cultural exchange with an emphasis on the interconnectedness of narratives. These narratives…
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Juana Estrada - Juanastrd74@gmail.comCalliandra Hermanson - calliandrahermanson@unm.edu