SGC PHILADELPHIA
March 24th - March 27th, 2010
Monday, March 22 - Friday, March 26, 2010

Multi-day Project: SEMOGRAPHICS II: Monoprint Marathon, A collaborative project by the Semographics team of ten artists led by Tim High & Stephanie Hunder:. Visitors are welcome mornings 8:30 am - 12:00 pm
Tyler School of Art, Rm 260L Printmaking Studios. (2001 N. 13th St. )


Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Registration open: 12:00 pm to 7:00 pm @ Millenium Prefunction, Loews Hotel (1200 Market Street)
Exchange Portfolio Drop off

12:00 pm - 6:00 pm
SGC Board meeting

3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Open House: Study Room, Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, and the Paper Conservation Laboratory, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Perelman Building (first floor)

5:00 pm - 5:45 pm
Conference orientation @ Regency Ballroom, Loews Hotel (1200 Market Street)

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Exhibition openings (Drive By Press at the Print Center)

7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Kick Off Event: J. Greg Pizzoli & Matt Neff: Democratic Down N' Dirty DIY Screenprinting @ UArts, Gershman Hall (401 S. Broad Street)


Thursday, March 25, 2010

Registration open: 8:00 am to 7:00 pm @ Millenium Prefunction, Loews Hotel (1200 Market Street)
Exchange Portfolio Drop off

8:00 am - 8:45 am
Morning coffee @ Millenium Prefunction, Loews Hotel (1200 Market Street)

8:45 am - 11:30 am @ Regency Ballroom, Loews Hotel (1200 Market Street)
Welcome remarks

Presentation: SGC Writing Award Roberta Fallon, Libby Rosof

Presentation: Carl Pope

11:30 am - 1:00 pm
Box Lunch Pick Up @ Regency Ballroom Foyer, Loews Hotel (1200 Market Street)

11:30 am - 12:30 pm
Membership meeting @ Washington Room, Loews Hotel (1200 Market Street)

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Events: Meet and Greet the Curators at PAFA, Maguire Lobby, Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building (128 N. Broad St.)

12:00 pm - 2:30 pm *All demos continuous on the hour and half hour
Demo: Lori Spencer: Printing and Binding an Offset Artist's Book, UArts, Anderson Hall, 9th floor, Borowsky Center for Publication Arts & 6th floor bindery. (333 South Broad St.)

Demo: Mary Tasillo & Erin Robin: Printing with Pulp: Veil Layers and Editioning, UArts, Anderson Hall, basement Papermaking Studio. (333 South Broad St.)

Demo: Tony Rosati: Viscosity Color Printing - Single Plate/ Multiple Colors, PAFA, Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building, Room 660, Printmaking Dept. (128 N. Broad St.)

Demo: Dan Miller:  Relief: Spooning Large Format Woodcuts, PAFA, Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building, Room 660, Printmaking Dept. (128 N. Broad St.)

1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Panel: Jon Swindler: The Incomplete Printmaker. PAFA, The Annenberg Gallery in the Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building, 128 N. Broad Street

Panel: Deborah Chaney: At Face Value. UArts, Arts Bank, Mainstage, 601 South Broad Street

2:45 pm - 4:00 pm @ Regency Ballroom, Loews Hotel (1200 Market Street)
Presentation: Teaching Excellence in Printmaking SGC to: Lois M. Johnson

SGC Print Curatorial Excellence to: Ruth Fine, Curator of special projects in modern art at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

Keynote Lecture: Ruth Fine

3:00 pm - 5:30 pm *All demos continuous on the hour and half hour
Demo: Claire Fouquet: Animated Prints, UArts, Anderson Hall, 5th floor printmaking studios. (333 South Broad St.)

Demo: Bobby Rosenstock & Erin Sweeney: Experimental Broadsides on the Vandercook Press,  UArts, Anderson Hall, room 605, Letterpress studio. (333 South Broad St.)

Demo: Ron Wyffels: Lithography: Electric Press and Large Format Printing Techniques, PAFA, Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building, Room 660, Printmaking Dept. (128 N. Broad St.)

Demo: Joseph Lappie: The Drum Leaf or How To Make an Artist's Book That Accommodates (Nearly) Every Print Technique Ever, PAFA, Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building, Room 660, Printmaking Dept. (128 N. Broad St.)

4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Panel: Mary Tasillo: Resisting the Remarque. UArts, Arts Bank, Mainstage, 601 South Broad Street

Panel: Nicole Pietrontoni, & Tate Foley, co-chairs. Regional Print Dialects: Pinning Specific Visual Languages to Location, (SGC Student Panel). UArts CBS Auditorium, Hamilton Hall, 320 S. Broad Street

Panel: Alicia Candiani : Uncertain boundaries: remarks on contemporary printmaking, (SGC International Panel). PAFA, The Annenberg Gallery in the Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building, 128 N. Broad Street

5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Event: Exhibition Reception: New Prints: Part II, Organized by International Print Center New York. Meyerson Gallery, University of Pennsylvania (210 South 34th Street)

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Event: Exhibition Reception: Social Remarques, UArts, Hamilton Hall (320 South Broad Street)


Friday, March 26, 2010

Registration open: 8:00 am to 7:00 pm @ Millenium Prefunction, Loews Hotel (1200 Market Street)

9:00 am - 9:45 am
Morning coffee @ Millenium Prefunction, Loews Hotel (1200 Market Street)

9:00 am - 6:00 pm
Vendor fair @ Millenium Hall, Loews Hotel (1200 Market Street)

10:00 am - 12:30 am @ Regency Ballroom, Loews Hotel (1200 Market Street)
Presentation: Print Maker Emeritus award, Rochelle Toner, presentation followed by artist talk

Presentation: Lifetime Achievement in Printmaking Award, Judy Pfaff

Artist's Presentation: Judy Pfaff

11:30 am - 1:00 pm
Box Lunch Pick Up @ Regency Ballroom Foyer, Loews Hotel (1200 Market Street)

11:30 am - 2:30 pm
Member portfolio pick-up @ Millenium Prefunction, Loews Hotel (1200 Market Street)

12:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Free Shuttle buses will run from the Loews Hotel to the Tyler School of Art

1:00 pm – 3:00 pm *All demos continuous on the hour and half hour
Demo: Tara O'Brien and Melanie Mowinski: Japanese Stab Binding. Moore College of Art & Design, Binding: Room 234. (20th Street & the Parkway)

Demo: Katie Baldwin: Japanese Style Water-Based Printing (Moku Hanga), Moore College of Art & Design, Room 610, the print shop. (20th Street & the Parkway)

Demo: Jason Scuilla & Mike McMann: Non-Toxic Electro-Etching, Using Traditional and Digital Intaglio Techniques, Tyler School of Art, Rm 260L Printmaking Studios. (2001 N. 13th St.)

Demo: Shelley Thorstensen & Wendy Osterweil: The Hectograph Revisited / Gelatin Printing, Tyler School of Art, Rm. 250, Litho Room. (2001 N. 13th St. )

1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Panel: Brown: Eyewitness News When Prints were Truth. Tyler School of Art, Auditorium, B04 (2001 N. 13th St. )

Panel: Ferber: Memory, Place, Context, Stewart Auditorium, Moore College of Art & Design (20th Street & the Parkway)

2:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Free Shuttle buses will run from the Tyler School of Art to the Crane Arts building and the Loews Hotel

3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Open House: Study Room, Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, and the Paper Conservation Laboratory, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Perelman Building (first floor)

3:30 pm – 5:30 pm *All demos continuous on the hour and half hour
Panel: Richards: fstMdia/sloKnow. Tyler School of Art, Auditorium, B04 (2001 N. 13th St. )

Panel: Jennifer D Anderson: Making it viral: Infectious Pedagogical Practices in Printmaking Programs, Stewart Auditorium, Moore College of Art & Design (20th Street & the Parkway)

Presentation: Leonard Lehrer, moderator & the Semographics team of artists:  SEMOGRAPHICS II Monotypes, "SHOW N' TELL" Tyler School of Art, Rm 260L Printmaking Studios. (2001 N. 13th St.)
Demo: Daniel Heyman: Japanese Style Water-Based Printing (Moku Hanga), Moore College of Art & Design, Room 610, the print shop. (20th Street & the Parkway)

Demo: Tara O'Brien and Melanie Mowinski: Japanese Stab Binding, Moore College of Art & Design, Binding: Room 234. (20th Street & the Parkway)

Demo: Dwight Pogue & Mark Zunino: The Monolith Meets the Microchip: Stone Lithography Becomes Digital Lithography,  Tyler School of Art, Rm 260L Printmaking Studios. (2001 N. 13th St.)

Demo: Monika Meler:  Alternative Approach Relief Printing, Etching Studio, Tyler School of Art, Etching Studio. (2001 N. 13th St. )

5:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Exhibition: Print Maker Emeritus exhibition, Rochelle Toner, Tyler School of Art, Stella Elkins Tyler Galleries (2001 N. 13th St.)

Exhibition: Philagrafika 2010: The Graphic Unconscious exhibition, Tyler School of Art, Temple Gallery. (2001 N. 13th St.)

Event: Exhibition Reception at Widener Gallery, Moore College of Art & Design (20th Street & the Parkway)


Saturday, March 27, 2010

Registration open: 8:00 am to 1:00 pm @ Millenium Prefunction, Loews Hotel (1200 Market Street)
Exchange Portfolio Pick up

9:00 am - 9:45 am
Continental Breakfast @ Millenium Prefunction, Loews Hotel (1200 Market Street)

9:45 am - 11:30 am
Presentation: 2010 SGC Graduate Fellowship: Camilla Taylor. 2010 SGC Undergraduate Fellowship: Benjamin Love. John Ittman Honorary Member of the Council
Panel: Caperton: Printmaking or Contemporary Art? Regency Ballroom, Loews Hotel (1200 Market Street)

10:00 am - 4:30 pm
Vendor fair @ Millenium Hall, Loews Hotel (1200 Market Street)

12:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Publishers Fair @ Millenium Hall, Loews Hotel (1200 Market Street)

12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Open portfolio round one. Commonwealth Ballroom, Loews Hotel (1200 Market Street)

1:00am - 6:00 pm
Event: Common Press: Open House. Morgan building, University of Pennsylvania (205 South 34th Street)

1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Open portfolio round two. Commonwealth Ballroom, Loews Hotel (1200 Market Street)

3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Open portfolio round three. Commonwealth Ballroom, Loews Hotel (1200 Market Street)

4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Open portfolio round four. Commonwealth Ballroom, Loews Hotel (1200 Market Street)

6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Open portfolio round five. Commonwealth Ballroom, Loews Hotel (1200 Market Street)

7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Closing banquet (thanks and awardees recognized as a group) @ Regency Ballroom B, Loews Hotel (1200 Market Street)

Award: Lifetime Achievement in Printmaking (Pfaff)
Award: Print Maker Emeritus, Rochelle Toner
Award: Teaching Excellence in Printmaking, Lois M Johnson
Award: Print Curatorial Excellence Ruth Fine
Award: Writing Award, Roberta Fallon, Libby Rosof
Award: Honorary Member of the Council John Ittmann, Philadelphia Museum of Art
Award: Student Fellowships (Undergraduate Fellowship and Graduate Fellowship)