Columbia College Chicago and Anchor Graphics will host the Southern Graphics Council's annual printmaking conference exploring the artistic and social currents found in printmaking throughout the world which will take place in the city of Chicago from March 25-29, 2009.

Global Implications will feature exhibitions, demonstrations, lectures, panel discussions, collection viewings, and special events at over 40 locations around Chicago. Keynote speakers include Kathan Brown, Enrique Chagoya, Anne Coffin, and Jane Hammond. Alicia Candiani, Proyecto´ace’s director and International Member of the Southern Graphic Council executive Board organized and will be chairing the International Panel as well as coordinated the international submission of the “Monumental Ideas in Miniature Books”  Hui-Chui Chin’s project. Patricia Miani will be in charge of Proyecto´ace booth at the Publishers Fair.

ABOUT GLOBAL IMPLICATIONS:
Printmaking as an art medium is incredibly responsive to changing technologies, but also retains many otherwise-obsolete techniques. Printmakers find themselves uniquely situated to employ the latest digital imaging tools and centuries-old methods for hand mark making to create exquisite, precious objects as well as widely dispersed democratic gestures. The printmaking community is part of a world in which time has become compressed: digital files can circle the globe in seconds, and new technologies are changing the nature of exchange. As resources become increasingly limited, what is done in one location undoubtedly affects someone, someplace else. As we become more and more interdependent, local practices are at once threatened, celebrated, worthy of preservation and dangerously divisive. The printmaking medium is likewise evolving, its borders increasingly permeable. Prints can be made and exhibitions can be mounted in ways that break away from sterile white walls to include installations; stenciled graffiti and paste-ups on city streets; limited edition, hand made and printed books, 'zines and comics; even work that exists only in cyberspace.

MORE INFORMATION AND REGISTRATION CLICK HERE Due to the limited availability of some programming early registration is suggested.