Portfolios

Apollo 17, the Last Manned Lunar Landing
Exploration; as emerging artists this is our primary focus, to seek concepts and tools to aid in our mission of discovering an individual artistic voice. We are not the first to plot a course through this fickle world; however to us this soil is alien. We discover how our current trajectories and past challenges manifest in our work and present the printmaker as explorer and documentarian of the world. Like the Apollo 17 mission, our path is unfamiliar, but armed with the knowledge of those who have come before we may perhaps traverse the greatest distance.
Organizer: Mandi Leibee
Participants: Lindsey Appel, Maggie Booth and David Bendernagel, Emily Bucy, Aurora De Armendi, Alison Filley, Heather Foster, Kristen Gallerneaux, Mark Herschede, Ellie Honl, Crystal Kanney, Jason Kofke, Mandi Leibee, Jacob Meders, Al Mouradian, Vanessa Vobis, Tim Van Ginkel, Brad Wenner, and Jessica C. White.

Communication and the Art of Deception
The definition of communication is the exchange of thoughts, messages, or information through speech, signals, writing or behavior; interpersonal rapport. Historically, printmaking has been used as a means of communication. In today's time, communication is often altered or distorted, affecting what we experience as reality. We have based our theme around this concept.
The theme we chose, Communication and the Art of Deception, correlates with the theme of next year's conference: Points, Plots, Ploys.
This concept ties to the conference because each participant represents a point on the geographical map. Plots relate to the narrative, which is a form of dialogue. Ploys allude to a hoax or scheme. The point represents not only a geographical location; but also, each artist’s unique point of expression that is needed for communication, forming plots, and leading to deception through interpretation.
Organizers: Rachael Madeline & Meghan O'Connor
Participants: Sydney Cross, Jennifer Stoneking-Stewart, Dennis O’Neil, Matthew Krueger, Lila Planvsky, Joseph Velasquez, Brandon Sanderson, Sukenya Best, Claire Jacobs, Dylan McManus, John Cizmar, Jeremy Lundquist, Jennifer Anderson, Shaurya Kumar, John Hilton, Karla Hackenmiller, Benjy Davies, Mark Hosford, Matthew Rebholz, Bob Capozzi, Lee Marchalonis, Rimer Cardillo, John Hancock, Anita DeAngeli, Jessica Meyer, Noah Hyleck, Deborah Bryan, Amanda Turpen, Anita Jung, Rachael Madeline, and Meghan O'Connor.

Dyscalculia: Severe Disturbance of the Ability to Calculate
This portfolio intends to respond to the assumption that an artist uses classicly understood math in the creation of art. For artists, the relationship between calculation and representing an idea or visual information may be difficult if not painful. We may employ grids, measurements, and complicated scientific hypothesis in our work, but this often runs counter to our ability to comprehend simple mathematical calculations. Inherent in printmaking is the necessity of planning, plotting, and executing complicated registration techniques and chemical processes as complicated proportions are inherent in drawing. We do not purport to achieve this with any real understanding of the underlying philosophies.
Organizers: Willow Hagge & John Pyper
Participants: James Ballinger, Emi Brady, Johnny Carrera, Melissa Cooke, Rachel Gargiulo, Rachel Gross, Willow Hagge, Anna Hepler, Jenny Hughes, Drew Iwaniw, Jess Merrell, John Pyper, Adrian Rodriguez, Karen Schiff, Jon Schulz, and Liz Shepherd.

ECHO
The ECHO Portfolio is an artistic narrative designed to explore the importance of community in printmaking. During the 2006 Southern Graphics Council Printmaking Conference, the organizer recruited five printmakers to be in the portfolio. As each participant invites a new artist to join, it exemplifies the network of individuals involved in the printmaking community. Selected because of the influence their artwork and/or teaching has had on the artist who invited them, this portfolio exposes the sometimes hidden relationships and connections within this community. In all, there will be 18 artists in the portfolio, with an edition size of 24.
Organizer: Bill Hosterman
Participants: Cima, Luce Delhove, Tracy Featherstone, Beth Grabowski, Melissa Harshman, Katz, Garry Kaulitz, Lynwood Kreneck, Karen Oremus, Johntimothy Pizzuto, Kathryn Reeves, Minna Resnick, Mark Ritchie, Tanja Softic, Ilgim Veryeri, Lawrence Williams, Roscoe Landon Wilson

Engraving 2006
Organizers: James Ehlers, Larry Schuh, Gerry Wubben
Participants: Josh Bulter , James Burke, Doug Devinny, David Driesbach, Robert Dunning, James Ehlers, Will Fleishell, Heather Foster, Oscar Gillespie, Clare Frank Hairstans, Charles Hardy, Tony Henderson, Chris Hutson, Ross Jahnke, Heather Kelley, Brian Kelly, Kurt Kemp, Jack Orman, Rudy Pozzatti, Andrew Raftery, Scott Reed, John Saling, Larry Schuh, Rebecca Stanley, and Gerry Wubben.

Footprints: Women in Printmaking
Is showcasing prints by 28 women artists spanning many generations and geographical, political boundaries: India, Pakistan, UK, USA and Hong Kong.
Kavita Shah, the curator of this show, aims to bring together women artists to share with each other the pain and the pleasure of this medium.
Challenges they are confronting on various levels: professional, financial and social. It is an effort to create a platform to bring forward the issues and look for the solution together.
Prints are done in different techniques: etching, screenprint, woodcut, linocut, chin colle and digital.
Organizer: Kavita Shah
Contributors : Zarina Hashmi, Marina Tsesarskaya, Mehar Afroz, Jacki Parry, Maggie Jennings, Yung Sau Mui, Anupam Sood, Lalita Lajmi, Naina Dalal, Kavita Nayar, Asma Menon, Shukla Sen Poddar, Padma Reddy, Archana Hande, Paula Sengupta, Oli Ghosh,Mekhla Bahl, Puja Puri, Moutushi Banerji, Champa Mohan, Stuti Vasavada, Meetali Singh, Kajal Shah, Kavita Shah, and Parthvi Patel.

INTERMEDIA Multiples
This three-dimensional object exchange portfolio will explore the idea of Intermedia, first coined by artist/theorist Dick Higgins (1938-1998) in the mid-sixties to describe the tendency of art that begins to fuse new and old Medias. This exchange will consist of 10 artists creating an edition of 12 objects. The objects can incorporate printmaking techniques, but artists are not required to stick to traditional methods. The objects will not be larger than 3”x6”x3”deep.
INTERMEDIA Multiples is a 3-d object exchange portfolio. Participants will concentrate on the idea of the multiple – each artist will plot their own connection to the printmaking vernacular of the multiple – engaging in ploys of making art that is dimensional – a point of process not traditionally characteristic of the term print.
Organizer: Candace Nicol
Participants: Angela Bachelor-Katona, Dean Burton, Jill Fitterer, John Hitchcock, Sue Latta, Candace Nicol, Kathy Puzey, Tamara Scronce, Cheryl Shurtleff, Cerese Vaden

Interpretations of Conflict: Postcards from Iraq
One hundred 5x7 prints (postcards) will make up the SGC portfolio. The prints will be mailed to me as stamped postcards and will be displayed collectively as one body of work, with the size being approximately 50x140”. (The actual exhibit size will be dictated by space availability). Two postcards from each artist (one exposing the print side and the other the addressed side) will be juxtaposed, allowing the viewer to see each card’s origin. A map with colored pins showing statistical information will be displayed alongside the exhibit.
Organizer: R. Scotland Stout

The Kansas City Experience, Alumni Portfolio Exchange
Kansas City Art Institute Alumni from across the country representing decades of Kansas City printmaking will produce this Portfolio. The Portfolio is about people from different locations brought together in Kansas City at different points in time. Artists will explore the points, plots, and ploys of their journey getting to or living in Kansas City. This will be a collection of individual artistic expressions that will span the different political, historical, and typographical experiences of each participant while in Kansas City.
Co-Organizers: Richard Peterson and Matt Hopson-Walker
Participants: Amanda Hopson-Walker, David Jones, Erica Navarrete, Maranda Stebbins, Natalie Meyers, Lloyd Patterson Jr., Rika Traxler, Wendi Dibbern, Jess Giffin/Jim TerMeer, Heather Marton, Maryanna Adelman, Charles Davis, David Matthews, Peter Calvert, Charles Parson, Jeff Hull, David Rich, Kevin Mullins.

NOCTURNE 16
Sixteen artists from the states of Montana, Indiana, Minnesota, Louisiana, California, South Dakota, Florida, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Alberta, Canada give their graphic interpretations of the word "nocturne". NOCTURNE 16 reflects the power of the original print. A range of conceptual to traditional images are beautifully displayed in this portfolio. The print images were all created to face in a landscape orientation which effects the flow of the exhibit when installed in a gallery environment.
This group of artists have used a variety of printmaking methods and applications including mezzotint, chine colle, intaglio, collagraph, woodcut and screenprinting.
Organizer: Larry Schuh
Contributors: James Bailey, Stephen Black, Sean Caufield, Bob Dorlac, Elizabeth Dove, Fred Hagstrom, Brian Kelly, Kurt Kemp, Cynthia Osborne, Johntimothy Pizzuto, Patti Roberts Pizzuto, Bradlee Shanks, Larry Schuh, Rochelle Toner, Brad Widness, Koichi Yamamoto

Other Things That Start With P
Pulling its inspiration from this conference’s alliterative title and the sense of fun that runs through it, ‘Other Things That Start With P’ is a print portfolio about play, specifically wordplay. This portfolio brings together 12 participants working in half-sheet format for an exchange of prints about subjects that begin with the letter P. These participants were given only the title of the portfolio as their prompt, and all parallels which arise between prints should be appreciated as the products of potential, probability, and playfulness.
Organizer: Kelly J. Clark
Contributors: Robert Dale Anderson, Nicholas Alley, Garrett Brown, Kelly J. Clark, Christa Dalien, Tom Druecker, Michael Krueger, Yoonmi Nam, Ashley Nason, Matt Rebholz, Jenny Schmid, Margie Simpson.

Plotting Paradise
Fifteen resident artists of Hawai‘i from varying backgrounds will create an exchange portfolio, editioning twenty 10”x15”, double-sided, oversized, postcard format prints on an archival substrate (to be displayed so both sides are visually accessible). The 2:3 height to width ratio is congruent to both postcard dimensions (appropriate correlation for a portfolio originating in a locality where tourism remains the number one industry) and the vertical to horizontal expanse of the Hawaiian island chain when translated onto maps. Imagery will address a variety of issues surrounding land use and misuse in the Aloha State.
Organizer: Erika Johnson
Participants: Bradley Capello, Charles Cohan, Duncan Dempster, Paul Faber, Vince Hazen, Erika Johnson, Alan Konishi, Cassandra Locke, Na’a Makekau, Robert Molyneux, Carl Pao, Abigail Romenchak, Paul Weissman, Jared Wickware

Pocahontas Meets Hello Kitty
This Portfolio is focused on using Pocahontas and Hello Kitty as a Ploy to engage the public into being receptive to a new way of looking at Native American Women in History, the Plot is to educate the public and young women about this issue, the Point of this Portfolio is to travel the prints to various reservations and communities through out the United States and abroad.
Organizer: Melanie Yazzie
Contributors: May H. Aboutaam, Maile Andrade, Melissa Bob, Gina Cestaro, Deborah A. Cornell, Natalie Couch, Margaret Craig, Georgia Deal, Lise Drost, Diana Eicher, Jason Engelhardt, Kirsten Furlong, Emily Arthur Douglass, Nicole Hand, Andrea Hanley, John Hitchcock, Mary Hood, Natalie Hunt, Tom Jones, Lorraine King, Eunkang Koh, Kathryn Maxwell, Jean McComas, Larry McNeil, Kimiko Miyoshi, Candy Nartonis, Cerisse Palalagi, Sue Pearson, Kathryn Polk, Kathryn Reeves, Melissa Schulenberg, Juane Quick to See Smith, Neal Ambrose Smith, C. Maxx Stevens, Elizabeth Stuck, Melanie Walker, Melanie Yazzie, and Steven Yazzie.

A Clever Means: The Print Blitz Folio
The impetus for this folio is to bring together new members and alumni of the Print Blitz. The Print Blitz intensive invites students and faculty from universities and high schools around the US to participate in this biannual event. Here, the notion is to share ideas, techniques, aesthetics and technologies in order to develop work that re-contextualizes traditionally defined roles and techniques in an environment that connects printmaking to diverse communities. Ultimately, via print collaboration, technical exploration, critical thinking and dialogue, students and faculty alike will continue to move towards representing printmaking as a significantly democratic link between artist and society. This folio will deal with the complex issues of individual image ploys that each artist engages in, with emphasis on the notions of unfolding sequences and collective memories.
Organizer : Nancy Palmeri
Contributors: Maranda Allbritten, Nick Alley, Michael Barnes, Paul Bonnelli, Jim Bryant, Kelly Clark, Deborah Cornell, Suzanne Countryman, Benjy Davies, Wanda Ewing, Ann Flowers, Rebecca Garza, Oscar Gillespie, Loretta Gonzeles, Karla Hackenmiller, John Hancock, Nicole Hand, Denis McNett, Michelle Moode, Greg Nanney, Sarah Pederson, Jerry Phillips, Roxanne Reed, Sean Starwars, Breanne Trammell, and Joseph Velesquez.

Red Herring
A "red herring" is a smoke screen, wild goose chase, decoy, diversion, lure or trick. Red herrings are used in debates in order to divert attention away from the original issue.
The original source of red herring comes from the process of salting and smoking herrings (fish) until they have a deep crimson color and a pungent, distinctive odor. The strong scent of cured herrings has been used by dog trainers as they train hounds to hunt for foxes. During fox hunts, "red herrings" are dragged across the pathway of the hounds in chase in order to redirect or prolong the hunt. Similarly, poachers have diverted hounds with red herrings as they hunt for foxes in order to catch the fox for themselves. More recently, the term "red herring" refers to a phony clue or false problem.
Organizer: Sandra Murchison
Contributors: Janet Ballweg, Laura Berman, Lisa Bigalke, Margaret Craig, April Flanders, Ron Fundingsland, Karla Hackenmiller, Anita Jung, Karen Kunc, Beauvais Lyons, Hilary Lorenz, Fred Mutebi, Robino Ntila, Johanna Paas, Mary Jane Parker, Ben Rinehart, Jennifer Schmidt, Paula Smithson, and Tanja Softic.

Satan's Hook
The history of Western fiction and folklore is rife with this theme of making a deal with the devil. Sources range from the legendary Faust, to the early American Young Goodman Brown, to the contemporary Devil's Advocate. The setting changes, the characters differ, but constants abound in the forms of the devil's uncanny ability to hook a sucker and the inevitability of the sucker's downfall as a result.
So why do our protagonists—in art and in life—continue to be swayed by the dark side? Don't they watch movies? Don't they know what's in store? The particular persuasion in each case is different, but the ideas called into question are always the same. We are forced to prioritize, to ask ourselves what sort of fantasy would be extravagant, decadent, and satisfying enough to make us want to trade on eternity.
Organizers: Meg Rahaim
Contributors: Isadora Bullock, April Flanders, John Hancock, Drew Iwaniw, Lynwood Kreneck, Rosemary Lane, Kyla Zoe Luedtke, Michelle Martin, Dennis McNett, Lloyd Patterson Jr., Derrick Riley, Brandon Sanderson, Kevin Shook, Jillian Sokso, Shelley Thorstensen, Sean Star Wars, Hui Chu Ying, Ross Zirkle, Kaitlin Redborg

Trojan Horse and Other Acts of Posing
In his seminal essay "Posing," Craig Owens states that calculated duplicity is an indispensable deconstructive tool. Points, Plots and Ploys can be interpreted as an opportunity to investigate the idea of strategy as it can pertain to politics, deception, disguise and warfare. This portfolio and panel addresses masculinity and its socially constructed behaviors in historic moments, contemporary intervals and proposed futures. Using the power of visual language to seduce and supplicate, contextual readings of culture can be excavated for meaning. Male printmakers attempt to claim their place in this discourse.
Organizer: Joel Seah
Contributors: Benjamin Bertocci, Derek Cracco, Chris Dacre, Thorsten Dennerline, Joel Seah, and Nathan Sullivan.

Veggie Table Prince
Zesty Curried Favors and Rooting Beggars / Edible Materials as Print Media / Inspiration
Stamping with potatoes is just a starting point.
With the diverse media available to the modern printmaker, we are free to explore materials from avocado to zucchini. Contributors are encouraged to extend image making through inventive use of the exterior and interior, the appearance and chemistry of, vegetables and fruits. Mashed potato-white-etching ground, blue berry infusion, sesame seed halftones, the gamut of approaches to use of the garden plot and spice rack are all fair game. Enjoy the visual made with the edible.
Organizer: John Driesbach
Contributors: Charles Beneke, Lee Chesney III, Rachel Clarke, John Driesbach, Wayne Kimball, Jerry Krepps, Eileen MacDonald, Andy Polk, Kathryn Polk, and Sarah Whorf.

You Are Here? …And Other Random Coordinates?
This portfolio exchange will be based upon two different points on the earth. Participants will utilize the global coordinate in which they live, in tandem with a randomly selected coordinate on the globe. Once the two map points are established, each artist will research areas of interest to them based upon the numerical coordinate i.e. weather, culture, wildlife, politics, ocean currents, etc. A random number generator will be used to establish and assign the opposing coordinates. Once this number has been established, rolling dice and a coin toss will establish the exact north-south and east-west orientation of the second point.
Organize:; Jill Fitterer
Contributors: Stephen Black, Jill Fitterer, Kirsten Furlong, Nicole Hand, Andrew Hershey, John Hitchcock, April Hoff, Angela Bachelor-Katona, Kylee Koenig, Kimiko Miyoshi, Timothy Musso, Amy Nack, Candace Nicol, Nancy Palmeri, Johntimothy Pizzuto, Amie Rangel, Matthew Rangel, Sarah Whorf, Jennifer Wood, Koichi Yamamoto, and Ross Zirkle.