WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4: (Bally’s)
12 - 5 pm: Registration open
12 - 5 pm: Member Print Exchange drop-off & print collation (Director’s room)
12 - 5 pm: SGCI Board meeting (Palace room 6 & 7)
4 - 6 pm: Opening Reception for Themed Portfolios (Palace, Bronze Grand Salon)
4 - 6 pm: Special Pre-Event Opening of VPP fair (Event Center)
6 - 8 pm: Welcome Address, Keynote, Opening of the Conference (Platinum Ballroom)
THURSDAY, APRIL 5: (Bally’s)
8 - 10 am: light breakfast (Grand Salon)
8 am - 5 pm: Registration open
8 am - 5 pm: Member Print Exchange drop off & collation (Director’s Room)
8:30 am: Morning Announcements (Platinum Ballroom)
9 - 10:30 am: Keynote Address (Platinum Ballroom)
9 am - 5 pm: Themed Portfolios on display (Palace & Bronze)
9 am - 5 pm: VPP fair open (Event Center)
11 am - 5 pm: mentorship open (Skyview 1)
11 am - 5 pm: Demo: Performing Print in Space and Time (Event Center, Demo Space A)
11 am - 5 pm: Demo: Creating Woodburytypes from 3D Printed Plates (Event Center, Demo Space B)
11 am - 5 pm: Demo: The Engravers Smackdown – Wood vs Metal (Event Center, Demo Space C)
11 am - 5 pm: Demo: Off Our Rockers: Mezzotint Demonstration (Event Center, Demo Space D)
11:30 am - 1 pm: SGCI Members Meeting (Gold Ballroom)
11:30 am - 1 pm: Panel: A Vision in a Dream: Embracing Limitations in Creative Practice (Silver Ballroom)
11:30 am - 1 pm: Panel: Seeing Success: Everything That Rises Must Converge (Platinum Ballroom)
12:30 - 1:30 pm: Inkubator: Understanding print outside the edition: Are we still printmakers? (Skyview 2)
12:30 - 1:30 pm: Inkubator: Queer Space (Skyview 3)
1:30 - 3 pm: SGCI Education Panel: The (Un)Methods of Print in Multidisciplinary Milieus(Gold Ballroom)
1:30 - 3 pm: Panel: Staying True (Silver Ballroom)
1:30 - 3 pm: Panel: Women Leaders in Print: Building the Community (Platinum Ballroom)
2 - 3 pm: Inkubator: Transferring Ink and Knowledge (Skyview 2)
2 - 3 pm: Inkubator: SGCI Board Listening Session: The Future of SGCI (Skyview 3)
2 pm: coffee break (Grand Salon)
3:30 - 5 pm: International Panel: Shifting Sands: Emerging from Globalized Landscape(Gold Ballroom)
3:30 - 5 pm: Panel: The Printer’s Path (Silver Ballroom)
3:30 - 5 pm: Panel: Shifting perspectives: Printmaking and Fulbright (Platinum Ballroom)
3:30 – 4:30 pm: Inkubator: So you want to start a community-based printshop? (Skyview 2)
3:30 – 4:30 pm: Conference Paper: Transgenic Prints (Skyview 3)
FRIDAY, APRIL 6: (Bally’s)
8 - 10 am: light breakfast (Grand Salon)
8 am - 5 pm: Registration open
8 am - 2 pm: Member Print Exchange drop-off (Director’s room)
8:30 am: Morning Announcements (Platinum Ballroom)
9 - 10:30 am: Keynote Address (Platinum Ballroom)
9 am - 5 pm: VPP open (Event Center)
9 am - 5 pm: Themed Portfolio Exhibits on display (Palace & Bronze)
11 am - 5 pm: mentorship open (Skyview 1)
11 am - 5 pm: Demo: “It’s in the Bag: Space Age Screen Exposure” (Event Center, Demo Space A)
11 am - 5 pm: Demo: Pop-Up Structures (Event Center, Demo Space B)
11 am - 5 pm: Demo: Straight Kitchin’ Printing (Event Center, Demo Space C)
11 am - 5 pm: Demo: Sinfully Good Chine Colle (Event Center, Demo Space D)
11:30 am - 1 pm: Panel: WORD/LIFE: each one, teach one (Gold Ballroom)
11:30 am - 1 pm: Panel: Printmaking in Pacific (Silver Ballroom)
11:30 am - 1 pm: Panel: Typography as Topography (Platinum Ballroom)
12:30 - 1:30 pm: Inkubator: Non-Toxic Print Practice for the Home Studio and K-12 Education (Skyview 2)
12:30 - 1:30 pm: Inkubator: Innovation at Small Institutions (Skyview 3)
1:30 - 3 pm:Student Panel : Modified Print: Breaking the Rectangle (Gold Ballroom)
1:30 - 3 pm: Panel: Site Responsive Print (Silver Ballroom)
1:30 - 3 pm: Panel: Landscape and Embedded Native and Indigenous Identity (Platinum Ballroom)
2 - 3 pm: Inkubator: Critical Theory Reading List (Skyview 2)
2 - 3 pm: Inkubator: International Residencies/Think Before You Ink (Skyview 3)
2 pm: coffee break (Grand Salon)
3:30 - 5 pm: Panel: Hybrid Cultures, Intersecting Landscapes (Gold Ballroom)
3:30 - 5 pm: Panel: (Un)real; From the Fantastic to Alternative Facts; Locating Truth in Print Media (Platinum Ballroom)
3:30 – 4:30 pm: Inkubator: Managing the SGCI Print Collection (Skyview 2)
3:30 – 4:30 pm: Inkubator: Work it!! Talking about Professional Practice (Skyview 3)
FRIDAY, APRIL 6: (UNLV & BUS LOOP SITES)
10 am - 6 pm: Busses on a continual loop between Bally’s, UNLV, 5th Street Schoolhouse, & Chamber Gallery at City Hall
11 am - 5 pm: demos at UNLV
11 am – 12:30 pm: Clay Collagraphs| UNLV - GRA 104
11 am – 12:30 pm: Electro-Etching | UNLV - GRA 112
11 am – 12:30 pm: LIGHT TO MATRIX: Laser Technology for Printmaking Applications | UNLV - HFA 15
12:30 – 2 pm: Clay Collagraphs| UNLV - GRA 104
12:30 – 2 pm: Electro-Etching| UNLV - GRA 112
12:30 – 2 pm: LIGHT TO MATRIX: Laser Technology for Printmaking Applications | UNLV - HFA 152
2 – 3:30 pm: Stretchy Etchings, Pressless Alternative Dimensions | UNLV - GRA 104
2 – 3:30 pm: Cast Dimensional Prints| UNLV - GRA 104
3:30 - 5 pm: Stretchy Etchings, Pressless Alternative Dimensions | UNLV - GRA 104
3:30 - 5 pm: Cast Dimensional Prints| UNLV - GRA 104
10 am - 5 pm: exhibits open at Barrick, Donna Beam, Grant Hall, Doc Rando, 5th School, Chamber Gallery, Humanities, Priscilla
11:30 am - 1 pm: Panel: Printmaking as Protest: Harnessing Power of the Multiple (5th Street School Auditorium)
1:30 - 3 pm: Panel: Print Culture in Detroit: A Parallel to the City (5th Street School Auditorium)
First Friday Art Crawl in 18b Arts District (no transportation provided)
SATURDAY, APRIL 7: (Bally’s)
8 am - 12 pm: Registration Open
9 am: Morning Announcements (Platinum Ballroom)
9:15 - 10:30 am: Awards Ceremony (Platinum Ballroom)
9 am - 12 pm: Member Print Exchange pick up (Director’s room)
9 am - 3 pm: Member Print Exchange Exhibit open (Palace rooms)
10 am - 3 pm: VPP open (Event Center)
10:30 - 11:30 am: Open Portfolio Round #1 (Grand Ballroom)
11:45 am - 12:45 pm: Open Portfolio Round #2 (Grand Ballroom)
1 - 2 pm: Open Portfolio Round #3 (Grand Ballroom)
7 - 9 pm: Buffet Dinner (Grand Salon)
7 pm - 12 am: Altered Ego Extravaganza: Printmakers Ball in Sin City (Grand Ballroom)
Closing remarks, cash bars, DJ, dancing, Video/Animation loop
SUNDAY, APRIL 8: (Bally’s)
9 am - 12 pm: SGCI Board Meeting (Palace 6 & 7)
