SCHEDULE

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Wednesday 3/18
Thursday 3/19
Friday 3/20
Saturday 3/21

	KCC Park Concourse	KCC Ballroom ABC	KCC Exhibit Hall B	clinch ave bridge	knoxville museum of art	sunsphere	pilot light
9am	Registration 1pm -7pm		Product and Publishers Fair Set Up	Special Project: "The Flood" Installation by Sean Caulfield
10am
11am
12pm
1pm
2pm
3pm
4pm
5pm	Cash Bar and Snacks 5-7pm
6pm		Welcome Address
7pm		Keynote Address: Red Grooms (with Bud Shark and Andy Saftel)
8pm					Lift: Contemporary Printmaking in the Third Dimension	Cocktails at Icon Lounge (5th floor of the Sunsphere)
9pm
10pm							Printmakers' Dance Floor Demos
11pm
12am

Thursday's daytime events are focused at the Knoxville Convention Center (KCC).Keynote addresses at 8:30am and 5:15pm.
A Sessions 10:00am -11:30am, B Sessions 12:00pm-1:30pm, C Sessions 1:45pm-3:15pm, D Sessions 3:30pm-5pm

	KCC Park Concourse	KCC Exhibit Hall B	KCC Ballroom abc	KCC lecture hall	KCC 200de	KCC 200bc	KCC 200A
7am

7:30am		Publisher and Product Fair Set Up

8am	Coffee, Tea, Bagels,and Pastries: 8am-10am

8:30am		Products, Publisher, and Program Fair 8:30am - 5:00pm	Keynote Address: Hideki Kimura

9am

9:30am

10am	Registration 8am -5pm	Demo A1: Bud Shark: Building an Inexpensive Vacuum Exposure Unit	Panel A1: The Collaborative Sphere	Panel A2: Prints and the Built Environment	Portfolio Pick Up and Viewing: "Agritopia", "Dog Head Stew", "Mapping the Mississippi", "Sphere of Existence"	INKubator A: SGCI Members Survey

10:30am

11am

11:30am	Boxed Lunch Pick-up 11:30am - 12:30pm

12pm		Demo B1: Andrew Raftery: Engraving Images	Panel B1: Prints and the Political Sphere	SGCI Business Meeting	Portfolio Pick Up and Viewing: "All's Fair at the Fair" "Distortion", "It Never Ends", "Sphere of Influence"	INKubator B: The Local Sphere: Bloom Where You're Planted

12:30pm

1pm

1:30pm
		Demo C1: Heather Muise: Paper Plate Lithography: Cheap, Fast and Easy	Panel C1: The Printmaker's Economic Stimulus Plan	Panel C2: A Creative Sphere: Artist's Residencies I	Portfolio Pick Up and Viewing: "Better Living", "Mondo Tondo", "Vinyl", "Will the Circle Be Unbroken"	INKubator C: Letterpress and the Domestic Sphere: Women in Printing Past, Present, and Future	Mentoring Sessions
2pm	Coffee and Cookies 2pm-4pm

2:30pm

3pm

3:30pm			Panel D1: Art, Science, and the Historical Perspective in Contemporary Printmaking	Panel D2: Board Sponsored Student Session: It’s a Small World: Creating Community through Printmaking	Portfolio Pick Up and Viewing: "Bubble Up", "Expectation of Privacy", "Randomly on Purpose"	INKubator D: Trekking Tradition: Broadening the Sphere

4pm

4:30pm

5pm
			Keynote Address: Ruth Weisberg Printmaker Emeritus Award
5:30pm

6pm
	Shuttles will run from Knoxville Convention Center to Downtown, or Walk via World's Fair Park to Jackson Ave. to Gay Street to view "Prints in Peculiar Places"
6:30pm
	UT Downtown Gallery	gallery 1010	emporium building	the standard	a1 Lab Arts center	Various locations	various locations
6pm	Ruth Weisberg: Time and Again	A Sampler: Work by Current UTK Printmaking Graduate Students	2015-2018 SGCI Members Exhibition Knoxville Collects Yee-Haw UTK Printmaking Faculty Prints by Michael Aragon Approximate Exactitude	The Spectacular Poster Printacular Print Fair - Knoxville Edition	A Show of Hands: Hand Magazine Exhibition	Pioneer Monsters and Tease it to Jesus: A Portfolio of Dolly Parton Prints @ Pioneer House Open House @Striped Light	Mapping the Mississippi @ the Art Market Gallery Open House @ Jewell Studio Open House @ Status Seriagraph Open House @ The Happy Envelope

6:30pm

7pm

7:30pm

8pm

8:30pm				Special Panel Session: A PechaKucha Powered Session

9pm							Live Music @ the Pilot Light

9:30pm

10pm

10:30pm

11pm

Friday's events take place at both the Knoxville Convention Center (KCC), and the Art and Architecture (AA)building.
Shuttles will run a continuous loop between the two locations throughout the day and evening.
E Sessions 10:00am -11:30am, F Sessions 12:00pm-1:30pm, G Sessions 1:45pm-3:15pm, H Sessions 3:30pm-5pm

KNOXVILLE CONVENTION CENTER DAYTIME EVENTS
	KCC Park Concourse	KCC Exhibit Hall B	KCC Ballroom abc	lecture hall	200de	200bc	200A
7am

7:30am

8am	Coffee, Tea, Bagels,and Pastries: 8am-10am

8:30am		Products, Publisher, and Program Fair	Keynote Address: Sarah Suzuki

9am

9:30am

10am	Registration 8am -5pm		Panel E1: Board Sponsored Education Panel: Lesson Plans	Panel E2: Queering the Sphere: Exploring Divergent Practices		INKubator E: The Printmaking Legacy Project®	Mentoring Sessions

10:30am

11am

11:30am	Boxed Lunch Pick-up 11:30am - 12:30pm

12pm			Panel F1: Well Rounded: Interdisciplinary Practice of Contemporary Crafts in Printmaking	Panel F2: Constructing Programs and Communities	UTK AIR Art Boxes Viewing	INKubator F: The Constructed Sphere: Sculptural Printmakers Tap the Third Dimension

12:30pm

1pm

1:30pm
			Panel G1: Distortion	Panel G2: A Creative Sphere: Artist's Residencies II		INKubator G: Photogravure Printer Community
2pm	Coffee and Cookies 2pm-4pm

2:30pm

3pm

3:30pm			Panel H1: Outside the Comfort Zone: The Print as a Form of Graphic Diplomacy	Panel H2: Printing Beyond the Blackness Principal: The Necessity of Multiple Subjectivities within Black Masculine Discourse	INKubator H1: Creating Networking Spheres: Conceiving Regional Print Conferences	INKubator H2: Shared Visions: Collaborative and Community Arts Actions

4pm

4:30pm

5pm		Publisher and Product Fair Break Down (5-9)

5:30pm

6pm

6:30pm
ART AND ARCHITECTURE BUILDING DAYTIME EVENTS
	AA 241 West	aa 241 East	aa 241c	east atrium	aa 335a - Letterpress studio	aa109	various AA locations
10am	Demo E1: Photo Litho Plates: Not Just for Photo Anymore	Demo E2: One +One = Infinity	Demo E3: 3-Ring Circuits: Creating Interactive Sculptures with Paper Circuits	Demo E4: The Sphere of Vinyl/Media Cutting for Aid in Platemaking	Demo E5: Easy Magic, Simple Tricks, and Priceless Tips for the Letterpress Studio		Student Fellowship Exhibitions @AA 105 SGCI Exchange Portfolio Exhibition @AA 327 Midwest Pressed: Freebird @ AA Atrium Themed Portfolios @ AA 441 @AA 443 @AA 431 @AA 329 @AA 325 @AA 321

10:30am

11am

11:30am

12pm	Demo F1: Photo Litho Plates: Not Just for Photo Anymore	Demo F2: One +One = Infinity	Demo F3: 3-Ring Circuits: Creating Interactive Sculptures with Paper Circuits	Demo F4: INK Version 2.0: The Creative Potential Of Advanced Ink Technologies	Demo F5: Easy Magic, Simple Tricks, and Priceless Tips for the Letterpress Studio

12:30pm

1pm

1:30pm
	Demo G1: Prints from the Unrocked Rock: The Curious Art of Mezzo-Litho	Demo G2: Diazo Monoprints	Demo G3: Litho-Sphere 2015: A Collaboration	Demo G4: All for One and One for All: Wood Lithography and the Unification of Process	Demo G5: Letterpress Printing with Flexi-cut
2pm

2:30pm

3pm

3:30PM	Demo H1: I Wanna Flock (from Rocks)!	Demo H2: Diffused Relief Printing Using an Etching Press	Demo H3: Litho-Sphere 2015: A Collaboration	Demo H4: Another Sphere: Alternative Papermaking	Demo H5: Letterpress Printing with Flexi-cut	PanelH3: Graduate School Assembly: Preparing for the Post-Grad Sphere

4PM

4:30PM

5PM
EVENING EVENTS
	pilot light	ewing gallery	Mcclung museum	Black cultural center	AA103B	aa103	various AA locations
6pm		UTK Printmaking Alumni Exhibtion	Drawn from the McClung Museum	Wanda Ewing Memorial Exhibition	Ungraspable: Walter Jule: Printworks	The Wrocław School of Printmaking – 2015 Scandinavian Spheres: Norwegian Printmakers at SGC International 2015 C=2πR= Economies of Distance	Student Fellowship Exhibitions @AA 105 SGCI Exchange Portfolio Exhibition @AA 327 Midwest Pressed: Freebird @ AA Atrium

6:30pm

7pm

7:30pm

8pm

8:30pm

9pm

9:30pm

10pm	Printmakers' Talent Show

10:30pm

11pm

11:30pm

12am

SGC International Conference • Knoxville, Tennessee • March 18-21, 2015

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Wednesday 3/18

Thursday 3/19

Friday 3/20

Saturday 3/21

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Contact Sphere Knoxville at sgci2015@gmail.com 1715 Volunteer Blvd., School of Art, Knoxville, TN 37996