THEME
Knoxville’s most distinctive landmark is the Sunsphere, built for the 1982 World’s Fair. As a symbolic representation of three-dimensional space, the sphere references the atom, the cell, the earth, the sky and the universe. We are part of the biosphere living on the lithosphere of planet Earth, breathing in the atmosphere and at times contemplating the celestial sphere. Using the sphere as metaphor, this conference will consider our community, our profession and our relationships with the world. How do spheres inform how we think about scale, from the microscopic and local to the macroscopic and global? How do we map three-dimensional forms through two-dimensional images? Since a sphere has no top or bottom, we might regard the sphere as non-hierarchical, with all of the surface points an equal distance from its center. Building on prior conferences held in Knoxville in 1992 and 1995, the 2015 SGC International conference will include an diverse lineup of speakers, panels, portfolios, technical demonstrations, exhibitions and special projects that bring together printmakers from across the world to have a ball.
