North Texas SGCI 2019 -- First Day

SGCI NORTH TEXAS -- FIRST DAY
Wednesday, March 6, 2019

DALLAS

The big North Texas SGCI print conference started off in Dallas with a bang, on Wednesday, March 6th, 2019 -- kicking off a big schedule of activities.

At the Fairmont Hotel in downtown Dallas

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Manuel Guerra receives a box of Voodoo Donuts from Austin,

a throw back to the Portland SGCI conference in 2016;

Francisco Delgado receives a bottle of the finest mezcal,

reminiscent of when he went down to Oaxaca

to make his relief print edition for the Desert Triangle Print Carpeta

Checking in to SGCI

on the second floor of the Fairmont Hotel

Welcome SGCI

We were one of the first to put flyers out,

for our exhibition at the University of Texas at Arlington --

and they were all gone by the end of the conference

Omar Gonzalez with the crew from Booker T Washington arts high school,

making prints in front of the Dallas Museum of Art

The Booker T Washington crew 

had this strange printmaking device  -- the Uber Vibe,

from Whelan Press in Santa Fe

(I can find no information about this online)

The Nasher  Sculpture Center 

just down the street from the Dallas Museum of Art

Luis Valderas and Kim Bishop --

who came to El Paso to make steamroller prints in 2014-- 

came from San Antonio to participate in the 

"Social Practice and Printmaking Collectives" panel the next day

THEME EXCHANGE PORTFOLIO EXHIBITIONS

AT THE UNIVERSITY OF DALLAS

There was a good reception for 4 great portfolios exhibited at the University of Dallas, reception during the evening of March 6th, 2019.

• Saints, Superheroes and the Demonized -- organized by Marco Sanchez
• A Shrinking World -- organized by Andrew Mullally and Jessica Robles
• Habitus: Comteplative Manifesto -- organized by Shelia Goloborotko and Andrew Kozlowski
• Laser Printmaker: Mapping Overlaps Between Printmaking and Laser Systems  -- organized by Dana Potter

"The celebrity bus" arrives for the exhibitions

at the University of Dallas

Once the "celebrity bus" arrived,

the exhibition was packed

Marco Sanchez organized the portfolio

"Saints, Superheores, and the Demonnized:

M Alfredo Acosta

Stephany Carnycia

Doug Eberhardt

Oknarf Odagled

Terri and Kim Bauer of UTEP,

stand in front of the print by one of their former students

Nabil Gonzalez

VIEW THE COMPLETE PORTFOLIO

Saints, Superheroes and the Demonized

See the complete portfolio at this link:

Saints, Superheroes and the Demonized

SEE SELECT PRINTS OF THE PORTFOLIO:

A Shrinking World 

See selected works of the excellent portfolio

A Shrinking World

Miguel Aragon

in front of his print

in the portfolio

"Laser Printmaker"

SEE SELECTED WORKS OF THE FOLLOWING 2 PORTFOLIOS

Habitus: Comteplative Manifesto

Laser Printmaker: Mapping Overlaps Between Printmaking and Laser Systems

From the Laser Printer portfolio

a Magic Eye print,

made with a laser cutter

Taken at the printmaking studio

of the University of Dallas

Juergen Strunck, professor at the University of Dallas,

had the print show in the main gallery

Juergen Strunck print

Dr Peter Briggs talks about the work of Juergen Strunck

Print celebrity Beauvais Lyons,

professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville,

graciously receives a Desert Triangle catalog from us