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The upcoming Southern Graphics Council Conference hosted by Virginia
Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia, will convene from March 26th
through the 29th. This year's Lifetime Achievement Award will honor Kerry
James Marshall, the Printmaker Emeritus Award will tribute Helen Frederick,
and Steve Murakishi will receive the Excellence in Teaching Award. Shelly
Bancroft and Peter Nesbett from "Art on Paper," will present the keynote
address. For more information and to register for the conference please go
to the website: www.sgc.vcu.edu.
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Print Maker Emeritus: |
Helen Frederick
founder of Pyramid Atlantic
Silverspring, MD
Professor and Coordinator of Printmaking, Department of Art and Visual Information Technology, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA |
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Lifetime Achievement in Printmaking: |
Kerry James Marshall
Independent Artist
Chicago, IL |
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Excellence in Teaching Printmaking: |
Steve Murakishi
Independent Artist and Curator
Boston, MA |
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Honorary Member of the Council: |
Don R. Byrum
Director and Professor of Art
School of Art & Design
Wichita State University
Ed O'Neil
Independent Artist
R. Olof Sorensen
Professor Emeritus of Furman University
Greenville, SC
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Student Fellowships: |
Janine Biunno
M.F.A Candidate at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston / Tufts University
Rachel Gargiulo
BFA program at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston
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SGC Printmaker Emeritus Award: Helen Frederick
 Helen Frederick is recognized as an artist using printmaking, artist
books, electronic media and installation works as a basis for
commentary. Her BFA and MFA degrees are from the Rhode Island School of
Design, and she attended and received a first year teaching graduate
fellowship: in printmaking from Ohio State University, She is the
founder of Pyramid Atlantic, a Center for Contemporary Collaborative
Projects in Printmaking, Hand Papermaking, and the Art of the Book. She
serves as Professor and Coordinator of Printmaking, Department of Art
and Visual Information Technology, George Mason University, Fairfax,
Virginia where she directs Navigation Press. Frederick is a recipient
of the Governorfs Award for Excellence and Leadership in the Arts in
Maryland, Fulbright, NEA, Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, and Arts and
Humanities of Montgomery County awards for her creative work. Her solo
exhibitions include The View Is Daunting, University of Athens,
Georgia; Suspension/Scieran: Leave Questions Behind at the Southwest
Craft Center, San Antonio, Texas, Revealing Conditions at the Art
Center, South Florida, Under Construction: Relay, Rewind, Record at
Dieu Donnef Gallery, New York, Hei Guys / Hei Guise, Henie Onstad
Museum, Oslo, Norway. Frederickfs work is included in the Whitney
Museum of Art, New York, National Gallery of Art, Library of Congress
and Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, and numerous
collections throughout the world. She has participated in over 100
exhibitions in museums and galleries, and in 2007 her work is
represented in "Paper", Montpelier Cultural Art Center, MD;
"Celebrating 40 Years", Maryland State Arts Council, Baltimore, MD; and
"anti-matter", Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD. In 2006 her digital
portraits were featured in the national exhibition Faces of the Fallen, opening at the Womenfs War Memorial Museum, Washington DC.
She was a delegate to the International Paper Conference, Japan,
sponsored by the Kyoto City Government and the Japan Foundation, New
York, 1983; and Crossing Over / Changing Places, a major project
coordinated with Jane Farmer, curator, and the Lower Eastside
Printshop, Philadelphia Print Center, Pyramid Atlantic and Rutgers
Center for Innovative Prints and Paper for the United States
Information Service as an international traveling exhibition of
collaborative print and paperworks that traveled to nineteen countries
abroad 1993-1997.
She has moderated many panels including the 2006 College Art
Association Panel "Why Beat Pulp, New Paper Terrains in 2007"; "Book
Kontakt" the international IMPACT Printmaking Conference, Berlin and,
Poznan, Poland, 2005; The Peoplefs Print, Southern Graphic Arts
Conference, New Orleans, LA, March, 2002. and she was a panelist for
Art and Human Rights: Destined to Collide? Columbia College, Chicago
Illinois, 2003.
Frederick has served as a graduate critic at such institutions as the
Rhode Island School of Design. Memphis College of Art and Design and
the University of the Arts. Her activity as a lecturer, juror and
curator nationally and internationally, have her currently engaged in
the following exhibitions; International Print Exhibition, USA and
Japan, 2008 featuring Tamarind Institute, SOLO Impressions, Segura
Publishing, Paulson Press and Pyramid Atlantic; and From Sketchbook to
Suspension, Mitchell Gallery, St. Johnfs College, MD, 2009.
Her work has been featured in Handmade Paper Today, Silvie Turner,
Frederic C. Biel, 1983; The Complete Printmaker (revised), John Ross
and Clare Romano, Prentice Hall, 1989; Paper, Diane Maurer-Mathison,
BDD Illustrated Books, 1993; The Best of Printmaking, An International
Collection selected by Lynne Allen and Phyllis McGibbon, Quarry Books,
1997; Dieter Roth in America, Dieter Roth Foundation, Hamburg, Germany,
2004, Interview with Helen Frederick; Papermaking for Printmakers
Elspeth Lamb, UK, A&C Black, publishers, Soho Square, London.
SGC Lifetime Achievement Award: Kerry James Marshall
 Kerry James Marshall was born in 1955 in Birmingham, Alabama, and was
educated at the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles, where he studied
with renowned printmaker Charles White, He received a BFA, and then
honorary doctorate From Otis Art Institute in 1999. The subject matter
of his paintings, installations, prints and public projects is often
drawn from African-American popular culture, and is rooted in the
geography of his upbringing: "You canft be born in Birmingham, Alabama,
in 1955 and grow up in South Central [Los Angeles] near the Black
Panthers headquarters, and not feel like youfve got some kind of social
responsibility. You canft move to Watts in 1963 and not speak about it.
That determined a lot of where my work was going to go," says Marshall.
In his "Souvenir" series of paintings and sculptures, he pays tribute
to the Civil Rights movement with mammoth printing stamps featuring
bold slogans of the era\Black Power!\and paintings of middle-class
living rooms where ordinary African-American citizens have become
angels tending to a domestic order populated by the ghosts of Martin
Luther King, Jr., John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, and other heroes of
the 1960s. In "RYTHM MASTR," Marshall creates a comic book for the
twenty-first century, pitting ancient African sculptures come to life
against a cyberspace elite that risks losing touch with traditional
culture.
Marshallfs works are in the collections of the Whitney Museum of
American Art, The Museum of Modern Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art
(Los Angeles), the Studio Museum of Harlem, the Walker Arts Center, and
the Columbus Museum of Art, among many other museums. His work is on
view at the current Documenta exhibition (a major international
contemporary art show held every five years in Kassel, Germany), and
has also been shown at the Whitney Biennial, the 2003 Venice Biennale,
and in other exhibitions from coast to coast and overseas\including
Splat Boom Pow! The Influence of Cartoons in Contemporary Art, which
was on view at the Wexner Center in 2004. A recipient of a MacArthur
Foundation "genius" grant, Marshall is based in Chicago.
SGC Teaching Excellence in Printmaking Award: Steve Murakishi
 Steve Murakishi has worked as an artist, curator, writer/lecturer,
teacher, and was the Head of the Print Media Department, at Cranbrook
Academy of Art from 1981 - 2002. He currently resides in Boston and works as an independent artist and curator.
As an artist , his selected solo exhibitions include : "Double Flame" (2001) Cranbrook Academy of Art, "Clear Gravy" (1996), GMI Institute, "The CULT of Aesthetics" (1993), Illinois Wesleyan University, "Hard Ball" (1989) San Antonio Art Institute,
"Men On Base" (1985) Cranbrook Museum of Art. Selected group shows ; "Newer Genres: 20 Years of the Rutgers Archives for Printmaking" (2004), "Crosscurrents" (2001) Pyramid Atlantic, University of Maryland, "Postopia" (1999), Craft & Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, "Fabled Impressions" (1999) Georgia Museum of Art, "Changing Media" (1997), Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA, "Impressions: Contemporary Asian American Prints" (1997), Brandywine Workshop, Center for Visual Arts, Philadelphia, PA.
As a curator : "Walk on Water (2002) Powellfs City of Books, Portland, OR, co-curated w/ Irene Hoffmann "Fabula; Consumer Media and Contemporary Art"(2001), co-curated w/ Sergio Soave "Ponte Futuro" (2001) University of Georgia, Cortona, Italy, co-curated w/Critical Art Ensemble, "True Crimes" (1997) Cranbrook Museum of Art.
As a writer/lecturer, Steve Murakishi has enjoyed inspecting the parallels between culture and art. His selected writings include: "betwixt" (2001) catalogue essay for the exhibition "Fabula", "Morphability inn America" (1995) New Art Examiner, and "Mof Colors, Mof Better" (1993) " Critical Impressions" Florida State University. His panels and presentations include: "Not There: Tenacious Absence" (2003) College Art Association, NYC, "Whoop Ass or Whup Ass; our ambiguous conflict" (2001) Crossing Boundaries Conference, Portland, OR, "Post-Lingua: the Interraciality of Tongues" (1999) chair, CAA, Los Angeles, "LifeafterDeath" (1998) Southern Graphics Conference, Athens, OH, "Gnarly Futility" (1996) Southern Graphics Conference, Morgantown WV, "Swoosh, the Mark of Modernism" (1995) Knoxville, TN, "The Teasing of Empowerment: Big Hair and TrompeLfoeil" (1993) Baltimore, MD, "The Love Connection" (1991) chair, Kansas City, MO.
As a teacher and department head, Murakishi tried to open up both media and horizons for his students with travels to Mexico, Japan, Spain, Atlanta, Houston, Los Angeles, New York City, Minneapolis, Cleveland, Chicago, Las Vegas, Memphis, Knoxville, Nashville and participation in community based projects in Pontiac and Detroit, MI.
Murakishi has received a Michigan Council for the Arts & Cultural Affairs Grant (2000) for "The Names Project" in partnership w/ Cranbrook Academy of Art and the Pontiac (MI) Public Schools, National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Artist Fellowship Grant (1989), Arts Midwest Grant, Regional NEA Grant (1988) and Michigan Council for the Arts Individual Artist Grant (1987, 1984).
The edges of Murakishi's works are in the cultural, political and sometimes common identities of our contemporary milieu. These works cut deeply into the elliptical path of social complexities, cultural differences and individual identities.
- Steve Murakishi
SGC Honorary Member of the Council:
 Don R. Byrum
President of SGC 1987-1989, Conference Host in Charlotte, NC in 1984, Vice President in charge of the Traveling Exhibit 1985-1990, MFA U. of Michigan 1969, BFA Rhode Island School of Design 1967. He is currently Director and Professor of Art, School of Art & Design, Wichita State University.
 Ed O'Neil
Ed OfNeil is a painter and printmaker who when not pursuing his art spends his time as a concrete materials research engineer for the U.S. Army. His love of printmaking dates back to 1972 when he took an etching class with Dennis Davenport.
In 1988 Stephen Cook, president of SGC at that time, asked him to join the Southern Graphics Council. Ed agreed and asked what he could do for the Council. Stephen had the idea for a product fair at the annual conference and asked Ed to organize it. The first vendor fair took place in 1989 at the University of Alabama with 6 vendors. Since that time Mr. OfNeil has organized 18 vendor fairs for the annual SGC conferences, which now draw around 36-40 vendors each year. Ed also held the position of Treasurer for the Southern Graphics Council during from 1990-1992.
His devotion and service to the Southern Graphics Council over the past 19 years makes him an obvious choice to receive this year's "Honorary Member of the Council Award".
 R. Olof Sorensen
He is R. Olof Sorensen, Professor Emeritus of Furman University, Greenville, SC. MFA Pratt Institute 1968. Was host of the SGC conference at Furman in 1988 and was responsible for making Leonard Baskin Printmaker Emeritus that year.
Student Fellowships:
 Janine Biunno
Janine Biunno (b. 1982, New Jersey) is a M.F.A Candidate at the School
of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston / Tufts University (2008). She
received a BFA in Studio Art from Carnegie Mellon University (2004)
specializing in Drawing and Printmaking, with minors in Digital Imaging
and History, graduating Summa Cum Laude.
Select exhibitions include gSITE-SEEN,h Aidekman Arts Center, Medford,
MA; "Rerun: the Relation Between and Symbol and a Symptom," Museum of
Fine Arts, Boston (2007); "New Prints Program," International Print
Center of New York (2007); "North American Print Biennial," 808 Gallery,
Boston (2007); "Synthesized Versions," Watchung Art Center, NJ (2005); "110%," Regina Gouger Miller Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA (2004. http://www.janinebiunno.com
 Rachel Gargiulo
Rachel Gargiulo is from Cleveland, Ohio, and is completing her final
year of the BFA program at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston. Her concentrations at the SMFA have been in lithography and
photography. Presently she is working on a collaborative project
involving the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, a fraternal
organization that was founded in the 19th century.
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Chair
Awards Committee
Rosemarie Bernardi, Associate Professor
Keene State College
Keene, NH
rbernardi@keene.edu
Current President (ex-officio)
Anita Jung, Associate Professor
University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA
anita-jung@uiowa.edu
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Virginia Commonwealth University Rep
Andy Kozlowski
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
commandprint@vcu.edu
Immediate Past President
April Katz
Iowa State University, Ames, IA
akatz@iastate.edu |
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Nominations are solicited and accepted by the SGC Awards Steering Committee. |
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The granting of one award does not exclude eligibility of a recipient from accepting any other SGC awards. |
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Not all awards need be given every year, except for the emeritus award, which is given annually and can be given to more than one recipient. |
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Awards are presented at the annual conferences awards ceremony. |
The Printmaker Emeritus should be a senior printmaker, i.e., one whose career is an established fact rather than a promise. However, no specific age has ever been fixed. The candidate's primary area of artistic endeavor should be in the field of printmaking and may include related media such as papermaking or artist's books, whether as a practitioner, educator or administrator.
The SGC Lifetime Achievement in Printmaking is awarded to an individual who has made an outstanding contribution to the professional development of printmaking as a fine art. This is the only award that SGC can decide to give posthumously, and the nomination is generated by the host of the conference at which the award will be presented.
The SGC Excellence in Teaching Printmaking Award is awarded to an individual who has made an outstanding contribution to teaching printmaking and has demonstrated excellence in his or her own creative work.
Honorary Members of the Council are individuals who have demonstrated outstanding service to the Southern Graphics Council organization.
SGC Student Fellowships are awarded to individuals who exhibit outstanding promise in the fine art practice of printmaking. Each institution may submit the name of one graduate and one undergraduate student candidate. In order to be considered, these students and the institutional representative nominating them, must be members in good standing. The students must submit the following to the SGC Awards Steering Committee:
Four complete sets of:
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Nominating statement by their institution representative |
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Eight Slides |
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A proposal (maximum of two pages long) outlining the project that the fellowship will be used for. This should include an abstract, methodology, timeline and budget. |
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One Self-Addressed Stamped Envelope |
The award is $500 for the undergraduate student and $1000 for the graduate student.
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Printmaker Emeritus (2 Years Ahead)
Nomination Deadline October 15, Decision October 30
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Lifetime Achievement Award (1 Year Ahead)
Nomination Deadline: May 15, Decision: May 30
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Excellence in Teaching (1 Year Ahead)
Nomination Deadline: October 15, Decision: October 30
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Honorary Members of the Council (1 Year Ahead)
Nomination Deadline: October 15, Decision: October 30
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Undergraduate Fellowships (1 Year Ahead)
Nomination Deadline: November 1, Decision: November 20
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Graduate Fellowships (1 Year Ahead)
Nomination Deadline: November 1, Decision: November 20
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