Navigating Currents Conference Schedule
| Wednesday, March 14 | |
| 12:00 – 5:00 | Board Meeting Sheraton Hotel, Couteau Room |
| 1:00 – 6:00 | Registration Sheraton Hotel, Grand Ballroom Foyer |
| 1:00 – 6:00 | Members Portfolio Drop Off Sheraton Hotel, Rampart Room |
| 6:00 – 8:00 | Welcome Sheraton Hotel, Waterbury Ballroom |
| 9:00 – | Evening Event |
| Thursday, March 15 | |
| 8:30 – 9:30 | Coffee Sheraton Hotel, outside Grand Chenier Room |
| 8:30 – 4:00 | Registration Sheraton Hotel, Grand Ballroom Foyer |
| 8:30 – 4:00 | Members Portfolio Drop Off Sheraton Hotel, outside Rampart Room |
| 9:30 – 11:00 | Welcome Keynote Speaker: Willie Cole Sheraton Hotel, Grand Ballroom C |
| 10:00 – 8:00 | Theme Portfolios Sheraton Hotel, Grand Chenier & Grand Couteau Rooms |
| 11:00 – 12:00 | Lunch Pick Up Sheraton Hotel, outside Grand Chenier Room |
| 11:00 – 12:30 | INKubator Session Remembering June Wayne Judy Brodsky Sheraton Hotel |
| 11:15 – 12:45 | Membership Meeting Sheraton Hotel Grand Ballroom C |
| 1:00 – 2:30 | Panel Discussions Sheraton Hotel Reductive Navigation: Tracing the Influence of Comic Books Back to the Start Panel Chair: Andrew Kozlowski Grand Ballroom A |
| Role Play: Artist Curator Panel Chair: Sang-Mi Yoo Grand Ballroom B |
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| International Panel Waterbury Ballroom 2ndfloor |
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| 1:00 – 2:30 | INKubator Session The Future of the SGCI Archives Boyd Saunders Sheraton Hotel |
| 3:00 – 4:30 | Panel Discussions Sheraton Hotel Student Panel Panel Chair: Silas Breaux Grand Ballroom A |
| Survey of Contemporary Printmaking Panel Chair: Matthew EganGrand Ballroom B |
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| Masterprinter Panel Current Currents and Undercurrents: Work from the Print Studios of Canada Panel Chair: Jill Graham Waterbury Ballroom 2ndfloor |
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| 3:00 – 4:30 | INKubator Session Selected Readings Beauvais Lyons Sheraton Hotel |
| 1:00 – 4:45 | Video Demonstrations & Presentations Sheraton Hotel, Grand Ballroom C 1:00 – 1:45 Revival! Presenters: Lari Gibbons, Cat Snapp, Christopher Wallace, Laura Drapac & Linda Santana 2:00 – 2:45 Sorry, You’re Not My Type Presenter: Graham McDougal 3:00 – 3:45 How to Make a Print with your Autistic Savant Brother Presenter: Leona Christie 4:00 – 4:45 Optimizing Positive Transparencies for Photo Etching Presenter: Mark Zaffron |
| 5:00 – 6:00 | Emeritus Lecture: David Driesbach Sheraton Hotel, Grand Ballroom C |
| 6:00 – 8:00 | Themed Portfolios Reception Sheraton Hotel, outside Grand Chenier Room |
| 7:00 – 8:30 | INKubator Session Prints and Community Hugh Merrill Sheraton Hotel |
| 7:00 – | Evening Events Art Crawl: Contemporary Arts Center, Odgen Museum, Julia Street |
| Friday, March 16 | |
| 8:30 – 9:30 | Coffee Sheraton Hotel, outside Grand Chenier Room |
| 8:30 – 4:00 | Registration Sheraton Hotel, Grand Ballroom Foyer |
| 8:30 – 10:00 | Members Portfolio Drop Off Sheraton Hotel, outside Rampart Room |
| 9:30 – 11:00 | Keynote Speech Esther Sparks Sheraton Hotel, Grand Ballroom C |
| 10:00 – 8:00 | Theme Portfolios Sheraton Hotel, Grand Chenier & Grand Couteau Rooms |
| 9:00 – 6:00 | Vendor Fair Sheraton Hotel, Grand Ballrooms D & E |
| 11:00 – 12:00 | Lunch Pick Up Sheraton Hotel, outside Grand Chenier Room |
| 11:00 – 12:30 | INKubator Session Printmaking and the Liberal Arts Phyllis McGibbon Sheraton Hotel |
| 1:00 – 2:30 | INKubator Session Prints and the Built Environment Kevin Haas Sheraton Hotel |
| 1:00 – 2:30 | Panel Discussions Sheraton Hotel Riding the Crest of Current Trends (Masterprinter Panel) Panel Chair: Andrew Rubin Grand Ballroom A |
| Midwest Matrix: Colliding Currents (Educational Panel) Panel Chair: Susan Goldman & Dennis O’Neil Waterbury Ballroom 2ndfloor |
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| 3:00 – 4:30 | Panel Discussions Sheraton Hotel Streams of Consciousness: Creating Histories of Contemporary Prints Panel Chair: Peter Briggs Grand Ballroom A |
| Migratory Adaptations: Mingling Cultures, Nostalgic Hearts II Panel Chair: Shaurya Kumar Waterbury Ballroom 2ndfloor |
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| 1:00 – 5:00 | Mentorship Program Sheraton Hotel, Grand Ballroom B |
| 11:30 – 4:00 | Demonstrations Fusion the Complete Lithographer Demonstrator: Otis Tamasauskas Location: Tulane University, Room 302 |
| Table Top Pattern Printing Demonstrators: Josh and Emily Minnie Location: Tulane University, Room 310 |
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| Printing with Lasers! Demonstrator: Steven Nunez Location: Tulane University, Room 208 |
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| Printing in the Fourth-Dimension Demonstrator: Robert Howsare Location: Tulane University, Room 216 |
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| Revolutionary Advancements in Printmaking Demonstrators: Dwight Pogue and Mark Zunino Location: Loyola University |
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| Relief to Rubber: Transforming Relief Cuts to Rubber Stamps Demonstrator: Sukha Worob Location: Sheraton Hotel |
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| Screen Printing with Wheat/Vegetable Paste and Papermaking Pigments Demonstrators: Ross Jahnke and Ernest Milsted Location: Sheraton Hotel |
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| Making Those Prints Dance Demonstrator: Joseph Lappie Location: Sheraton Hotel |
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| 11:30 – 4:00 | Print Event Taking Home With You Organizer: Sang-Mi Yoo Tulane University, Room 214 |
| 4:00 – 5:30 | Keynote Speaker: Nicola Lopez Tulane University |
| 5:30 – 7:00 | Themed Portfolios Reception Sheraton Hotel, outside Grand Chenier Room |
| 6:30 – | Evening Events Art Crawl: St. Claude Arts District, New Orleans Center for Creative Arts |
| Saturday, March 17 | |
| 8:30 – 9:30 | Coffee Sheraton Hotel, outside Grand Chenier Room |
| 9:30 – 11:00 | Capstone Panel Sheraton Hotel, Waterbury Ballroom 2ndfloor |
| 9:30 – 11:00 | INKubator Session Printing for Others Mary Robinson and Andy Rubin Sheraton Hotel |
| 9:00 – 5:00 | Vendor & Publisher’s Fair Sheraton Hotel, Grand Ballrooms D & E |
| 10:00 – 8:00 | Theme Portfolios Sheraton Hotel, Grand Chenier & Grand Couteau Rooms |
| 9:00 – 11:00 | Membership Exchange Pick Up Sheraton Hotel |
| 11:00 – 5:00 | Open Portfolio Sheraton Hotel, Grand Ballrooms |
| 11:00 – 12:00 Session #1 | |
| 12:15 – 1:15 Session #2 | |
| 2:45 – 3:45 Session #3 | |
| 4:00 – 5:00 Session #4 | |
| 11:30 – 1:00 | INKubator Session Erika Adams Sheraton Hotel |
| 1:00 – 3:00 | Print Event Test Your Strength: The High Striker Experience Organizers: Avery McQ. Lawrence and Emily Corazon Nelson Sheraton Hotel, Grand Ballrooms |
| 6:00 – 9:00 | Awards Banquet Sheraton Hotel, Waterbury Ballroom |
| 9:00 – 12:00 | SGC International Big Birthday Bash Sheraton Hotel, Rythms Ballroom 2ndFloor |
| Sunday | |
| 9:00 – 12:00 | Board Meeting Sheraton Hotel, Nottoway 4thfloor |
| (All events are subject to change.) | |