Perhaps it was the giant sucking sound of inevitability that brought the Southern Graphics Council Conference to Madison.
Even though the national printmaking artists’ organization is based in the South, its national gathering of artists and art professionals is taking place this weekend on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
“It is a big deal,” says Andrew Stevens, the curator of prints at the UW’s Chazen Museum of Art. “It happens once a year. It brings together a lot of the most important teachers and printmakers in the U.S.