Our Shared Future
Our Shared Future printmaking conference is a call to artists to consider how our studio practice makes culture and knowledge visible through socially engaged graphic arts of the past, present, and future.
Printmaking deepens our understanding of the world, inherently challenges systems of oppression, and pushes against histories of colonization, unwarranted violence, and systemic racism.
Artists share in the responsibility to shape our future. The 2022 SGCI printmaking conference is implicitly guided by the social and environmental ecology of a place and seeks to affirm the role of graphic arts within Our Shared Future.
WHERE WE ARE
Teejop (day-JOPE)
Before it was called Madison, Teejop (day-JOPE) was once home to a flourishing community that created thousands of mounds in the shape of animal, bird, spirit, and human forms. The University of Wisconsin–Madison occupies ancestral Ho-Chunk land, a place their nation has called Teejop since time immemorial. In an 1832 treaty, the Ho-Chunk were forced to cede this territory. Decades of ethnic cleansing followed when both the federal and state government repeatedly, but unsuccessfully, sought to forcibly remove the Ho-Chunk from their homeland.
After 171 years, leaders of the Ho-Chunk Nation, UW-Madison alumni, and campus leadership are working to develop a communal educational relationship symbolized by a heritage marker titled “Our Shared Future” to recognize campus as the ancestral home of the Ho-Chunk. Learn more at https://oursharedfuture.wisc.edu/
Look forward to a call for participation!!!