Prospectus for SGCI’s Annual Juried Printmaking Exhibition Call for Entry

SGCI 2025 Annual Printmaking Exhibition – (Impressiones del PuertoGrabando)

Overview: The Southern Graphics Council International (SGCI) is excited to announce the call for entries for its SGCI 2025 Annual Juried Printmaking Exhibition. This exhibition highlights contemporary printmaking and seeks to showcase the diverse talents of artists worldwide. SGCI encourages submissions from emerging and established printmakers who use traditional and innovative printmaking techniques.

Jurors: The exhibition will be juried by Martin Garcia Rivera and Ada Rosa Rivera.

Martin is a distinguished artist, printmaker, and professor known for his vast contributions to printmaking. Martín García Rivera is a renowned printmaker and painter from Puerto Rico. He earned a bachelor’s degree in arts from the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) in 1983 and a master’s degree from the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn in 1988. Since 1993, he has been a professor at UPR, teaching wood printmaking, metal engraving, and drawing. Specializing in xylography (woodcut), García Rivera’s work has been recognized internationally, earning awards in Puerto Rico, Sweden, Russia, and Slovenia. His art often explores the human figure as a metaphor for themes such as racial, political, and religious identity and psychological states. 

Ada Rosa Rivera Negrón is a woman and Puerto Rican artist, born in San Juan. She is Profesor in the Department of Humanistic Studies at the Interamerican University of Puerto Rico, Bayamón Campus and at the School of Fine Arts and Design of Puerto Rico in San Juan. Since 2000, she has collaborated with the Education Program of the Museum of Art of Puerto Rico in Santurce and with the Museum of the Americas, giving workshops and lectures to teachers and in activities aimed at the general public. Her graphic work has been exhibited in local and international Galleries and Biennials. She practices the techniques of “NON-TOXIC” printmaking. She completed a Master’s degree in Visual Arts with a specialty in printmaking at the San Carlos Academy, affiliated with the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). She has taken courses leading to a Doctorate degree in History at the Center for Advanced Studies of Puerto Rico and the Caribbean in Old San Juan. She is the owner of the ‘’TALLER DIVINO GRABADO’’, located in Hato Rey, where she creates her works and provides space for young printmakers to print their works. She is currently the president and founder of the independent artists collective called “LAS JORNADAS DEL GRABADO PUERTORRIQUEÑO, Inc.”, a non-profit corporation that has been in operation for 21 years without interruption, whose purpose is to promote, preserve and sell original works in the various traditional and contemporary printmaking techniques.

Eligibility:

• Open to all artists worldwide.
• Works must be created using printmaking techniques such as etching, lithography, relief, screen printing, monotype, woodcut, linocut, digital printmaking, or experimental methods.
• All works must have been created within the last two years (2022–2025).
• Only original print works will be accepted; no digital reproductions.
• SGCI members and non-members are welcome to apply, with a discounted entry fee for SGCI members.

If you’re a member, please be sure to login first to receive the member price of $35.