SGC International is an educational non-profit organization committed to informing membership about issues and processes concerning original prints, drawings, book arts, and handmade paper.

Significant dialogue and exchange of technical and critical information occurs each year at our annual conference, which draws participants nationally and internationally.  

Originally formed as Southern Graphics Council, a regional organization for educators of print in the U.S. South, they have grown over the years into the nation’s largest organization of printmakers. They now have representatives internationally, and in 2010 changed their name to SGC International to reflect this broader scope. While the SGC International mission focuses on printmaking, they welcome everyone interested in advancing the dialogue of art, its education, and its processes.

The mission of this organization shall be to advance the professional standing of persons engaged in making original prints and drawings and to stimulate public appreciation and interest in the arts of printmaking, drawing, and other graphic media through the exchange of professional information among artists and others involved these arts; through the organization, display and circulation of exhibitions of prints and drawings by members and other artists to be shown in educational institutions and institutions which further the arts, for the purposes of study, research, enjoyment, and the advancement of these arts; through awards given to these deserving special recognition in these arts; and through publications to inform members and others of activities and other information deemed appropriate to the aforesaid purposes.