In this text, Maritza Uribe de Urdinola, director of the Museo de Arte Moderno La Tertulia discusses the II Bienal Americana de Artes Gráficas of Cali, which she organized. This competition, which was important throughout the region, began in mid-October 1973; it featured drawings, prints, and graphic design. This second edition included all forms of printmaking, “from two-dimensional geometric works to hyperrealism, and all techniques, from manual silkscreening to the most sophisticated forms of photo silkscreening,” writes María Elvira Iriarte in Historia de la Serigrafía en Colombia (Bogotá: Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 1986), p. 39. The Museo de Arte Moderno La Tertulia contributed to the rise of drawing and printmaking in Colombia in a number of ways: by organizing drawing and printmaking events that are analogous to the Cali Festival de Arte, in the sixties, and graphic art biennials in the following years (1971, 1973, 1976, 1981, and 1986); by supporting printmaking through the creation of the Taller de Artes Gráficas; by inviting Puerto Rican printmaker Lorenzo Homar (1913–2004) to give a course in silkscreen technique in 1972; and by putting graphic work in circulation via portfolios produced with the sponsorship of the company, Cartón de Colombia, S.A. For this second edition of the biennial, the members of the jury for drawing and printmaking were writer and critic Eugenio Barney (Colombia); the head of the department of prints and photography at the U.S. Library of Congress, Alan Fern; and artists Jesús Rafael Soto (Venezuela) and José Luis Cuevas (Mexico). The members of the jury for graphic design were advertising designer Ricardo Morales (Colombia); writer and critic Jas Reuter (Mexico), and printmaker and illustrator Hermann Zapf (Germany). The following artists received awards at the II Bienal Americana de Artes Gráficas of Cali: in the category of drawing: Ever Astudillo and Omar Rayo (both from Colombia); in the category of printmaking: Peter Milton and Louise Nevelson (both from the United States); and in the category of graphic design: Juan Bernal Ponce (Chile) and Vera Frenkel (Canada).