In this episode Miranda speaks with Maya Thomas and Chris Mulford about their project to save the Dox Thrash House. Dox (1893-1965) was the co-inventory of the mezzotint carborundum process, the first African American to be hired at the Fine Print Shop of Philadelphia, and a pillar of the arts community. His house is located in the historic Sharswood neighbourhood in Philadelphia but now sits vacant. Maya and Chris are looking to change that through an ambitious crowdfunding campaign to raise $100,000 to purchase the building. We talk about the life of Dox, the importance of historic preservation, and the role that the house will have in the community once it’s been restored.pine|copper|lime is partnering with Speedball Art Products Co. to help raise funds for this project. Anyone who donates $50 or more to the project will be entered to win a stunning package of Speedball products. The deadline is 25 July 2020!Speedball giveaway:https://www.pinecopperlime.com/the-dox-thrash-house-fundraiserThe fundraiser:https://ioby.org/project/save-historic-dox-thrash-houseThe instagram:https://www.instagram.com/dox.thrashSPEEDBALL GIVEAWAY:https://www.speedballart.com/speedball-studio/speedball-print-posse/Shop Talkwww.patreon.com/helloprintfriendYOUTUBEwww.youtube.com/channel/UCOMIT3guY5PjHj1M7GApouwMERCHwww.teepublic.com/user/helloprintfriendWEBSITEwww.helloprintfriend.cominstagramwww.instagram.com/helloprintfriendprint galleryhelloprintfriend.com/print-gallery✨patreon✨www.patreon.com/helloprintfriendOur sponsor Speedballwww.speedballart.com

In this episode Miranda speaks with MIRIAM. She is a Spanish artist who, through her study of textiles, received an invitation to visit India and learn traditional woodblock carving from artists who have been practicing the craft going back generations. She now travels the world with her woodblocks, using them as stencils for her hand-poked tattoo practice as well as her textile arts. We’ll talk about travel, adornment, the similarities between fabric and skin, the surprising historical and contemporary connections between printmaking and tattoo, and the relationship we have to our finite bodies.SAVE DOX THRASH'S HOUSEhttps://ioby.org/project/save-historic-dox-thrash-houseMIRIAM's Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/woodblocktattoo/Shop Talkwww.patreon.com/helloprintfriendYOUTUBEwww.youtube.com/channel/UCOMIT3guY5PjHj1M7GApouwMERCHwww.teepublic.com/user/helloprintfriendWEBSITEwww.helloprintfriend.cominstagramwww.instagram.com/helloprintfriendprint galleryhelloprintfriend.com/print-gallery✨patreon✨www.patreon.com/helloprintfriendOur sponsor Speedballwww.speedballart.com

In this episode Miranda speaks with Ryan O’Malley. Ryan joined me from his studio in Corpus Christi, Texas, where he is currently the Associate Professor of Printmaking and Graduate Coordinator at Texas A&M University. He went to the University of South Dakota to study art on a track scholarship, where he was, as you’ll hear, cruelly tricked into studying printmaking but he has never looked back. We had a wonderful chat about printmaking, teaching, Ryan breaking his neck, and getting to be a bumblebee spreading the knowledge of printmaking around the country during his time with Drive By Press.Ryan O'Malley's Websitehttp://www.ryanomalleyart.com/Ryan O'Malley's Instagram https://www.instagram.com/ryanomalleyart/Shop Talkwww.patreon.com/helloprintfriendYOUTUBEwww.youtube.com/channel/UCOMIT3guY5PjHj1M7GApouwMERCHwww.teepublic.com/user/helloprintfriendWEBSITEwww.helloprintfriend.cominstagramwww.instagram.com/helloprintfriendprint galleryhelloprintfriend.com/print-gallery✨patreon✨www.patreon.com/helloprintfriendOur sponsor Speedballwww.speedballart.com

In this episode Miranda speaks with Ellen Heck. Ellen is an artist whose brain is matched by her artistic brawn. Her prints are beautiful, contemplative portraits of women as well as abstracted colour field studies she creates using a technique of woodcut and drypoint. She is someone who thinks deeply about her process and product and, just like your humble host, received her BA in philosophy so we get into the nature of identity and how it relates to printmaking and do a deep dive into some printmaker’s printmaker talk about the technical side of her practice,Ellen Heck's Websitehttps://ellenheck.com/Shop Talkwww.patreon.com/helloprintfriendYOUTUBEwww.youtube.com/channel/UCOMIT3guY5PjHj1M7GApouwMERCHwww.teepublic.com/user/helloprintfriendWEBSITEwww.helloprintfriend.cominstagramwww.instagram.com/helloprintfriendprint galleryhelloprintfriend.com/print-gallery✨patreon✨www.patreon.com/helloprintfriendOur sponsor Speedballwww.speedballart.com

In this episode Miranda speaks with Jason Phu an Australian artist whose practice includes painting, drawing, sculpture, video, performance, and of course printmaking. Jason grew up in Sydney Australia the child of Chinese immigrants and his art explores the immigrant experience, cross generational communication, language, poetry old and new, and alcohol. Often using humour as a device to explore these experiences.+++++++++++++- Book: Ibram X. Kendi - How To Be An Antiracist- Book: Ta-nehisi Coates - Between the World and Me- Book: bell hooks - killing rage: Ending Racism- Podcast: Code Switch https://www.npr.org/2020/05/29/865261916/a-decade-of-watching-black-people-dieDONATE:Minnesota Freedom Fundhttps://minnesotafreedomfund.org/donateEqual Justice Initiativehttps://support.eji.org/give/153413/#!/donation/checkout Black Lives Matterhttps://blacklivesmatter.com/+++++++++++++Jason Phu's Websitehttp://www.jasonphu.com/Jason Phu Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/titsmcgee66Chalk Horse Galleryhttps://www.chalkhorse.com.au/Station Galleryhttps://stationgallery.com.au/Shop Talkwww.patreon.com/helloprintfriendYOUTUBEwww.youtube.com/channel/UCOMIT3guY5PjHj1M7GApouwMERCHwww.teepublic.com/user/helloprintfriendWEBSITEwww.helloprintfriend.cominstagramwww.instagram.com/helloprintfriendprint galleryhelloprintfriend.com/print-gallery✨patreon✨www.patreon.com/helloprintfriendOur sponsor Speedballwww.speedballart.com

In this episode Miranda speaks with Carlos Barberena, a self-taught Nicaraguan Printmaker now based in Chicago, where he runs Bandolero Press and La Calaca Press. Barberena grew up in the 1970s during a violent and volatile revolution. At a young age he fled over the border to Costa Rica where he and his brothers sought refugee status while they sold their drawings on the thoroughfares. Today he is well-known for his satirical relief prints which interweave the imagery of pop culture with that of political and cultural tragedies. This interview was recorded in mid-April 2020, right at the height of COVID panic and as well as his story, he also shares some beautiful insights into what we all can be doing now that the world has forced us to slow down.Carlos Barberena's Websitehttp://www.carlosbarberena.com/Carlos Barberena Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/carlosbarberenaShop Talkwww.patreon.com/helloprintfriendYOUTUBEwww.youtube.com/channel/UCOMIT3guY5PjHj1M7GApouwMERCHwww.teepublic.com/user/helloprintfriendWEBSITEwww.helloprintfriend.cominstagramwww.instagram.com/helloprintfriendprint galleryhelloprintfriend.com/print-gallery✨patreon✨www.patreon.com/helloprintfriendOur sponsor Speedballwww.speedballart.com

In this episode of Miranda speaks with Koichi Yamamoto, who is well known for his beautiful kites printed with other worldly faces. Yamamoto is a global citizen who has been taken around the world in his pursuit of art and new experiences. From Osaka to Wyoming, to Poland and Slovakia, to Denmark and Canada, before landing at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville where he currently teaches intaglio printmaking. He talks about it all with a beautiful philosophy of life and art.Koichi's websitehttps://www.yamamotoprintmakin.com/Koichi's instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/koichi_yamamoto/Shop Talkwww.patreon.com/helloprintfriendYOUTUBEwww.youtube.com/channel/UCOMIT3guY5PjHj1M7GApouwMERCHwww.teepublic.com/user/helloprintfriendWEBSITEwww.helloprintfriend.cominstagramwww.instagram.com/helloprintfriendprint galleryhelloprintfriend.com/print-gallery✨patreon✨www.patreon.com/helloprintfriendOur sponsor Speedballwww.speedballart.com

In this episode Miranda speaks with Delita Martin, who joined us from her studio in Houston in the middle of a Texas thunderstorm to talk about her large-scale prints with which she mixes drawing, sewing, and collage. Her work, among many things, is an exploration of sisterhood among women of color. We talk about the nature of portraiture, her journey to find her unique aesthetic, starting Black Box Press Studio, and growing up in an art school.Delita's Websitehttps://blackboxpressstudio.com/Delita's Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/blackboxpressDelita's Facebookhttps://www.facebook.com/delita.martinShop Talkwww.patreon.com/helloprintfriendYOUTUBEwww.youtube.com/channel/UCOMIT3guY5PjHj1M7GApouwMERCHwww.teepublic.com/user/helloprintfriendWEBSITEwww.helloprintfriend.cominstagramwww.instagram.com/helloprintfriendprint galleryhelloprintfriend.com/print-gallery✨patreon✨www.patreon.com/helloprintfriendOur sponsor Speedballwww.speedballart.com

In this episode Miranda speaks with Gordon Cooke the founder of the London Original Print Fair which has been held every year at the Royal Academy of Arts since 1985… until this year. The wide spread lockdown due to COVID-19 forced Gordon and the team to improvise only six weeks before the opening. In his career Gordon has gone from selling prints through catalogs with only text descriptions to taking the fair online. In this episode we talk about the print market past and present, the changes made to the LOPF, and, of course, the love of collecting.The Fair Onlinehttps://londonoriginalprintfair.com/lopf-onlineShop Talkwww.patreon.com/helloprintfriendYOUTUBEwww.youtube.com/channel/UCOMIT3guY5PjHj1M7GApouwMERCHwww.teepublic.com/user/helloprintfriendWEBSITEwww.helloprintfriend.cominstagramwww.instagram.com/helloprintfriendprint galleryhelloprintfriend.com/print-gallery✨patreon✨www.patreon.com/helloprintfriendOur sponsor Speedballwww.speedballart.com

In this episode of Miranda speaks with John Hancock, one half of the renowned Amazing Hancock Bros. and someone who has been loving referred to as “the granddaddy of twenty-first-century printmaking”. Mixing carnival barker performance with printmaking demonstration, the brothers put on quite the show. We’ll talk about breaking down the preciousness of art making, the collaborative process with a family member, and William Burroughs' gun collection.John's Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/natas/The Amazing Hancock Bros. Facebookhttps://www.facebook.com/pages/category/Artist/Amazing-Hancock-Bros-1900357486957041/Shop Talkwww.patreon.com/helloprintfriendYOUTUBEwww.youtube.com/channel/UCOMIT3guY5PjHj1M7GApouwMERCHwww.teepublic.com/user/helloprintfriendWEBSITEwww.helloprintfriend.cominstagramwww.instagram.com/helloprintfriendprint galleryhelloprintfriend.com/print-gallery✨patreon✨www.patreon.com/helloprintfriendOur sponsor Speedballwww.speedballart.com