Hello, Print Friend

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

In this episode Miranda speaks with Raj Bunnag a printmaker based in North Carolina whose work, dramatically and unflinchingly addresses the global war on drugs. Raj makes large and exceptionally detailed linocuts that skilfully borrow imagery from everything from the news media and his Thai roots to sixteenth-century etchings by the likes of Pieter Bruegel the Elder and Francisco Goya. He speaks passionately and beautifully about using his artwork to exorcise the demons found in society and his own experiences.raj's websitehttps://www.rajbunnag.com/raj's instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/jungle_asian_redneck/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 Omar Bin Musa. Omar is a Malaysian-Australian rapper, poet, published author, and self-taught printmaker from Queanbeyan, Australia. After discovering woodcut while on a writing retreat in Borneo he has been creating heartfelt and honest images which masterfully wed images to words. We talk about printmaking and activism, the art of story telling, quite a bit about the high highs and low lows of the creative process, and close with Omar performing one of his most recent poems.Omar's websitehttp://www.omarmusa.com.au/Omar's instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/omarbinmusaOmar's Facebookhttps://www.facebook.com/omarmusaqbnBuy Omar's printshttps://omarmusaqbn.bigcartel.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 Martin Mazorra a well known and well loved printmaker based in Brooklyn but originally from West Virginia. Martin makes stunning woodcuts often paired with letterpress movable type to create his own codification systems for images which are as beautiful as they are darkly humorous. In this episode we talk about his growing up in West Virginia, how he came to fall in love with letterpress, finding balance in one's work between the aesthetic and the theoretical, Victorian dream books, and wild turkeys.Martin Mazorra's websitehttps://www.martinmazorra.net/Martin Mazorra's instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/mmazorraCannonball Presshttps://www.cannonballpress.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 Ericka Walker, an American born lithographer and muralist currently working as an Associate Professor of Art at Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University in Halifax. Drawing from twentieth-century propaganda and historical documents, she creates a visual mixtape of North America’s past glories and its hubris. She is an artist who thinks deeply about the why and how of creating her works and is able to speak eloquently about it, letting us intimately into her process. In this interview we talk about how ideas of class, the value of labor, and our corporeal experience all inform the incredible prints and murals that she creates.Erick Walker's Websitehttps://www.erickawalker.com/Mesh Art Galleryhttp://meshartgallery.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 Kill Joy. Joy is a printmaker and muralist of Filipino heritage who lives and works throughout the world. This interview was recorded during the bushfire crisis in Australia in January of 2020, so there is talk about that particular time of chaos, but it is also incredibly applicable to our current COVID-19 pandemic. There are no small questions with Joy, so this chat is a bit of a heavy hitter. We talk about the systems in place to make us consumerist zombies, end of life care, and the destruction of the earth, but also the incredible transformative power of art, the mind-expanding experience of travel, and little children in Honduras befriending a frog in one of Joy’s murals.Kill Joy's Instagramwww.instagram.com/kill.joy.mallShop 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