Hello, Print Friend

In this episode Miranda speaks with Jessica Marie Mercy a printmaker, visual artist and self-identified “femme, queer bitch” from Seattle, Washington, whose artistic practice revolves around preserving and celebrating queer spaces and queer community through documentation. She does so with beautifully rendered relief works and photo-based screen prints all produced in vibrant, unapologetic colours which balance the rawness of a gig poster with the detailing of reduction woodcut landscape. In this episode we talk about growing in up a conservative small town in Eastern Washington, discovering queer culture, and her love of drag performance and culture.Jessica Marie Mercy websitehttps://www.jessicamariemercy.com/Jessica Marie Mercy on Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/jesthedeluxe/Queer Conclave on Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/queerconclave/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 Joseph Velasquez, Assistant Professor of Art at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida and co-founder of Drive By Press. We talk about Joseph formative years growing up all over the Southwest and Texas, his early influences through Chicano art, the founding of Drive By Press, and touring the country for eight years with a Pelican etching press. This episode also includes a link to the registry Joseph has created to connect Puerto Rican printmakers with needed supplies that visiting artists can bring during the upcoming SGCI 2020 conference.Printmaking supply registry for SGCI 2020https://sokindregistry.org/registry/puertograficoWebsite for Velasquezhttps://www.josephvelasquez.com/Website for Drive By Presshttps://www.drivebypress.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 Australian artist Rona Green. Green’s practice is an exploration of identities: the ways we express them to the outside world and the sides of ourselves we want to keep hidden. Drawing her inspiration from comic books, Egyptian art, and fashion photography Green constructs her human/animals hybrids as unique individuals who can stand in for any viewer. In this episode we talk about body modification, animal allegories, vulnerability, boxing, and Ötzi, the 5300-year-old iceman.Rona Green Websitehttps://www.ronagreen.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 Robert Blanton the founder and master printer at Brand X Editions in New York City. For the past forty years Brand X has printed for some of the biggest names in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in American art: from Helen Frankenthaler to Jeff Koons. Known for their experimental approach to screen printing as well as the ability to take on exceptionally large-scale projects, Blanton and the team at Brand X have been pushing both the quality and the technique of the medium for four decades. In this episode we talk about how Blanton built his now famous studio, what it’s like to take on those ambitious projects, and working with all those big names and big personalities.Brand X Editions Websitehttp://brandxeditions.comShop 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 Dr. Tony Curran a lecturer at the Centre for Art History & Art Theory at Australian National University. Curran’s practice explores humans’ interaction with technology as well as human’s interaction with each other in our post-humanist age. Primarily an artist working in painting and drawing, Curran experiences printmaking through a collaborative lens of various residencies and print studios throughout Australia. In this episode we talk about philosophy, psychology, pixels, portraiture, and what it means to live a good life. Curran’s interview also marks the first ever episode of PCL recorded in person thanks to new equipment purchased through the generosity of our Patreon supporters.[more information]Tony Curran's Websitewww.tonycurran.netShop 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 Stephanie Alaniz an intersectional feminist, fat activist, and adjunct professor at Emporia State University. Alaniz uses social media to crowd source participants for a project in which she draws stunning portraits of her subjects with their self-reported physical insecurities portrayed in bold. Through painstakingly rendering her subjects with precise draftsmanship, Alaniz documents the collected insecurities allowing the viewer to see the patterns and the underlying social programming which contributes to our shared anxieties. These include fatphobia, ageism, and Euro-centric ideologies.[more information]PCL BUSHFIRE FUNDRAISERhttps://www.gofundme.com/f/pinecopperlime-bushfire-fundraiserStephanie Alaniz Websitehttp://stephaniealaniz.comStephanie Alaniz on Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/bavarianbaby/528.0 Regional Juried Printmaking Exhibition 2020https://arvadacenter.org/528-0-regional-juried-printmaking-exhibition-2020Shop 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 Bernard Derroitte a print dealer, advocate, and educator who has been running print-focused galleries in Chicago since 1998. We talk about his childhood growing up in Brussels and how family trips around Europe to see art profoundly impacted him. As well as, how the physical experience of seeing works in person, particularly works on paper, can be intimate and deeply moving. Bernard also discusses what he looks for in the work of artists he seeks to represent, his view on the future of traditional white cube galleries, and how we all must learn to adapt to the unprecedented changes in the way we consume information we have taken place in the last two decades.[more information]Mesh Art Gallery Websitehttps://meshartgallery.com/Mesh Art Gallery Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/meshartgallery/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 Kathryn Polk. Polk grew up in a church-going Tennessee family during the 1950s before attending the Memphis Art Academy. She worked as an advertisement illustrator for a newspaper, went on to art direction and eventually worked her way up through the corporate ladder to be president of a company giving back-end data management solutions for fortune 500 companies. In her 50s Polk walked away from it all to return to art making. In the past fifteen years she has been raising star in the print world for her breath-taking lithography technique and her unique, mysterious aesthetic.[more information]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 season two is off to the races with Annalise Gratovich. We talk about how growing up in a family of professional musicians instilled in her the work ethic to become an artist, how she came to develop her distinctive aesthetic inspired by the matryoshka dolls of her childhood, and how her family’s displacement during World War II directly affect how she sees and fosters a sense of home. We also chat about her being on the board of the fabulous Print Austin from day one and community building through art and arts organisations.[more information]🖤PCL INSTAGRAM 20K GIVEAWAY🖤https://www.instagram.com/p/B4i6E-xHn9-/?igshid=y732lpnpp75p💰PRINTMAKING DISCOUNT CODES💰Awagami Factory 20% off your paper order: PCL20%https://awagami.com/collections/fine-art-papersPrintAustin$5 off Print Trade Portfolio entry: PCL5offhttps://printaustin.org/opening-events/#!event/2020/1/31/2020-trade-portfolio🔗LINKS🔗Annalise Gratovich Websitehttps://annalisegratovich.com/Annalise Gratovich Instagram with hot plant actionhttps://www.instagram.com/annalisegratovich/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 Peter Lancaster. To mark the happy one year anniversary of PCL we take a vacation together to Lancaster’s newly founded printmaking residency in Fiji. We learn about his childhood on the island, moving to Australia to attend college, traveling to New Mexico to receive training at the Tamarind Institute, and his years spent collaborative printing in Melbourne. This episode and article are a celebration of the global printmaking community and the opportunities the artistic life affords us. [more information]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.comLancaster Press Websitehttps://lancasterpress.com.au/Lancaster Press Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/lancasterpressfiji/