Hello, Print Friend

In this episode Miranda speaks with Reinaldo Gil Zambrano community builder, lecturer, printmaker, story teller, and printmaking advocate. We talk about his childhood growing up in Caracas, Venezuela; his leaving home at sixteen to study in Costa Rica; learning about illustration as visual communication; and finding a sense of home in a changing life through shared narratives. We also chat about magical realism in Latin American culture and some family legends from the artist’s childhood. We welcome Reinaldo as our second artist to feature a double release of the podcast episode, with one in Spanish and the other in English.[more information]Reinaldo Gil Zambrano Websitehttp://www.reinaldogilzambrano.com/RGZ Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/rgzprints/Spokane Print & Publishing Centrehttps://www.facebook.com/spokaneprint/Taller TAGA in Caracashttps://www.instagram.com/tallertaga/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 Jill Graham the technician and master printer at the NSCAD Lithography Workshop: Contemporary Editions. Graham shares her journey of starting out in Montreal, setting up a lithography workshop in a remote part of Ontario, traveling to South Africa to train a color blind master printer, waiting ten years to attend Tamarind, and surviving and thriving in the Toronto arts scene as single mom. We also talk about Graham’s role in the reinstitution of the lithography workshop with an eye intersectionality, collaborating with First Nations artist on Cape Dorset, and how to gracefully dodge your interviewer’s request for hot goss regarding the famous artists with which you’ve printed.[more information]NSCAD Lithography Workshophttps://nscadlitho.wordpress.comJill Graham’s Websitehttps://jillgrahamink.wordpress.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 Steve Campbell of Landfall Press in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He has been working at the iconic press for thirty-one years as the director, marketer, and collaborative printer and he still speaks about printmaking with a romance as if they were on their first date. Campbell has printed with Judy Chicago, Christo, Jim Dine, Claes Oldenburg, and Kara Walker, to name a few, and he says he’ll still get lost in the magic of admiring a print in the moments after it has been separated from the stone. We talk about how he came to Landfall over three decades ago, the meditative aspects of lithography, and what is on the horizon for Landfall as they look towards their 50th anniversary in 2020.[more information]Landfall Press Websitehttp://landfallpress.com/Landfall Press Facebookhttps://www.facebook.com/landfallpressShop 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 Gregory Santos, Instagram lithographer extraordinaire. Santos builds and tends to an expansive online community based on being open about the trials and tribulations of printmaking’s most mercurial medium. We talk about the need for honesty in social media, and to move away from the shiny perfection on social media which is so often touted real life. As well as Santos’ ambitious print exchange Mixed Grit, for which he mails four small lithography stones to printmakers around the country, who draw on them, and then mail them back. Santos documents all of this with transparency, humour, and an eye toward digital community building on a global scale.[more information]gregory santos on instagramwww.instagram.com/nycgpsmixed grit on instagramwww.instagram.com/mixedgritShop 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 Elizabeth Jean Younce, lithographer, small business owner, and dog mom. Younce grew up in the wilds of New England and the natural world as well as the folklore we create from it is at the heart of her practice. Younce’s images are filled with the honestly and brutality of animals and she uses them to explore feelings of becoming overwhelmed by the chaos in which we live. We also chat about Younce inheriting a printmaking studio in Los Angeles from a Partisan lithographer, her time printing at Tandem Press and Gemini G.E.L., being your print boss lady, and that eternal question “Why's a nice girl like you doing a print this?”[more information]elizabeth jean younce websitehttp://www.elizabethjeanyounce.com/mustard beetle websitehttps://www.mustardbeetle.com/elizabeth jean younce instagramhttp://instagram.com/elizabethjeanyouncemustard beetle instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/mustardbeetle/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 Tanekeya Word a Milwaukee based visual artist, printmaker and educator, whose work centers around Black geographies: exploring Afrofuturism, Black aesthetics, Black hair, Black identity, and Black girl/womanhood. Word is also the founder of Black Women of Print a society where black female printmakers can share space, intergenerational knowledge, stories, and community. If that wasn’t enough, Black Women of Print is also an educational resource for discovering historical black female printmakers currently overlooked in the printmaking canon. We talk education, arts funding, accessibility in printmaking, and future thinking.[more information]Word's websitehttps://www.tanekeyaword.comBlack Women of Print Websitehttps://www.blackwomenofprint.comBlack Women of Print Newsletterhttps://www.blackwomenofprint.com/contactWord on the StudioNoize Podcasthttps://www.studionoizepodcast.com/episodes/2019/4/23/girl-gang-w-tanekeya-wordpine|copper|lime at SGCI 2020https://www.sgcinternational.org/puertografico-events/?event_id=167Shop 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 Ben Muñoz about his series “The Endless Endeavor”. These six woodcuts, each 8 by 4 feet, chronicle his family’s journey from Mexico to America starting with the artist’s grandfather. Filled with rich iconography and complex symbolism, these pieces tell a multi-generational story of hard work and hope. Muñoz channels the grit and resolves shown by the generations before him in order to take on his career as a working artist and help provide for his family. We also talk about Muñoz’s side hustle, Casa Press, and how it all fits into the luck, determination, and just general niceness which is all necessary to make it as a successful artist.[more information]Ben Muñoz websitehttps://www.benmunozart.comBen Muñoz instagramhttp://instagram.com/thebenmunoz/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 Opal Ecker Deruvo a non-binary printmaker working in Norwalk, Connecticut. DeRuvo speaks about their early introduction to our craft at the Center for Contemporary Printmaking, developing their traditional draftsmanship skills in order to express the critical queer moments in their life with the reverence of a seventeenth-century portrait, taking advantage of the omnipresence of smartphones to capture the candid, and sisterhood in queer communities. We also explore the idea of tenderness as revolution and the strength it takes to hold on it the face of our often brutal world.Update August 2020: Since the publication of this episode in July 2019, DeRuvo chosen the name Opal Ecker Deruvo. They are referred to as their previous name in this recording. This has been left with the artist’s consent.[more information]Opal's websitehttps://paulderuvo.comOpal's instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/sayyoudo/Megalo Print Prizehttp://www.megalo.org/2020-international-print-prizeShop 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 Jamaal Barber: printmaker, curator, collaborator, podcast host, grad student, husband, and father. Barber offers his insights into what it takes to become a successful artist, his own personal story of taking the leap from weekend art fairs to full time artist, and his print practice making work about all aspects of black life in America. He also gives us a look into this current exhibition 400: A Collective Flight of Memory (on display in the Aviation Community Culture Center in Atlanta through 15 July 2019) in which Barber has collaborated with 22 artists as a reflection on the collective black experience during the 400 years since the first slave ships arrived off the coast of Virginia in 1619.[more information]Barber's website:http://jbarberstudio.com/Barber's Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/jbarberstudio/Barber's Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/jbarberstudioShop 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 Marco Sánchez about growing up on the Juarez / El Paso border, moving from his home to a small town in Pennsylvania, taking advice and inspiration from his artist grandfather, and representing his cultural identity through drawing on the incredible history of post-revolution Mexican printmakers. Sánchez also talks about the changing politics of what it means to be Lantix in the United States within his lifetime and how the current administration’s immigration policies have affected his life and work. As well as the complex and on going process of decolonizing his aesthetic. This episode of the podcast will be a double release, one in Spanish the other in English, made possible by my wonderful co-host this week Maya Verdugo and extra editing help by Judith Martinez Estrada.[more information]Marco's website:https://www.marcoprintsanchez.com/Marco's instagram:https://instagram.com/onpaperandcanvasMarco at the El Paso Museum of Art thru 29 June 2019https://epma.art/calendar/luminares-de-arte-marco-sanchez-2019-06-12Shop 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