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Hello, Print Friend is a podcast dedicated to the celebration and amplification of contemporary printmaking and its culture. Releasing interviews every week with artists, activists, curators, and print champions, we explore what it is that brings together this passionate, yet often geographically separated community, across a press bed and around the world.[formally known as pine|copper|lime]
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This week Miranda speaks with Javier Moreno, a San Juan–based artist, printmaker, and art educator whose work explores the social and political complexities of Puerto Rican identity with bold, graphic clarity. From his early days sketching graffiti to discovering printmaking in college, Javier shares how his artistic voice developed alongside a dee…
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episode 247 : Zorawar Sidhu & Rob Swainston
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This week Miranda speaks with Rob Swainston and Zorawar Sidhu just after their powerful exhibition Flashpoint closed at Petzel Gallery in New York. In this conversation, they talk about the complex relationship between image-making and meaning in an age of media saturation—from their early collaborative experiments to the deeply layered woodcuts re…
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This week Miranda speaks with artist and printmaker Aristotle Forrester, whose journey from skateboarding the streets of South Side Chicago to Columbia University’s MFA program is as rich and layered as his artwork. We talk about how printmaking keeps him grounded in the chaos of the studio, the spiritual and ancestral power of abstraction, and wha…
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episode 245 : phinney brown - crow's shadow institute of the arts
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This week, Miranda speaks with Phinney Brown, Executive Director of Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts. They discuss how Crow’s Shadow’s printmaking residencies invite Indigenous artists from a range of disciplines—often new to printmaking—to explore the medium. The conversation also highlights the significance of the institute’s location on the U…
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In this episode Miranda speaks Peregrine Honig. Peregrine is a multidisciplinary artist whose themes include pop culture, sexuality and consumerism and whose work is in the permanent collections of the Whitney, the Chicago Art Institute and the National Museum of Women in the Arts. They talk about the arc of an artist’s life—how identity, sensualit…
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This week, Miranda speaks with Pavel Acevedo. They talk about themes of oral traditions and community through his storytelling incorporating indigenous knowledge, anarchist communal values, and the interconnectedness between humans and nature. As well as his experience working with Maestro Shinzaburo Takeda and community-based Art Projects such as …
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This week, Miranda speaks with Mariana Ramos Ortiz, an interdisciplinary artist whose work explores the structural and temporal qualities of sand in relation to themes of occupation, self-determination, permanence, and protection— within the context of Puerto Rico’s ongoing colonial realities. In our conversation, we discuss how they uses play and …
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This week, Miranda speaks with Claudia Wilburn and Joseph Velasquez about the Southern Graphics Council International (SGCI)—the largest and oldest professional print organization in the United States. They discuss what makes printmakers so eager to organize and celebrate their shared passion for the medium, the 50+ year history of SGCI, and what a…
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This week, Miranda speaks with Eliza Lutz (they/them)—a musician, printmaker, and PhD student in linguistics based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Eliza is also the recipient of Print Austin’s Best in Show award for their work in The Contemporary Print, an exhibition on view through March 20th. They discuss Eliza’s journey from running a record label i…
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This week, Miranda speaks with Neil Daigle-Orians. They talk about being haunted, literally and metaphorically, internet horror, and how print is not dead. It’s undead. Neil's Website Neil's Instagram Luscinia Historical Society Fundraiser for our Puerto Rican documentary View our Oaxaca Printmaking Documentary Password is "mezcal" Hello, Print Fri…
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This week, Miranda speaks with Fraixa Albizu Rodriguez, a talented printmaker and educator based in San Juan, Puerto Rico. In this episode, they dive into her artistic practice, exploring how childhood experiences shape her work, her role in founding Ciclos Gráficos—a nonprofit dedicated to printmaking portfolios—and the rich history of printmaking…
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episode 237 : the brooklyn fine print fair
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This week, Miranda speaks with Ann Shafer and Luther Davis to talk about the Brooklyn Fine Print Fair, which will be having its inaugural event in March of 2025. They talk about why art fairs are important, the culture of buying and selling prints, the programming the fair has to offer, and what artists can get out of attending a fair even if they’…
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episode 236 : Oaxaca Printmaking Documentary
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Print Friends, this is a very special episode. Last May, Reinaldo and Miranda along with Christian Riquelme traveled to Oaxaca, Mexico to create a documentary about the history of printmaking in the region. The following is a conversation about the process of making the documentary, what it is like to tell such a complex story, our adventures tryin…
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Hoy Reinaldo (@rgzprints) estará conversando con Memo Orduña (@guillermorduna). Maestro impresor y artist gráfico originario de Oaxaca y jefe de edición del taller la Buena Impresión (@labuenaimpresion) . Memo comenzó su carrera inspirado por el trabajo artístico de sus familiares y a su temprana edad se convirtió en la cabecera de la impresión en …
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This week Miranda speaks with Catherine Ade and Stephanie Turnbull from The Lemonade Press an independent lithography studio in Bristol, England, offering lithographic printmaking, residencies, plate graining, and courses in lithography and monotype. They talk about building this now thriving press during the start of the pandemic, working together…
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This week, Miranda speaks with Lisa Bulawsky and Tom Reed from Island Press at Washington University in Saint Louis. They talk about the history of this iconic publishing institution, the ambitious projects they take on, and the importance of having the freedom to take bold artistic chances.Cover Photo: Tom Reed working on a plate by Diane VictorIs…
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This week, Miranda speaks with Daniel Chiaccio. They discuss starting First Proof, a community-access printmaking studio in Brattleboro, VT, in March 2020; how a stage 4 Hodgkin's Lymphoma diagnosis changed his life and artistic journey; and building the community you want to see in the world.First Proof on Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/firstp…
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Hoy Reinaldo (@rgzprints) estará conversando con Gabriela Morac (@moracgabriela) artista mexicana produciendo obra desde la meca del grabado latinoamericano: Oaxaca Mexico. Conversaremos por segunda ocasión, esta vez sobre el Espacio Panoplia, el miedo de dedicarse a las artes a tiempo completo, la creciente grafica femenina y la realidad detrás de…
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This week, Miranda speaks with Anthony Huang, a Taiwanese-American artist with a background in journalism, theater design, and professional ballroom dance. We talk about coming to art making from a prominent acting family, moving from figurative to abstract art, and how Taoism helped him through a profound loss during the pandemic.Anthony's website…
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This week, Miranda speaks with Alyssa Ebinger. They talk about how she found her way to lithography coming from a musical family, going to the Tamarind Institute during the deep, dark heart of the pandemic, lakes of lithotine tears, and the future of collaborative printmaking.Alyssa Ebinger Websitehttps://alyssaebinger.com/Alyssa on Instagramhttps:…
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This week, Miranda speaks with Chris Fritton. Chris is a poet, printer, and fine artist with over two decades of experience in writing, printing, and book arts. They talk about his ambitious project, The Itinerant Printer, through which he visited over 200 letterpress print shops throughout North America in ten years, covering over 150,000 miles an…
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Hoy Reinaldo (@rgzprints) conversando con Fraixa Albizu Rodriguez (@thelastprint) artista grafica puertorriqueña y fundadora de la organizacion "Ciclos Graficos". Fraixa es una energia inagotable y un entusiasmo contagioso que impregna a su comunidad con su amor por la difusión de la gráfica en la isla. Conversaremos sobre el renacer de la impresió…
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This week, Miranda speaks with Jake Ingram of Jackalope Editions. They talk about his road from the New York Academy of Art to starting his own studio in Dolly Parton’s backyard, creating a printmaking banjo, breaking vegetarianism at the Tamarind Institute, and learning what a jackalope even is.Jackalope Editionshttps://www.jackalopeeditions.com/J…
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Hoy estaré conversando con Alan Altamirano major conocido como MK Kabrito @grafica_mk_kabrito. El es un artísta gráfico de Oaxaca especialista del relieve y fundador del Taller La Chicharra. Conversaremos sobre sus inicios, la experience bajo el tutelaje del maestro Takeda, el Desarrollo de obras a taco perdido con más de cien colores y el “por qué…
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This week, Miranda speaks with Rebecca Olsen. Rebecca is the president and CEO of SRISA, an institution that has been teaching art classes in the heart of Florence for over 50 years. They talk about her extraordinary childhood growing up around SRISA, the experiences artists and students have when they travel outside of their country of origin, AI …
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