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 Coa...
Jun 10, 2020•56 min
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 o...
May 26, 2020•1 hr 9 min
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 website...
May 19, 2020•59 min
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/Del...
May 13, 2020•54 min
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 m...
May 05, 2020•47 min
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/nata...
Apr 28, 2020•54 min
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...
Apr 23, 2020•49 min
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 m...
Apr 14, 2020•56 min
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,...
Apr 07, 2020•46 min
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 int...
Mar 31, 2020•57 min
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...
Mar 24, 2020•1 hr 1 min
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 thi...
Mar 17, 2020•46 min
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 ...
Mar 03, 2020•52 min
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...
Feb 18, 2020•48 min
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 te...
Feb 04, 2020•1 hr 5 min
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, p...
Jan 21, 2020•1 hr 5 min
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 u...
Jan 07, 2020•58 min
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,...
Dec 10, 2019•1 hr 5 min
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...
Nov 26, 2019•1 hr
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 communi...
Nov 12, 2019•57 min
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 t...
Oct 29, 2019•51 min
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 wel...
Oct 15, 2019•56 min
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 lithograph...
Oct 02, 2019•46 min
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 ...
Sep 17, 2019•1 hr
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 pri...
Sep 03, 2019•59 min
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 ...
Aug 20, 2019•1 hr 2 min
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...
Aug 06, 2019•57 min
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 a...
Jul 23, 2019•53 min
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 ex...
Jul 09, 2019•1 hr 7 min
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 Communi...
Jun 25, 2019•1 hr 20 min
