Hello, Print Friend

This week Miranda speaks with Evelyn Escamilla Nichols, a Mexican American graphic designer and printmaker based in Austin, Texas. Evelyn’s path to printmaking winds through Chicago, art school in Monterrey, Mexico, a career in graphic design, and eventually back to the tactile, imperfect, deeply human process of making prints. In our conversation, they talk about the freedom she finds in printmak...

This week Miranda speaks with Elizabeth Williams de Garcia, an artist whose intricate copper line etchings bring together memory, domestic space, nostalgia, and the strange emotional lives of the objects. Elizabeth grew up in Louisiana and Texas and discovered printmaking while studying at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Since then, her life and practice have taken her from the United St...

This episode is part of our ongoing collaboration with PrintAustin and its 2026 5 × 5 Exhibition . This week Miranda speaks with Andi Newberry, an interdisciplinary artist, printmaker, writer, and educator originally from North Texas. Andi’s work tangles memory, storytelling, and imagination through screenprint, lithography, monotype, collage, textiles, and writing. In their conversation, they tal...

This week Miranda speaks with artist, educator, and all-around print friend Vanessa Jo Bahr. Vanessa is the founder of Scavenger Studios in Ashland, Oregon, where she runs a community print studio and artist residency, alongside teaching printmaking at Southern Oregon University and maintaining her own incredibly rich studio practice. Vanessa is a scavenger in a very real sense of the word. She co...

This week Miranda speaks with journalist and author Holly E. J. Black to talk about her wonderful new book, The Story of Printmaking: A Global History of Art. If you've ever wished there were a single book that told the story of printmaking, from its origins in East Asia to the contemporary artists pushing the medium forward today, this is that book. Holly manages to tell thousands of years o...

This week Miranda speaks with artist, educator, community-builder, and all-around creative force Ben Beres. Ben first joined the podcast way back on episode six of Hello, Print Friend (née Pine | Copper | Lime), and in this episode sits down face-to-face in Chiang Mai, Thailand with Miranda while he was here for a residency at Hello Print Friend Studios. A lot has happened since 2019. A global pan...

This week Miranda speaks with Elizabeth Hawley, owner and director of Gallery No. 85 in Seattle, Washington. Gallery No. 85 now occupies the historic home of Davidson Galleries, one of the most influential print-focused galleries in North America. After fifty years under the stewardship of founder Sam Davidson, the gallery has entered a new chapter, and Elizabeth is the person carrying that legacy...

This week Miranda speaks with David Barker of the Muban Education Trust, an organization dedicated to collecting, preserving, researching, and exhibiting contemporary Chinese woodblock prints. David is a researcher, writer, former professor of printmaking, and one of the leading English-language scholars working on Chinese printmaking today, having contributed to a number of books published by The...

This week Miranda coming to you from El Barrio Artsspace in New York City, where we recently screened Impresiones de Resistencia: Printmaking in Puerto Rico  at the Rafael Tufiño Printmaking Workshop. This conversation was recorded on-site, and Miranda was joined by artist Oliver Rios , a printmaker and filmmaker who documents the stories of the Puerto Rican diaspora in the city. He helped guide t...

This week Miranda speaks with Shivangi Ladha and Asha Vaidyanath to talk about Moments of Being , an upcoming exhibition presented by India Printmaker House at the London Original Print Fair. Together, they share the story behind this year-long curatorial process, one rooted in studio visits, artist-to-artist dialogue, and a deep commitment to supporting emerging voices in contemporary printmaking...

This week Miranda speaks with Heather Muise—a Canadian printmaker living and working in Greenville, North Carolina, where she’s a teaching professor at East Carolina University. Heather has taught printmaking across continents, including seven years in Dubai, and their conversation moves through all of those layers: place, language, culture, and how those experiences shape what we make. They talk...

This week Miranda speaks with Christie Tirado, a first-generation Mexican American artist, educator, and third-year MFA candidate at UW–Madison. They talk about leaving a stable teaching career to go back to grad school, building community wherever you land, and how labor, in the field, in the kitchen, and in the studio, becomes an archive. Plus: the print gods, when to walk away after two messed-...

We are delighted to kick off our eighth season of the Hello, Print Friend podcast! This week Miranda speaks with Shanna Strauss, a Tanzanian American mixed media artist and printmaker based in Oakland, California, and a faculty member at California College of the Arts. They talk about the winding road that led her back to art and how printmaking became not just a medium, but a community, a lineage...

This week’s episode is one I’ve been looking forward to for a long time, and if you are someone trying to make a life in the arts right now this is going to be required listening. My guest is Justin Anthony, co-founder of Artwork Archive – the platform so many of you already use to track your work, your collectors, your exhibitions, and the business side of your practice.  And we’re having this co...

This week Miranda speaks with Tom Murphy the founder of Make-Ready, the largest fine-art screenprinting operation in the world. Tom grew up in Suffolk with pound-shop sketchbooks, bootleg band tees, and a fascination with how things are made. From a garage start nine years ago to collaborating with artists like Alex Katz, Ai Wei Wei, and Anish Kapoor, his path runs through open-access studios, ind...

This week Miranda speaks with Mary Farrell, a printmaker based in Spokane, Washington. They talk about how Mary’s upbringing (with her father’s work in tuberculosis research and her mother’s near-miss with a life in a convent) created a childhood that shaped her perspective as an artist. We explore her long love affair with the human figure, her fascination with the parallels between the body and...

This week Miranda speaks with artist and collaborative printer Nathan Catlin—Master Printer at the LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies at Columbia University—whose practice spans relief, screenprint, mosaic, stained glass, and an ever-growing love affair with clay. We get into Nathan’s origin story (the heartbreak + linocut era), why the physicality of carving still feels like home, and how he k...

This week Miranda speaks with Jessica Sabogal an artist whose work lives at the intersection of public space, portraiture, and collective care. Raised in a Colombian immigrant household in the Bay Area, Jess took a winding road from pre-med to political science to the studio and the street, scaling early stencil experiments into landmark murals and all rooted in print. They talk about her journey...

This week Miranda speaks with Patrick Miller and Patrick McNeil—better known together as FAILE. Since meeting on the very first day of high school, the two have been creating art side by side for over twenty-six years. What began with trading sketchbooks in Arizona grew into a wide-ranging practice rooted in printmaking—particularly silkscreen and stenciling—and expanded into painting, sculpture,...

This week we’re coming to you from Miranda’s living room sofa in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Our guest is the brilliant Onnie O’Leary, a tattooer and visual artist from Sydney, Australia, who has just wrapped up a three-week guest residency at Hello, Print Friend Studios. Onnie and Miranda dive into what it’s been like living and working together under one roof, how tattooing and printmaking share a sur...

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 deepening awareness of colonial histories, community...

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 responding to climate change, civil unrest, and poli...

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 what the press bed has to do with decolonization. Ari...

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 Umatilla Reservation in Oregon, and looks ahead as...

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, sensuality, gender, and power all come into play in her wor...