Hello, Print Friend

En el programa de hoy Reinaldo (@RGZprints) estará conversando con Giorgio Gamarra monje mejor conocido como Cholo Chontano (@chontano_magazine), Chontano es un muralista y artista gráfico boliviano haciendo su trabajo desde su ciudad natal de La Paz. Hablaremos sobre la realidad del grafiti en Bolivia y sus inicios en el arte pintando muros con sus amigos. La inspiración nacida de las frases cele...

This week on Hello, Print Friend Miranda speaks with Shaye Remba the director of Mixografia. Mixografia is an incredible collaborative printmaking studio in LA with roots in Mexico City, and was founded by Shaye’s mother and father over 50 years go. Shaye and I talk about growing up in this incredible childhood, collaborating with the late great Rufino Tamayo, and how his family developed and cont...

En el programa de hoy Reinaldo (@RGZprints) estará conversando con Manuela Lara (@manuelalaraart), artista plástica, pintora y fotógrafa colombiana haciendo su trabajo desde la capital del país cafetero. Manuela nos hablará sobre la magia que reside dentro de las historias que invitan a la imaginación al ser contadas por nuestra gente. También conversaremos sobre su infancia llena de colores entre...

This week on Hello, Print Friend Miranda speaks with Jack Lemon, founder and master printer at Landfall Press since 1970. Jack has created collaborative print editions with Kara Walker, Christo, Judy Chicago, Sol Lowit, and many more highly respected and influential artists of the last 5 decades. Jack went to school during a time when lithography was fading from the world of fine art in the United...

En el programa de hoy Reinaldo (@RGZprints) estará conversando con Jesús de la Rosa (jesusdelarosafineart), artista multidisciplinario, educador y grabador nacido en México haciendo vida en Kingsville, Texas. De La Rosa pasó su infancia en la frontera observando la interacción e intercambio desde Nuevo Progreso, Rio Bravo y McCallen USA, donde las calles y la iglesia constituían un importante espa...

This week on Hello, Print Friend Miranda speaks with John Hitchcock, a Kiowa/Comanche artist, and Professor of Art and Associate Dean of Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. We talk about his early childhood influences learning about color and perspective from this grandmother’s rose garden, how he developed his distinctive style and how it intersects with his musical mind, and his excitin...

En el programa de hoy Reinaldo (@RGZprints) estará conversando con Shaye Remba, director de Mixografía (@mixografia), estudio de grabado experimental ubicado en Los Ángeles, California. Shaye nos comentará sobre el crecer en un taller de impresión en La Ciudad de México donde el oficio familiar es el de imprimir litografías con grandes artistas nacionales para luego adentrarse dentro de la explora...

This week on Hello, Print Friend Miranda speaks with Valerie Lueth, co-founder, artist and operator of Tugboat Printshop. We talk about what it’s like to run your own business and be a mom in the middle of a pandemic, finding her artistic voice, how you save your hands when making large-scale intricate woodcuts and what it takes to be your own advocate and salesperson as a working artist. Tugboat...

En el programa de hoy Reinaldo (@RGZprints) estará conversando con Marco Sanchez (@onpaperandcanvas) pintor, grabador, mezcal entusiasta y educador nacido en México pero haciendo vida en los Estados Unidos. Marco fue el único invitado en los primeros intentos de las entrevistas bilingües y decidimos traerlo de vuelta para unirlo a este nuevo repertorio de artistas participantes en español. Convers...

This week on Hello, Print Friend Miranda speaks with Joseph Lupo, Professor of Art at West Virginia University. This was a really fun conversation, Joseph is a born teacher and as you’ll hear, Miranda comes to learn some life lessons of herself the chat. We talked about his practice repurposing copyright free French comics from the early 1900s, choosing not to make art that everyone is going to li...

En el programa de hoy Reinaldo (@RGZprints) estará conversando con Humberto Valdez (@humberto_el_valdez), artista plástico, educador y grabador mexicano nacido en Zacatecas y desarrollando su trabajo artístico en la Ciudad de México. Conversaremos sobre su infancia en el rancho en Jerez en una familia y comunidad de artistas para luego moverse a una vida de ciudad en la capital y empezar así una s...

This week on Hello Print Friend Miranda speaks with Tonja Torgerson, Visiting Assistant Professor in the Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design at Indiana University. This one gets a little deep print friends. Tonja’s work looks at the failure of the human body which means we talk about death, illness, and the inevitability of it all –and had a great time doing it! Tonja tells us how an une...

En el programa de hoy Reinaldo (@RGZprints) estará conversando con Triana Parera (@triana_mx) Artista plástica y grabadora de origen mexicano actualmente produciendo su trabajo desde varias partes del mundo. Hablaremos sobre sus inicios en el dibujo y sus estudios en la Esmeralda en la ciudad de México donde fue introducida al grabado. Su paso por la Ceiba grafica como estudiante de la xilografía,...

This week on Hello, Print Friend Miranda speaks with Amze Emmons. Amze is an instructor at the Tyler School of Art and Architecture in Philadelphia. We talk about building community in the face of civic infrastructure failings, out-dated commercial print technology repurposed for fine art, and how and why we build connections for printmakers in the digital sphere. Amze Emmons Websitehttps://www.am...

En el programa de hoy Reinaldo (@RGZprints) estará conversando con Ramón Paris (@ramón_paris_ilustrador) Ilustrador, animador, grabador y diseñador venezolano con una extensa experiencia en el ámbito audiovisual, gráfico y de los libros para niños. Este es un episodio muy especial para mi, pues Ramon Paris es uno de los ilustradores que influenció mi niñez durante su trayectoria con las ediciones...

This week on Hello, Print Friend Miranda speaks with Anna Trojanowska, a winner of the 2022 5×5 Exhibition. The 5×5 is the juried exhibition which takes place during Print Austin, a spectacular month-long festival which includes 60 print-focused events serving thousands of audience members annually, with returning and new participants each year. The exhibition features five artists and will hang a...

This week on Hello, Print Friend Miranda speaks with Junli Song, a winner of the 2022 5×5 Exhibition. This juried exhibition takes place during Print Austin, a spectacular month-long festival which includes 60 print-focused events serving thousands of audience members annually, with returning and new participants each year. Junli and I talk about her long and winding road through economics and chi...

In this episode of Hello Print Friend Miranda speaks with Brandon Gunn and Valpuri Remling of The Tamarind Institute of Lithography. Brandon is Director of Education and Valpuri Master printer and workshop manager. Together they run the two sides of Tamarind’s world famous lithographer training program. We had a wonderful conversation about how tamarind works and the seemingly at times mercurial w...

En el programa de hoy Reinaldo (@RGZprints) estará conversando con Kena Kitchengs (@kitchengs) artista grafica, ceramista y hacedora de libros actualmente viviendo en Toluca, Mexico. Kena es una de las cinco artistas seleccionadas para el 5x5 exhibición para Print Austin en Austin, Texas. Kitchengs nos hablará sobre la dificultad de encontrar un lugar al cual pertenecer al venir de un padre músico...

In this episode Miranda speaks with Steve Campbell of Black Rock Editions 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 n...

En el programa de hoy Reinaldo (@RGZprints) estará conversando con Sandra Fernandez (@sfernandezart) artista multidisciplinaria y grabadora nacida en New York pero con raíces ecuatorianas con una trayectoria amplia en la docencia ahora viviendo el sueño de artista plástico a tiempo completo. Conversaremos sobre su experiencia en la educación universitaria y la realidad de ser profesora adjunta y s...

This week on Hello, Print Friend Miranda speaks with Diane Victor, and print friends, this is a wonderful episode with which to close our third season. Diane speaks thoughtfully and insightfully about her work and the process of printmaking. We’ll talk about her life growing up in South Africa and being a student and artist activist in the years leading to the legal repeal of apartheid, finding wa...

This week on Hello, Print Friend Miranda speaks with Stacy Lynn Waddell. We’ll talk about her use of branding irons as printmaking, the late great actress Butterfly McQueen, and living a slow life in a manic world. Stacy's website:http://www.stacylynnwaddell.com/Shop Talkwww.patreon.com/helloprintfriendYOUTUBEwww.youtube.com/channel/UCOMIT3guY5PjHj1M7GApouwMERCHwww.teepublic.com/user/hellopri...

En el programa de hoy Reinaldo (@RGZprints) estará conversando con Sofía Salazar (@_hiedra_) artista argentina nacida en Mendoza, pero desarrollando su trabajo gráfico y textil desde su hogar en Londres. Sofía nos hablará sobre sus inicios estudiando diseño textil en Buenos Aires para luego moverse a Europa y desarrollar un sinfín de procesos experimentales de trazos en múltiples medias tomando co...

This week on Hello, Print Friend Miranda speaks with Sandra C. Fernandez. We’ll talk about dislocation, relocation, memory, and self-conscious identity-construction/reconstruction and the Consejo Grafico Nacional, an organization that brings together Latino Printmaking Tallers throughout the United States. Sandra's Websitehttps://www.sandrafernandez.infoConsejo Grafico Nacionalhttps://www.con...