Hello, Print Friend

In this episode of Hello, Print Friend Miranda speaks with Ben Rak, our friend from down under and Ph. D. candidate at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. We’ll talk about coming to printmaking through photography, why you should stop worrying about if you’re an artist and just be one, commercial print practices, collaboration, impression management (and how's it's no...

In this episode of Hello, Print Friend Miranda talks with Michael Barnes, Professor of Printmaking at Northern Illinois University. We’ll talk about growing up in a small town having album art as an influence, the drawing surfaces of etching and lithography, how all those characters of his come up with some dark humor while he’s asleep, and teaching as a practicing artist. Transcription Fundraiser...

En el programa de hoy, Reinaldo (@RGZprints) estará conversando con: Victor Lopez y Mariela Lopez que junto a Heczar Gomez, Hazel Eufragio y Victor Lopez conforman la Madriguera gráfica. La madriguera, es un taller de gráfica ubicado en Querétaro, México especializado en xilografía, lino-grabados, metales, murales, esténcil e intervenciones urbanas. Allí, estos artistas cultivan la creatividad de...

In this episode Miranda speaks to Dr. Pia Cuneo, someone near and dear to her heart, and her graduate school advisor at the University of Arizona. We’ll talk about how Pia changed her major from pre-med to art history, the development of printing technology and its contemporary parallels, who prints were made for, and how that revolutionized the art world, selling prints, and what makes a good art...

In this episode Miranda speaks with Jon Renzella, a woodcut artist in Taiwan. We’ll talk about David Bowie, coming to printmaking through comic books and how to get your mom to let you read them, adventuring around the world, large-scale installations and hand-carved books, the apocalypse, and whether or not the truth actually exists. Transcription Fundraiserigg.me/at/pcl-fund/x/27090700#/Jon Renz...

This week on pine | copper | lime Miranda speaks with Allan Edmunds, founder and director of Brandywine Workshop and Archives in Philadelphia. We’ll talk about the driving force behind the workshop from the beginning, being a citizen of the world, and creating a database as a research tool. Allan also gives fantastic advice about non-profits and how to decide if that is the right path for you. Tra...

This week on pine | copper | lime Miranda speaks with Bud Martin, Head of Research and development at Speedball Art Products. We’ll talk about how he came to ink manufacturing from chemical engineering, tinkering in the shop with everything from ceramic glazes to circuit boards, communicating with end-users, and safety for art products. Bud Martin Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/budaroo/?hl=enS...

This week on pine | copper | lime Miranda speaks with Jennifer Roberts, Professor of Art History at Harvard University. Jennifer was this year's presenter for the Mellon lectures on fine art and she championed printmaking in a bold, new way. We’ll talk about how she came to printmaking through Jasper Johns, being transformed as a historical scholar through the act of making prints, learning b...

In this episode of pine|copper|lime Miranda talks with Des McMahon of The Limerick Printmakers, a collective group of working class printmakers in Limerick, Ireland. We'll talk about how he came to printmaking through punk aesthetics and german expressionism, the City of Limerick, and how its (lack?) of printmaking history gave it its own character, printmakers as builders, and the twenty-fou...

In this episode of pine|copper|lime Miranda talks with Alexander Landerman, a graphic designer and letterpress technician at the University of Indiana Bloomington. We talk about growing up in a rural home with a family tradition of hunting and trapping, fixing things resulting in deep personal connections to objects, trade school, being aware of what your food is, and using your skills to support...

In this episode of pine|copper|lime Miranda talks with Caledonia Curry, an interdisciplinary artist and printmaker based in New York who you might know a little better by her other name: SWOON. We talk about giving kids encouragement in their endeavors, how there is so much more to printmaking than editioning, using the detailed process to printmaking to free up your practice, community projects,...

In this episode of pine|copper|lime Miranda talks with Shivangi Ladha an artist printmaker from Dehli, India. We'll talk about using printmaking as a drawing tool, all of the repetitions in our daily lives, exploring the self through process, and providing people a place to tell their story. Shivangi’s Websitehttp://www.shivangiladha.com/Shivangi on InstagramHttp://www. Instagram.com/shivangi...

In this episode of pine | copper | lime Miranda talks with Mark Attwood, a lithographer, master printer, and founder of The Artist’s Press. Mark joins us from the studio in South Africa for a chat about the ways in which we contribute to culture through printmaking and the arts, his round-a-bout way of going to Tamarind after traveling to Europe and working in the commercial printing industry, as...

In this episode of pine | copper | lime Miranda talks with Jennifer Mack, a screen printer and moku hanga artist based in New Jersey. We’ll talk about the ways we encourage children to pursue art, the benefits of fluidity in an arts practice, Japan, representation through the motif of dolls, and how being joyful for your children can get you through some difficult challenges. Jennifer Mackhttp://w...

In this episode of pine copper lime Miranda speaks with Lyell Castonguay, co-founder and director of Big Ink, a traveling large format relief printing studio. We’ll talk about how he came to printmaking through illustration, the logistics of building Big Ink, how they switched up programming in the time of COVID, and building a company with your partner. Big Inkhttps://www.bigink.orgBig Ink Instag...

In this episode of pine copper lime Miranda speaks with Guy Langevin, a mezzotint artist based in Chicoutimi Quebec. We’ll talk about learning mezzotint before youtube, how making your own tools creates a deep understanding of them, working with what you have, and the job of the artist. Guy's Facebookhttps://web.facebook.com/guy.langevin.52pine|copper|lime YOUTUBEhttps://www.youtube.com/chann...

In this episode of pine | copper | lime Miranda talks with Angela Pilgrim, a screen printer and founder of Fruishun Press in Newark, New Jersey. We’ll talk about the influence of the 90’s, spice girls, being a self taught artist and making it without university connections, identity, and the perseverance of learning how to print. Angela Pilgrim on Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/aplgrm/Fruishun...

In this episode of pine copper lime Miranda speaks with Steve Prince, an artist and educator based in Williamsburg Virginia. We’ll talk about Embodying the art you make, how all the experiences around you, especially the uncomfortable ones, shape you, culture care and the benefits of traveling, and why we all need to just keep makingSteve Prince Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/onefishstudio/?hl...

In this episode of pine copper lime Miranda talks with Judy Hecker, director of the International Print Center New York a non-profit arts institution dedicated to the innovative presentation of prints by emerging, established, national, and international artists. Founded in 2000, the print center is a vibrant hub and exhibition space located in New York’s Chelsea gallery district. We'll talk...

In this episode of pine copper lime Miranda speaks with Jessica Robles, professor of printmaking and drawing at the College of the Sequoias and California State University Fresno. We’ll talk about her use of text and image, how she goes about making it in the world of self promotion as an introvert, how recording seemingly insignificant moments changes them through art, just what is a self portrai...

Hola amigos y amantes de la gráfica, Bienvenidos a otro episodio de Pine, Copper, Lime. El podcast numero 1 dedicado a la gráfica y el grabado. Mi nombre es Reinaldo Gil Zambrano y seré su anfitrión en esta edición en español. PCL emite un nuevo episodio en español cada dos semana sobre artistas del grabado que están haciendo algo más allá de lo esperado. Si no quieres perderte de nada, suscríbete...

In this episode of pine copper lime Miranda speaks with Alexis Nutini, a Philadelphia based relief printer and educator. We’ll talk about his early experiences growing up in a family of cultural anthropologists, the switch from large scale black and white figurative woodcuts to intense multicolor abstract work, and using technology to experiment with printmaking and expand his collaborative practi...

In this episode of pine copper lime Miranda speaks with Mike Pennekamp, a Chicago based artist printmaker. We’ll talk about being led to the print studio to the sweet sound of The Dead Kennedys, the labour of printmaking and how the screen print studio he works for switched gears during COVID-19, the strange American landscape that makes up his art practice, and the wonderful world of print art co...

In this episode of pine copper lime 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 wor...

In this episode of pine copper lime Miranda speaks with Phil Sanders, previous director of The Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop and Master Printer at ULAE. Phil’s new book release “Prints and Their Makers'' is a massive undertaking updating the canon of fine art printmaking. We’ll talk about the value of one's voice in print, the three hats of printing, editioning as a byproduc...