Hello, Print Friend

En el programa de hoy Reinaldo (@RGZprints) estará conversando con Heczar Gomez (@heczar_dadoz), artista gráfico, muralista y cofundador de la Madriguera Gráfica nacido en Oaxaca, pero haciendo vida en Querétaro, México. Conversaremos sobre las realidades de crecer en Oaxaca y la inestabilidad política que lo llevo a establecerse en una nueva ciudad donde el grafiti y el arte gráfico se convirtió...

This week on Hello, Print Friend, Miranda speaks with Melissa and J.W. from the Little Friends of Printmaking. They talk about getting professional gig poster commissions while still in graduate school, drawing on inspiration from our art world heroes, never running out of ideas, and feeling out of place. Little Friends of Printmaking Websitehttps://thelittlefriendsofprintmaking.com/Little Friends...

En el programa de hoy Reinaldo (@RGZprints) estará conversando con Abraham Mascorro Morales artista multidisciplinario de origen mexicano que junto a su esposa Miriam Ruiz fundaron OMG Press (@omgpress) en la Ciudad De México. Abraham nos contará sobre la aplicación de herramientas digitales, inteligencia artificial y NFT dentro del desarrollo gráfico además de estrategias de comercialización para...

This week on Hello, Print Friend, Miranda speaks with Henry Gepfer, an artist, curator, and educator based in Lancaster, PA. They talk about the joy and the pain of being a performance artist, the effects of the pandemic on self-worth, the performance of masculinity, and how printmaking fits into all of this. Henry's Websitehttps://www.henrygepfer.com/Henry's Instagramhttps://www.instagr...

En el programa de hoy Reinaldo (@RGZprints) estará conversando con Ricardo Benaim (@ricardobenaim) artista muldiciplinario y grabador venezolano nacido en la ciudad de Caracas. Conversaremos sobre sus inicios en el diseño gráfico y publicitario para ser incentivado por uno de sus instructores a investigar el grabado. Al enfocarse en la técnica gráfica, iniciaría una travesía que lo llevaría a Lond...

This week on Hello, Print Friend, Miranda speaks with Saiyare Refaei, an artist and activist working in Tacoma, Washington. They talk about learning how to print by hand in a skate shop in Oaxaca, the importance of friends and mentors, researching NAFTA’s impact on artists, and moving big presses. Saiyare's Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/_saikick_YOUTUBEwww.youtube.com/channel/UCOMIT3guY...

En el programa de hoy Reinaldo (@RGZprints) estará conversando con Fabian Maldonado Lizana (@kumefelenxilografias), Fabian es un obrero gráfico y tatuador de madera nacido en la ciudad de Santiago. Fabian nos comentará sobre su travesía en el arte gráfico luego de estudiar docencia en artes, desarrollar un colectivo artístico y verse inspirado a crear su propio taller durante las exigencias de la...

This week on Hello, Print Friend Miranda speaks with Diana Gaston, director of the Tamarind Institute. We talk about how one becomes the director of an internationally renowned printmaking enterprise in the first place, the ambitions of the institute’s founder June Wayne to save the medium of lithography (and if it worked), what kind of research is done at Tamarind, and the importance of limestone...

En el programa de hoy Reinaldo (@RGZprints) estará conversando con Federico Cimatti maestro tipográfico, artista y poeta detrás del estudio Prensa La Libertad (@prensalalibertad) en Buenos Aires, Argentina. Federico nos contará sobre como el destino lo topó un día con una “máquina de palabras” y vería cambiar su vida para dedicarse a rescatar, desarrollar y provocar por medio de mensajes reflexivo...

This week on Hello, Print Friend, Miranda speaks with Dewey Tafoya, Master Printer and Assistant Director of the Professional Printmaking Program at Self Help Graphics. We talk about growing up in LA in the 70s and 80s and being exposed the incredible Chicano murals going up during this time, how Self-Help Graphics was started by a nun and two queer Mexican artists, bringing art to the people thro...

En el programa de hoy Reinaldo (@RGZprints) estará conversando con Carlos Franco (@pinol_press). Carlos es un artista grabador de origen nicaragüense viviendo en Uruguay. Conversaremos sobre su travesía artística, trabajando diferentes técnicas hasta enamorarse del grabado para recientemente establecer su propio taller: Pinol Press. Carlos nos contará sobre la migración, el haberse criado en la Pe...

This week on Hello, Print Friend, Miranda speaks with Amos Kennedy Jr., and print friends you are in for a treat. Amos is a living print legend. They talk about his time being employed (not working) at AT&T while making and giving away prints, hanging art shows like it’s a crime, and his exciting new project in a “pile of bricks” in Detroit. Amos on Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/kennedyp...

En el programa de hoy Reinaldo (@RGZprints) estará conversando con el artista gráfico, ilustrador, diseñados y podcaster Ricardo García, mejor conocido como Kraken Kahn (@KrankenKhan) desde la ciudad de México. Kraken nos contará sobre sus inicios influenciado por las portadas de álbumes punk rock, y el coleccionar los juguetes de los villanos de sus series favoritas. Conversaremos sobre sus colab...

This week on Hello, Print Friend, Miranda speaks with Sam Davidson, director and owner of Davidson Galleries in Seattle, Washington, for nearly five decades. Davidson Galleries houses 18,000 works of paper dating back to the 15th century and an extensive collection of contemporary prints. The name Davidson Galleries might be familiar to dedicated listeners as it comes up often as it was the very f...

En el programa de hoy Reinaldo (@RGZprints) estará conversando con el artista colombiano Marcel Pardo Ariza (@marcelpardoa) (elle/él), artista visual, educador y curador trans que explora el parentesco entre queer y trans a través de fotografías construidas, instalaciones de gran formato y colaboraciones públicas. Conversaremos sobre sus inicios en el arte y la música, su travesía artística por lo...

This week on Hello Print Friend Miranda speaks with Johanna Mueller, an artist in the upcoming 5 x5 exhibition taking place during Print Santa Fe. We talk about drawing inspiration from the natural world, building a physically sustainable practice as wood engraver, a bear burglar, and creating an artistic community outside of the big city. Johanna's Websitehttps://johannamuellerprints.comJoha...

En el programa de hoy Reinaldo (@RGZprints) estará conversando con Enrique Figueredo (@enriquefigueredo) , artista gráfico y profesor nacido en Venezuela recientemente seleccionado en la exhibición 5x5 de PrintAustin curada por Annalise Gratovich y Holly Borham. Enrique nos contará sobre su infancia, el migrar a los Estados Unidos, la influencia del arte urbano y las experiencias de crecer en un a...

This week on Hello Print Friend Miranda speaks with Haley Takahashi. We talk about her journey as an art history student turned artist, the particulars and complexities of drawing on ukiyo-e imagery as a Japanese American artist, her long standing self-portrait practice, and how it shows up in her current work. Haley's Websitehttps://www.haleytakahashi.com/Haley's Instagramhttps://www.in...

En el programa de hoy Reinaldo (@RGZprints) estará conversando con Rosana Farias (@rosanafariaarape), ilustradora y educadora venezolana haciendo vida en España. Rosana nos hablara sobre su infancia, su pasión por el arte que la llevo a cambiar su carrera de urbanismo en La Universidad Simón Bolívar para dedicarse a la ilustración de libros infantiles como parte de las ediciones Ekaré. Dichos libr...

This week Miranda speaks with Tim Pauszek, an artist and printmaker who will be featured in Print Austin’s 5 x 5 exhibition opening Thursday, January 19th, at Link and Pin Gallery in Austin... and he's also her husband. They talk about his experience growing up in a factory town on the shores of Lake Erie and the ways it changed within one generation, going to graduate school at the Universit...

En el programa de hoy Reinaldo (@RGZprints) estará conversando con Ahmed Bautista (@ahmedbautista) emprendedor y visionario detrás del desarrollo de Mercadorama (@mercadorama), creadores de mercancía oficial y gig posters con técnica serigráfica de bandas en colaboración con artistas representativos latinoamericanos de la talla de Kraken, Garavato y Tone Olvera. Nos contará de sus inicios estudian...

This week on Hello, Print Friend, Miranda speaks with Emmett Merrill, an artist in the upcoming Print Santa Fe 5 x 5 exhibition! We talk about how he grew up down the street from the Lawrence Lithography Workshop, working as an intern at Tom Hück's Evil Prints and learning about the art world before going to graduate school, building and print shop in the middle of the pandemic, and the beaut...

En el programa de hoy Reinaldo (@RGZprints) estará conversando con Juana Estrada Hernandez (@juanaseemyprints) artista grafica mexicana y profesora. Hablaremos sobre su práctica de la impresión explorando la inmigración y las políticas fronterizas en los Estados Unidos, la obtención de su reciente maestría y su experiencia como beneficiaria del programa DACAJuana Estrada Website:https://juanaseemy...

This week on Hello, Print Friend Miranda speaks with Hilary Lorenz, an interdisciplinary artist who lives and works in the artist village of Abiquiu, New Mexico. They talk about the somatic experience of 24-hour runs and wintering over in huts on the beach, the organization and repetitive nature of printmaking, a global moth migration, and living in an arroyo. Cover photo credit: Barbara Yoshida....

This week on Hello, Print Friend Miranda speaks with Rashuan Rucker. We talk about his early childhood influences watching wrestling with his grandparents and making championship belts for the neighborhood, his discovering the iconography of pigeons while walking down the sidewalk, his love of educating the viewers about his work, and making art that’s now in the Smithsonian from the sofa in his l...