Hello, Print Friend

This week on Hello, Print Friend Miranda speaks with J. Leigh Garcia. Leigh is a professor at Kent State University whose multi-disciplinary practice explores her bi-racial identity, and other contemporary Latino-American issues. We talk about what it was like to grow up in Dallas, family dynamics when one parent is a 7th generation Texan and the other is a child of undocumented immigrants, the 20...

En el programa de hoy Reinaldo (@RGZprints) estará conversando con Tavo Garavato (@tavogaravato) , obrero gráfico, muralista y diseñador colombiano mejor conocido por sus gig posters en serigrafia celebrando a las bandas mas duras del momento. Garavato se inició como muchos en una carrera de diseño industrial para convertirse en un eficiente oficinista o chofer de mouse, pero siempre soñando con e...

This week on Hello, Print Friend Miranda speaks with Mizin Shin, you may know her work from the jaw dropping printmaking woodcut installations she's done with floor to ceiling interconnected prints. We talk about her childhood growing up in South Korea with a painter mom, how her work speaks to the interconnected nature of society and the beauty and peril of that truth, her co-founding a prin...

En el programa de hoy Reinaldo (@RGZprints) estará conversando con Coral Revueltas Valle (@revueltascoral) artista gráfica y educadora realizando su trabajo desde su natal México. Coral pasó su infancia sumergida dentro de los museos donde aprendió con su madre la importancia de la preservación del patrimonio cultural y visual mexicano. Coral nos contará sobre sus inicios en la gráfica desde su pr...

This week on Hello, Print Friend Miranda speaks with Jan and Esther Elzinga, also known as Mr. and Mrs. Woodzilla. Jan and Esther are known for crafting their incredibly strong, portable, and durable presses at their home in the Netherlands. We’ll hear about how a move to Singapore inspired Esther to taker her creative practice into printmaking, how they started making presses after returning to H...

En el programa de hoy Reinaldo (@RGZprints) estará conversando con Poli Marichal (@polimarichal), artista puertorriqueña creando obra en gráfica, pintura y cine experimental. Conversaremos sobre su infancia en Ponce con una familia numerosa y sus inicios en la gráfica de la mano del maestro Takeda. Sus viajes por España, Inglaterra y los Estados Unidos que la llevaron a descubrir el cine experimen...

This week on Hello, Print Friend Miranda speaks with Brett Nannup, a Noongar printmaker living and working in Perth, Western Australia. We’ll talk about how his mother Laurel took a printmaking class later in life that got them both started on a deep love for printmaking, story telling through the medium, being able to reach the things that are hard to talk about through art making, and how his Mu...

En el programa de hoy Reinaldo (@RGZprints) estará conversando con Lorena Pradal (@lorenapradal) artista, maestra impresora y educadora trabajando entre su natal Zarate y la ciudad de Buenos Aires. Lorena nos contará sobre su infancia nutrida por su relación con el agua, desde jugar carnaval hasta estudiar el proceso de migración en los ríos adyacentes que luego plasma en la fluidez de sus impresi...

This week on Hello, Print Friend Miranda speaks with Jeroen Smeets founder of The Jaunt a project that combines our favorite things: travel and printmaking. The Jaunt sends artists on short trips to somewhere they’ve never been and then publishes an edition based on their experiences. We’ll talk about how skateboarding and graffiti art brought Jeroen to the world of art, the logistical joy and pai...

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...

Esta semana Reinaldo (@RGZprints) quisiera tomar la oportunidad de rememorar una de sus conversaciones favoritas en el canal cuando aún era llamado Pine Copper Lime. Esta fue apenas su segunda entrevista para el programa y quisiera compartirla nuevamente con ustedes. Si han visto la película nominada al Oscar, “Nightmare Alley” o traducida al español como “El Callejón de las Almas Perdidas” segura...

This week on Hello, Print Friend Miranda speaks with Katherine Brimberry, founder of the iconic Flatbed press of Austin. We talk about how a controversial mural in her hometown postoffice lit the spark of interest in art for her as a young girl, her road to starting Flatbed and how she’s kept the institution going for over 30 years, and the joys of collaborative printmaking. Flatbed Presswww.flatb...

En el programa de hoy Reinaldo (@RGZprints) estará conversando con Pavel Acevedo (pavel_acevedo), artista gráfico usando la xilografía como media para desarrollar impresiones que luego toman vida en las calles en forma de pegas o instalaciones urbanas. Pavel nos contará sobre sus inicios realizando proyectos manuales con su madre mientras crecía en su natal Oaxaca rodeado de una rica identidad gas...

This week on Hello, Print Friend Miranda speaks with Robynn Smith, founder of Print Day in May, an international event in celebration of printmaking in all its forms, from lithographs to penguin footprints. We talk about the evolution of the event over the last 15 years, it’s surprising early connections to the Kentucky Derby, some of the most rewarding things about taking on global projects such...

En el programa de hoy Reinaldo (@RGZprints) estará conversando con Ana Lilia Viveros Cázares (@anagrafica_mx) artista gráfica nacida en Guacalco haciendo vida en la Ciudad de México. Ana nos comentará sobre sus inicios en las artes, y el encontrar inspiración en el entorno urbano en el desarrollo de linograbados que ilustran la realidad tragicómica de su sociedad. Ana creció fascinada con las tira...

This week on Hello, Print Friend Miranda speaks with Manuela Lara. Manuela is a Columbian artist making beautiful portraits of female social activists in the country. We talk about how her grandmother’s illness brought her back to portraitures and linocut, how she goes about collaborating with her subjects to create incredible images of powerful women, and papermaking with the fibers from the diff...

En el programa de hoy Reinaldo (@RGZprints) estará conversando con Luisa estrada (@_luisa.estrada_) artista gráfica mexicana haciendo su trabajo desde la ciudad de México. Luisa nos comentará sobre su proceso de observación por medio del dibujo y el relieve inspirado por su relación de amor y odio con el hacinamiento que se vive diariamente en la capital Azteca. También conversaremos sobre su reci...

This week on Hello, Print Friend Miranda Speaks with Deborah Grayson. We talk about her practice working with photos of institutionalized black women from archives of insane asylums and how an artist handles such sensitive material without further exploiting the subjects, the history of racism within scientific and health fields, centering the story of black women, and how she protects her own men...

En el programa de hoy Reinaldo (@RGZprints) estará conversando con Lluvia Cisneros del Taller La Maldita Estampa (@lamalditaestampa) ubicado en Barcelona, España. Lluvia nos contará sobre su pasión por la grafica y su travesía que la llevaron desde su natal Quito en Ecuador a España. Una vez en el país europeo unió fuerzas con un grupo de artistas gráficos para establecer el taller en el 2017. Est...

This week on Hello, Print Friend Miranda speaks with Paula Panczenko, director of Tandem Press at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. We talk about the founding of this own iconic institution, what it is about Tandem that brings such big name artists to come and collaborate, what it’s like to have David Lynch knock on your office door, and the exciting upcoming SGCI conference hosted by the Univ...

En el programa de hoy Reinaldo (@RGZprints) estará conversando con Pepe Coronado. Artista gráfico y educador originario de la Republica Dominicana. Pepe nació durante el año de la invasión norteamericana a la isla durante la guerra civil, proveniente de una familia de emprendedores. Desde temprana edad se interesó en el proceso de vender artesanías, trabajar con cuero y arcilla para luego moverse...

This week on Hello Print Friend Miranda speaks with Wuon-Gean Ho, a London-based printmaker who is currently getting her PhD at Centre for Print Research. Wuon-Gean was the first guest on Hello Print Friend and today we return to her to catch up on the last 3 tumultuous years. If you want to hear Wuon-Gean’s full backstory, I highly suggest you check out episode number one. Wuon-Gean is also a pra...

En el programa de hoy Reinaldo (@RGZprints) estará conversando con Carlos Llobet Montealegre (@Carlos_llobet_montealegre), artista gráfico y educador costarricense actualmente haciendo su trabajo desde la capital centroamericana. Carlos pasó su infancia en Escazú donde vivía la disparidad económica entre los campesinos y los muchos expatriados norteamericanos que llegaron a su pueblo en las ultima...

Follow the link to enter:https://helloprintfriend.com/50k-giveawayHello Print friends! We love a good milestone over here and I am pleased as punch to tell you that the Hello Print Friend instagram account has officially reached over 50,000 followers! This feels huge and I really want to truly thank everyone for their support. A few other Hello Print Friend by the number we now get over 6000 downl...

This week on Hello Print Friend Miranda speaks with Ruben Castillo. We talk about the power of having important mentors as a young artist, how he captures the intimate spaces between partners in his prints, the intense bonds in queer relationships, making work about his own relationship and navigating it with his partner, and the fascinating class he teaches called the The Queer (Print)ed Archive....