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In this episode Miranda speaks with Stephanie Alaniz an intersectional feminist, fat activist, and adjunct professor at Emporia State University. Alaniz uses social media to crowd source participants for a project in which she draws stunning portraits of her subjects with their self-reported physical insecurities portrayed in bold. Through painstakingly rendering her subjects with precise draftsmanship, Alaniz documents the collected insecurities allowing the viewer to see the patterns and th...

7 Jan 202058min

In this episode Miranda speaks with Bernard Derroitte a print dealer, advocate, and educator who has been running print-focused galleries in Chicago since 1998. We talk about his childhood growing up in Brussels and how family trips around Europe to see art profoundly impacted him. As well as, how the physical experience of seeing works in person, particularly works on paper, can be intimate and deeply moving. Bernard also discusses what he looks for in the work of artists he seeks to represe...

10 Des 20191h 5min

In this episode Miranda speaks with Kathryn Polk. Polk grew up in a church-going Tennessee family during the 1950s before attending the Memphis Art Academy. She worked as an advertisement illustrator for a newspaper, went on to art direction and eventually worked her way up through the corporate ladder to be president of a company giving back-end data management solutions for fortune 500 companies. In her 50s Polk walked away from it all to return to art making. In the past fifteen years she ...

26 Nov 20191h

In this episode season two is off to the races with Annalise Gratovich. We talk about how growing up in a family of professional musicians instilled in her the work ethic to become an artist, how she came to develop her distinctive aesthetic inspired by the matryoshka dolls of her childhood, and how her family’s displacement during World War II directly affect how she sees and fosters a sense of home. We also chat about her being on the board of the fabulous Print Austin from day one and comm...

12 Nov 201957min

In this episode Miranda speaks with Peter Lancaster. To mark the happy one year anniversary of PCL we take a vacation together to Lancaster’s newly founded printmaking residency in Fiji. We learn about his childhood on the island, moving to Australia to attend college, traveling to New Mexico to receive training at the Tamarind Institute, and his years spent collaborative printing in Melbourne. This episode and article are a celebration of the global printmaking community and the opportunitie...

29 Okt 201950min

In this episode Miranda speaks with Reinaldo Gil Zambrano community builder, lecturer, printmaker, story teller, and printmaking advocate. We talk about his childhood growing up in Caracas, Venezuela; his leaving home at sixteen to study in Costa Rica; learning about illustration as visual communication; and finding a sense of home in a changing life through shared narratives. We also chat about magical realism in Latin American culture and some family legends from the artist’s childhood. We ...

15 Okt 201956min

In this episode Miranda speaks with Jill Graham the technician and master printer at the NSCAD Lithography Workshop: Contemporary Editions. Graham shares her journey of starting out in Montreal, setting up a lithography workshop in a remote part of Ontario, traveling to South Africa to train a color blind master printer, waiting ten years to attend Tamarind, and surviving and thriving in the Toronto arts scene as single mom. We also talk about Graham’s role in the reinstitution of the lithogr...

2 Okt 201946min

In this episode Miranda speaks with Steve Campbell of Landfall Press 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 name a few, and he says he’ll still get lost in the magic of admiring a print in the moments after it h...

17 Sep 20191h