episode 237 : the brooklyn fine print fair

In this episode Miranda speaks with Gregory Santos, Instagram lithographer extraordinaire. Santos builds and tends to an expansive online community based on being open about the trials and tribulations of printmaking’s most mercurial medium. We talk about the need for honesty in social media, and to move away from the shiny perfection on social media which is so often touted real life. As well as Santos’ ambitious print exchange Mixed Grit, for which he mails four small lithography stones to ...

3 Sep 201959min

In this episode Miranda speaks with Elizabeth Jean Younce, lithographer, small business owner, and dog mom. Younce grew up in the wilds of New England and the natural world as well as the folklore we create from it is at the heart of her practice. Younce’s images are filled with the honestly and brutality of animals and she uses them to explore feelings of becoming overwhelmed by the chaos in which we live. We also chat about Younce inheriting a printmaking studio in Los Angeles from a Partis...

20 Aug 20191h 2min

In this episode Miranda speaks with Tanekeya Word a Milwaukee based visual artist, printmaker and educator, whose work centers around Black geographies: exploring Afrofuturism, Black aesthetics, Black hair, Black identity, and Black girl/womanhood. Word is also the founder of Black Women of Print a society where black female printmakers can share space, intergenerational knowledge, stories, and community. If that wasn’t enough, Black Women of Print is also an educational resource for discover...

6 Aug 201957min

In this episode Miranda speaks with Ben Muñoz about his series “The Endless Endeavor”. These six woodcuts, each 8 by 4 feet, chronicle his family’s journey from Mexico to America starting with the artist’s grandfather. Filled with rich iconography and complex symbolism, these pieces tell a multi-generational story of hard work and hope. Muñoz channels the grit and resolves shown by the generations before him in order to take on his career as a working artist and help provide for his family. W...

23 Juli 201952min

In this episode Miranda speaks with Opal Ecker Deruvo a non-binary printmaker working in Norwalk, Connecticut. DeRuvo speaks about their early introduction to our craft at the Center for Contemporary Printmaking, developing their traditional draftsmanship skills in order to express the critical queer moments in their life with the reverence of a seventeenth-century portrait, taking advantage of the omnipresence of smartphones to capture the candid, and sisterhood in queer communities. We also...

9 Juli 20191h 7min

In this episode Miranda speaks with Jamaal Barber: printmaker, curator, collaborator, podcast host, grad student, husband, and father. Barber offers his insights into what it takes to become a successful artist, his own personal story of taking the leap from weekend art fairs to full time artist, and his print practice making work about all aspects of black life in America. He also gives us a look into this current exhibition 400: A Collective Flight of Memory (on display in the Aviation Comm...

25 Juni 20191h 19min

In this episode Miranda speaks with Marco Sánchez about growing up on the Juarez / El Paso border, moving from his home to a small town in Pennsylvania, taking advice and inspiration from his artist grandfather, and representing his cultural identity through drawing on the incredible history of post-revolution Mexican printmakers. Sánchez also talks about the changing politics of what it means to be Lantix in the United States within his lifetime and how the current administration’s immigrati...

11 Juni 201955min

In this episode Miranda speaks with Aaron Coleman about his first exposure to visual culture as a graffiti writing teen outside of Indianapolis, his graduate school experience of being tricked into loving litho, and his current role as Professor of Art at the University of Arizona. The hip hop community was the first place Coleman really felt at home and the formative practice he experienced in the mixing and remixing of visual culture has stayed with him to this day. Coleman also talks about...

28 Maj 201949min