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Hello, Print Friend is a podcast dedicated to celebrating and amplifying contemporary printmaking and its culture. Releasing weekly interviews with artists, activists, curators, and print champions, we explore what brings together this passionate yet often geographically separated community across a press bed and around the world.
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Miranda K. Metcalf
Miranda K. Metcalf holds a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and a master’s degree in art history with a focus on printmaking. She has held the directorship of arts organizations in Australia, Thailand, and the United States in both commercial and non-profit institutions and serves on the board of Print Austin. She is the director and founder of Hello, Print Friend Studios.
Reinaldo Gil Zambrano
Reinaldo Gil Zambrano is an award-winning printmaking artist from Caracas, Venezuela, in Spokane, WA. Reinaldo is currently an associate professor of Printmaking at Gonzaga University, Co-founder of the Spokane Print & Publishing Center, and former Art Commissioner for the state of Washington.
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This week we’re coming to you from Miranda’s living room sofa in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Our guest is the brilliant Onnie O’Leary, a tattooer and visual artist from Sydney, Australia, who has just wrapped up a three-week guest residency at Hello, Print Friend Studios.
Onnie and Miranda dive into what it’s been like living and working together under one roof, how tattooing and printmaking share a surprising number of parallels, and the magic that happens when creative collaboration is allowed to bloom. They talk about ghosts, guts, glowing girls, and the deep human connection found in making art side-by-side.
It’s a warm, funny, and heartfelt conversation about inspiration, pressure, and why sometimes the final artwork is just the byproduct of something even more beautiful.
Hoy Reinaldo estará conversando con Memo Orduña. Maestro impresor y artist gráfico originario de Oaxaca y jefe de edición del taller la Buena Impresión. Memo comenzó su carrera inspirado por el trabajo artístico de sus familiares y a su temprana edad se convirtió en la cabecera de la impresión en este prestigioso taller dedicado a la litografía.