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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 episode is part of our ongoing collaboration with PrintAustin and its 2026 5 × 5 Exhibition. This week Miranda speaks with Elizabeth Williams de Garcia, an artist whose intricate copper line etchings bring together memory, domestic space, nostalgia, and the strange emotional lives of the objects.
Elizabeth grew up in Louisiana and Texas and discovered printmaking while studying at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Since then, her life and practice have taken her from the United States to Guatemala, the Netherlands, and back again, with each move requiring her to rebuild not only a home and studio practice, but a relationship to place and community.
Her work is extraordinarily rich in texture and detail: patterned fabrics, birds, bodies, flowers, furniture, household objects, and fragments of interiors accumulate into images that feel like memories caught somewhere between the familiar and the uncanny. Working exclusively in copper line etching, Elizabeth builds tone and atmosphere through painstaking networks of drawn lines, often spending months developing a single plate.
In their conversation, they talk about the pleasures of slow processes, why she returned to etching after years of painting, the relationship between moving and memory, and what happens when the aesthetics of your childhood begin to disappear. They also talk about the experience of repeatedly being an outsider, the surprising culture shock of returning to the United States, and the way printmaking studios can provide an almost instant point of connection when you arrive somewhere new.
They also get into Southern interiors, maximalism, crows bearing less-than-glamorous gifts, and why Elizabeth hopes looking at her prints can simply be, in her words, “a party for your eyes.”
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.