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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 Miranda speaks with artist, educator, and all-around print friend Vanessa Jo Bahr.
Vanessa is the founder of Scavenger Studios in Ashland, Oregon, where she runs a community print studio and artist residency, alongside teaching printmaking at Southern Oregon University and maintaining her own incredibly rich studio practice.
Vanessa is a scavenger in a very real sense of the word. She collects objects from the natural world, works with reclaimed copper plates, makes inks and pigments from plants and other materials, makes paper from studio scraps, tans hides, and follows materials all the way back to their origins. Her work asks what happens when, instead of constantly looking for something new, we pay close attention to what is already around us.
They talk about running artist residencies, the particular magic of spending long days in the studio with other printmakers, and why sometimes the best work happens when it’s late, you’re running on fumes, something has gone completely wrong, and you just have to figure out what to do next.
This is a conversation about printmaking, but it’s also about curiosity, resourcefulness, and finding ways to live a little closer to the materials and landscapes that make our work possible.
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.