Hello, Print Friend

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 o...

This episode is part of our ongoing collaboration with PrintAustin and its 2026 5 × 5 Exhibition. This week Miranda speaks with Andi Newberry, an interdisciplinary artist, printmaker, writer, and educator originally from North Texas. Andi’s work tangles memory, storytelling, and imagination through screenprint, lithography, monotype, collage, textiles, and writing. In their conversation, they talk about the ways both prints and memories are transformed through translation and retelling; how p...

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 pigment...

This week Miranda speaks with journalist and author Holly E. J. Black to talk about her wonderful new book, The Story of Printmaking: A Global History of Art. If you've ever wished there were a single book that told the story of printmaking, from its origins in East Asia to the contemporary artists pushing the medium forward today, this is that book. Holly manages to tell thousands of years of history without losing sight of what makes printmaking so compelling in the first place: the people,...

This week Miranda speaks with artist, educator, community-builder, and all-around creative force Ben Beres. Ben first joined the podcast way back on episode six of Hello, Print Friend (née Pine | Copper | Lime), and in this episode sits down face-to-face in Chiang Mai, Thailand with Miranda while he was here for a residency at Hello Print Friend Studios. A lot has happened since 2019. A global pandemic, major shifts in the art world, the loss of loved ones, new creative obsessions, and the in...