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episode 257 : christie tirado Jan 30, 2026

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This week Miranda speaks with Christie Tirado, a first-generation Mexican American artist, educator, and third-year MFA candidate at UW–Madison.

They talk about leaving a stable teaching career to go back to grad school, building community wherever you land, and how labor, in the field, in the kitchen, and in the studio, becomes an archive. Plus: the print gods, when to walk away after two messed-up prints, and why you should absolutely pair printmaking with salsa dancing whenever possible.

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episode 256 : shanna strauss Jan 09, 2026

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We are delighted to kick off our eighth season of the Hello, Print Friend podcast!

This week Miranda speaks with Shanna Strauss, a Tanzanian American mixed media artist and printmaker based in Oakland, California, and a faculty member at California College of the Arts. They talk about the winding road that led her back to art and how printmaking became not just a medium, but a community, a lineage, and a way of carrying history forward.

They get into Strauss' early inspiration from Charlotte O’Neal’s studio in Tanzania, what she learned from organizing and social justice work in Quebec, and how mentorship connects her to a larger printmaking family tree, all the way back through traditions of resistance print. As well as Beekeeping. Ancestors. And a new body of work Shauna’s beginning around Tanzanian kanga cloth.

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episode 255 : justin anthony Dec 04, 2025

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This week’s episode is one I’ve been looking forward to for a long time, and if you are someone trying to make a life in the arts right now this is going to be required listening.

My guest is Justin Anthony, co-founder of Artwork Archive – the platform so many of you already use to track your work, your collectors, your exhibitions, and the business side of your practice.

And we’re having this conversation now because, let’s be honest, the art market feels… chilly. A little frigid, even. Many artists who were used to regular sales are seeing things slow down. Institutions with “arts” in their name are watching their budgets get slashed. Long-standing galleries are closing their doors. It can start to feel like the walls are closing in.

But this is not an hour of doom and gloom. This conversation is about what you can do right now – this week, this month, over the next year – to support your career so when the market does bounce back you’re going to be even better off than before.

Justin shares what he’s hearing from art consultants around the world – the people who quietly place art in some of the largest public and private collection. We get into how they actually find artists, what makes them choose to work with someone again and again, and why professionalism, clear communication, and a cohesive story around your work are just as important as the work itself.

We also talk about relationships in the broadest sense: not just customer-relationship management, but relationship management. Your peers, your local art organizations, the artist who recommended you for that show, the collector who bought that small print five years ago and still thinks about it every morning when they walk past it on the way to make coffee.

There’s so much in here and I know you’re going to get a lot of out of it. So give it a listen and share it with a print friend.

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episode 254 : tom murphy of make-ready Nov 13, 2025

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This week Miranda speaks with Tom Murphy the founder of Make-Ready, the largest fine-art screenprinting operation in the world.

Tom grew up in Suffolk with pound-shop sketchbooks, bootleg band tees, and a fascination with how things are made. From a garage start nine years ago to collaborating with artists like Alex Katz, Ai Wei Wei, and Anish Kapoor, his path runs through open-access studios, industrial screen tech, and a deep respect for legendary shops like Brand X and Two Palms. It’s a conversation about craft, problem-solving, and that human impulse to leave a mark.

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episode 253 : mary farrell Nov 05, 2025

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This week Miranda speaks with Mary Farrell, a printmaker based in Spokane, Washington. They talk about how Mary’s upbringing (with her father’s work in tuberculosis research and her mother’s near-miss with a life in a convent) created a childhood that shaped her perspective as an artist. We explore her long love affair with the human figure, her fascination with the parallels between the body and the natural world, and how she uses printmaking processes like mezzotint to pull light from darkness—literally and metaphorically.

It’s a conversation about labor, love, and the lifelong unfolding of artistic voice, a reminder that, as Mary says, our best work is always still ahead of us.

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episode 252 : nathan calin Oct 10, 2025

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This week Miranda speaks with artist and collaborative printer Nathan Catlin—Master Printer at the LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies at Columbia University—whose practice spans relief, screenprint, mosaic, stained glass, and an ever-growing love affair with clay. We get into Nathan’s origin story (the heartbreak + linocut era), why the physicality of carving still feels like home, and how he keeps his own narrative prints clean and focused while helping other artists make wildly ambitious editions. We talk shop about trust in collaboration, the perils of pedantry, and projects that push the edge of “what counts” as print—from boomboxes packed with ephemera to playable records in thrift-store suitcases. We also talk about teaching at Columbia (and previously RISD and City), why prints remain the most democratic corner of the art world, and the quiet power of everyday moments—like a COVID-era bathroom haircut—pressed into permanence.

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episdoe 251 : jessica sabogal Sep 24, 2025

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This week Miranda speaks with Jessica Sabogal an artist whose work lives at the intersection of public space, portraiture, and collective care. Raised in a Colombian immigrant household in the Bay Area, Jess took a winding road from pre-med to political science to the studio and the street, scaling early stencil experiments into landmark murals and all rooted in print.

They talk about her journey to finding her visual voice of bold portraiture rooted in intimacy, interview, and symbolism. As well as her ongoing collaborative practice with partner and printmaker Shauna Strauss and their multi-year project “This Woman’s Work,” honoring the often-invisible labor of women, femmes, and nonbinary folks through layered processes like photopolymer, screenprint, and chine collé. And so much more!

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episode 250 : FAILE Aug 22, 2025

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This week Miranda speaks with Patrick Miller and Patrick McNeil—better known together as FAILE.

Since meeting on the very first day of high school, the two have been creating art side by side for over twenty-six years. What began with trading sketchbooks in Arizona grew into a wide-ranging practice rooted in printmaking—particularly silkscreen and stenciling—and expanded into painting, sculpture, large-scale public installations, and even immersive nightclubs.

In their conversation, they trace FAILE’s evolution: from cutting stencils in garages and late-night sessions in college print labs, to bringing their layered, frenetic aesthetic from the streets of Brooklyn all the way to Lincoln Center and Times Square. Along the way, they talk about the push and pull between street and studio, the role of music and photocopy culture in their work, and how parenthood and time have reshaped their creative lens.

Whether it’s a 40-foot tower at the New York City Ballet, a nightclub floor covered in hand-pulled prints, or a massive tiled facade soon to be unveiled in Manhattan—FAILE continues to expand what printmaking can be while staying true to the collaborative spirit that started it all.

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