This week, Miranda speaks with Mariana Ramos Ortiz, an interdisciplinary artist whose work explores the structural and temporal qualities of sand in relation to themes of occupation, self-determination, permanence, and protection— within the context of Puerto Rico’s ongoing colonial realities.

In our conversation, we discuss how they uses play and community as tactics of protest and healing, the role of ephemerality and material experimentation in printmaking, and how their practice engages with landscape, memory, and resistance as acts of reflection and reclamation.

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This week, Miranda speaks with Claudia Wilburn and Joseph Velasquez about the Southern Graphics Council International (SGCI)—the largest and oldest professional print organization in the United States. They discuss what makes printmakers so eager to organize and celebrate their shared passion for the medium, the 50+ year history of SGCI, and what attendees can look forward to at the upcoming SGCI conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico, happening April 2–5, 2025.

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This week, Miranda speaks with Eliza Lutz (they/them)—a musician, printmaker, and PhD student in linguistics based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Eliza is also the recipient of Print Austin’s Best in Show award for their work in The Contemporary Print, an exhibition on view through March 20th.

They discuss Eliza’s journey from running a record label in a streaming-dominated world and working the DIY screen-printing scene to becoming a fine printmaker, the complexities of the American healthcare system, and how printmaking serves as an extension of their disabled body.

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