This week Miranda speaks with Evelyn Escamilla Nichols, a Mexican American graphic designer and printmaker based in Austin, Texas.

Evelyn’s path to printmaking winds through Chicago, art school in Monterrey, Mexico, a career in graphic design, and eventually back to the tactile, imperfect, deeply human process of making prints. In our conversation, they talk about the freedom she finds in printmaking after years of designing for clients, the beauty of leaving the artist’s hand visible, and the strange magic that still happens every time you pull a print and reveal the image for the first time.

They also talk about print as a tool for resistance and community. Evelyn is part of Protest Printworks, a loosely organized group of Austin printmakers who gather to live-print political imagery on shirts, totes, and posters brought in by the community. They discuss what it means to make political work in a deeply divided moment, the risks that can come with putting those images into the world, and the role artists can play in resisting apathy, creating spaces for connection, and documenting the times they are living through.

This is a conversation about making things with your hands, finding the thing you are able to contribute, and the power of an image once it leaves the studio and begins its life in the world.

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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.”

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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 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 photographs, cinema, dreams, and family stories shape our sense of self; and why a good title can offer another doorway into an artwork.

They also discuss the badass women printmakers who inspired Andi’s path, the relationship between teaching and maintaining a creative practice, and her wonderfully inventive Do Not Disturb print exchange, which uses the familiar form of the hotel door hanger to explore privacy, surveillance, security, isolation, and community.

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