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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