Wolfproof Press!

Amanda Wyatt Visconti

Art Portfolio
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⁉️ things I've printed with include:
red cabbage sliced type-high, my pinkie fingerprint, seeds from the first flower I ever grew from seed, bubble wrap, material I lasercut into movable type & printing blocks (boxwood, cherry, white ash, hard maple, pine, bamboo, birch; acrylic; hard lino), the label on the positive lockup bar, letterpress furniture, craft foam, anti-bird netting, jello (jellygraph, aka hectography), alcohol (spirit duplication), a KN95 mask, THE POWER OF THE SUN (lol, aka cyanotype photography)
Prints 1
'Broken' is a relative term
Prints 4
"May you become the blessing"; text from the zine "Pomegranates" by Sarah Werner.
Prints 3
"This Is a Printing-Office" Remix ("this is not a place of honor, but it could be a place of hope")
Prints 10
"Hope Is a Thing with Wings"
Prints 11
"HTML is the letterpress of the digital world"
Prints 8
"i like Big Wood Type & i cannot lie"
Prints 7
"Anti-fascist Bookmakers"
Prints 16
"This machine kales fascists" (featuring an actual Vandercook-printed type-high-sliced cabbage).
Prints 12
"A hydroponics of care" (featuring a light print of the first seeds I grew from the first flower I grew from seed.
Prints 25
"Letterpress Enthusiast"
Prints 36
"Letterpress for the people!"
Prints 40
"ICE out / defund, prosecute, rehabilitate, atone—"
Prints 73
"Moby Dick is a book about whales", from a tweet by Heather Froelich
Prints 65
"Library Hopes"
Prints 68
"We can be soft & brave, silly & right" featuring an image block I lasercut from art by Miles/@queermedieval.bsky.social
Prints 43
"Now is the time to come together", from "From Sea to Shining Sea" by June Jordan
Prints 2
Vaporware Luddites
Prints 5
"This little light of mine (protest in joy!)"
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Recent book arts activity

April 2026
Partners in Print 'Print Futures' invited speaker
Recognition Research
January 2026
Monthlong Artist Residency at Penland School of Craft
Recognition Research
2025-current
Virginia Book Arts Type Librarian
Community
  • April 2026 Partners in Print 'Print Futures' invited speaker Recognition Research
  • January 2026 Monthlong Artist Residency at Penland School of Craft Recognition Research
  • 2025-current Virginia Book Arts Type Librarian Community
  • 2025-2026 Virginia Book Arts Steering Committee Community
  • Fall 2025 Charlottesville Zine Fest Community Zines
  • Fall 2025 Charlottesville Zine Fest Community
  • August 2025; January 2026 2 Penland School of Craft Fellowships Recognition
  • 2025-current Enthusiastic Type projects Research Community
  • 2025 Queer Book History zine Zines Research Teaching
  • 2026 'Letterpress for All!' zine series Zines Teaching
  • Spring 2026 Hosted two public letterpress workshops at Scholars' Lab Community
  • May 2026 Teaching 'Full spectrum letterpress: intro to advanced ink gradients, split fountains, & rainbow rolls' for Virginia Book Arts Teaching
  • August 2025 Penland class on non-traditional Vandercook printing techniques Learning
  • March 2025 Public Vandercook demo for Virginia Festival of the Book Teaching
  • Spring 2025 Supporting letterpress for graphic designer class for Graphic Design Week Teaching
  • Fall 2025-Spring 2026 Private intro letterpress instruction for 4 people Teaching
  • 2024-current Zine Bakery free public zine distro Zines Community
  • 2024-current Zine Bakery public zine catalog Zines Research
  • 2024-current Zinemaking Zines Research Teaching
  • Summer 2025 Identifying and Understanding Twentieth-Century Duplicating Technologies Learning
  • Fall 2024-Spring 2025 Alphabuzzzz Letterpress Printing Teaching Cohort Teaching Community
  • Summer 2023 Feminist Bibliography graduate seminar Learning
  • Fall 2023 'Building a BookLab' Rare Book School seminar Learning
  • 2025-ongoing Virginia Book Arts community printshop staffing Community Teaching
  • 2023-ongoing Various 1-day book arts courses Learning
  • 2024 4-day letterpress core intensive Learning