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. Large text is entirely printed with broken wood type
Prints 2
Vaporware Luddites. Includes multiple prints from blocks I lasercut in wood & acrylic
broken series grid
Prints 3
"This Is a Printing-Office" Remix. Combines Warde's poem, the Sandia Labs Report ("This is not a place of honor..."), & my own critical tech writing ("...but it could be a place of hope")
Prints 4
Pomegranates. From text by Sarah Werner in her zine of the same name. "May you become the blessing we need in this world". Uses a catchword ("pomegranate") in Hebrew I lasercut in birch
Prints 10
Hope Is a Thing with Wings. Original text by artist
Prints 5
This little light of mine (protest in joy!)
Prints 7
Anti-fascist Bookmakers
Prints 16
This machine kales fascists. Featuring an actual Vandercook-printed type-high-sliced cabbage!
Prints 11
HTML is the letterpress of the digital world. Lasercut acrylic, lead type, craft foam, antibird netting
Prints 8
i like Big Wood Type (& smol type, 2) & i cannot lie. With custom trans printer block I lasercut in maple
Prints 25
Letterpress Enthusiast!!! (it me)
Prints 43
Now is the time to come together. June Jordan's "From Sea to Shining Sea". Daredevil typesetting
Prints 65
Libraries could, should be for everyone (except nazis)
Prints 68
We can be soft & brave, silly & right. Uses an image block I lasercut from art by Miles / @queermedieval.bsky.social
Prints 36
Letterpress for the people! Silly letterpress for the joyful people!
Prints 73
Moby Dick is a book about whales. From a humorous text-analysis-related tweet by Heather Froelich
Lasercut PrintExamples PrintedWithLoveTrans
Scholarship 5
EnthusiasticType.com website collecting my various printing history & practice scholarship & art
Prints 40
ICE out / defund, prosecute, rehabilitate, atone—
Book Arts Zines 5
Z MethodsExamplesCollage FreeLetterpressAccessibilityTeachingZines
Visconti RunToward
Z MethodsExamplesCollage PrintingMethodExamples
Z MethodsExamplesCollage LasercutExamples

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