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, eucalyptus; 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, ... and of course new, used, and broken lead & wood type!
🗺️ I've sold my art to folks in: Canada, England, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin.
Prints 1
"Broken" is a relative term. Large text is entirely printed with broken wood type
Prints 6 LudditeDayglo
Vaporware Luddites. Includes multiple prints from blocks I lasercut in wood & acrylic
broken series grid
"Broken is a relative term", with large text printed entirely from pieces of broken wood type. Smaller text on disability & craft, identity & value under capitalism
Visconti NoiselessPatientSpider
Walt Whitman's poem of ever-seeking human connection despite the odds, set to resemble an eight-legged spider
Visconti NoiselessPatientSpider Typeset
Complex daredevil typesetting for the Whitman piece
Prints AntifaVeggiePuns
More complexly nonlinear typesetting, joyful antifascist puns, and an actual cabbage slice printed (safely) on Vandercook
Prints CAPizzaKitchen PreFinal
Work-in-progress. 'California Job case' is a common layout for movable type organization, and California Pizza Kitchen was a popular food chain. This is their child??
Prints 2
The original "Vaporware Luddites" series starter. Maximalist text & feelings about AI in higher ed, labor, and beyond. 9" tall "Luddite general", danse macabre skeleton, retro Mac, and "glitch their systems" are all blocks I lasercut
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 me
Prints InfrastructureV2
"Infrastucture is something we owe to one another", a quote from a conference talk by Meg Smith reprinted for mutual aid fundraising, as the original sold out
Prints VibrantGlitchOrange
"Be the vibrant glitch you want to see in the world" used a tape and hand brayer approach to mask faces in a halftone photographic print block; I lasercut the two words in interesting fonts
Prints 5
This little light of mine (protest in joy like Sister Corita Kent!)
Prints Addonizio
Circular typesetting
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 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 about whales. From a humorous text-analysis-related tweet by Heather Froelich
Prints 7
Anti-fascist Bookmakers
Scholarship 5
EnthusiasticType.com website collecting my various printing history & practice scholarship & art
Z MethodsExamplesCollage FreeLetterpressAccessibilityTeachingZines
Z MethodsExamplesCollage PrintingMethodExamples
Z MethodsExamplesCollage LasercutExamples
Lasercut PrintExamples PrintedWithLoveTrans
Representation in printing <3
Visconti RunToward
Prints ICE Shame
I regularly print large posters for a free pile, as well as advocacy fundraising prints
Book Arts Zines 5
Visconti Printer Selfie AbolitionIs

Recent book arts activity

View my short CV for letterpress-related opportunities here.

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
  • Summer 2026 Penland School of Craft Scholarship, 2026 Community Recognition
  • Summer 2026 'Photo-Realistic Letterpress' 2-week class at Penland Research Printing
  • May 2026 #DHprints for International Print Day Printing Community
  • 2025-2026 Virginia Book Arts Steering Committee Community Recognition
  • August 2025 Janet Taylor Acosta Memorial Scholarship at Penland School of Craft, 2025 Recognition
  • May 2026 Teaching 'Full spectrum letterpress: intro to advanced ink gradients, split fountains, & rainbow rolls' for Virginia Book Arts Teaching
  • Fall 2025 Charlottesville Zine Fest Community Zines
  • January 2026 Penland School of Craft Scholarship, 2026 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
  • 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