About
Anastasia Inciardi (Ana) is a relief printmaker and the creator of the Mini Print Vending Machine. She’s from Brooklyn, New York, and is based in Portland, Maine. Food has always inspired her art as it connects her to the people she loves most: her friends, her Italian American family, and her fiancée, Addison, an organic vegetable farmer. Accessibility was her goal when developing the Mini Print Vending Machines, which price each mini print at one dollar. Now, her machines can be found all across the country, with more being added each week. Brands Ana has partnered with include: HBO, The Whitney Museum, Books Are Magic, Rachel Antonoff, The Boston ICA, The National Museum of Women in the Arts—the list goes on. She feels very fortunate to have built a career and life around the celebration of food, eating, accessibility, and community.
- Ana carves all of her prints out of linoleum using sharp U or V shaped tools. Once the negative spaces of the image are carved out, she inks up the block using a roller with oil based ink. The inked-up block is placed on her etching press and a piece of paper is laid over top. Lastly, she covers the paper with protective felt blankets and rolls the block, paper and blankets through the press. The result is a reverse image of the original carving. Due to the nature of the inking and printing process, every print is unique.
- Ana has a studio in downtown Portland, Maine where she uses a Conrad-Monotype press. She is also a member at Pickwick Independent Press where she enjoys being part of the printmaking community.
In her free time Ana loves ice skating, eating oysters and tomatoes, talking to her grandmother on the phone, petting her cat, Coupon, watching Addison surf, and singing with her sister.