The Printmaking Workshop
The press room with the two etching presses.
The studio space is the restored old carriage house of Villa Beltrami. It is equipped for all intaglio techniques and black-and-white photography printing.
There is one press room with an entrance to the piazza, one corridor that functions as a gallery, one bathroom (with shower), one large work-area with an entrance from the private courtyard, and a darkroom.
It is around 1000 square feet, well lit, heated and ventilated, and has wi-fi, for anyone interested in listening to music and podcasts, or needing to google how to order a coffee in Italian.
Artists in residence at Two Cents Press have unrestricted 27/7 access to the printmaking workshop.
Beside a large variety of tools, the equipment and supplies available in the studio include:
Two etching presses (19”x35”, 24”x48”)
A large rosin box
Two hotplates
A foot operated metal cutter for cutting copper
UV exposing unit
Large vacuum frame
Mirror finished 18” x 24”copper plates
Ferric chloride in different Baumé degrees
Rolls of Cape Fear gelatin for photogravure and legendary Autotype G35 pigment paper
Potassium dichromate for sensitizing the gelatin
A variety of quality printing paper (Magnani)
Inks, rollers, hard ground, soft ground, wax, whiting, photopolymer plates…
A large collection of books and manuals on printmaking and photography is also at hand.
The studio has also a well-equipped darkroom with supplies to support all B&W techniques as well as cianotype, chemigrams and more.
Tools/equipment for book binding is also available.
Among the intaglio techniques offered are: etching, engraving, aquatint, drypoint, mezzotint, white ground, sugar lift… as well as copperplate photogravure, and photopolymer gravure.
