ABOUT WINGATE STUDIO
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History:
Wingate Studio is a print workshop that specializes in traditional intaglio printing techniques. Founded in 1985 by Peter Pettengill, Wingate publishes and produces original etchings, monotypes, and relief prints, in collaboration with contemporary artists and print publishers. Located in an old dairy barn on farmland in the Connecticut River valley of southwestern New Hampshire, the studio is equipped to produce large scale color images in intaglio, while providing a relaxed and comfortable atmosphere where artists work with an attentive, professional staff of printers.

Wingate Studio has collaborated with eminent publishers such as The Limited Editions Club, Blue Heron Press,The Whitney Museum of American Art, Grenfell Editions, Paul Kasmin Gallery, Osiris Communications and Exit Art. Prints produced at Wingate Studio can be found in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Fogg Museum, The Smith College Museum and The Wadsworth Atheneum.

Peter and his staff host workshops at the studio throughout the year both independently and in conjunction with other printmaking workshops. Peter has taught workshops at Dartmouth College, Brandeis University, Smith College, The Hartford Art School, Two Rivers Printmaking Studio
in White River Junction, VT and Zea Mays Printmaking in Florence, MA. A limited number of Studio Internships are offered throughout the year to qualified individuals.

Facilities:
The press has five different sections that cover 2000 square feet of space. It will accomodate up to four printers working at two different presses, with an adjoining section designated as artist workspace.

The facilities include:
1 American French Tool etching press, bed size 36 x 60 inches.
1 Ledeuil etching press, bed size 40 x 70 inches.
Aquatint box and oven to accomodate 30 x 40 inch plates.
Steel-facing tank that will accomodate a 30 x 40 inch plate.
Print dryer with 48 x 48 inch capacity.

Staff:
The studio carries on a tradition of craftsmanship, painstaking effort and attention to detail that has been practiced by fine printers for centuries, employing techniques that are hundreds of years old. At the same time, the range of work produced at Wingate reflects the more recent artist/printer collaborative tradition that is the hallmark of the American print renaissance of the 1960s and 1970s.

Peter Pettengill, founder and master printer of Wingate Studio, trained and worked at Crown Point Press in San Francisco from 1979 to 1985, and brings that experience to bear on his work at the studio. Printers are taught to lavish time and attention to the working artist and to be flexible and openminded in their approach to the work. In this process a working relationship is created that fosters communication and allows the artist the freedom to follow his or her ideas wherever they might lead and whatever the technical complexities. In addition to master printer Peter Pettengill, the staff currently includes three other printers, Jillian Dy (BFA, Boston University), Caitlin Riordan (BFA, Maine College of Art), and Raphael Griswold (BA, Wesleyan University). Interns from nearby colleges also often volunteer and train at the studio in exchange for studio time and knowledge.