ABOUT WINGATE STUDIO
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History:
Wingate Studio is a professional intaglio printing studio and publisher. 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, Exit Art and Taschen. 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 have 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. Peter also teaches courses at the Hartford Art School and at Smith College. At Wingate 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, allowing 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 one other printer: Caitlin Riordan (BFA, Maine College of Art). Interns from nearby colleges often volunteer and train at the studio in exchange for studio time and knowledge.

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