About Nicole

Portrait by the talented Kelly Baker at Burnout City Studio.

Read an interview I did about my work in 2023 with Anna Brones of the Creative Fuel Collective.

 

My name is Nicole Manganelli: I am a white queer femme, a cis woman, a letterpress printer, a person who actively practices anti-racism, a poet, and an art worker. It’s important to me to ground my artistic practice in my identities and the fact that I am a worker under capitalism.

The goal of my printmaking is to nourish organizers of all kinds with fierce, beautiful words that keep them invested in movement work for the long haul. I write, typeset, and letterpress print reminders, calls to action, bits of insight, reflections, demands, groundings, missives on grief—the poetry of organizing.

I am based in the unceded Wabanaki territory known as Portland, Maine. I found letterpress printing via a deep love for word alchemy and a class taught by David Wolfe in 2012. In 2015 I became a member of the community printshop Pickwick Independent Press and began learning from the indelibly generous Pilar Nadal. I’m also a junior designer & copy editor at Portland Design Co, where I’ve had the great fortune to be mentored by LK Weiss. I’m continually grateful for my design & printmaking teachers & for the organizers that help us build & embody the worlds we want to create.

I have a practice of redistributing a portion of my printmaking income as sustaining donations to a collection of movement organizations locally & nationally, as well as contributing to mutual aid efforts. Check out these orgs that are doing amazing work.

Thanks for your interest in my art, and please feel free to be in touch!

Love & solidarity,
Nicole
nicole@radicalemprints.com
(207) 619-1070

 

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