News from Zea Mays Printmaking

Hanko Inks is about to manufacture a safe etching ink base that Zea Mays Printmaking researched and developed. It will be called Zea Mays Printmaking Transparent Etching Base, and it came out of Zea Mays’ research program in which interns test and document investigations into safer products and processes. This is the first time a safer print product developed at Zea Mays Printmaking has gone into production. (Prospectus project: [substratum] An Artistic Inquiry into Printmaking Substrates and their Health Impacts)

In other news, Zea Mays will be exhibiting at the Editions/Artists’ Books Fair in New York November 5-8. According to Liz Chalfin, ZM director, “It’s a very big deal for us. Highly competitive to get accepted. This will be our first year.”