Ana Inciardi

is a Portland, Maine-based artist who was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. She studied art and history at Kenyon College in Ohio, and with her parents being curators in museums, she fell in love with creating prints in a “History of Printmaking” class. She celebrates her love of food through her prints, as well as her love of her Italian heritage and many other things that are special to her, from places she has a fondness for to the Inciardi paste tomato - a rare variety that her Sicilian ancestors brought over. She recently married her wife, Addison Wagner, and they live in Portland.

Ana grew up in the neighborhood of Park Slope in Brooklyn, on 1st street between 7th and 8th avenue, and she used to use the temporary tattoo vending machine in Key Food in the neighborhood, which helped inspire her now-famous miniprint vending machines. She moved from Park Slope to Maine in 2020, and soon after during Covid, there was a quarter shortage and she had difficulty doing her laundry. She got the idea that if she could make her own vending machine, she could hopefully get quarters to do her laundry regularly, and it was a huge hit.

Now she has over 75 vending machines across the country, and at $1 per print, the art is not only beautiful but also accessible to everyone. Visitors flock to the machines for special limited-edition prints, seasonal prints, prints that are special to the location they are in. And there is a large and ever-growing fanbase that love the prints and trade them, trying to keep up with the constant flow of amazing new prints.