Zanatta Editions is a private dealer and publisher of fine art prints based in the metropolitan Kansas City area.

For more than thirty years, Zanatta Editions has collaborated with nationally-recognized artists to release over one hundred editioned works of art (prints, photographs and sculpture) and to produce an additional two hundred monotypes and uniquely painted prints.

Zanatta Editions develops projects with artists who have found unique voices in contemporary art, reflecting distinct ethnic, cultural and geographic backgrounds. The primary goal of projects has always been to assist artists in creating something “special” – an editioned work of art that merits a place in public institutions as well as in private collections.

The first print release (undertaken as an “experiment” by an otherwise “book” publishing entity of Joe and Barb Zanatta) was Jaune Quick-To-See Smith’s 1996 “Survival” suite of four lithographs; it set a high bar for creativity, quality and significance. Subsequent projects with William Christenberry, Renée Stout, Neal Ambrose-Smith, Jacqueline Bishop, Emmi Whitehorse, Douglas Bourgeois, Karsten Creightney and others have created works of quality and importance.

As a publisher that does not operate its own printing facility, Zanatta Editions utilizes contract printers and fabricators who are masters of their crafts and whose expertise best fits the ideas each artist brings to a project. Printers Maurice Sanchez at New York City’s Derriere L’Etole Studios, Michael Costello at Santa Fe’s Hand Graphics, Michael Sims of Lawrence Lithography Workshop in Kansas City and John Hans of Dolphin Archival Printing are among those who have consistently delivered the highest quality works in creative collaboration with Zanatta Edition artists.

Works from Zanatta Editions are now in the permanent collections of fifty-plus museums in over half of the states, and in prestigious private collections throughout the U.S. and in Europe. The Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art at Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas, holds the Zanatta Editions Archives, which includes one impression of each editioned work, samples of monotypes and uniquely painted prints, and project proofs.