Carlisle Printmaking is a fine art screen printing shop located in the North Deering neighborhood of Portland, Maine. We create unique specialty editions on paper and alternative materials such as canvas, wood, metals, glass, plastics and just about anything which is two dimensional. If you can dream it, we can find the right inks to fit the application. Our service offers local and national artists a new or alternative approach to selling their artwork on a larger scale, as well as giving experienced artists an outlet to create beautiful editions. Often times buyers or collectors cannot afford an artist's original piece of artwork which can range anywhere from $5000 to $500,000 dollars. By creating high quality reproduction prints at a fraction of the cost, example being a $100 print from an edition of 100, the artist can potentially make more than what the original is worth and their collectors can own a limited edition print of the image they were interested in buying. 

We strive on creating a working dialogue with artists of all media, whether it be sculptors of any medium, ceramicists, painters, digital illustrators, professional or recreational photographers. By providing an environment in which we can work alongside the artists and clients in house, we have the tools and knowledge to bring their visions to fruition.

Alexander Carlisle graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2010 and shortly after started his own printshop located in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. He soon moved to New York City in 2011 to work at a professional level as a printing apprentice and employee for Axelle Fine Art, one of the premier print shops in the country. There he learned a higher echelon of printmaking and attention to detail and honed his craft to what it is today. After five years in the city, he decided to move back to his home state of Rhode Island and create a similarly structured business in the Providence area that provides the highest quality fine art printing. Sawtooth Editions was created in 2016 and over a 5 year period, Alexander expanded the printshop’s ability to create some of the largest format screen prints on the East Coast with the aid of new techniques and the largest screen printing machinery available on the market. He printed for some of the country’s most prominent artists as well as producing a large number of prints working alongside Robert Lococo of Lococo Fine Arts, one the country’s leading large-format fine art print publishers.