Meet Marie

I’m Shana Marie Kubilius Wanco. I wear a lot of hats — stationer, new mom, wife, swan-obsessed, university instructor, paint-by-numbers collector, entrepreneur — but the biggest one will always be artist. Paper just happens to be my medium. 

I think of each stationery project as a commissioned piece of artwork, and I dive deep into my clients’ stories before ever picking up a paintbrush. Of course, my art definitely has a style: colorful, whimsical, intentional, and always with a hand-drawn or -painted element. In short, magical.

My work might be different from anything you’ve seen before, which has led to some incredible collaborations with companies like Paperless Post, Morgan Julia Designs, The Campbell Collective, New York City’s The Corner Store, and LaRoque. I’m so grateful for how far Iris + Marie has come since I started this business in 2017. 

Meet Iris

My business partner is Iris, a 1920s Chandler & Price letterpress.

She’s a charming old thing that I named in homage to my grandfather, who was a painter, stained glass artist and woodworker and coaxed the inner artist out of me as a child. Though I don’t print on Iris anymore, I love that her inclusion in my business name is a reminder that I could never create my art alone. I’m privileged to partner with a lot of incredible artists and women in business across the Southeast to bring my projects to life:

• Crayton-Heritage in South Carolina is our printer

• Ross Press & Bindery in North Carolina makes our boxes, folios, frames and more

• No One Alike in Georgia is our marbling artist

• Pretty Written Things in South Carolina is our calligrapher

• Pomp & Revel in North Carolina provides our acrylics and signage