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Primrose Press @primrosepress.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Be sure to RSVP for the July 30th Live! At the Library: "Women to Watch": A Celebration of MidAtlantic Book Artists event at the Library of Congress. washington.org/event/live-l...

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Live! At the Library: Mid-Atlantic Book Artists | Washington DC

Live! At the Library: Mid-Atlantic Book Artists Thursday, July 30, 20265:30 to 7 pm

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Primrose Press @primrosepress.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Library of Congress & National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) invites you to celebrate the creativity of MidAtlantic women book artists. This panel discussion with regional artists nominated for NMWA's upcoming '27 exhibition, "Women to Watch: A Book Arts Revolution." www.loc.gov/item/event-4...

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Live! At the Library: "Women to Watch": A Celebration of MidAtlantic Book Artists

The Library of Congress and The National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) invites you to celebrate the creativity of women book artists in the MidAtlantic region. This event will feature a panel dis...

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Primrose Press @primrosepress.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

See some of the final paper titles by students in my Papermaking: Culture & Community seminar class: www.instagram.com/p/DYH4ir8jgI8/

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Primrose Press @primrosepress.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

📚🧑🏿‍🎨🧑🏾‍🎨🧑🏽‍🎨🧑🏼‍🎨🧑🏻‍🎨 Join me in celebrating the sixty-two artists nominated artists from six regions across the globe for the National Museum of Women in the Arts’ Women To Watch 2027: A Book Arts Revolution exhibition for which I am guest curating. 📚🧑🏿‍🎨🧑🏾‍🎨🧑🏽‍🎨🧑🏼‍🎨🧑🏻‍🎨 nmwa.org/press/announ... nmwa.org/press/announ...

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Announcing the 62 nominated artists from 16 regions around the world for Women to Watch 2027: A Book Arts Revolution! | National Museum of Women in the Arts

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The 62 nominated artists for the eighth edition of the Women to Watch series, a global initiative led by the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA), have been announced. Women ...

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Primrose Press @primrosepress.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Copies of White: A Handbook and 'Pause are in the mail to Washington and Connecticut!

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Primrose Press @primrosepress.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Scripps Art Dept We are raising funds to purchase a panel saw for our wood shop/Sculpture studio. Donate, if you can. Please remember sharing is caring. This campaign ends on March 26 at 11:59PM PDT Details: www.givecampus.com/s/odlsw0

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Day of Giving - Department of Art

Join me and support Dance today during Scripps' Day of Giving!

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Primrose Press @primrosepress.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Book/Print Collective Great News: Join us in celebrating the recent acquisition of the three installments of our Black and Brown Hands Making print portfolio series by the Haas Art Library at Yale University: Foreword (2023), Preface (2024), and Acknowledgements (2025).

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Primrose Press @primrosepress.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Scripps Press Students are using the laser cutter to turn their trace monotypes into wooden matrices to hand ink and print.

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Primrose Press @primrosepress.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Black: A Handbook in the Who Is America at 250? Artist Books on the State of Democracy exhibit catalogue. Show is up thru March 8. Then the Boston Athenaeum March 30 - May 16, 2026 and MCBA June 12 - August 16, 2026. Images courtesy of SFCB. #books #art #poetry

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Primrose Press @primrosepress.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

This Summer ☀️ I’m teaching Texture & Collage Printing at Penland School of Craft, August 9 – 14, 2026! Explore bold textures, layered collage, and experimental printmaking in an immersive studio experience. Ready to expand your creative practice? Join me: bit.ly/4pZoCsH

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Primrose Press @primrosepress.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Book/Print Collective Acknowledgements: The Hyphenated American print portfolio is on its way to Connecticut 📦

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Primrose Press @primrosepress.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Scripps Press More trace monotypes www.instagram.com/p/DVBqUYUjrNR Portraits of Zelenskky 🇺🇦 and family members. Students are drawing real and partially invented scenes w/ pencils, handles, fingernails, bonefolders, wooden spoons without seeing their progress.

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Primrose Press @primrosepress.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Scripps Book Arts students had a wonderful day with Scripps College O’Brien Dinstinguished Visiting Artist Kapa maker Page Chang getting to know her artwork, learning about Hawaiian bark cloth, and experiencing part of the Kapa making process. www.instagram.com/p/DU64WCTgTZH

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Primrose Press @primrosepress.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Scripps College Press invites you to the Spring 2026 Frederic W. Goudy Lecture by book artist Islam Aly on Wednesday, February 11 in the Founders Room of Honnold Library. Structures of Practice: Building Meaning Through Material and Form

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Primrose Press @primrosepress.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Scripps Press Kapa Making Workshop 10AM to Noon Saturday, Feb 21 $100 RSVP by emailing Prof. Tia Blassingame tblassin at scrippscollege.edu Connect with the Native Hawaiian practice of Kapa making! Students will have the opportunity to use traditional tools & methods to process a piece of Wauke.

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Primrose Press @primrosepress.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Scripps College Press Spring 2026 Lectures Wednesday, Feb 11: Book artist ISLAM ALY Structures of Practice: Building Meaning Through Material and Form Monday, February 16: Kapa maker PAGE CHANG Kapa (Hawaiian Bark Cloth): a Cultural Foundation of the Past, Present, and Future

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Primrose Press @primrosepress.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Book/Print Collective 🎊 As we close out 2025, Acknowledgements: The Hyphenated American 🇺🇸 is heading to California, Delaware, Florida, Maine, Massachusetts, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Virginia! 📦 Grateful for every collector, every reader, every conversation that this artwork may spark. 🇺🇸

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Primrose Press @primrosepress.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

📣 I'm excited to share that I will be teaching the Texture & Collage Printing workshop at Penland School of Craft Summer 2026. Can’t wait to dive into printmaking techniques while playing with texture + collage with you. Details: bit.ly/4pZoCsH 🖼️ Tia Blassingame, Schoolhouse, pressure print.

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Primrose Press @primrosepress.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Book/Print Collective In 2025 as national responses to immigration deteriorated, Colette Fu, Jenn Graves, Sun Young Kang, Rejin Leys, + Daniel Minter turned to identity, belonging, + the power of naming. The hyphen became a point of inquiry: a small mark that can unite + divide, bridge + break.

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Primrose Press @primrosepress.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Scripps College Press work-in-progress Honored to collaborate this year with celebrated LA sculptor/printmaker & alumna Alison Saar and the Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery on a limited-edition print supporting Black Altadena residents impacted by the Eaton Fire. www.instagram.com/p/DSQEzbwiQwQ

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Primrose Press @primrosepress.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Book/Print Collective Folding containers for Acknowledgements: The Hyphenated American print portfolio, the 3rd annual installment of the Black and Brown Hands Making series.

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Primrose Press @primrosepress.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Huge version of 'Pause currently in the window at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. You can see the comparatively diminutive version in the Unfolding Events: Exploring Past and Present in Artists’ Books exhibition up thru March 1, 2026.

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Primrose Press @primrosepress.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Book/Print Collective 🇺🇸 Introducing the five collective members whose prints are featured in Acknowledgements: The Hyphenated American print portfolio, the latest installment of our annual Black and brown hands making series: Colette Fu, Jennifer Graves, Sun Young Kang, Rejin Leys, & Daniel Minter

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Primrose Press @primrosepress.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Book/Print Collective Images of our Preface: Making a New Home Despite Displacement print portfolio from @lapubliclibrary.bsky.social. www.instagram.com/p/DNZIXngSVXP Prints by collective members Tona Wilson, Islam Aly, Kellee Warren, Nabil Gonzalez, and Mar González Palacios.

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Primrose Press @primrosepress.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Book/Print Collective: 👍🏿👍🏾👍🏽👍🏼👍🏻Preface heads to Rhode Island and Florida!👍🏿👍🏾👍🏽👍🏼👍🏻 In this portfolio, collective members Kellee Warren, Tona Wilson, Mar González Palacios, Nabil Gonzalez, and Islam Aly explore topics like immigration, migration, gentriification, and displacement.

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Primrose Press @primrosepress.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

🧑🏾‍🎨📚 Copies of 'Pause artist's book are now available for sale in the Print Center Gallery store, 1614 Latimer Street Philadelphia 'Pause was printed last Spring at the University of the Arts offset and letterpress printing studios and laser cut in their makerspace, I'm glad it is back in Phillie. 📚🧑🏾‍🎨

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Primrose Press @primrosepress.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Book/Print Collective: Our Preface: Making a New Home Despite Displacement print portfolio is on its way to Massachusetts!

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Primrose Press @primrosepress.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Restock: 🧑🏾‍🎨📚📚The shop at Minnesota Center for Book Arts (MCBA) has copies of my 'Pause artist's book in stock. 🧑🏾‍🎨📚📚

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Primrose Press @primrosepress.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Book/Print Collective 👏🏿👏🏾👏🏽👏🏼👏🏻 📦 Shipping our Foreword and Preface print portfolios to Oregon. 📦 👏🏿👏🏾👏🏽👏🏼👏🏻

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Primrose Press @primrosepress.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

In the mail: 'Pause is on its way to North Carolina, Ohio, and Texas.

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Primrose Press @primrosepress.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Book/Print Collective Our Preface: Making a New Home Despite Displacement print portfolio is heading to New York.

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Primrose Press @primrosepress.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Book/Print Collective Preface: Making a New Home Despite Displacement print portfolio is heading to Illinois and Pennsylvania.

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Primrose Press @primrosepress.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Editioning Preface portfolio containers From honoring histories or sharing personal experiences to imagining new futures, the Black and Brown Hands Making print series is an ongoing conversation amongst our membership and centers Black and brown communities, contributions, and lived experiences.

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Primrose Press @primrosepress.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Book/Print Collective University of Georgia acquired our FOREWORD: Black & brown hands in Book Arts/Histories & Print Making/Cultures print portfolio.

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Primrose Press @primrosepress.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Print/Book Collective PREFACE portfolio Removal by Tona Wilson "Using reduction linoleum printing (itself a kind of removal), and letterpress, the print emphasizes the contrast between the cold and clinical use of the word 'removal' and the reality for the people who suffer its consequences."

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Primrose Press @primrosepress.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Book/Print Collective The Preface: Making a New Home Despite Displacement print portfolio is in the mail, heading to collections in California, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Ohio.

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Primrose Press @primrosepress.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Book/Print Collective Home Sweet Home despite displacement (immigration, gentrification, migration) from our Preface print portfolio, which consists of five prints. The prints shown include one (in the foreground) by Nabil Gonzalez and one (in the background) by Mar González Palacios.

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Primrose Press @primrosepress.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

University of Nebraska in Omaha recently acquired White: A Handbook (2024). White explores adjacency, privilege, mediocrity, passing, imagined victimhood, and grievance as it speaks of life, love, power, and envy within its limited color palette.

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Primrose Press @primrosepress.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Scripps Press collaborative book, Dear Mr.President: I Wish To Say, is based upon Fall '24 Goudy Artist Sheryl Oring's I Wish To Say: Postcards to the Next President. The book features typewritten postcards created the week after the 24 election. Process photos: scba.omeka.net/exhibits/sho....

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Primrose Press @primrosepress.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

This semester's Scripps College Social Justice & Social Practice in Book Arts Core seminar class, under my direction, interviewed artists, curators, and librarians about social justice and social practice in the book arts field. You can read the interviews here: scba.omeka.net #bookart #interviews

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Primrose Press @primrosepress.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

@arlisna.bsky.social keynote about to start. Book print collective prints from the Preface print portfolio and Scripps press books/prints hanging out behind me. Plus papermaking tools.

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Primrose Press @primrosepress.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Cornell University Library recently acquired three Scripps College Press artists' books: Toot Toot: A Book About Fruit (2018), Niggas in Nature (2019), and Our Gods (2019). ☀️ All include handset letterpress text, relief printing, and original text. Details: www.instagram.com/p/DJCTcjWpN_o/

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Art Libraries Society of North America @arlisna.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

We're thrilled that Tia Blassingame will be our opening keynote at #arlisna2025! A renowned book artist, printmaker and educator, proprietor of Primrose Press, and founder of the Book/Print Artist/Scholar of Color Collective, she amplifies BIPOC voices & histories in print culture and her work. 1/2

2025 Virtual Conference Keynote Speaker
Tia Blassingame
Taking Space & Making Space for BIPOC Book Arts, Cultures, Histories, and Futures
#ARLISNA2025
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Primrose Press @primrosepress.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Executive Order 042325 REINSTATING COMMON SENSE SCHOOL DISCIPLINE POLICIES Section 1. Purpose and Policy. The Federal Government will no longer tolerate known risks to children’s safety and well-being in the classroom that result from the application of school discipline based on discriminatory

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