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.

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

Scripps Press Trace monotypes happening in the studio #printmaking #composition #experimentation

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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

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.

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

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. 🇺🇸

📣 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.

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.

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

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

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.

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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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.

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.

🧑🏾‍🎨📚 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. 📚🧑🏾‍🎨

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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."

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.

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.

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.

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....

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

@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.

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/

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

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I hope to see you there 🧑🏾‍🎨📚

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'Pause is currently on display in Kalamazoo Book Arts Center's Illustrated Accordion exhibition thru March 21. kalbookarts.org/events/2025illustratedaccordion

White: A Handbook and 'Pause artist's books are now part of the Book Arts collection at Scripps College.

Scripps alumna and Spring 2025 Goudy artist Alison Saar visited Scripps Press. Saar showed artwork and discussed plans to create a print to benefit the Black community impacted by the Alton Fire. Book students at SP are to work on the print this semester. www.instagram.com/p/DHCnzGXP8t-

They called him Sleepy Joe because we could sleep at night.

Some recent prints (stamps, repeat patterns, rainbow roll) on cardboard, decorative paper, paper, & fabric from students in my Experimental Relief Printing class at Scripps College. Check out more student work: www.instagram.com/p/DG7wiDEOnYR

There is something deeply satisfying about seeing your finished edition together. Never gets old. Photo of 'Pause taken at Hewn Oaks Residency in Maine

Al Green told no lies. 🍊🤡