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. 🍊🤡

University of Nebraska in Omaha recently acquired 'Pause. It will reside in their Criss Library. Thanks, Vamp & Tramp. A small group of Black women to complete a questionnaire about their awareness of, feelings, and memories related to menopause.

University of Georgia recently acquired 'Pause. . ‘Pause is meant to celebrate and extend grace to Black women on their menopause journey, and normalize the discussion of menopause and changes to women’s bodies.

Today Jacqueline, one of our student press assistants, helped visitors to Scripps College Press print her awesome linoleum block along with handset metal type as part of Families weekend. Here she is with her prints plus pics of the block and print in other colors. #printmaking #california #portrait

🧑🏿‍🎨🧑🏾‍🎨🧑🏽‍🎨🧑🏼‍🎨🧑🏻‍🎨📚A sample of the @bookprintcollectiv.bsky.social book and print work we are showing at the Tropic Bound Fair in 🌴Miami🏖️ from our latest Black and brown hands making print portfolio series...

Collective members reading from their artists' books

Thrilled to share that the American Printing History Association (APHA) has named our organization (40+ members strong) their 2025 Institutional Award and Susan J. Goldman as the 2025 Individual Award. printinghistory.org/2025-apha-aw...

A mix of finished and in progress prints from Scripps Press #collagraphs #linocuts #printmaking

Introducing PREFACE: Black and Brown Hands Making a New Home Despite Displacement print portfolio. Our 2nd! This year five collective members focused on the role of Black and brown hands in constructing a new home in response to immigration and displacement.

Scripps Press 😎 from earlier this semester Linocut cacti 🌵🌵 🌵🌵

More Scripps Press student book and print work-in-progress www.instagram.com/p/DCrmpKySqLF

Final projects are starting to come together at Scripps Press. www.instagram.com/p/DCjk0P0Ji-7

Good news: Copies of White: A Handbook and 'Pause are heading to California and Connecticut. 🎉