Lunchtime Conversation with Tia Blassingame
Thursday, March 21, 12:00 PM–1:00 PM
via Zoom
This Event is Free, but Registration is Required!
Lunchtime Zoom Conversation with Tia Blassingame
Facilitated by Amanda Clark, Whitworth University and Jane Carlin,
PSBA Board Member.
Book artist/printmaker/curator/educator Tia Blassingame’s creative practice marries time in the reading room handling historical documents with time in the studio creating artists’ books that help readers/viewers connect to history and make connections to the present and futures. Fresh from a stint as the Printer-in-Residence at the Bodleian Libraries, (Oxford University) Blassingame will discuss her experiences as a researcher and artist working in and with libraries while sharing a selection of the resulting book and print projects, including a new Book/Print Artist/Scholar of Color Collective commissioned artwork.
About Tia: Proprietor of Primrose Press, Tia Blassingame is a book artist and printmaker exploring the intersection of race, history, and perception. Utilizing printmaking and book arts techniques, she renders racially-charged images and histories for a nuanced discussion on issues of race and racism. She has been a teaching artist at the National Building Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Glen Echo, Pyramid Atlantic, and University of Maryland at College Park. Blassingame was a curatorial intern at Smithsonian Museum of American History, and served as the Image Coordinator for the Race & Ethnicity in Advertising—America: 1890–Today, an Advertising Education Foundation-Smithsonian Institution project. She has been an artist-in-residence at Yaddo, Santa Fe Art Institute (SFAI), the Andy Warhol Preserve, the International Print Center New York (IPCNY), and MacDowell Colony. Her artist's books and prints can be found in library and museum collections around the world including Library of Congress, Yale University, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tate Britain, and State Library of Queensland.
(from: www.scrippscollege.edu/offices/profile/tia-blassingame)
Questions? Contact Jane Carlin jcarlin@pugetsound.edu