#VoicesFromTheStacksMourning/Warning : Numbers and repeaters by Tia Blassingame (Primrose Press).Tia
#VoicesFromTheStacksMourning/Warning : Numbers and repeaters by Tia Blassingame (Primrose Press).Tia Blassingame (b. 1971) is a book artist, publisher, and Assistant Professor of Art and Director of Scripps College Press.Blassingame founded the Book/Print Artist/Scholar of Color Collective in 2019 to bring “scholars of Book History and Print Culture into conversation and collaboration with BIPOC book artists, papermakers, curators, letterpress printers, printmakers to build community, support systems.” She also runs Primrose Press, serves on the Board of Directors for the College Book Art Association and is a member of the Board of Trustees for the American Printing History Association.In the artist statement on her press’ website she writes: “I utilize printmaking in the book form to address issues of race and racism in the United States. .. I examine African American architectural, spatial and cultural history, racial prejudices and perception…Instead of repelling the viewer, artists’ books can allow for a nuanced discussion on issues of race to unfold with each page turn. The reader/viewer can locate themselves within the book as they create their own path to view and connect deeply with the book, its text and prints, history itself.”In todays item, the artist book Mourning/Warning from 2018, Blassingame writes: “Stripping the maritime alphabet of its primary colors except blue and replacing them with muted browns and blacks, Mourning/Warning highlights the relationship of Americans of the African diaspora to water and maritime trade as well as the need for an alternate means of communication in time of emergency and duress. How do you send a warning call that hatred comes constantly in waves?..The names of victims of police brutality, unsolved murders, violence motivated by homophobia and transphobia with missing individuals like Phoenix Coldon fill this edition. John Robinson represents the victims whose murders go unsolved and seemingly forgotten for decades…For too many, justice remains distant.” –Colophon. Signed and dated by the author. See also You Are and Freedom of the Presses found in our collection. Check out more artist images on Facebook. –Diane R., Special Collections Graduate Student -- source link
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