Tia Blassingame

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Tia Blassingame
Born1971
New Haven, CT
Education
Known for Artists' books, printmaking
Notable workMourning / Warning (2015); I AM (2018)
Parents
Website primrosepress.com

Tia Blassingame (born 1971, New Haven, CT), assistant professor of art at Scripps College, is an American book artist and publisher. [1]

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Biography

Blassingame holds a B.A. in Architecture from Princeton University, a M.A. in Book Arts and printmaking from the Corcoran College of Art & Design, and an M.F.A. in Printmaking from the Rhode Island School of Design. [2] [3] [4] She was Artist-in-Residence at the International Print Center (2019), Yaddo (2011), MacDowell (2010) and the Santa Fe Art Institute (2010).

Blassingame is Assistant Professor of Art and Director of Scripps College Press at Scripps College, Claremont, CA. Her work has been collected by private and public collections, including the Library of Congress, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, The Tate in Britain, the National Museum of Women in the Arts and Yale University. Her work has appeared in The Brooklyn Rail. [5]

In 2019, Blassingame was a contributing writer in Freedom of the Presses: Artist Books in the Twenty-first Century. She also founded the Book/Print Artist/Scholar of Color collective in the same year. [6] She has been owner and proprietor at Primrose Press, since 2009. [7] She 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. [8]

Art and exhibitions

Artistic style

Blassingame's work in mixed-media, bookmaking, printmaking, and flag-making employs elements of Concrete poetry and uses books and physical artifacts to provide the viewer with a tactile interaction with the conversation around racism in the United States. [9] Blassingame has also been active in scholarly understanding and symposia exploring the history and production of Black books and bibliographia. [10]

Selected exhibitions

Blassingame has exhibited throughout the U.S., including:

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References

  1. ↑ "Academic Experience | Faculty Profile". www.scrippscollege.edu. Archived from the original on 2016-08-18. Retrieved 2020-08-11.
  2. ↑ "Tia Blassingame". Essential Knowledge: The Book. 2018-06-23. Retrieved 2020-08-11.
  3. ↑ "Tia Blassingame is using her craft to investigate racism in America". Design Indaba. Archived from the original on 2019-10-15. Retrieved 2020-08-11.
  4. ↑ "Cooley Gallery". Wilson College. 2019-04-25. Archived from the original on 2020-06-27. Retrieved 2020-08-11.
  5. ↑ Blassingame, Tia (2002-03-01). "The Race of Architecture". The Brooklyn Rail. Archived from the original on 2020-07-31. Retrieved 2020-08-11.
  6. ↑ "Collective". Primrose Press. Retrieved 2021-01-15.
  7. ↑ "Profile – Tia Blassingame". Ladies of Letterpress. Retrieved 2020-08-11.
  8. ↑ "College Book Art Association - Board of Directors 2013-2018". www.collegebookart.org. Retrieved 2020-08-17.
  9. ↑ Saubestre, Elizabeth. ""Mourning/Warning" art exhibit explores being black in America". The Channels. Retrieved 2021-03-06.
  10. ↑ "The history of black books | UDaily". www.udel.edu. Retrieved 2021-03-06.
  11. ↑ "Mourning/Warning: Tia Blassingame". Atkinson Gallery at SBCC. Retrieved 2020-08-11.
  12. ↑ "Tia Blassingame's I AM | J. Willard Marriott Library Blog". 14 November 2019. Archived from the original on 2019-12-02. Retrieved 2020-08-11.
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