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Primrose Press @primrosepress.bsky.social · Nov 15

If you are new to this 🔷 space, welcome!

📚🧑🏾‍🎨Hi, I am a book artist/educator/organizer/curator. I post about my artist's books, etc. (Primrose Press), student books & prints (Scripps College Press), and collective artworks & actions (Book/Print Collective).📚

Chapter 6: Retirement, White: A Handbook

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Primrose Press @primrosepress.bsky.social · 4d

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Primrose Press @primrosepress.bsky.social · Aug 22

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.

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Primrose Press @primrosepress.bsky.social · Aug 6

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.

Primrose Press @primrosepress.bsky.social · Aug 4

🧑🏾‍🎨📚 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. 📚🧑🏾‍🎨

Primrose Press @primrosepress.bsky.social · Jul 31

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

Primrose Press @primrosepress.bsky.social · Jul 19

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

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Primrose Press @primrosepress.bsky.social · Jul 15

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

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Primrose Press @primrosepress.bsky.social · Jun 30

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

Primrose Press @primrosepress.bsky.social · Jun 18

Book/Print Collective

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

Primrose Press @primrosepress.bsky.social · Jun 13

Book/Print Collective

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

Primrose Press @primrosepress.bsky.social · Jun 10

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.

Primrose Press @primrosepress.bsky.social · Jun 8

Book/Print Collective

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

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Primrose Press @primrosepress.bsky.social · Jun 8

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."

Primrose Press @primrosepress.bsky.social · Jun 7

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.

Primrose Press @primrosepress.bsky.social · Jun 4

Book/Print Collective
Preface print portfolio

Removal by Tona Wilson
2024, Reductive Linocut, letterpress, 11 x 14 inches

Artist Statement: Removal evokes the loss that comes with deportation, both for the individuals “removed” from the lives they have been living, and for their communities.

Primrose Press @primrosepress.bsky.social · Jun 2

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.

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Primrose Press @primrosepress.bsky.social · May 17

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.

Primrose Press @primrosepress.bsky.social · May 17

Students in the Social Justice & Practice in Book Arts seminar class reflect on the process of producing the Dear Mr. President: I Wish To Say book with photo essays. scba.omeka.net/exhibits/sho...
Pages featuring different postcards. Sorting newly printed pages according to the correct order.

Primrose Press @primrosepress.bsky.social · May 17

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....

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Primrose Press @primrosepress.bsky.social · May 13

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

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Primrose Press @primrosepress.bsky.social · May 12

@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.

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Primrose Press @primrosepress.bsky.social · Apr 29

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/

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Art Libraries Society of North America @arlisna.bsky.social · Apr 26

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.
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2025 Virtual Conference Keynote Speaker
Tia Blassingame
Taking Space & Making Space for BIPOC Book Arts, Cultures, Histories, and Futures
#ARLISNA2025
Features a picture of a smiling person in a beanie in a workshop setting.

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Primrose Press @primrosepress.bsky.social · Apr 29

🧑🏾‍🎨📚 I'm looking forward to joining the conference.

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Primrose Press @primrosepress.bsky.social · Apr 26

and unlawful “equity” ideology.

Images of my Students artist's book or The Negro Students of Noyes Academy, Canaan, New Hampshire (2019)