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Announcing the 62 nominated artists from 16 regions around the world for Women to Watch 2027: A Book Arts Revolution! | National Museum of Women in the Arts WASHINGTON, D.C. — The 62 nominated artists for the eighth edition of the Women to Watch series, a global initiative led by the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA), have been announced. Women ...

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Join me in celebrating the sixty-two artists nominated artists from six regions across the globe for the National Museum of Women in the Arts’ Women To Watch 2027: A Book Arts Revolution exhibition for which I am guest curating.
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This one semester, Book Arts position may be of interest to you or someone you know. 📚🎨 ☀️

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Day of Giving - Department of Art Join me and support Dance today during Scripps' Day of Giving!

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☀️ Day of Giving: Today's the day! ☀️

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Copies of White: A Handbook and 'Pause are in the mail to Washington and Connecticut!

Day of Giving - Department of Art Join me and support Dance today during Scripps' Day of Giving!

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We are raising funds to purchase a panel saw for our wood shop/Sculpture studio.

Donate, if you can. Please remember sharing is caring. This campaign ends on March 26 at 11:59PM PDT

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Great News: Join us in celebrating the recent acquisition of the three installments of our Black and Brown Hands Making print portfolio series by the Haas Art Library at Yale University: Foreword (2023), Preface (2024), and Acknowledgements (2025).

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Students are using the laser cutter to turn their trace monotypes into wooden matrices to hand ink and print.

Black: A Handbook in the
Who Is America at 250? Artist Books on the State of Democracy exhibit catalogue. Show is up thru March 8. Then the Boston Athenaeum March 30 - May 16, 2026 and MCBA June 12 - August 16, 2026. Images courtesy of SFCB.

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This Summer ☀️

I’m teaching Texture & Collage Printing at Penland School of Craft, August 9 – 14, 2026!

Explore bold textures, layered collage, and experimental printmaking in an immersive studio experience. Ready to expand your creative practice?

Join me: bit.ly/4pZoCsH

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Acknowledgements: The Hyphenated American print portfolio is on its way to Connecticut 📦

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More trace monotypes
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Portraits of Zelenskky 🇺🇦 and family members. Students are drawing real and partially invented scenes w/ pencils, handles, fingernails, bonefolders, wooden spoons without seeing their progress.

Scripps Book Arts students had a wonderful day with Scripps College O’Brien Dinstinguished Visiting Artist Kapa maker Page Chang getting to know her artwork, learning about Hawaiian bark cloth, and experiencing part of the Kapa making process.
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Trace monotypes happening in the studio #printmaking #composition #experimentation

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Scripps College Press invites you to the Spring 2026 Frederic W. Goudy Lecture by book artist Islam Aly on Wednesday, February 11 in the Founders Room of Honnold Library.

Structures of Practice: Building Meaning Through Material and Form

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Kapa Making Workshop
10AM to Noon
Saturday, Feb 21
$100

RSVP by emailing Prof. Tia Blassingame tblassin at scrippscollege.edu

Connect with the Native Hawaiian practice of Kapa making! Students will have the opportunity to use traditional tools & methods to process a piece of Wauke.

Scripps College Press Spring 2026 Lectures

Wednesday, Feb 11:
Book artist ISLAM ALY
Structures of Practice:
Building Meaning Through Material and Form

Monday, February 16:
Kapa maker PAGE CHANG
Kapa (Hawaiian Bark Cloth):
a Cultural Foundation of the Past, Present, and Future

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🎊 As we close out 2025, Acknowledgements: The Hyphenated American 🇺🇸 is heading to California, Delaware, Florida, Maine, Massachusetts, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Virginia! 📦

Grateful for every collector, every reader, every conversation that this artwork may spark. 🇺🇸

📣 I'm excited to share that I will be teaching the Texture & Collage Printing workshop at Penland School of Craft Summer 2026. Can’t wait to dive into printmaking techniques while playing with texture + collage with you. Details: bit.ly/4pZoCsH

🖼️ Tia Blassingame, Schoolhouse, pressure print.

Participating collective members at work:
Colette Fu assembling Which Bridge Do You Want?.
Rejin Leys signing copies of No Room.
Jenn Graves working on Black American.
Daniel Minter printing Hyphenated.
Sun Young Kang cutting Hyphens Within Hyphen.

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In 2025 as national responses to immigration deteriorated, Colette Fu, Jenn Graves, Sun Young Kang, Rejin Leys, + Daniel Minter turned to identity, belonging, + the power of naming. The hyphen became a point of inquiry: a small mark that can unite + divide, bridge + break.

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Honored to collaborate this year with celebrated LA sculptor/printmaker & alumna Alison Saar and the Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery on a limited-edition print supporting Black Altadena residents impacted by the Eaton Fire.
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Folding containers for Acknowledgements: The Hyphenated American print portfolio, the 3rd annual installment of the Black and Brown Hands Making series.

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.

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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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#bookarts #annual #print #portfolio #2025 #conversation #black #brown #hands #making #creating #handmade #paper #papermaking #translation #digitalprinting #paperengineering #letterpress #woodtype #screenprinting #reliefprinting #poetry #american

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Images of our Preface: Making a New Home Despite Displacement print portfolio from @lapubliclibrary.bsky.social.

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Prints by collective members Tona Wilson, Islam Aly, Kellee Warren, Nabil Gonzalez, and Mar González Palacios.

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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.