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Book Artsy Founder, Book/Print Collective **DM for commission inquiries**
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.
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.
🧑🏾🎨📚 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. 📚🧑🏾🎨
Book/Print Collective:
Our Preface: Making a New Home Despite Displacement print portfolio is on its way to Massachusetts!
Restock: 🧑🏾🎨📚📚The shop at Minnesota Center for Book Arts (MCBA) has copies of my 'Pause artist's book in stock. 🧑🏾🎨📚📚
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👏🏿👏🏾👏🏽👏🏼👏🏻 📦 Shipping our Foreword and Preface print portfolios to Oregon. 📦 👏🏿👏🏾👏🏽👏🏼👏🏻
In the mail: 'Pause is on its way to North Carolina, Ohio, and Texas.
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Book/Print Collective
Our Preface: Making a New Home Despite Displacement print portfolio is heading to New York.
Book/Print Collective
Preface: Making a New Home Despite Displacement print portfolio is heading to Illinois and Pennsylvania.
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.
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University of Georgia acquired our FOREWORD: Black & brown hands in Book Arts/Histories & Print Making/Cultures print portfolio.
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."
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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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.
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....
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
13.05.2025 13:13 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
@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.
12.05.2025 19:35 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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/
29.04.2025 15:54 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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.
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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🧑🏾🎨📚 I'm looking forward to joining the conference.
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and unlawful “equity” ideology.
Images of my Students artist's book or The Negro Students of Noyes Academy, Canaan, New Hampshire (2019)
Executive Order 042325
REINSTATING COMMON SENSE SCHOOL DISCIPLINE POLICIES
Section 1. Purpose and Policy. The Federal Government will no longer tolerate known risks to children’s safety and well-being in the classroom that result from the application of school discipline based on discriminatory
I hope to see you there 🧑🏾🎨📚
12.04.2025 14:03 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0You can totally see how this mf bankrupted a casino.
03.04.2025 01:45 — 👍 60764 🔁 10410 💬 809 📌 355@booker.senate.gov has been speaking on the Senate floor for more than 20 HOURS and counting.
#RESPECT
(D) “Departamento de Educación de EE.UU. Apoyar a los jóvenes y familias LGBTQI+ en la escuela” (6/21/23);
(E) “Supporting Intersex Students: A Resource for Students, Families, and Educators” (10/21);...
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Pics: I will stare if I want from White: A Handbook (2024)
(A) “2024 Title IX Regulations: Pointers for Implementation” (July 2024);
(B) “U.S. Department of Education Toolkit: Creating Inclusive and Nondiscriminatory School Environments for LGBTQI+ Students”;
C) “U.S. Department of Education Supporting LGBTQI+ Youth and Families in School” (June 21, 2023);
