BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.3//EN TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:VEVENT UID:450@1718.ucla.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240118T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240118T173000 DTSTAMP:20231214T170635Z URL:https://1718.ucla.edu/events/kanter-2024/ SUMMARY:Our Histories and Futures: Making New Print and Book Arts Work with /in Libraries DESCRIPTION:Stephen A. Kanter Lecture on California Fine Printing\n\nLectur e by Tia Blassingame\, Book/Print Artist/Scholar of Color Collective\, Scr ipps College\n\n\nPrintmaker/book artist Tia Blassingame's creative practi ce marries time in the reading room handling historical documents and time in the studio working with typefaces\, ink\, paper\, paint\, and dyes in order to develop artists' books that help readers/viewers connect to histo ry and make connections to the present and futures. Fresh from a stint as the Bodleian Bibliographical Press Printer-in-Residence at the Bodleian Li braries\, Blassingame will discuss her experiences as a researcher\, artis t\, and educator working in and with libraries while sharing the resulting artist's book and print projects\, including a new Book/Print Artist/Scho lar of Color Collective commissioned work.\n\nProprietor of Primrose Pres s\, Tia Blassingame is a book artist\, printmaker\, curator\, and educat or exploring the intersection of race\, history\, and perception. Utilizin g printmaking and book arts techniques\, she renders racially-charged imag es and histories for a nuanced discussion on issues of race and racism. Bl assingame holds a BA in Architecture from Princeton University\, MA in Boo k Arts from Corcoran College of Art + Design\, and MFA in Printmaking from Rhode Island School of Design. She has been a teaching artist at the Nati onal Building Museum\, Smithsonian Institution\, Glen Echo\, Pyramid Atlan tic\, and University of Maryland at College Park. Blassingame was a curato rial intern at Smithsonian Museum of American History and served as the Im age Coordinator for Race &\; Ethnicity in Advertising--America: 1890-To day\, an Advertising Education Foundation-Smithsonian Institution project. She has been an artist-in-residence at Yaddo\, Santa Fe Art Institute (SF AI)\, the Andy Warhol Preserve\, the International Print Center New York ( IPCNY)\, and MacDowell Colony. Her artist's books and prints can be found in library and museum collections around the world including British Libra ry\, Library of Congress\, Rijksmuseum\, Metropolitan Museum of Art\, Tate Britain\, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek\, National Museum of Women in the A rts\, and State Library of Queensland.\n\nIn 2019\, Blassingame founded th e Book/Print Artist/Scholar of Color Collective\, which has over 40 membe rs\, to bring Black\, Indigenous\, and People of Color (BIPOC) book artis ts\, papermakers\, paper engineers\, letterpress printers\, printmakers\, and children’s book illustrators into conversation and collaboration wit h scholars of their cultures’ Book History and Print Culture\, to build community and support systems.\n\nBlassingame co-curated Paper Is People: Decolonizing Global Paper Cultures\, an NEA and Center for Craft grants- awarded travelling exhibit\, at Minnesota Center for Book Arts (April 14- August 12\, 2023) and San Francisco Center for the Book (October 22 -Decem ber 22\, 2023) with writer\, book artist\, and publisher Stephanie Sauer. In 2022 she co-curated the exhibit Troubling: Artists’ Books that enlig hten and disrupt old ways of being and seeing  at the Bainbridge Island M useum of Art with book artist/educator Ellen Sheffield.\n\nBlassingame is an Associate Professor of Art at Scripps College\, where she teaches Book Arts and Letterpress Printing\, and serves as the Director of Scripps Col lege Press.\n\nIG: @primbookart and @bookprintcollective\nWebsite: www .primrosepress.com and www.bookprintcollective.com\n\n\n\nThe lecture is free to attend with advance registration. It will be held in-person at th e Clark Library and livestreamed on the Center’s YouTube Channel. No reg istration is required to watch the livestream. Registration will close on Wednesday\, January 17 at 5:00 p.m. Seating is limited at the Clark Libra ry\; walk-in registrants are welcome as space permits.\nLoading…\n\n\n\n Photo credit: Wojtek Lubowiecki\, Bodleian Libraries ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://1718.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/11 /Publicity-Image_Blassingame_credit-Wojtek-Lubowiecki-Bodleian-Libraries.j pg CATEGORIES:Lectures LOCATION:UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library\, 2520 Cimarron Street \, Los Angeles\, California\, 90018\, United States GEO:34.033012;-118.314487 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=2520 Cimarron Street\, Los Angeles\, California\, 90018\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=UC LA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library:geo:34.033012,-118.314487 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20231105T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR