Tag: Tia Blassingame
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Interview with Tia Blassingame — Part 2 of 2
This is part two of a two-part interview. Read part one here. Levi Sherman: It’s so empowering to have an instructor that holds themselves to the values they profess in the studio. Can you talk about a recent experiment or a time when you’ve broken through your own expectations as an artist or teacher? Tia…
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Interview with Tia Blassingame — Part 1 of 2
Tia Blassingame is an Assistant Professor of Book Arts at Scripps College and serves as the Director of Scripps College Press. A book artist and printmaker exploring the intersection of race, history, and perception, Blassingame often incorporates archival research and her own poetry in her artist’s book projects for nuanced discussions of racism in the…
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Students
Tia Blassingame’s history of an integrated school offers a corrective to the way historical narratives about anti-Black violence are often presented.