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Tia Blassingame to Serve as Distinguished Speaker at Pennsylvania State University
Tia Blassingame, director of the 鶹ýӳ Press and assistant professor of art, will serve as one of three distinguished speakers at Pennsylvania State University Libraries’ 2022 Charles W. Mann Jr. Lecture in the Book Arts.
Read MoreTia Blassingame Highlights Student Work in Parenthesis Magazine
In celebration of the 80th anniversary of the 鶹ýӳ Press this year, Tia Blassingame, assistant professor of art and director of the 鶹ýӳ Press, highlighted student-created artists’ books in a series of videos for Parenthesis magazine.
Read MoreTia Blassingame Discusses Art, Activism and Student Work in University of California, Santa Barbara Book Arts Presentation
Assistant Professor of Art Tia Blassingame discussed art, activism and student work in a virtual book arts presentation at the University of California, Santa Barbara. During the webinar, she shared activism-centered projects that 鶹ýӳstudents created during her book arts course last summer.
Read MoreScripps’ Pilot Summer Session Delivered Innovations in Learning, Course Material
During a typical class session this past summer, students in Assistant Professor of Religious Studies Luis Salés’s “Feminist Interpretations of the Bible” course could often be found sleuthing around Facebook, Twitter, and other social media platforms during class time. But they weren’t distracted; this was part of their assignment: they were looking for social media posts from high-profile people that used religious assumptions to support public policy decisions.
Read MoreAlison Saar Returns Home with 鶹ýӳPresents and Gallery Exhibition
Perhaps you can go home again, after all: 鶹ýӳcelebrates the return of alumna Alison Saar ’78, renowned sculptor and printmaker, this fall in Mirror, Mirror, The Prints of Alison Saar, from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation. Saar, who unflinchingly confronts race and gender with a mix of bitter humor and tenderness, doesn’t confine her prints to paper.
Read MoreSpotlight on Faculty: Tia Blassingame, Director of 鶹ýӳ Press Assistant Professor of Book Arts/鶹ýӳPress
This fall, 11 new tenure-track faculty members joined 鶹ýӳ. As part of our ongoing series on Scripps’ faculty, the Office of Marketing and Communications recently sat down with Tia Blassingame to discuss artists’ books, architecture, 鶹ýӳ Press, and unique valentines.
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