Primrose Press
@primrosepress.bsky.social
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Founder, Book/Print Collective
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Founder, Book/Print Collective
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Primrose Press
@primrosepress.bsky.social
· Nov 15
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📚🧑🏾🎨Hi, I am a book artist/educator/organizer/curator. I post about my artist's books, etc. (Primrose Press), student books & prints (Scripps College Press), and collective artworks & actions (Book/Print Collective).📚
Chapter 6: Retirement, White: A Handbook
📚🧑🏾🎨Hi, I am a book artist/educator/organizer/curator. I post about my artist's books, etc. (Primrose Press), student books & prints (Scripps College Press), and collective artworks & actions (Book/Print Collective).📚
Chapter 6: Retirement, White: A Handbook
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
Structures of Practice: Building Meaning Through Material and Form
February 10, 2026 at 5:23 PM
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
Structures of Practice: Building Meaning Through Material and Form
Scripps Press
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.
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.
January 31, 2026 at 2:55 AM
Scripps Press
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.
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
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
January 25, 2026 at 7:51 PM
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
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
Book/Print Collective
🎊 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. 🇺🇸
🎊 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. 🇺🇸
December 31, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Book/Print Collective
🎊 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. 🇺🇸
🎊 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.
🖼️ Tia Blassingame, Schoolhouse, pressure print.
December 30, 2025 at 3:09 PM
📣 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.
🖼️ Tia Blassingame, Schoolhouse, pressure print.
Book/Print Collective
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.
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.
December 18, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Book/Print Collective
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.
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.
Scripps College Press
work-in-progress
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.
www.instagram.com/p/DSQEzbwiQwQ
work-in-progress
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.
www.instagram.com/p/DSQEzbwiQwQ
December 15, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Scripps College Press
work-in-progress
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.
www.instagram.com/p/DSQEzbwiQwQ
work-in-progress
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.
www.instagram.com/p/DSQEzbwiQwQ
Book/Print Collective
Folding containers for Acknowledgements: The Hyphenated American print portfolio, the 3rd annual installment of the Black and Brown Hands Making series.
Folding containers for Acknowledgements: The Hyphenated American print portfolio, the 3rd annual installment of the Black and Brown Hands Making series.
December 10, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Book/Print Collective
Folding containers for Acknowledgements: The Hyphenated American print portfolio, the 3rd annual installment of the Black and Brown Hands Making series.
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.
November 28, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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.
November 27, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Book/Print Collective
🇺🇸
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
🇺🇸
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
November 21, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Book/Print Collective
🇺🇸
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
🇺🇸
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
October 28, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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.
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.
August 22, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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.
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.
👍🏿👍🏾👍🏽👍🏼👍🏻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.
August 6, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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.
👍🏿👍🏾👍🏽👍🏼👍🏻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. 📚🧑🏾🎨
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. 📚🧑🏾🎨
August 4, 2025 at 5:50 PM
🧑🏾🎨📚 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. 📚🧑🏾🎨
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!
Our Preface: Making a New Home Despite Displacement print portfolio is on its way to Massachusetts!
July 31, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Book/Print Collective:
Our Preface: Making a New Home Despite Displacement print portfolio is on its way to Massachusetts!
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. 🧑🏾🎨📚📚
July 19, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Restock: 🧑🏾🎨📚📚The shop at Minnesota Center for Book Arts (MCBA) has copies of my 'Pause artist's book in stock. 🧑🏾🎨📚📚
Book/Print Collective
👏🏿👏🏾👏🏽👏🏼👏🏻 📦 Shipping our Foreword and Preface print portfolios to Oregon. 📦 👏🏿👏🏾👏🏽👏🏼👏🏻
👏🏿👏🏾👏🏽👏🏼👏🏻 📦 Shipping our Foreword and Preface print portfolios to Oregon. 📦 👏🏿👏🏾👏🏽👏🏼👏🏻
July 15, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Book/Print Collective
👏🏿👏🏾👏🏽👏🏼👏🏻 📦 Shipping our Foreword and Preface print portfolios to Oregon. 📦 👏🏿👏🏾👏🏽👏🏼👏🏻
👏🏿👏🏾👏🏽👏🏼👏🏻 📦 Shipping our Foreword and Preface print portfolios to Oregon. 📦 👏🏿👏🏾👏🏽👏🏼👏🏻
In the mail: 'Pause is on its way to North Carolina, Ohio, and Texas.
June 30, 2025 at 1:37 PM
In the mail: 'Pause is on its way to North Carolina, Ohio, and Texas.
Book/Print Collective
Our Preface: Making a New Home Despite Displacement print portfolio is heading to New York.
Our Preface: Making a New Home Despite Displacement print portfolio is heading to New York.
June 18, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Book/Print Collective
Our Preface: Making a New Home Despite Displacement print portfolio is heading to New York.
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.
Preface: Making a New Home Despite Displacement print portfolio is heading to Illinois and Pennsylvania.
June 13, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Book/Print Collective
Preface: Making a New Home Despite Displacement print portfolio is heading to Illinois and Pennsylvania.
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.
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.
June 10, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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.
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.
Book/Print Collective
University of Georgia acquired our FOREWORD: Black & brown hands in Book Arts/Histories & Print Making/Cultures print portfolio.
University of Georgia acquired our FOREWORD: Black & brown hands in Book Arts/Histories & Print Making/Cultures print portfolio.
June 8, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Book/Print Collective
University of Georgia acquired our FOREWORD: Black & brown hands in Book Arts/Histories & Print Making/Cultures print portfolio.
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."
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."
June 8, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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."
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.
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.
June 7, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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.
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.