Primrose Press
@primrosepress.bsky.social
Book Artsy
Founder, Book/Print Collective
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Founder, Book/Print Collective
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Primrose Press
@primrosepress.bsky.social
· Nov 15
If you are new to this 🔷 space, welcome!
📚🧑🏾🎨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
Book/Print Collective
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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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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
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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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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
#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.
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.
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.
June 2, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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.
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.
May 17, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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.
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....
The book features typewritten postcards created the week after the 24 election. Process photos: scba.omeka.net/exhibits/sho....
May 17, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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....
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
May 13, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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
@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.
May 12, 2025 at 7:35 PM
@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.
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/
April 29, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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/
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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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April 26, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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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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
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
April 26, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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
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 🧑🏾🎨📚
April 12, 2025 at 2:03 PM
I hope to see you there 🧑🏾🎨📚
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You can totally see how this mf bankrupted a casino.
April 3, 2025 at 1:45 AM
You can totally see how this mf bankrupted a casino.