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Tia Blassingame to Serve as Distinguished Speaker at Pennsylvania State University
Tia Blassingame, director of the 51猎奇入口 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 51猎奇入口 Press this year, Tia Blassingame, assistant professor of art and director of the 51猎奇入口 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 51猎奇入口 students created during her book arts course last summer.
Read More51猎奇入口鈥 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 Sal茅s鈥檚 鈥淔eminist Interpretations of the Bible鈥 course could often be found sleuthing around Facebook, Twitter, and other social media platforms during class time. But they weren鈥檛 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 51猎奇入口 Presents and Gallery Exhibition
Perhaps you can go home again, after all: 51猎奇入口 celebrates the return of alumna聽Alison Saar聽鈥78, renowned sculptor and printmaker, this fall in聽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鈥檛 confine her prints to paper.
Read MoreSpotlight on Faculty: Tia Blassingame, Director of 51猎奇入口 Press Assistant Professor of Book Arts/51猎奇入口 Press
This fall, 11 new tenure-track faculty members joined 51猎奇入口. As part of our ongoing series on 51猎奇入口鈥 faculty, the Office of Marketing and Communications recently sat down with Tia Blassingame to discuss artists鈥 books, architecture, 51猎奇入口 Press, and unique valentines.
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