Lectures

2024

January 18: 2024 Stephen A. Kanter Lecture on California Fine Printing: Our Histories and Futures: Making New Print and Book Arts Work with/in Libraries, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, UCLA, Los Angeles, California

2023

October 24: We Rise (Together) talk, 1pm, Weston Library, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

August 20: Artist Talk, 4-5 pm, @ostfoldkunstsenter, Frederikstad, Norway

August 27: Artist Talk, 2pm, @house_of_foundation, Moss, Norway

Speaker, The Book In Hand symposium, Institute for Advanced Study, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.

Keynote, Tropic Bound Book Art Fair, Miami, Florida.

2022

Book Arts Advocacy: A Conversation with the Book/Print Artist/Scholar of Color Collective, Charles W. Mann Jr. Lecture in the Book Arts, Penn State University Libraries, March 31 at 4PM EST. Register: https://psu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_-YONtpKhTQ6NHvAOoelEhQ

2021

Pandemic Printing series, University of Kentucky, March 16 at 2pm EST.

Art & Activism: A Talk with Book Artist and Printmaker Tia Blassingame. A UCSB Reads 2021 Event, University of California at Santa Barbara, February 2021.

2020

Antiracist Bookwork, University of Maryland, December 2020.

Scripps College Press: Teaching, Learning, & Making Meaning Remotely, The Virtual Materiality of Texts: Book History during a Pandemic colloquium, November 2020.

Erasing Hate: The Artist’s Books of Tia Blassingame talk, Scripps Fine Arts Foundation, November 2020.

Poetry & Collaboration: Letterpress at Scripps College Press talk, Makeready 2020, July 2020.

Artists’ Books, Feminist Bibliographies, University of California at Los Angeles, February 2020.

Tia Blassingame, Assistant Professor of Book Arts and Director of Scripps College Press, examines how artists' books can allow for a nuanced discussion on is...

2019

Despite Hostile Terrain: Witness to Racism in the Artists’ Books of Primrose Press, Rare Book School, June 2019.