Mourning/Warning: Numbers and Repeaters Book by Tia Blassingame
This piece was featured in the November 2022 issue of The Fore Edge, a quarterly newsletter from MCBA that highlights new artist’s books and zines for collections, universities, and libraries. If you are interested in receiving this newsletter, there is a sign up available here. Past featured pieces can be viewed here.
A re-print of Mourning/Warning: Numbers and Repeaters by Tia Blassingame, first published in 2018. A digital color printed artist’s book that strips the maritime alphabet of its primary colors and replaces them with muted browns and blacks, Mourning/Warning highlights the relationship of Americans of the African diaspora to water, maritime travel and the need for an alternate means of communication in times of emergency and duress.
This book serves as a method of honoring, mourning, and remembering the slain and wronged, as well as teaching our children and ourselves to be vigilant and wary in hostile terrain, where your skin color makes you an easy target.
A portion of the sales proceeds are donated by Blassingame to Innocence Project New Orleans, National Bail Out and Ujimaa Medics.
8.5” x 11”
*Consignment item. Not eligible for 10% membership discount. All consignment purchases are final and non-refundable once shipped. Items that cost over $200 will be shipped at the Insured Shipping price ($19.99).
This piece was featured in the November 2022 issue of The Fore Edge, a quarterly newsletter from MCBA that highlights new artist’s books and zines for collections, universities, and libraries. If you are interested in receiving this newsletter, there is a sign up available here. Past featured pieces can be viewed here.
A re-print of Mourning/Warning: Numbers and Repeaters by Tia Blassingame, first published in 2018. A digital color printed artist’s book that strips the maritime alphabet of its primary colors and replaces them with muted browns and blacks, Mourning/Warning highlights the relationship of Americans of the African diaspora to water, maritime travel and the need for an alternate means of communication in times of emergency and duress.
This book serves as a method of honoring, mourning, and remembering the slain and wronged, as well as teaching our children and ourselves to be vigilant and wary in hostile terrain, where your skin color makes you an easy target.
A portion of the sales proceeds are donated by Blassingame to Innocence Project New Orleans, National Bail Out and Ujimaa Medics.
8.5” x 11”
*Consignment item. Not eligible for 10% membership discount. All consignment purchases are final and non-refundable once shipped. Items that cost over $200 will be shipped at the Insured Shipping price ($19.99).
This piece was featured in the November 2022 issue of The Fore Edge, a quarterly newsletter from MCBA that highlights new artist’s books and zines for collections, universities, and libraries. If you are interested in receiving this newsletter, there is a sign up available here. Past featured pieces can be viewed here.
A re-print of Mourning/Warning: Numbers and Repeaters by Tia Blassingame, first published in 2018. A digital color printed artist’s book that strips the maritime alphabet of its primary colors and replaces them with muted browns and blacks, Mourning/Warning highlights the relationship of Americans of the African diaspora to water, maritime travel and the need for an alternate means of communication in times of emergency and duress.
This book serves as a method of honoring, mourning, and remembering the slain and wronged, as well as teaching our children and ourselves to be vigilant and wary in hostile terrain, where your skin color makes you an easy target.
A portion of the sales proceeds are donated by Blassingame to Innocence Project New Orleans, National Bail Out and Ujimaa Medics.
8.5” x 11”
*Consignment item. Not eligible for 10% membership discount. All consignment purchases are final and non-refundable once shipped. Items that cost over $200 will be shipped at the Insured Shipping price ($19.99).
Tia Blassingame (she/her) is a book artist, printmaker, educator, and curator exploring the intersection of race, history, and perception. In 2019 she founded the Book/Print Artist/Scholar of Color collective to bring Book History and Print Culture scholars into conversation and collaboration with BIPOC book artists, papermakers, letterpress printers, and printmakers. Blassingame is an Associate Professor of Book Arts at Scripps College and the Director of Scripps College Press.
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