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Tia Blassingame

Settled: African American Sediment or Constant Middle Passage, 2015

Description

Maker

Title

Settled: African American Sediment or Constant Middle Passage

Year

2015

Medium

Artist's book of original poetry letterpress printed on Nepalese lokta paper; longstitch bound in goatskin leather with title letterpress printed on the cover

Dimensions

24.8 x 38.7 cm (9 3/4 x 15 1/4 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Signed and numbered, in graphite, on colophon page

Identification

Edition

1/6

Type

Credit

Artist Development Fund Print Purchase Award

Object Number

2015.84

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Un/Settled

December 22, 2017 - July 8, 2018

Settled explores the mistreatment and devaluation of persons of African descent at the height of the Atlantic slave trade and today. This artist’s book is located within the actual and metaphorical waters of Middle Passage, where slaves that perished on the Sally, one of the Brown family’s slaving ships, and contemporary figures such as Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner, and Akai Gurley mingle. The text vacillates between expressing the splendor of being of African descent and the horrors of historical and contemporary American racism.

To see the entire book, visit risdmuseum.org/blassingame.

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