Ink rubbings date back to the 7th Century AD, during the Tang Dynasty, and have since developed into an important technology to preserve historical markers and inscriptions.

Learn more about Professor Ng’s efforts to document monuments and markers across Tacoma. Attendees will have a chance to learn how to do wet ink rubbing through interactive demonstrations before and after the lecture.

About Professor Vernon Ng

Vernon Ng is a multidisciplinary artist and English professor at Pierce College. His TAIP-funded project, “Tacoma Inspection Tour,” adapts Chinese scholarly practices to examine settler colonialism in public spaces.

Through a series of ink rubbings and landscape photographs, this project explores local sites that hold complex, overlapping meanings, especially for Asian and Native communities. A set of bound rubbings and photographs of this project will be donated to the Northwest Room at the Tacoma Public Library.