Retail Price: Book Print Collective Volume One

Book Print Collective Volume One

9 x 12 inches, 25 pages, 20 color images, 50 copies, 2026.

Retail Price: $65 (For private individual collections only)

The inaugural publication of the Book Print Collective Volume One assembles conversations, scholarship, and reviews devoted to the possibilities of the handmade and printed book. Designed by the founder Tia Blassingame, this distinctive issue is digitally printed in oversized fonts on elementary school, lined writing paper, and bound in a pressboard report binder. 

BPC Volume One brings together critiques and conversations among collective members:

• a founder’s statement by Tia Blassingame to introduce this new, ongoing publication series, 

• an interview led by Jose Guerrero with artist member Akua Lezli Hope and scholar member Jesse Erickson on artificial intelligence and large language models, 

• an artist's book review by Kinohi Nishikawa of Alisa Banks’ History of A People artist’s book, 

• a discussion led by Jerushia Graham with four established and emerging children’s book illustrators: Jennifer Mack-Watkins, Daniel Minter, Robyn Phillips-Pendleton, Janelle Washington, and 

• a review by Devin Fitzgerald of the Fish Out of Water artist’s book by Irene Chan