Articles, Reviews, and Interviews

2024

Charles, Angela B.,“The Blassingame Handbooks: Imagined Futures, Dreams and Wishes From the Past,” Los Angeles Public Library blog, April 17, 2024.

“Conversations on Community with Tia Blassingame,” We Here Patreon, April 2, 2024.

Yabloko, Vernica,“McCabe “Black Excellence in the Book Arts” Exhibit,” Swarthmore Phoenix, November 14, 2019.

“Tia Blassingame’s Students and I AM acquired by University Libraries”, International Printmaking Center New York website, November 11, 2019.

Mitchell, Lauren,“Tia Blassingame is using her craft to investigate racism in America,” Design Indaba website, October 5, 2019.

 “Interview with Tia Blassingame,” This Book is Now series, Red Butte Press blog, 2019.

“The History of Black Books,” UDaily, June 17, 2019.

Sherman, Levi, “Book Review: Freedom of the Presses edited by Marshall Weber,” Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism Vol 46, No. 2, June 2019, pp. 101-104.

“Book Arts Professor,” Kenyon Collegian, April 4, 2019.

Sheikh, Samana and Catherine Brettschneider, “Art Reach of Mid-Michigan Honors Black History Month with a New Exhibit,” 9 & 10 News, February 12, 2019.

2018

Saubestre, Elizabeth, “Mourning/Warning art exhibit explores being black in America,” The Channels, September 28, 2018.

Woodard, Josef,“In the Racist Grain,” Santa Barbara News-Press, September 28, 2018.
Herrick, Debra, “Tia Blassingame: Mourning/Warning at Atkinson Gallery, SBCC,” LUM Artzine, September 21, 2018.
Meyers, Ariana, “Mourning/Warning at Atkinson Gallery,” Voice Magazine, 2018.
Dungan, Jordan, “Mourning/Warning: Tia Blassingame,” SB Seasons Magazine, September 6, 2018.
Bergstein, Mary, “UnSettled at RISD Museum,” Big, Red and Shiny, June 20, 2018.
Solondz, Simone, “Museum Highlights Alumni Impact,” RISD website, January 29, 2018.

2017

Okumura, Jordan, “An Interview: Tia Blassingame, Book Artist and Woman behind Primrose Press,” Entropy, December 18, 2017.

Mitchell, Kelly Taylor, “An Ambitious but Essential Multi-Purpose Checklist for Discerning Black Artists,” Manual: a resource of art and its making, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, 2017.

2016

Irvin, Sarah, “Snow Day Artists’ Book Feature,” Fenwick Gallery, George Mason University, January 24, 2016.  

“2015 Featured Project Assistance Grant Recipient: Tia Blassingame,” College Book Arts Association, 2016.

2015

“Art School Grads Selected for AICAD Teaching Fellowship,” Art & Education, June 15, 2015.

“The maritime alphabet, remade: Excerpts from Mourning/Warning,”*83 Review, Issue 4.1, 2015.

“8 Designs that Challenge the Status Quo,” CityPress, March 8, 2015.

“Design Indaba 2015: 8 graduate talents at DI conference,” Art Thread, 2015.

“RISD Rep @Design Indaba,” Our RISD: a place to show and tell, 2015.

2012

Miller, Rebecca,“Letterpress that changes the world,” Boxcar Press website, December 24, 2012.