Black
Diamond
Editions
For Mickalene Thomas, printmaking is both ritual and reinvention… a meditative practice of building, erasing, and reimagining the image.

While studying at Yale University in 2002, Thomas deepened her engagement with the medium and later served as a printmaking teaching assistant for two years. Prints created during this period became source material for her early collages and paintings. The process continues to inform her practice today, with printmaking functioning as both an independent medium and a generative force across her broader body of work.

Beyond her studio practice, Thomas is also a curator, mentor, educator, and Tony-nominated co-producer. Her achievements (including major museum recognition, a Yale scholarship endowed in her name, and honors from TIME100 and the Grand Palais) reflect her lasting impact on contemporary visual culture and her commitment to equity, representation, and access in the arts.

Black Diamond Editions came into conversation in early 2025, while Mickalene was in the midst of transforming a two-story auto-mechanic garage into her new studio.

Taking the opportunity of the fresh space, she began working with her team to develop what an in-house printshop could look like for her practice. The idea seemed like a natural next step in celebration of Thomas’s canonical relationship to printmaking in the context of her ever evolving studio practice.

Black Diamond Editions serves as an extension of Thomas’s practice dedicated to collaborating closely with a multitude of artists to produce limited edition fine art prints

At its core, the print shop advances an artist-driven approach to printmaking, expanding a platform for creatives across all disciplines. It is a space to place the control of not only the product, but the process into the hands of the artist. This evolution will allow for a greater breadth of creative collaboration, community participation, and accessibility of collection.

Whether creating their first print or expanding an existing practice, Black Diamond Editions looks forward to collaborating with a broad spectrum of artists.