The opening banquet at the Karasuma Hotel
April with pints created at Anderson Ranch Residency
April and Susan, still jetlagged, enjoy some barley tea
Tetsuya Noda print
Tetsuya Noda print
Akira Kurosaki print
Akira Kurosaki print
April Vollmer with digital and woodblock o Japanese paper
Kari Laitinen print
John Yamaguchi, Susan Rostow, Kari Laitinen
Karen Kunc Prints
Miida Seiichiro an image from floating space
Tuula Moilanen’s scroll prints
Tuula Moilanen print
Karen Kunc print
Karen Kunc print
Mokuhanga Innovative at Art Forum Jarfo, Kyoto
Exhibition of international artists using mixed techniques in woodcut and showing new approaches to mokuhanga.
Tuula Moilanen
Karen Kunc
Kari Laitinen
Karen Kunc and Kari Laitinen
Elisabet Alsos Strand (Norway)
Karen Maurstig and Kari Laitinen (Norway and Finland)
Karens Kunc and Maurstig (US and Norway)
Siichiro Miida checks on his new baby.
Gallery Director and Kiezo Sato
the reception
Catherine’s daughter Jody and friend
Richard Steiner and Brian Curling
some wine for Paul Furneaux (UK)
the reception
one kimono
Exhibition at Jarfo
Karen and Elizabeth outside the exhibition
Seiichiro Miida
reception
master printers Keizo Sato and Shoichi Kitamura
visiting master printer
Kyoto at night, the covered markets
beautiful sashimi
and share saki
John never complains when there is good sushi
then some dinner!
fish, rice and miso soup, fermented natto beans optional
Japanese or Western?
April Vollmer and Katie Baldwin prints
Dariuz Kaa (Poland)
Yuko Matsuzawa (Japan), When the Wind Blows
Debra Bowden (UK)
Masahiro Takade, master printer, “Day Lily”
Jose Maria Sicilia, printed by Tadashi Toda, mounted by Yoshimi Yasuhara
Garden, Tent by Kyoko Sakamoto, mounted by Kimie Miyabe
Books on display
prints from 11 years of the Nagasawa Art Park Program
Awaji Landscape Series by Elettra Gorni (Italy), mounting by Yoshimi Yasuhara
Tea House Series by Neil Emmerson (Australia), mounting by Yoshim Yasuhara (Japan)
the alcove with shoji screens
Jacomijnden Engelsen print
Niccolo Barbagli (Italy)
Yoonmi prints on display
Nagaswa Art Park exhibiton in the tatami room
Exhibition at the renovated school, now the Kyoto Art Center
time to hurry off to the conference center
meeting at the gallery, Karen, Florence, April and Susan
Shore-in Temple, Kyoto
Florence on the porch
Karen’s Inari shrine in the blue bamboo
Florence and Karen in the Heian Garden
April steps ahead
registration at the Karasuma Hotel, Keizo Sato and April Vollmer
April Vollmer and Nel Pak reunite
Tuula Moilanen and Claire Cuccio help Liz Forest and Joanne Moser register
Joan Winter chats with Paul Furneaux; Claire Cuccio with Kari Laitinen
Akira Kurosaki meets Hude, and Liz Forrest reunites with Susan Rushforth (Japan, Mongolia, Canada, Australi)
Jody, Dana, and Catherine Kernan with Susan Rostow, all US
Joanne Moser with her husband and Elizabet Strand (US, Norway)
Introductions by Karen Kunc and Kari Laitinen
Sato-san in the backgrouind, keeping things organized
after a long day of preparations, Tuula Moilanen listens with Akira Kurosaki
Claire Cuccio introduced Honorary Board member Akira Kurosaki
the most significant contempoary woodblock printmaker in Kyoto, he recently retired from Kyoto Seika University
particiants listened appreciatively
artist and educator Tetsuya Noda travled from Tokyo
many of Noda’s former students, such as Michael Schneider (Austria) came to the conference
fabulous food!
Andrew Stone, Linda Beeman, Annie Bissett, all US
beautiful food, beautifully displayed
talking and eating
more fabulous food
Andrew Stone and Claire Cuccio
eathing and talking, Gerd Endestad and Susan Rostow
Raita Miadera (Japan) and Michele Ouellet (Canada/Japan)
Mary Brodbeck and Christopher Wright (US)
Hans, Tanya, April and Nel (Netherlands, US US, Netherlands)
April Vollmer, Kari Laitinen, Tuula Moilanen
Tuula chats with Tetsuya Noda and Hasan Kiran
Brian Curling with Yoonmi Nam and Katie Baldwin