DEMONSTRATION PHOTOS
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The Brooklyn Botanic Garden's
Every year the Brooklyn Botanic Garden presents a festival of Japanese arts and crafts under the cherry blossoms. 
The 2005 festival included an exhibition of woodblocks by April Vollmer and Sarah Hauser. 
April gave a demonstration and talk both afternoons. 
"Twice as busy", April, "Breathing in". 
Serious children, with big eyes, watching me print, so intent.
They watch me print over and over. Check out: • www.aprilvollmer.com/sakura04/ and the 2003 Sakura: • www.aprilvollmer.com/bbg/
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Hiromi Paper International, Inc.
April Vollmer gives talk on "Hanga"
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"Of all the graphic media, woodcut is perhaps the most direct and expressive. It requires only a small space and a few simple tools. However it does require a great deal of precision and an understanding of traditional Japanese methods and tools."
"Handmade Japanese paper has a luminous surface quality which becomes part of the print as opposed to merely supporting the color."
(This talk was published in
World of Washi
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Lower East Side Printshop
59-61 East 4th Street, New York City
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April Vollmer at her open studio exhibition at the Lower East Side Printshop.
She has taught Japanese woodcut workshops there, and has been a keyholder since 1996. |
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Demonstrating how hanga woodcuts are printed to a class from New York University.
Applying color to the yellow block from
Sunset Fish
with a horsehair brush; various printing barens are on the foreground.
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Laying down the washi (Japanese handmade paper) to print the next color. To register colors, the corner of the paper is fitted into two shallow grooves cut in the bottom margin of each block.
On the table are jars of pigment ground in water, a jar of methyl cellulose, horsehair printing brushes and a wooden baren. |
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Ugh! a dead fly - don't touch it!! 
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