Moku Hanga in Japan  
the Nagasawa Art Park Program
Sept 17 to Oct 27, 2004

 
 

 
My trip to Japan started in Kobe, where I participated in an exhibition of artists and teachers from the program.  
 

 

  I had been invited to help teach woodcut at the program's Awaji Island studio with an international group of artists who had come to learn moku hanga:
 

 

 
During the second half of my trip, I visited printmakers in Tokyo, and ended my trip visiting temples and art galleries in Kyoto, Tokyo and Nara.
 
The food was great, but the best part was the people I met, and the support I felt for my artwork and teaching.
 
 
Read my trip report in Contemporary Impressions, the Journal of the American Print Alliance:
• Intersections of East and West: Contemporary Printmakers in Japan
 
More images are at: • http://www.aprilvollmer.com/japan/