April Vollmer

2012 Spring Series: Special Workshops
Poetic Pastimes: Japan and the Art of Leisure Exhibition inspired programs
Mokuhanga, Japanese Water Base Woodcut with April Vollmer
all levels
Saturday & Sunday, April 21 & 22, 10:00 am to 5:00 pm
Member: $162, Non-member: $180, Materials: $20

call 973-596-6607 or register on-line for 10% Members discount
Newark Museum
49 Washington Street
Newark, NJ 07102-3176
website: newarkmuseum.org

contact: Stephen McKenzie, Manager; Sue Smith, Administrative Assistant

Gallery Onetwentyeight
February 1 – 26, 2012
Opening Reception Thursday, February 2, 6:00 to 8:00 pm
128 Rivington Street, on New York’s lower east side, between Essex and Norfolk Streets
Gallery Onetwentyeight is one of the oldest galleries in the neighborhood, managed by artist Kazuko Miyamoto. The gallery shows a mix of international and local artists, and has provided space for many lower east side artists since the 1980′s when the neighborhood was much different.

Website: galleryonetwentyeight.org

Torso #5, 2011, 24 x 16, digital and silkscreen on washi mounted on wood panel
 
exhibition photos:

Onetwentyeight AV

International Focus: The First International Mokuhanga Conference, Kyoto, by April Vollmer, was published in the Fall 2011 edition of Graphic Impressions, the Newsletter of Southern Graphics Council International. The article reviews the various demonstrations, exhibitions and banquets at the conference, which took place in Kyoto and then at Tadao Ando’s Westin Conference Center on Awaji Island.

Photo is from the Jarfo exhibition of IMC Board Members at the conference.
Migration, digital and woodblock on washi, 32 x 26 inches

Link to article:
Graphic Impressions Fall 2011

March 14 to 17, 2012
New Orleans Conference
Tangled Portfolio, organized by Johntimothy Pizzuto and John Driesbach
Prints are all 15 x 15 inches, bleed edged
The theme of the conference is “Navigating Currents” this portfolio interprets the theme as navigating life; how did we get to where we are?
What was our starting point? What is our destination? How did Bob Dylan “keep on keeping on?”
 
Website: sginternational.org