APRIL VOLLMER  
174 Eldridge Street, #5  
New York, NY 10002  
212-677-5691  
e-mail: april@aprilvollmer.com  
website: www.aprilvollmer.com  
 
EDUCATION  
Hunter College, New York City M.F.A. 1983  
 
AWARDS and FELLOWSHIPS  
13 th Annual Fine Arts Assembly, Visegrad, Bosnia, 2006  
Nagasawa Art Park Pilot Project Residency, Japan, 2004  
Saint Mary s College Residency, 2004  
Lower East Side Printshop Keyholder, 1999-2001  
The Japan America Women of Kansai Prize, 1999  
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweetbriar, Virginia, 1993, 94, 95, 96, 98, 2006  
Women s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, New York, 1995  
The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, New Hampshire, 1993  
 
SOLO/DUO EXHIBITIONS  
2007
Hana to Mushi , Steinhardt Conservatory Gallery, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, NYC  
2006
Japanese Woodblock Exhibition , Brooklyn Botanic Garden, NYC
Bites and Kisses, Fairleigh Dickinson University College Gallery, NJ  
2005
Nature Patterns , with Sarah Hauser, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, NYC  
2003
Inside Out , Silicon Gallery Fine Art Prints, Philadelphia, PA
Nature Expanded, with David Lantow, Independence Community Gallery, Brooklyn
Transmutations , Westchester Gallery, Peekskill, NY
Transmutations: Mind, Body, Pixel, Paper, The Phillips Museum of Art, Franklin & Marshall College, PA.  
2002
Iteration, Woodcuts from Digital Plans , Square One Gallery, NYC  
2001
Eco Echoes, April Vollmer and Jean Gumppers Prints , Western Wyoming Community College, WY
Plans and Levitations, Large Format Digital Prints , Ceres Project Room, NYC  
2000
Patterned Behavior , with Sarah Hauser, Organization of Independent Artists, NYC  
1998
Japanese Lessons, hanga woodcuts , A.I.R. Gallery, NYC  
1997
Print Exhibition , St. John s University Art Department, Queens, NY  
1996
Open Studio , exhibition and hanga printing demonstrations, Lower East Side Printshop, NYC  
 
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS  
2007
Microspace , Cheryl McGinnis Gallery, New York, NY
Printmaking Exhibition , College of Fine Arts, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD
Singular Objects , Brooklyn College Art Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Underwater FantaSEA , Arizona Museum for Youth, Mesa, AZ  
2006
5th Lessedra World Art Print Annual , Sofia, Bulgaria
Art Exchange International NY/Belfast , Northern Bank Building, Belfast, Ireland
Art from the 13 th Annual Fine Arts Assembly , Visegrad City Gallery, Bosnia
Japanese Woodcuts , Centre International d Art Contemporain de Pont-Aven, France  
2005
Hand Pulled , Victory Hall, Jersey City, NJ
Friends , Ceres Gallery, NYC
Moku hanga at Union, an Exhibition of Contemporary Japanese Woodcuts , Union College, Schenectady, NY  
2004
Japanese and World Moku Hanga , Hyogo Prefecture Museum, Kobe, Japan
Superheroines , Gallery 128, NYC
Paint by Numbers, Arnold Klein Gallery, Royal Oak, MI
Day Job: Work Influencing Work, Arts Center of the Capital Region, Troy, NY
Through Our Eyes, Artists Response to our Complex Times, Art In General, NYC
The Body Virtual, An Exhibition of Digital Prints, Western Wyoming Community College, WY
The New Hybrid, Hand Pulled Digital Prints, Resnick Gallery, LIU, Brooklyn, NY
Jugalbandi, Gallery Onetwentyeight, NYC
Tunnel of Love, Holland Tunnel Gallery, Brooklyn, NY  
2003
Out from Japan: A Show of Japanese Watercolor Woodblocks, 55Mercer Gallery, NYC
Ink from Wood: Two Traditions , Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, CT
Change, Ceres Gallery, NYC
Rivington Beach, Gallery Onetwentyeight NYC
New York Cross-Cut, Kunstverein Firma Paradigma, Linz, Austria
Flag Project, Henry Street Settlement, NYC and One Station Space, Peekskill, NY  
2002
Benefit Print Portfolio, Lower East Side Printshop, NYC
Matt Brown and Friends: Hanga Color Wood prints, Turtle Gallery, Deer Isle, ME
Rebound, Ceres Gallery, NYC  
2001
Birds, Bugs and Beasts, Sir Wilfred Grenfell College Art Gallery , Corner Brook, Newfoundland
Insects and Architecture, Digital Dumbo, Skizum Studios, Brooklyn, NY
Annual Print and Book Show, Turtle Gallery, Deer Isle, ME
Changing the Image, Westport Arts Center, Westport, CT
International Miniature Print Exhibition, Connecticut GraphicArts Center, Norwalk, CT  
2000
Mandala 2000, Discovery Museum, Bridgeport, CT
Faculty Exhibition, University of South Dakota Gallery, Vermillion, SD
Red/Desert, Arnold Klein Gallery, Royal Oak, MI
Graphic Language , Marymount Manhattan Gallery, NYC
Elements 2000, Silicon Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Millennium Bug , Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY  
1999
Artists in Purgatory , Purgatory Pie Press & Collaborators, Salena Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
The Baren Print Portfolio, Manhattan Graphics Center, NYC
In-Sites V, Ceremonial Landscapes, Henry Street Settlement Abrons Art Center, NYC
The Sense of Touch, Revisited, Western Wyoming College, Rock Springs, CO
National Printmaking 1999 , The College of New Jersey, Trenton, NJ
Kyoto International Woodprint Assoc. Exhibition, Kyoto, Japan  
1998
Gone Fishin , Sharon Arts Center, Peterborough, NJ
Printwork 98, Barrett House, Poughkeepsie, NY
Kyoto International Woodprint Assoc. Exhibition, Kyoto, Japan
The Digital Print, A.I.R. Gallery, NYC
Moku Hanga Traveling Exhibition , Harris Gallery, Walla Walla, WA. Traveled Portland,
Ashland, Vancouver, SF  
1997
Twenty-fifth Anniversary , A.I.R. Gallery, NYC
Printwork 97, Barrett House, Poughkeepsie, NY
Abracadabra , Ceres, NYC
Artists Around the Park, walking tour, Henry Street Settlement & Roosevelt Park Comm. Coal. NYC
50th Anniversary Print Exhibition , NY Artists Equity, NYC
The Sense of Touch, an Exhibition of Women Printmakers , Ceres, NYC
MacDowell Colony Printmakers 1925-1995 , Sharon Arts Center, Peterborough, NH
Traveled to Saint-Gaudens Nat l Historic Site, Cornish, NH and St. Anselm College, Manchester, NH
Made in New York , Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, NY
The Lower East Side Printshop s Special Edition , Amos Eno Gallery, NYC
Animal Attraction , Park Avenue Atrium, NYC
Women Draw , Gallery Onetwentyeight, NYC  
 
 
PUBLICATIONS  
Intersections of East and West, Contemporary Printmakers in Japan, Contemporary Impressions, Spring 2005.  
Printmaking as Alchemy: Etching, woodcut and digital printing as tools of transformation , Contemporary Impressions, Spring 2003.  
Cover: SCIENCE - J. Amer. Assn. for the Advancement of Science, Vol.297, No.5585, 23 Aug 2002
Roman Fugu DNA Edition: hanga woodcut  
Into Digital ,Printmaking TodayWinter 2001, Vol. 10, No. 4  
Hanga Woodcut Prints , illustrated. OIA Newsletter , Summer 2000.  
Digital Printing on Kozo Paper. World of Washi , Summer 2000, Vol. 6, No. 3  
Moku Hanga: Traditional Japanese Woodcut. Printmaking TodayWinter 1998, Vol. 7, No. 4  
 
 
BOOK CITATIONS  
Diehn, Gwen. Simple Printmaking, Lark Books, 2000. Photo: Attractor .  
Tiernan, Michelle. Dictionary of Printmaking Terms, A&C Black (Publishers) Ltd, London, 2002.  
Salter, Rebecca. Japanese Woodblock Printing. Printmaking Handbooks, London, 2001.  
 
SELECTED REVIEWS AND CATALOGUES  
Ayres,Julia. Establishing a Baby-Safe Studio Watercolor Magazine, fall 2000. Photo: Ancient History, p. 78.  
Fleminger, Susan. In-Sites II . Artscape , Winter issue, 1996. Photo: A New Approach.  
Goddard Riverside Community Center . Animal Stories, catalogue, NYC, 1994.  
Gordon, Alistair. A Vivid View of Man and Animal . Newsday, April 6, 1990. Photo: Deuce of Worms .  
Harrison, Helen A. Drawing Moral Lessons from Nature . New York Times , April 1, 1990.  
Meade, Bruce. April Vollmer Gives Talk on Hanga, World of Washi, Spring 2001. Vol. 7, No.2  
Salter, Rebecca. Japan Times, Reinventing Tradition, Woodblock art comes of age, Jan. 30, 2002  
 
WORKSHOPS/TEACHING  
Lecture Demonstrations: Hunter College, School of Visual Art, Union College, Fairleigh Dickinson College  
Lower East Side Printshop, yearly workshops in Japanese woodblock, NYC  
Japan Society, NYC; Druckstelle Printshop, Berlin; Mix-It Studios, Boston; Josephine Press, Los Angeles, CA;  
Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA;Frogman's Print and Paper, University of South Dakota; Dieu Donn Papermill, NYC;  
Horizons Craft Program, Sunderland, MA; Connecticut GraphicArts Center, Norwalk, CT;Pyramid Atlantic, Riverdale, MD;  
The Artist as Curator, WCA panel, moderated by Sharon Vatsky, Queens Museum, 1996  
Sakura Matsuri, Japanese Cherry Blossom Festival , Brooklyn Botanic Garden annual hanga woodcut demonstrations  
 
COLLECTIONS  
American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington DC  
City of Tsuna, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan  
Dieu Donn Papermill, NYC  
Emily Mason & Wolf Kahn, NYC  
Equitable Corp. Collection (now Axa), NYC  
James Schutz, M.D., NYC  
Jersey City Museum, NJ  
Kathy Caraccio Editions, NYC  
Keiko Kadota Collection, Tokyo, Japan  
Spencer Museum (Univ. Kansas) National Association of Women Artists, NYC The Vivian and Gordon Gilkey Center of the Portland Art Museum, OR KIWA Kyoto International Woodcut Association, Japan  
The Population Council, NYC  
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK  
Visegrad City Gallery, Visegrad, Bosnia