New Woodcut Edition
The Architecture of Desire
cut and printed at the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, this
will be included at Southern Graphics Council International Conference
“Slowness Portfolio”
Atlanta, March 2017
`A highlight of the year was the Norwegian ferry ride.
2016 Year in Review
This is the first year since the release of my book. It was busy with classes, exhibitions, lectures and book signings. High points were a trip to Norway to lecture at the Foerde Museum of Art for the exhibition Twenty Coastal Stations. I also gave talks at the Tannery Art Center, Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Manhattan Graphics, Whitman College, Southern Graphics Council International Portland, the Morgan Conservatory, Montclair State University, and the Japanese Art Society of America.
Another high point was the Editions/Artists’ Book Fair in Chelsea, New York, with publisher Purgatory Pie Press, presenting our collaboration Pests of Public Importance, 3″ x 2.25″ x .375″ accordion book, also printed flat as above. Purgatory Pie Press shop
The letterpress printed accordion book has been accepted into the International Print Center‘s new prints show, opening January 19, 2017.
I will participate in the College Art Association Book and Trade Fair with Purgatory Pie Press February 15 to 18, at the New York Hilton Midtown.
UPCOMING 2017 MOKUHANGA CLASSES
Cabrillo College, Santa Cruz, California
January 9 to 12, four days
Advanced class: May 22 to 25
Lower East Side Printshop, New York
January 26 to March 2, six Thursday evenings 6-9pm
Art Print Residence, Barcelona, Spain
June 19 to 23, five days
Making Art Safely, Santa Fe, New Mexico
July 17 to 21, five days
London: PRINTMAKING TODAY BOOK REVIEW
Japanese Woodblock Print Workshop, A Modern Guide to an Ancient Art, by April Vollmer, released August 4, 2015 by Watson-Guptill, (Random House) was reviewed this month in London. Printmaking Today Review by Ralph Kiggell, Volume 25, 2016, Autumn Issue.
Other Book Reviews:
G&E, Grabado y Edicion, Print and Art Edition Magazine, Madrid, Spain In English and Spanish.
Issue 49 of Washi-Dyori Review, Kyoto, Japan In Japanese.
Book website: www.japanesewoodblockprintworkshop.com
Updated IMC2017 Website: Proposals accepted January 1 – 31, 2017
2017 INTERNATIONAL MOKUHANGA CONFERENCE:
September 28 to October 1, 2017 at the East-West Center in Honolulu, Hawaii, followed by Satellite Space events at the Donkey Mill Art Center in Holualoa.
Mi-Lab woodcut training residency in Japan has ongoing deadlines check the website here.