New Artists Book Edition available at Purgatory Pie Press PESTS OF PUBLIC IMPORTANCE
available as a print as well as an accordion-fold artists book
Book design: Esther K. Smith; printing: Dikko Faust, with a poem by Georgia Luna Smith Faust
_Ferry ride along the Fjord
after 20 Coastal Stations_ exhibition
October, 2016
2016 Fall Events and Class List
Fall began in September with a lecture in Norway at the Foerde Museum of Art, for the international mokuhanga exhibition and conference Twenty Coastal Stations with artists Elisabet Alsos Strand, Asa Andersson, Karen Helga Maurstig, Annu Vertanen and Bess Frimodig.
November 3 to 6 I participated in the Editions/Artists’ Book Fair in Chelsea, New York with publisher Purgatory Pie Press, showing Pests of Public Importance, 3″ x 2.25″ x .375″ accordion book; woodcut by April Vollmer; concept, book structure, design by Esther K Smith; poem by Georgia Luna Smith Faust; letterpress printing, die cut by Dikko Faust.
PPP Etsy store
Next: Book and Trade Fair with Purgatory Pie Press at the College Art Association, 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
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.