News & Invitations from April Vollmer
(above)Venus’s Cup, Daemons & Genii and Sweet Drop, 2015 Japanese woodblock on handmade washi, each 56 x17 inches (142 x 43 cm)
Tokyo Exhibition: Narrative Patterns
October 2 to 18, 2015
April Vollmer will be at the Gallery
Saturday and Sunday Afternoon
October 10 and 11
CfSHE Gallery, Arts Chiyoda 3331 #B109
11-14, 6-chome Sotokanda, Chiyoda-ku
Tokyo, Japan 101-0021
phone: 050-3304-9001
NEWS &
INVITATIONS
CfSHE Exhibition, Tokyo
Book Signing in New York Sunday, October 18, 2015 from 4:00 to 6:00 pm
Japanese Woodblock Print Workshop, A Modern Guide to an Ancient Art, by April Vollmer, was released August 4, 2015 by Watson-Guptill, a division of Random House. A comprehensive handbook of materials, techniques and resources the book is intended to make this waterbased technique accessible to contemporary artists. Widely available, links to booksellers can be found at www.aprilvollmer.com/site/buy
Additional information about the book, with links to artists’ websites is at www.japanesewoodblockprintworkshop.com
Book signing will be held at Kentler International Drawing Space, which has a special connection with the technique because of the exhibition New York Mokuhanga of four mokuhanga artists curated by Florence Neal this past winter.
Books will be available to purchase or bring your copy to have it signed at the event.
**Reception and Talk: Friday, October 2, 2015, 6:30-9:30
The gallery reception at Arts Chiyoda 3331 was followed by a talk at
the Hibiya Library, 1-4 Hibiya-koen, Chiyoda-ku,Tokyo, 100-0012
The one hour talk about writing the book and mokuhanga outside Japan was well attended by artists, tool and papermakers and museum educators. With an introduction by Choichi Nishikawa,it was translated into Japanese by Valerie Syposz.
CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION
September 18 to 21, 2015
IMPACT, Hangzhou, China
Printmaking in the Post-Print Age
The four day conference at the China Academy of Art included impressive exhibitions and talks by international educators and printmakers. A special event was the demonstration of traditional Chinese woodcut printing by contemporary artists at the Purple Bamboo Studio.
UPCOMING CONFERENCE
March 30 to April 2, 2016
Southern Graphics Council International
Flux: the Edge of Yesterday and Tomorrow
Portland, Oregon
Panel: Dynamic Mix: Japanese Woodblock in the U.S.
The Flourishing of the Floating World Abroad
Chair: April Vollmer
Panelists: Keiko Hara, Yoonmi Nam, Florence Neal
UPCOMING MOKUHANGA CLASSES
An introduction to traditional Japanese woodblock printing, used to make ukiyo-e prints during the Edo period, with precise registration, rich color, and a connection to an important chapter in the history of printmaking.
Cabrillo College, Aptos, California
One week class, January 11 to 15, 2015
a week-long class in beautiful Santa Cruz
www.cabrillo.edu/services/extension/creative
UPDATE ON 2017 INTERNATIONAL MOKUHANGA CONFERENCE PLANNING
Conference news website: www.mokuhanga.jp/news/
Mi-Lab woodblock training website: endeavor.or.jp/mi-lab/