Additional Publications

Floating Worlds, Review of Takuji Hamanaka mokuhanga. Ralph Kiggell, guest editor, Printmaking Today, Vol 26, 2017 Spring Issue.

The Age of the Artist: A Practical Guide for Making a Career Out of Making Art in the 21st Century. (chapter), book edited by Margaret Peot, North Light Books, 2010.

Mokuhanga – Japanese Woodblock Printing. Central Booking Magazine, Maddy Rosenberg editor, November, 2010.

Bridges, New York to Belgrade and Beyond. Contemporary Impressions, Journal of the American Print Alliance, Carol Pulin editor, Spring/Summer 2009, p 24-27.

Intersections of East and West, Contemporary Printmakers in Japan, Contemporary Impressions, Journal of the American Print Alliance, Carol Pulin editor, Spring 2005.

Printmaking as Alchemy: Etching, woodcut and digital printing as tools of transformation. Contemporary Impressions, Journal of the American Print Alliance, Carol Pulin editor, Spring 2003.

Roman Fugu (DNA)

Cover: SCIENCE – J. Amer. Assn. for the Advancement of Science, Vol.297, No.5585, 23 Aug 2002.

COVER Fugu rubripes, the poisonous but delicious Japanese pufferfish. The DNA sequence of the Fugu genome is especially useful because it lacks the “junk” sequences (which do not code for proteins) found in abundance in human DNA. [Woodcut print by April Vollmer]

Roman Fugu DNA Edition: hanga woodcut, 1997

Into Digital, Printmaking Today, Winter 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 Today, Winter 1998, Vol. 7, No. 4

Author: adminapril

April Vollmer is a New York artist who studied mokuhanga after receiving her Master of Fine Arts in printmaking at Hunter College. Her work has been shown widely and she teaches Japanese woodblock regularly at the Lower East Side Printshop. She has participated in many residencies including the Nagasawa Art Park in Japan, and was on the board of the first and second International Mokuhanga Conferences. Her book "Japanese Woodblock Print Workshop" was released in 2015 by Watson-Guptill.