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2015 Connecting Through Printmaking: Mokuhanga and Japan by April Vollmer
The Mid America Print Council Volume 23, Numbers 1 & 2, 2015The Global Print: practice, platform, and international springboardConnecting through Printmaking: Mokuhanga and Japanarticle by April Vollmer
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2013 Grabado y Edición – Mokuhanga Renaissance by April Vollmer
Grabado y Edición is a bi-lingual Spanish/English review of new ideas in printmaking. My article on the history of mokuhanga begins with an historical overview from ukioyo-e prints to the individualist sosaku printmakers, ending with a discussion of international contemporary artists who use the technique for its flexibility. Illustrated with woodblock prints by Katie Baldwin,…
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2012 Art in Print: Mokuhanga International
Mokuhanga International was published in Art in Print, Volume 2, Number 2, 2012. The article is a review of the current state of mokuhanga, Japanese woodblock technique, in contemporary art outside Japan. It includes a brief overview of the history starting with the famous Edo period ukiy0-e prints, through the eclipse of the technique during…
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2011 International Focus: Fist International Mokuhanga Conference
International Focus: First International Mokuhanga Conference in Kyoto and Awaji, An overview of the First International Mokuhanga Conference in Kyoto and Awaji, Japan, June 2011 in Graphic Impressions, the Newsletter of Southern Graphics Council International, Elizabeth Klimek editor, Fall 2011, page 15, 16
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OLD–PODCASTS and VIDEO PRESENTATIONS
2023 Platemark InterviewIn Platemark s3e29, host Ann Shafer speaks with April Vollmer, an artist working in mokuhanga (Japanese color woodblock printing), who also wrote the indispensable guide to that form: Japanese Woodblock Print Workshop (Berkeley: Watson-Guptill Publications, 2015). Platemark Interview 2024 Golden Road Arts Demonstration Clip A two minute trailer for the full demonstration with…
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Red Hook on the Move Animation Collaboration with Susan Rostow
Video collaboration with Susan Rostow, incorporating images from “Your Tern, My Tern” woodcut
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Ulrich Museum: Looking Forward, the Continuing Relevance of Japanese Printmaking
A talk about contemporary mokuhanga at the Ulrich Museum’s exhibition of Japanese prints.
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MECAD Talk and Demonstrations
Maine College of Art and Design, Portland, Maine, public slide talk and demonstrations with printmaking students of Adriane Herman.
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The Unfinished Print Podcast with André Zadorozny
André Zadorozny with his work at the International Mokuhanga Conference, Echizen in 2024.
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SVAC: Mokuhanga Stories, Four Artists
2022 Crites, Alison, Manager of Exhibitions, “Mokuhanga Stories, Four Artists,” The World Between the Block and the Paper Exhibition (video documentation), Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester, VT, February 25, 2022 Four Artists at Southern Vermont Art Center
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The World Between the Block and the Paper
A Mokuhanga Exhibition of Artists and Teachers Presented by THE SOUTHERN VERMONT ARTS CENTER and THE MOKUHANGA SISTERS.In memory of Keiko Kadota and Tetsuo Soyama, our mentors who inspired us to devote our art practices to Mokuhanga. The Mokuhanga Sisters, a print collective, met at the Mokuhanga Innovation Laboratory, in the shadow of Mt Fuji,…