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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,…
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IMC4 Presentation: The Evolution of Mokuhanga
2021 Kiggell, Ralph, Acting Chair, “The Evolution of Mokuhanga Since 2015 Publication of Book,” (conference presentation) Sumi Fusion, Fourth International Mokuhanga Conference, Nara, Japan, Dec 3, 2021April Vollmer presentation 2021 IMC Nara https://www.youtube.com/embed/SYK4R9Qjq5M?feature=oembed
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New Book: Living on the Edge
Just published: Living on the Edge, Black Bird/White Bird at the Cliffs, a new book based on April Vollmer’s recent bird photography. Living on the Edge is a collection of photographs of black and white birds taken along the northern California Pacific shore during the winter of 2020. The white birds are great egrets and…
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Kosha Illustrates the cover of Chaos and Dynamical Systems
Happy to report that my 12 x 1 2 inch woodcut and mixed media work from 2006, “Kosha” graces the cover of a new book “Chaos and Dynamical Systems,” Princeton University Press, by David Feldman, an old friend who now teaches physics and mathematics. https://press.princeton.edu/titles/13469.htmlVery happy to have my work illustrate his writing. View on…
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2020 Cabrillo College
January 13-16, 2020The most recent of many years of teaching short workshops at Cabrillo Community College in Aptos, California