Podcasts & Videos

A half hour discussion of mokuhanga technique while demonstrating printing with the two kingfisher blocks from BIRD TWINS book.

A two minute trailer with a discussion of Japanese Woodblock Print Workshop, published by Watson Guptill in 2015. This book discussion was shot in Portland, Oregon studio of Golden Road Arts before the half hour printing demonstration video.

In 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

Video collaboration with Susan Rostow, incorporating images from “Your Tern, My Tern” woodcut

A talk about contemporary mokuhanga at the Ulrich Museum’s exhibition of Japanese prints.

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

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

2019 Hiratsuke, Yuji, Art Professor, “Visiting Artist Lecture: April Vollmer,” (videotaped talk), Oregon State Visiting Artists and Scholars Series, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, January 24, 2019