I write about finance, management and economy, my book “Money Studies” is out now.

Three years in the writing, a lifetime in the making, Japanese Woodblock Print Workshop, A Modern Guide to an Ancient Art, by April Vollmer, was released by Watson-Guptill August 4, 2015. A comprehensive handbook of materials, techniques and resources the…

The California Printmaker: The Journal of the California Society of Printmakers2023 Changing Gears EditionBirds on the Edge: Collaboration and Change by April VollmerThis article describes new collaborative projects developed during the pandemic while caregiving away from home. Courtesy of California…

A Continenal Divide, My Quarantine Year in Santa Cruz is a book about a year spent in pandemic isolation in Santa Cruz, photographing the birds and thinking about art history. Available from Blurb Books.

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

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…

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…

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,…

Roman Fugu woodcut on the cover of Science Magazine August 2002.