
I write about finance, management and economy, my book “Money Studies” is out now.
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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…
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A Continenal Divide, My Quarantine Year in Santa Cruz
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.
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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…
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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…
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2011 Graphic Impressions Newsletter: International Focus: First 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,…
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Additional Publications
Roman Fugu woodcut on the cover of Science Magazine August 2002.
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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…
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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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