April Vollmer
Hanga Woodcuts - Digital Images
Exhibition: April Vollmer Woodblock Prints
May 8 to 22, 2008
Akademija Center for Graphic Art & Visual Research
Faculty of Fine Art, Belgrade
Hanga Woodcuts - Digital Images
Exhibition: April Vollmer Woodblock Prints
May 8 to 22, 2008
Akademija Center for Graphic Art & Visual Research
Faculty of Fine Art, Belgrade
Photos of my trip to Serbia, and the exhibition, are on my website:
• /aprilvollmer.com/belgrade2008
• /aprilvollmer.com/belgrade2008
I also created two four color lithographs with the Center s Tamarind-trained master printer Nebojsa Lazic, and gave a lecture-demonstration about Japanese woodblock at the Center. I visited the studios on the campus of the Faculty of Fine Arts twice to talk with students and teachers.
The Center also sponsored a party that featured visiting U.S. papermaker Melissa Potter, a frequent visitor to Serbia:
Then I traveled to the Sicevo Art Colony in South Serbia for a week long stay. The first art colony in the Balkans, it was founded by a woman painter in 1905 in a small village on the Sicevo gorge. Four printmakers were invited to produce work there:
Ulla Madsen, Denmark
Ivana Stankovic, Nis
April Vollmer, New York
Biljana Vukovic, Belgrade
Ivana Stankovic, Nis
April Vollmer, New York
Biljana Vukovic, Belgrade
Nis is the city that sponsors the colony. It is three hours south of Belgrade, and the birthplace of Constantine. There I gave talk at the Nis High School of Art and Design, which has an outstanding printmaking program. The city organizes regular exhibitions of work completed at the colony in its spacious galleries.
Biljana Vukovic, printmaking Professor at the University and Head of the Center arranged my exhibition and colony stay. I can not even begin to thank her and the other generous people who made my trip such a pleasure!
APRIL VOLLMER established her studio on Manhattan's lower east side after she earned her MFA from Hunter College. She works primarily in Japanese woodcut, and often plans her woodcuts on the computer, combining traditional and contemporary techniques. In the fall of 2004 she traveled to Japan to work with the Nagasawa Art Park woodcut program. April has taught workshops at Japan Society, the Lower East Side Printshop, Pyramid Atlantic and Dieu Donne Papermill and many other locations. Her work has been published in journals including Science, Printmaking Today and Contemporary Impressions. Her prints have been exhibited at AIR Gallery, the Islip Art Museum, Henry Street Settlement, and internationally.
APRIL VOLLMER established her studio on Manhattan's lower east side after she earned her MFA from Hunter College. She works primarily in Japanese woodcut, and often plans her woodcuts on the computer, combining traditional and contemporary techniques. In the fall of 2004 she traveled to Japan to work with the Nagasawa Art Park woodcut program. April has taught workshops at Japan Society, the Lower East Side Printshop, Pyramid Atlantic and Dieu Donne Papermill and many other locations. Her work has been published in journals including Science, Printmaking Today and Contemporary Impressions. Her prints have been exhibited at AIR Gallery, the Islip Art Museum, Henry Street Settlement, and internationally.