April Vollmer
Hanga Woodcuts - Digital Images
From Mumbai to Delhi
in 21 Days!
I had an uneventful 15 hour flight from New York to Mumbai (Bombay), and met Kathy and Marion the next morning.
Kathy has a grueling schedule planned...she is an enthusiastic cave-goer, who plans to take us to every cave between here and Delhi!
Yesterday we had lunch in the Taj! Expensive, but very nice, we were glad to see it is stilll standing and busy. There are burned out windows with guards on one side.
We went to the Prince of Wales Museum in the morning, and took the boat to Elephanta in the afternoon. It is a fun afternoon for locals: to take an hour boatride out to this rock-cut cave, so most of our neighbors were Indian. It is along walk up the hill to the cave, and astonishing inside.
Marion, Kathy and April ---- April with ?
Hanga Woodcuts - Digital Images
From Mumbai to Delhi
in 21 Days!
I had an uneventful 15 hour flight from New York to Mumbai (Bombay), and met Kathy and Marion the next morning.
Kathy has a grueling schedule planned...she is an enthusiastic cave-goer, who plans to take us to every cave between here and Delhi!
Yesterday we had lunch in the Taj! Expensive, but very nice, we were glad to see it is stilll standing and busy. There are burned out windows with guards on one side.
We went to the Prince of Wales Museum in the morning, and took the boat to Elephanta in the afternoon. It is a fun afternoon for locals: to take an hour boatride out to this rock-cut cave, so most of our neighbors were Indian. It is along walk up the hill to the cave, and astonishing inside.
Marion, Kathy and April ---- April with ?
More detail: The Indian overnight train was a trip and a half, with three decker bunks in a compartment with a bevy of assorted overweight Deli residents on their way home from an ashram. We all ate indian food from containers sitting across from each other, chatting about travel. Most educated Indians speak English, so not much problem communicating, except in the backwaters where some of the more esoteric caves are. One day we visited a cave far out in the country, on a Sunday with a full moon, and there was a Hindu festival, so busy we could barely squeeze up the path to the cave temple. I have great photos, but no time to upload them!
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.