About April Vollmer

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April Vollmer is a New York artist, author, and educator. Focusing on mokuhanga woodcut, she also makes drawings, collages, books and digital prints. Her work has been published in journals including Science, Printmaking Today and Contemporary Impressions and her book Japanese Woodblock Print Workshop was released by Watson-Guptill in 2015.

Brief Biography
April Vollmer earned an MFA from Hunter College in 1983. Active in lower east side nonprofit spaces during the 1990s, she first exhibited her woodcuts at AIR gallery in 1998. Solo shows include The Phillips Museum of Art, Lancaster, PA; Silicon Gallery Fine Art Prints, Philadelphia, PA; Steinhardt Conservatory Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; Akademija FLU Centre, Belgrade, Serbia; and CfSHE Gallery, Tokyo, Japan. She has taught and lectured about creative mokuhanga in Serbia, Spain and across the US. She is on the Board of the triennial International Mokuhanga Conference, Tokyo, and on the Advisory Boards of Kentler International Drawing Space in Red Hook, NY and the Mokuhanga Project Space in Walla Walla, WA. She has been published in journals including Science, Printmaking Today and Contemporary Impressions. Her book Japanese Woodblock Print Workshop was released by Watson-Guptill in 2015.

Curriculum Vitae

GALLERY AFFILIATIONS
Kentler Flat Files, Kentler International Drawing Space, Red Hook, Brooklyn, NY (work is always available there)
The Gallery at the Metropolitan Museum Store, New York, NY
Central Booking Gallery, NY and traveling exhibitions
Zürcher Gallery, NY, Salon Zürcher artist

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