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The World Between the Block and the Paper
A Mokuhanga Exhibition of Artists and Teachers Presented by THE SOUTHERN VERMONT ARTS CENTER and THE MOKUHANGA SISTERS.In memory of Keiko Kadota and Tetsuo Soyama, our mentors who inspired us to devote our art practices to Mokuhanga. The Mokuhanga Sisters, a print collective, met at the Mokuhanga Innovation Laboratory, in the shadow of Mt Fuji,…
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IMC4 Presentation: The Evolution of Mokuhanga
2021 Kiggell, Ralph, Acting Chair, “The Evolution of Mokuhanga Since 2015 Publication of Book,” (conference presentation) Sumi Fusion, Fourth International Mokuhanga Conference, Nara, Japan, Dec 3, 2021April Vollmer presentation 2021 IMC Nara https://www.youtube.com/embed/SYK4R9Qjq5M?feature=oembed
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New Book: Living on the Edge
Just published: Living on the Edge, Black Bird/White Bird at the Cliffs, a new book based on April Vollmer’s recent bird photography. Living on the Edge is a collection of photographs of black and white birds taken along the northern California Pacific shore during the winter of 2020. The white birds are great egrets and…
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Kosha Illustrates the cover of Chaos and Dynamical Systems
Happy to report that my 12 x 1 2 inch woodcut and mixed media work from 2006, “Kosha” graces the cover of a new book “Chaos and Dynamical Systems,” Princeton University Press, by David Feldman, an old friend who now teaches physics and mathematics. https://press.princeton.edu/titles/13469.htmlVery happy to have my work illustrate his writing. View on…
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2020 Cabrillo College
January 13-16, 2020The most recent of many years of teaching short workshops at Cabrillo Community College in Aptos, California
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Slowness Portfolio: Architecture of Desire
2019 Mary Hood organizer, with Melanie Mowinski and April Vollmer, “Slowness Portfolio,” SLOW, a Symposium in Praxis & Theory MASS MoCA. Presentation about my woodcut print The Architecture of Desire, North Adams, MA, November 1, 2019 (not recorded)
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Presentation at Mass MOCA
MASS MoCA talk about my woodcut print The Architecture of Desire at SLOW, a Symposium in Praxis & Theory with artists Mary Hood and Melanie Mowinski…so fun to present a talk about the slow development of one of my woodcut prints at this great museum. Full pdf of Architecture of Desire talk
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Oregon State Visiting Artist Lecture
2019 Hiratsuke, Yuji, Art Professor, “Visiting Artist Lecture: April Vollmer,” (videotaped talk), Oregon State Visiting Artists and Scholars Series, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, January 24, 2019
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2018 Art Print Residence
I taught three classes there, in 2017, 2018 and 2019. During the pandemic I collaborated long distance on a portfolio of photo etchings, Birds on the Edge. Just north of Barcelona in Arenys de Mar, Spain, Art Print Residence holds residencies and printmaking classes.September 10 to 14, 2018. Last year’s class photos are here.Mokuhanga teacher…
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2017 ‘Pests of Public Importance’ at International Print Center New York
on view at IPCNY’s New Prints 2017 Winter exhibition Pests of Public Importance, 2017, edition 1263 x 2.25 inch woodcut and letterpress boustrophedon accordion bookApril Vollmer: woodcutEsther K. Smith: concept, book structure, designDikko Faust: letterpress, typesettingPublisher: Purgatory Pie PressWith an eponymous poem by Georgia Luna Smith Faustavailable from Purgatory Pie PressDikko Printing on his VandercookAlso…
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2016 Japanese Art Society of America Lecture
Wednesday, November 2, 6:00 pmJapanese Art Society of America at The Marymount School1026 Fifth Avenue, between 83rd and 84th Streets, New YorkMokuhanga in Translation: Printing, Writing and Teaching: the World of Japanese Woodcuts Join us for a lecture by April Vollmer, a New York–based artist and printmaker who specializes in mokuhanga, Japanese woodcut printmaking. Ms.…