Publications

The unique programs of printmaker Keiko Kadota have opened doors for international printmakers since she began inviting artists to Japan in the 1990s. At the time, her five week residencies were a rare opportunity for artists outside Japan to learn traditional Japanese woodcut techniques. She was inspired by the work of US pioneers like June…

October 2024 Journal of the Print World publishes Prints to Remember, April Vollmer’s review of the exhibitions at the Fifth International Mokuhanga Conference, Echizen, Inheritance and Innovation: Mokuhanga Artists Explore Japanese Paper. With reviews of eight outstanding exhibitions including the Juried International Mokuhanga Exhibition. Subscribe at Journal of the Print World.

Three years in the writing, a lifetime in the making, Japanese Woodblock Print Workshop, A Modern Guide to an Ancient Art, by April Vollmer, was released by Watson-Guptill August 4, 2015. A comprehensive handbook of materials, techniques and resources the book is intended to make this waterbased technique accessible to contemporary artists. Press ReleasePenguin Random…

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 Society of PrintmakersMagazine available from the California Society of Printmakers

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.

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

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 artists who use the technique for its flexibility. Illustrated with woodblock prints by Katie Baldwin,…

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 starting with the famous Edo period ukiy0-e prints, through the eclipse of the technique during…

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, page 15, 16

Roman Fugu woodcut on the cover of Science Magazine August 2002.