April Vollmer

Since February I have been at a residency at Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass Village, Colorado. This has been a wonderful opportunity to create new work in a beautiful place. The Ranch sponsors 14 artists ten-week residencies each winter, in ceramics, woodworking, digital art, painting and printmaking. I am sharing the generous printmaking studio with artist Johanna Mueller. I have had the opportunity to work in the digital media studio, where I have made new digital prints on Gozen Japanese washi to print with woodblock. I have also taken advantage of their woodworking shop to create new work on panels. Photos of my work at the Ranch are posted here:

Anderson Ranch Residency

Photos of my first weeks at Anderson ranch are documented in the Anderson Ranch Arts Center blog.

Caren Friedman organized this weekend intensive for 15 members of the BCCC Printmaking Club. The workshop included an overview of the history of Japanese woodblock, a demonstration, and a discussion of washi, Japanese handmade paper. All participants cut and printed editions on washi. CLICK ON PHOTO FOR LINK TO CLASS PHOTOS:

2011-15-Bucks County CC Printmaking

Moku Hanga: Japanese Waterbase Woodcut

This is an intensive weekend workshop that will teach the basics of this traditional waterbase technique. Japanese woodblock differs from western woodblock in that it is waterbase and non-toxic, it is printed with a hand-held baren, and it is printed on handmade Japanese kozo fiber paper.

This class will cover carving, printing and registration. We will plan and cut blocks, then print an edition of multi-colored prints on Japanese paper. Printmaking experience is helpful but not required. The $50 materials fee includes basic cutting tools, blocks and Japanese paper. An informational letter will be sent upon registration.

Class #01CAMH1-09
Sat. & Sun., Oct. 22 & 23
10 am – 4 pm

Spring 2012
I will be demonstrating mokuhanga, Japanese woodblock printmaking at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s Cherry Blossom Festival. For more information visit the Garden’s website here.

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FINISHED: Weekend Class for Mother’s Day, May 7 and 8, 2011

2011 Center for Contemporary Printmaking

Center for Contemporary Printmaking
299 West Avenue
Norwalk, CT 06850-4002
(203) 899-7999
Center for Contemporary Printmaking Website

Also at CCP, this year’s October 2010 Monothon was a great success!
Photos of MONOTHON 2010

August 5, 6 & 7, 2011: MECA, Maine College of Art
weekend summer class in Portland, ME
MECA

2010-07-20-MECA Mokuhanga 2010

Guanajuato 2010: woodblock prints by Carol Summers, Hugo Anaya, Karen Kunc and more from the Boston Printmakers collaborative workshop in Mexico
February 4 – March 26, 2011
Receptions: First Friday, February 4, 5:30-8pm
First Friday, March 4, 5:30-8pm
Demonstrations and talks to be scheduled
Laconia Gallery
433 Harrison Avenue
Boston MA 02118
For details contact curators: Candy Nartonis c.nartonis@verizon.net or Ky Ober kyrober@earthlink.net

Forum on Creativity: Guanajuato, Mexico
Boston Printmakers’ Week-long Workshop
Guanajuato Woodblock Forum Photos

The Boston Printmakers hosted an educational tour and studio workshop exploring the passion and creativity that has grown from this celebrated region of central Mexico. Emeritus member of the Boston Printmakers and resident of Guanajuato, Carol Summers was host. As a world traveler and avid collector of regional Mexican Folk Art, Carol will provided personal insight on Guanajuato and demonstrated his unique method of printing colorful woodcuts. His award-winning bed-and-breakfast inn, La Casa despiritus Alegres, houses a vast collection of folk art from every state in Mexico.

Arnold Klein Gallery
32782 N. Woodward Avenue
Royal Oak, MI 48073
e-mail: kak@tir.com
website: Arnold Klein Gallery

December 3, 2010, we will open our final group show, which will hang till the middle of January. We have been honored to hang work by these and many other artists over the years. Please come and join us in celebrating the work and the friendship that we have shared. The reception will be from 6:00 – 8:00.

Artists:
Coco Bruner, Dick Cruger, Robert Edwards, Sara Frank, Tracy Gallup, Susan Gold, Carole Harris, Ann Hjelle, Bob Jacobson, Barrett Klein, Karen Klein, Karin Klue, Kip Kowalski, Ed Meese, Robert Mirek, Maceo Mitchell, Guillio Palone, Megan Parry, Catherine Peet, Elaine Redmond, Lynn Shaler, A.G. Smith, Nelson Smith, Dennis Summers, Donella Vogel, April Vollmer, Pat Wynne

The final event before we close will be on Valentine’s day, February 14, 2011, which is our 40th anniversary. On that evening we will have a special show. There will be valentines and refreshments. Please come and say a final farewell to the gallery.

NEW PRINTS 2010/Autumn, International Print Center New York

508 West 26th Street, Room 5A, NYC
October 21 to November 20, 2010
Opening Reception: Thursday, October 21, 6:00 to 8:00 p.m.
International Print Center New York presents New Prints 2010/Autumn in its gallery at 508 West 26^th Street, Room 5A, between 10^th and 11^th Avenues in Chelsea. On view from October 21 – November 20, the show consists of forty-three pieces by forty-three emerging to established artists, selected from a pool of some 1,500 submissions.