![]() Paper Connection International, RI, USA.Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester, VT, USA.Association for Corporate Support of the Arts (Kigyo Mécénat Kyogikai KMK), Japan.Michihamono Industrial Co., Ltd., Japan.Constellation Studios, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA.Thank you to our Supporters and Sponsors: IMC2021 has been designed around exhibitions, discussions, demonstrations and academic presentations that reflect the diversity of interests and approaches to mokuhanga within the wider disciplinary world of print-media and contemporary art. IMC2021 will combine a look at Nara’s role in the development of mokuhanga while spotlighting its contemporary fusions: its relevance today, its globalizing future, and its ever-growing interest among new generations of art students, crafts-people, artists and academics. And it was here, with the refinement of available materials for its production, that woodblock printmaking became an important medium of communication. Lying at the easternmost end of the Silk Road, Nara was a meeting point where artisans, monks, merchants and literati from China, Korea and India mingled with the citizens of the ancient capital. ‘Fuji’, by Aleksander Wozniak (Poland), 2017 Additionally, it will explore the presence of black, and how it relates to color. This fourth convening of the conference, titled Sumi-Fusion, will celebrate the versatility of sumi in woodblock printing, both historically and in contemporary applications across Japan and abroad. Still renowned today as a center of production for the finest sumi ink, Nara is an ideal site for IMC2021. We are pleased to announce the 4th International Mokuhanga Conference, now renamed IMC2021 NARA, which will take place from December 1 to 3, 2021, in Nara, Japan, at the Nara Kasugano International Forum IRAKA and as a virtual conference. Her book on the history and contemporary use of mokuhanga, Japanese Woodblock Print Workshop was released by Watson-Guptill in 2015.SUMI-FUSION: Mokuhanga & Nara 墨-フュージョン 木版画と奈良 In addition to exhibiting her prints, her work has been published in journals including Science, Printmaking Today and Contemporary Impressions. She was communications advisor for the Third International Mokuhanga Conference, in Hawaii, which attracted a hundred participants from sixteen countries. Vollmer actively promotes cultural exchange through a study of mokuhanga and was on the board of the First and Second International Mokuhanga Conferences in Kyoto and Tokyo. She has given lectures and demonstrations at many universities and independent print shops and has assisted in the organization of several exhibitions of contemporary mokuhanga. ![]() ![]() She has taught classes in mokuhanga at the Japan Society and the Lower East Side Printshop in New York Cabrillo College and Kala Art Institute in California MakingArtSafely in New Mexico The Morgan Conservatory in Ohio Art Print Residence in Spain, as well as many other locations. Since that time she has worked primarily in mokuhanga as a printmaker and educator. ![]() ![]() from Hunter College, New York, in 1983, and first visited Japan with the Nagasawa Art Park Program in 2004. APRIL VOLLMER is a New York artist and educator who specializes in mokuhanga, Japanese woodcut. ![]()
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