APRIL VOLLMER

Place of Residence: New York, New York

www.aprilvollmer.com

Biography

April Vollmer received her M.F.A. from Hunter College, New York City in 1983.  Awards include a stay in Japan with the Nagasawa Art Park Program in 2004, residency fellowships at the MacDowll Colony, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Women's Studio Workshop, St. Mary's College, Sicevo Art Colony, Servia, and the Fine Arts Assembly, Visegrad, Bosnia.

Vollmer's work has been exhibited in New York City, nationally and internationally.  In 2008 she traveled to Belgrade, Serbia, for an exhibition of her woodcuts at the Faculty of Fine Arts.  Each year she demonstrates Japanese woodblock printing at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden's Cherry Blossom Festival.  In 2007 she had a major exhibition at the Steinhardt Gallery there.  Her prints have been exhibited at the Phillips Museum of Art, Silicon Gallery, AIR Gallery, the Islip Art Museum, Henry Street Settlement, and can be seen at Cheryl McGinnis Gallery, New York City.

She specializes in the waterbase Japanese woodblock technique called moku hanga, often combining contemporary and traditional ways of working.  She uses the computer to create complex patterns she transfers to blocks to cut and print by hand.  She has taught the Japanese woodblock technique at Japan Society, the Lower East Side Printshop, Pyramid Atlantic, Dieu Donné Papermill, Maine College of Art, Anderson Ranch, the Hammond Museum, Frogman's Print and Paper Workshops and many other locations.  She has given lecture demonstrations at colleges including Hunter College, SUNY New Paltz, the School of Visual Arts and Union College.  Her work has been published in the journals Science, Printmaking Today and Contemporary Impressions.