April Vollmer
{{short description|American artist}}
April Vollmer (born 1951){{cite web |title=April Vollmer |url=https://blanton.emuseum.com/people/7960/april-vollmer |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230512232703/https://blanton.emuseum.com/people/7960/april-vollmer |archive-date=12 May 2023 |access-date=12 May 2023 |website=Blanton Museum of Art |language=en}} is an American artist and educator known for her printmaking and book art.{{cite web |title=April Vollmer |url=https://wsworkshop.org/artists/april-vollmer/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230515203518/https://wsworkshop.org/artists/april-vollmer/ |archive-date=15 May 2023 |access-date=12 May 2023 |website=Women's Studio Workshop}}
Early life and education
Vollmer attended Hunter College and specializes in mokuhanga woodblock printing.{{cite web |title=April Vollmer |url=https://www.morganconservatory.org/april-vollmer |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230619130446/https://www.morganconservatory.org/april-vollmer |archive-date=19 June 2023 |access-date=12 May 2023 |website=Morgan Conservatory |language=en}}
Career
In 1993 Vollmer was the recipient of a MacDowell fellowship.{{cite web |title=Visual Art - Print Making - April Vollmer |url=https://www.macdowell.org/artists/april-vollmer |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230514115608/https://www.macdowell.org/artists/april-vollmer |archive-date=14 May 2023 |access-date=12 May 2023 |website=MacDowell |language=en |quote=}} She is the author of the book Japanese Woodblock Printing Workshop{{cite web |date=20 August 2015 |title=April Vollmer Publishes "Japanese Woodblock Printing Workshop" |url=https://www.vcca.com/april-vollmer-publishes-japanese-woodblock-printing-workshop/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230514115104/https://www.vcca.com/april-vollmer-publishes-japanese-woodblock-printing-workshop/ |archive-date=14 May 2023 |access-date=12 May 2023 |website=Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA)}} published in 2015.{{cite book |last1=Vollmer |first1=April |title=Japanese Woodblock Print Workshop: A Modern Guide to the Ancient Art of Mokuhanga |publisher=Watson-Guptill |year=2015 |isbn=978-0770434816 |location=Berkeley |language=en |oclc=903363548}}
Vollmer's work is in the Blanton Museum of Art. Her artist's book Pests of Public Importance{{Cite book |last=Vollmer |first=April |title=Pests of Public Importance |publisher=Purgatory Pie Press |others=Book design by Esther K. Smith, hand set and printed by Dikko Faust, with a constructed poem by Georgia Luna Smith Faust. |year=2016 |location=New York |language=en |oclc=1028051799}} is in the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA).{{cite web |title=Pests of Public Importance |url=https://nmwa.bibliovation.com/app/work/24308 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231117212609/https://nmwa.bibliovation.com/app/work/24308 |archive-date=17 November 2023 |access-date=12 May 2023 |website=National Museum of Women in the Arts Library & Research Center |type=Library catalog record}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.aprilvollmer.com/ Official website]
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Category:20th-century American women artists
Category:21st-century American women artists
Category:American women printmakers