In 1989 he was named Most Promising New Artist in a major print exhibition held in Tokyo, also taking its Grand Prize. Hidehiko Goto has exhibited widely across Japan, as well as Central Europe, winning important prizes for his inimitable prints. Goto will demonstrate printing his own images with different barens to show the quality of printing with different barens. In this session participants will have an opportunity to re-cover a baren, and to practice printing beta-zuri. On the second day Goto will demonstrate how to care for barens and how to re-cover the baren. It is not easy to master beta-zuri in printing large surface area, but this class will encourage the development of a sensitivity to printing with different barens. Learning this printing process will help develop an artist’s printing skill. Introducing and focusing on beta-zuri, solid all-over printing Goto will teach this technique to help participants understand the differences in the look, feel and the sensitivity of printing with different barens. Hidehiko Goto: Focus on the Hand-crafted Baren & Printing She was on the board of the First and Second International Mokuhanga Conferences in Japan and her book Japanese Woodblock Print Workshop was released by Watson-Guptill in 2015. Her work has been published in journals including Science, Contemporary Impressions and Art in Print. Awards include fellowships at the MacDowell Colony, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Nagasawa Art Park program in Japan. With an MFA from Hunter College, she has exhibited her work internationally and has taught workshops across the U.S. The subtlety of mokuhanga printing allows a wide range of expression to be achieved simply by printing blocks in different ways or by layering and rotating blocks, printing them multiple times to create a complex, evocative print.ĪPRIL VOLLMER is a New York based artist and printmaker who specializes in mokuhanga, Japanese woodcut. This approach includes printing different colors, printing textures like gomazuri, using bokashi gradation printing to change the spatial feeling of a print, printing with stronger and weaker pressure, and printing blocks multiple times on the same paper using a floating kento registration jig. This portion of the workshop will show participants various ways to print already-cut blocks to achieve a variety of different prints. Hara has been awarded grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the Artist Trust Fellowship, the Philadelphia Print Award and the first prize in the Michigan Print & Drawing Exhibition.Īpril Vollmer: Flouting Kento Registration for Special Effects Museums that include Hara’s work in their permanent collections are The National Gallery of Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Detroit Institute of Arts, Portland Art Museum, Library of Congress, Jundt Art Museum, and many others. With over fifty solo exhibitions since 1976, Hara has also been included in numerous invitational group exhibitions throughout the United States, Europe and Japan. Hara lives and works in Walla Walla, Washington, where she is an Emeritus Professor of Art at Whitman College. In 1983 she was granted United States permanent resident status as an artist. Keiko Hara moved to US from Japan to pursue her career as an artist and earned an MFA at Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1976. Participants will learn to see the endless possibilities for layering marks and colors to create a variety of mokuhanga prints. Through an expressive approach to the mokuhanga print process, using traditional and new techniques, participants will experience versatile creative image making processes by incorporating stencil and collage with woodblock printing. Keiko Hara: Fluid & Free Mokuhanga Style, A Contemporary Approach 3 – 8, 2017 at the Donkey Mill Art Center Posted by setsuko on SeptemNovember 8, 2017
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