Aloha Artists! Registration Time!
We’re less than one week away from joining together for the Third Triennial International Mokuhanga Conference in beautiful, Hawaii. We hope you’re excited and ready for a weekend of education, celebration, and embracing the warm spirit of Aloha. We have been busy busy planning and working hard to make it an experience you will cherish forever.Here is some basic information to help get you started. You may have questions in addition to what we have laid out, but please educate yourself on the City of Honolulu and UH-Manoa’s campus map.
Schedule
The most up to date schedule is on our website and can be found here. Importantly, registration is open from 12 – 5 on Thursday, September 28th, located in the UH-Manoa Art Building, Commons Gallery. It’s very important to check in during these hours. There, you will receive the conference booklet, tote bag, and badge. Please wear the badge at all times. It is your ID card to get into the conference.
After registration, please find your way to the Gallery Walk with Yasuyuki Sato and Hayato Fujioka from 3:00 – 4:00. Then immediately following, there is a Gallery Walk with Ralph Kiggell and Hiroki Morinoue from 4:00 – 5:00. There will be a soft opening right after the Walk, open to the public put on by UH Manoa. At 6:00pm please join us for the Opening Reception at the East-West Center at the Wailana Garden Dining Room where there will be catered food and light refreshments. Then it’s a good nights sleep and be ready for our first keynote speaker, Mayumi Oda, Friday morning at 9am!
Transportation
A local taxi cab service or Uber are easy ways to get between UH-Manoa Campus and the Honolulu International Airport. There is also a reliable bus system and more information found here.
Reminders
Wear good shoes for walking between campus buildings and sun protection against the hot Hawaiian sun.
For those of you who have not paid for catered lunch during the conference, there are plenty of food options on campus that you can walk to and purchase lunch during breaks. More information found here.
If you have prints in the Juried Exhibition, it is very important to pick-up your prints from the Gallery between 5 – 6pm on Sunday, Oct. 1. If you are donating 100% to the IMC organization, thank you very much and you may skip this and move to the Closing Reception.
In case you need money exchange coming from another country, be sure to do that at the Honolulu International Airport, unless you know that you could do it from any ATM machine near by.
In addition, it’s a good idea to protect against unexpected travel emergencies with traveler’s insurance.
Looking forward to seeing you all!
IMC Board and Local Committee
MC2017 Hawaii / Satellite Program Artists
Oct. 3 – 8, 2017 at the Donkey Mill Art Center
Keiko Hara: Fluid & Free Mokuhanga Style, A Contemporary Approach
液体感、流動性のあるフリースタイルを現代の木版画創作に応用
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. Participants will learn to see the endless possibilities for layering marks and colors to create a variety of mokuhanga prints.
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. In 1983 she was granted United States permanent resident status as an artist. Hara lives and works in Walla Walla, Washington, where she is an Emeritus Professor of Art at Whitman College.
With over fifty solo exhibitions since 1976, Hara has also been included in numerous invitational group exhibitions throughout the United States, Europe and Japan. 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.
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.
April Vollmer: Flouting Kento Registration for Special Effects
”見当”を効果的に使った現代の木版画創作に挑戦
This portion of the workshop will show participants various ways to print already-cut blocks to achieve a variety of different prints. 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. 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.
APRIL VOLLMER is a New York based artist and printmaker who specializes in mokuhanga, Japanese woodcut. With an MFA from Hunter College, she has exhibited her work internationally and has taught workshops across the U.S. Awards include fellowships at the MacDowell Colony, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Nagasawa Art Park program in Japan. Her work has been published in journals including Science, Contemporary Impressions and Art in Print. 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.
Hidehiko Goto: Focus on the Hand-crafted Baren & Printing
細工されたばれん、多種のばれんを使い分けして感性有る木版画創作に注目
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. Learning this printing process will help develop an artist’s printing skill. 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.
On the second day Goto will demonstrate how to care for barens and how to re-cover the baren. In this session participants will have an opportunity to re-cover a baren, and to practice printing beta-zuri. Goto will demonstrate printing his own images with different barens to show the quality of printing with different barens.
Hidehiko Goto has exhibited widely across Japan, as well as Central Europe, winning important prizes for his inimitable prints. In 1989 he was named Most Promising New Artist in a major print exhibition held in Tokyo, also taking its Grand Prize. In addition to being a well-established mokuhanga artist, he is one of Japan’s most famous master baren makers.
Hidehiko Goto lives in Oiso, the location of one of the 53 Stations of the Tokaido Road in the print series by Ando Hiroshige.
Goto takes daily walks to the mountain side to view Mt. Fuji and the long beach of Shonan, enjoying one of the most picturesque views of Mt. Fuji with the Hakone-Izu mountains in the near distance.
Collections: Los Angeles County Museum of Arts, USA, Suzuka City Museum of Graphic Art, Nagano, Japan
Sponsors and Supporters
We would like to thank the following organizations for their support of the Third International Mokuhanga Conference 2017, Hawaii
Awagami Factory, Japan
Australian Consulate-General Honolulu
City & County of Honolulu
Constellation Studios, Lincoln, Nebaska
Consulate General of Japan Honolulu
Consulate General of Finland Honolulu
Donkey Mill Art Center, Hawaii
Hawaii Japanese Center
Hawai‘i State Foundation on Culture and the Arts
Holbein Works, LTD., Japan
Honolulu Printmakers
McClain’s Printmaking Supplies, US
Michihamono Industrial Co., LTD, Japan
MI-LAB, Japan
National Endowment for the Arts, US
State of Hawai‘i
Studio 7 Fine Arts, Hawaii
University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
We would also like to extend our mahalo & aloha to the additional organizations and institutions who have assisted our attendees with their financial needs and the many individuals who have contributed their time and expertise.
Demonstrations, Paper Presentations & International Exhibition Selection Complete
The Committee has completed selections for the Demonstrations, Paper Presentations and the International Mokuhanga Exhibition September 28 to Oct 2, 2017, listed below. We look forward to an exciting conference with contributions from artists, educators and scholars from around the world.
Selected Demonstrations:
- HKOP, Hong Kong Open Printshop – A Reversed Negative: From Calligraphy to Woodblock Printing – Hong Kong
- Kernan, Catherine – Right/ Left/ Positive/ Negative – USA
- Goto, Hidehiko – Baren, all about its history to making, caring & printing – Japan
- Hirai, Kyoko – Anatomy of Traditional Mokuhanga, Printing Techniques – Japan
- Kitamura, Shoichi – Way of Mokuhan Carving and Printing – Japan
Selected Presenters:
- Amoss, John – Mokuhanga, the Environment & Social Changes – USA
- Berio, Ligustro Giovanni & Ponte, Hellory Maria Nella – Artist’s Presentations – Italy
- Binnie, Paul – Artist’s Presentations – UK
- Burton Anne & Kunc Karen – Artist’s Presentations – USA
- Çinar, Semih – Mokuhanga, the Environment & Social Changes – Turkey
- Cuccio, Claire – Contemporary Mokuhanga – USA
- Furneax, Paul – Contemporary Mokuhanga – UK
- Gok, Fatih – Artist’s Presentations – Turkey
- González, Paola – Local Practice – Chile
- Gorni, Elettra – Mokuhanga History, Philosophy – Italy
- Gribbin, Jacqueline – Artist’s Presentations – Australia
- Hara, Keiko & Takemoto, Akira – Bridge-building – Japan/USA
- Hong Kong Open Printshop – Mokuhanga History, Philosophy – Hong Kong
- Keckes, Irena – Artist’s Presentations – Croatia/USA
- Kiggell, Ralph – Mokuhanga History, Philosophy – UK/Thailand
- Kiran, Hasan – Artist’s Presentations – Turkey
- Kunc, Karen – Artist’s Presentations – USA
- Laitinen, Kari – Mokuhanga History, Philosophy – Finland
- Lyon, Mike – Artist’s Presentations – USA
- Mack-Watkins, Jennifer – Bridge-building – USA
- Maurstig, Karen – Artist’s Presentations – Norway
- Moilanen, Tuula – Mokuhanga History, Philosophy – Finland
- Morinoue, Hiroki – Contemporary Mokuhanga – USA
- Nam, Yoonmi – Artist’s Presentations – USA
- Neal, Florence – Art Markets and Mokuhanga – USA
- Pelzer-Montada, Ruth – Contemporary Mokuhanga – UK
- Ponte, Hellory Maria Nella – Mokuhanga History, Philosophy – Italy
- Schofield, Lucy – Artist’s Presentations – UK
- Schulenberg, Melissa – Bridge-building – USA
- Vollmer, April – Bridge-building – USA
- Yuasa, Katsutoshi – Mokuhanga History, Philosophy – Japan
Selected International Exhibition Artists:
- Baldwin, Katie – Neighborhood Raft – USA
- Baldwin, Katie – Neighborhood Rafts – USA
- Berio, Iigustro Giovanni – Amaterasu: the dance of Sun – Italy
- Bianco, allison – The Old Jamestown Bridge, Going, Gone – USA
- Bissett, Annie – Paint By Number Yellow Lab – USA
- Broder, Donna – Judo Masters #1 – USA
- Cheong, Hoi I – Above and Below – Macau (S.E. Asia)
- Cheong, Hoi I – Aki – Macau (S.E. Asia)
- Clarke, Neilton – Loaded Beauty – Australia/Japan
- Clarke, Neilton – Akigawa Spinner (33rpm) – Australia/Japan
- Cozzolino, Mara – Tokyo dreamer – Italy
- Cozzolino, Mara – Awakening – Italy
- Crawford, John – Coal and Crops collide – Australia
- de Haan, Judith – Mount Fuji II – Norway
- Evertson, William – Searching for the Moon – USA
- Evertson, William – Times Square – USA
- Ewart, Jolanta – Shards – Australia
- Forrest, Elizabeth – Two Pines – Canada
- Forrest, Elizabeth – The Reflective Unconscious – Canada
- Fukushima, Chihiro – Empty (1) – Japan
- Fukushima, Chihiro – Empty (2) – Japan
- Furchgott, Eve – Fungal – USA
- Furchgott, Eve – Both Sides Now – USA
- Gorni, Elettra – MAP – Italy
- Gorni, Elettra – The Untied Knot – Italy
- Gribbin, Jacqueline – Within the Sand Sheets – Australia
- Gribbin, Jacqueline – Shifting Sands (Utricularia minutissima) – Australia
- Hamada, Michiko – SHK – Japan
- Hamada, Michiko – MTY – Japan
- Hey, Henrik – The long Journey – Netherlands
- Hiser, Annaday – Along the way…number 11 – USA
- Hiser, Annaday – Along the way…number 4 – USA
- Howard, Daryl – Where I never feel alone – USA
- Howard, Daryl – Where I wade into light – USA
- Hulsey, Sarah – In the Words of Fourier – USA
- Jarvis, George – Hane V1 – USA/Japan
- Jarvis, George – Kuroneko – USA/Japan
- Jesse, Mariko – Meyer Lemon Curd Recipe – USA
- Jones, Charlotte – Tidal Pool II, Port aux Choix – Canada
- Jones, Charlotte – Tidal Pool 1 – Canada
- Kashiwagi, Yuuki – Then the Spreading Earth – Japan
- Kavanagh, Ann – Fishing at Lake Kawaguchiko – Ireland
- Kavanagh, Ann – Japanese Garden Yellow Space – Ireland
- Kean, Roslyn – Time with Tradition 4 – Australia
- Kean, Roslyn – Shadow of Time 3 – Australia
- Keckes, Irena – Black Print # 24 – Croatia/USA
- Keckes, Irena – Black Print # 23 – Croatia/USA
- Krenik, John – Nine to Five – USA
- Krohn, Inari – Metamorphosis (Art Book) – Finland
- Lingamfelter Almosara, Heidi – Yellow Katsura Tree Leaf – USA
- MacDonagh, Kate – Voice – Ireland
- MacDonagh, Kate – Ochre Light – Ireland
- Mack-Watkins, Jennifer – The Letter – USA
- Masuda, Masahiro – Diary301 – Japan
- Masuda, Masahiro – Diary401 – Japan
- Maurstig, Karen – Unfolding Landscape – Norway
- Maurstig, Karen – Havrand – Norway
- McKenna, Terry – Full Moon Mount buningyong – Australia
- McKenna, Terry – Evening Bell Blampeid – Australia
- Metz, Deborah – Springday – Australia
- Moilanen, Tuula – Horror Vacui / Horror Plenus (Art Book, pair) – Finland
- Morinoue, Hiroki – Thin Ice – USA
- Morinoue, Hiroki – Bleached Corals – USA
- Morinoue, Setsuko – Mizumo Oshinohakkai I – Japan/USA
- Murata, Minako – Tree’s Feelings – Japan
- Murata, Minako – That Would Be Lovely (Art Book) – Japan
- Muto, Yuzuru – Spread Our Wing – Japan
- Muto, Yuzuru – At the Time of Calm – Japan
- Nam, Yoonmi – POP CORN! – USA
- Nam, Yoonmi – Promise – USA
- Nault, Ray – Yugen – USA/Japan
- Neal, Florence – Water Water – USA
- Neal, Florence – Chattahoochee: 29.9.0117 – USA
- Ninomiya, Miyuki – White Bubble – Japan
- O, Mia – Red Landscape – So. Korea/Japan
- Olanna, Karen – On the Beach – USA
- Olanna, Karen – Climate Change – USA
- Ponte , Hellory Maria Nella – Bamboo at Maxim Moonlight – Italy
- Ponte , Hellory Maria Nella – Bijinga – Italy
- Rushforth, Susan – Drift 1 – Australia
- Rushforth, Susan – Drift 2 – Australia
- Satake, Hiroki – Greeting flower (Yukari Ota “Frame” by bozzo) – Japan
- Satake, Hiroki – Greeting flower (Project Oh!yama “Holstein” by bozzo) – Japan
- Schofield Lucy & , Brisson-Darveau, Guillaume – The Moon & The Sledgehammer (phases 1 – 6) – UK/Canada
- Schofield Lucy & , Brisson-Darveau, Guillaume – The Moon & The Sledgehammer (phases 7 -12) – UK/Canada
- Shine, Cathryn – Deluge – New Zealand
- Shine, Cathryn – Flood – New Zealand
- Stone, Andrew – Modern Miracles (Rain for Aleppo) – Italy
- Stone, Andrew – Boteh (paisley) – Italy
- Stone, Faith – Tara with dragon, phoenix and i’ili birds – USA
- Strand, Elisabet Alsos – Porthole V – Norway
- Syposz, Valerie – That is All – Canada
- Syposz, Valerie – Females – Canada
- Takada, Yohei – Time – Japan
- Takada, Yohei – Aquarium – Japan
- Takashi, Ryoichi – Bamboo Unbrella-Makers, Pathein, Myanmar – Japan
- Takashi, Ryoichi – Typhoon #10, 2016 Iwaizumi, Iwate, Japan – Japan
- Vollmer, April – Love Beyond Reason – USA
- Vollmer, April – The Architecture of Desire – USA
- Watanabe, Kanako – Asagakuru – Japan
- White, Margaret – Luminous: Luna – Australia
- Wilding, Lana – Mokuhanga Orchid – Australia
- Wilding, Lana – Mokuhanga Staghorn – Australia
- Wozniak, Aleksander – Fuji – Poland
- Wozniak, Aleksander – Clouds – Poland
- Yasui, Meredith – Free Range – USA
- Yates, Trish – Wandering the Eucalypt Forest – Australia
4: Greetings from the Chair of the 2015-2017 International Board of the International Mokuhanga Conference
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On September 28th 2017, IMC will launch its meeting for the first time beyond the Japanese archipelago fittingly to that of another, the Hawaiian Islands. An eminent and longstanding base for Japanese and other artists who reflect both the diversity of Hawaii’s indigenous and hybrid cultures and its international presence, Hawaii represents a natural segue beyond Japan’s borders.
Refreshing new themes will zero in on Hawaii and the Pacific Islands’ unique printworlds in addition to more pragmatic, real-world topics such as print artists and the art market.
The conference has matured further to organize a series of Roundtable Discussions focused on concerns that have surfaced among mokuhanga practitioners, including but not limited to mokuhanga as an environmental practice; international artist exchanges and artist-in-residency programs for mokuhanga as a means to foster global art networks; and new approaches to supporting artisans and mobilizing their expertise.
Inland from the western coastal city of Kailua-Kona, the center of the Big Island’s lively “Kona side,” is the town of Holualoa, the site of Donkey Mill Art Center. With the warmth and spirit of Hawaiian life that the expression “aloha” invokes, well-respected mokuhanga artist, the Artistic Director of the Mill, Hiroki Morinoue together with Setsuko Morinoue, a Co-Founder & Director Emeritus of the Mill, and the IMC2017 Hawaii’s main coordinator will host an invigorating Satellite Program at Donkey Mill.
Japanese-style water-based woodblock printmaking is increasingly attracting new converts for its enormous range of appeal and possibility. Like anime and manga as well as the host of other Japanese creative mediums that have been transformed after going global, the Japanese expression mokuhanga has begun to acquire a special currency across world languages and cultures and already has accumulated new and expanded meanings along the way. Come to Hawaii to witness how international artists are pushing the boundaries of mokuhanga and how your own artistic vision and print works are a part of this trend.
Claire Cuccio, PhD
IMC 2015-17 Board Chair
日本語版：
2015年〜2017年度、国際木版画会議、国際理事長からのご挨拶
2017年９月２８日、国際木版画会議は日本列島を越え、海外へと場所を移し、ハワイ諸島で開催することが決定しました。ハワイの多様で独特なハイブリッド文化を受け継ぐ日系の、そしてまた多くの国際的アーティストたちが長きにわたって活動の中心地としてきたハワイが、日本国外における初の国際会議の拠点となることは自然のなりゆきでしょう。 木版画家の現在の立場やアートマーケットといった有意義なテーマに加え、今回はハワイと太平洋諸島のユニークなprintworldに焦点を合わせた新たなテーマを取り上げます。。
第一会場となるハワイ大学マノア校では、以前の会議のイベントも含めて木版画世界に関する問題点、世界的な芸術ネットワークを育成するための手段としての国際交流、芸術家居住（AIR) プログラム、又木版画芸術に携わる 職人を支援し、専門知識を動員するための新しいアプローチなどについてのラウンド･テーブル形式の討論も新たに加える計画です。
そして風光明媚な大自然の中へと場所を移します。「ビッグアイランド」として知られたハワイ島のコナ側にあるドンキーミルアートセンターが第二会場です。「アロハ」に込められたハワイ生活の暖かさと精神の価値観を基盤にして、 優れた木版画家ヒロキ•守野上氏とドンキーミルアートセンターの名誉会長、今回の国際会議の地元メインイベント コーディネーター守野上節子氏の指導の下、友好的なプログラムが用意されます。
グローバル化した世界では日本のアニメやマンガなどの創造媒体だけでなく、 木版画も言語や文化を超えて世界中に拡がってきました。そうした可能性のある媒体であることを木版画はすでに証明してきています。日本伝統木版画の自然美と可能性に満ちた世界に魅了されるアーティストはますます増えてきています。現代アーティストの作品と芸術がどのように伝統木版画の限界に挑戦してきたか、またご自分の文化芸術ビジョンがこのグローバル化傾向の一部としてどのような位置づけにあるのか、どのような意味を持つのか、IMC２０１７ハワイで探りましょう。
Claire Cuccio
クレア • クッチオ
国際委員会代表