Biography
Julie Strasheim is a mokuhanga artist based in China and Japan whose work in traditional Japanese water-based woodblock printing has earned her recognition within the international mokuhanga community. She is a dedicated practitioner of the technique, working on handmade Japanese washi and engaging deeply with the material and philosophical traditions of mokuhanga.
Strasheim received the Boku-undo Prize at the 2024 International Mokuhanga Conference in Echizen for her work 'Connected Reflections' (2021), a mokuhanga print measuring 42.0 by 23.0 centimeters printed on Usu-Mino washi. The award was one of several sponsor prizes recognizing prints in the conference's juried international exhibition.
She participated in the Mokuhanga Project Space residency in Walla Walla, Washington, and her work was featured in the 'Watermarks' exhibition at Foundry Vineyards, which showcased prints created during the residency program. She has exhibited at the International Mokuhanga Conference juried exhibitions in both Nara (2021) and Echizen (2024), demonstrating sustained engagement with the international mokuhanga community over multiple conference cycles.
Strasheim's practice exemplifies the growing international network of artists who have adopted mokuhanga as their primary printmaking medium, bringing diverse cultural perspectives to a technique rooted in Japanese tradition.
Key Facts
- Nationality
- 🇨🇳China
- Movement
- Contemporary Mokuhanga
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Frequently Asked Questions
Julie Strasheim is a mokuhanga artist based in China and Japan whose work in traditional Japanese water-based woodblock printing has earned her recognition within the international mokuhanga community. She is a dedicated practitioner of the technique, working on handmade Japanese washi and engaging deeply with the material and philosophical traditions of mokuhanga.
Julie Strasheim's work was shaped by the Contemporary Mokuhanga tradition in Japanese woodblock printmaking. Contemporary Mokuhanga: Contemporary mokuhanga (literally "wood-block print") encompasses artists working from approximately 1970 to the present who continue or reinvent traditional Japanese woodblock printing techniques.
