Biography
Michele LeTourneur is a mokuhanga artist who participated in the juried international exhibition at the 2021 International Mokuhanga Conference (IMC) in Nara, Japan. The 2021 conference, themed around sumi (black ink), brought together mokuhanga practitioners from around the world to exhibit the traditional Japanese water-based woodblock printing technique.
Key Facts
- Nationality
- 🇺🇸United States
- Movement
- Contemporary Mokuhanga
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Michele LeTourneur is a mokuhanga artist who participated in the juried international exhibition at the 2021 International Mokuhanga Conference (IMC) in Nara, Japan. The 2021 conference, themed around sumi (black ink), brought together mokuhanga practitioners from around the world to exhibit the traditional Japanese water-based woodblock printing technique.
Michele LeTourneur'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.