Biography
Najla Bulous is an American artist who participated in the MI-LAB (Mokuhanga Innovation Laboratory) residency program in 2024 as part of Basic Training Program C in Echizen, Fukui Prefecture, Japan. The MI-LAB program provides international artists with intensive instruction in traditional mokuhanga tools and materials under Japanese master printers in Japan's historic Echizen papermaking region.
Key Facts
- Nationality
- 🇺🇸United States
- Movement
- Contemporary Mokuhanga
Frequently Asked Questions
Najla Bulous is an American artist who participated in the MI-LAB (Mokuhanga Innovation Laboratory) residency program in 2024 as part of Basic Training Program C in Echizen, Fukui Prefecture, Japan. The MI-LAB program provides international artists with intensive instruction in traditional mokuhanga tools and materials under Japanese master printers in Japan's historic Echizen papermaking region.
Najla Bulous'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.