IMC 2024 Echizen submission

Submitted to the International Mokuhanga Conference held in Echizen, Fukui Prefecture in 2024, this print belongs to the exchange portfolio tradition that has become central to the IMC's triennial gatherings of mokuhanga practitioners. Echizen, a thousand-year-old papermaking region, is the historic source of much of the washi used in Japanese woodblock printing, making it a fitting host site for the conference. Submission prints of this type are typically produced in editions sized to the participant count, printed on Echizen kozo washi using water-based pigments and a baren, with each artist working in their established personal idiom rather than to a prescribed theme. Vollmer's contributions to such exchanges tend to draw on her ongoing engagement with organic abstraction, geometric pattern, and layered transparent color — vocabulary developed over decades of studio practice and codified in her 2015 instructional book Japanese Woodblock Print Workshop. The IMC submission format situates her within an international community of mokuhanga artists whose growth she helped catalyze through her teaching and advocacy in North America.