Author: ralphkiggell

The revised deadline for submission of your full paper is 30 September, 2021. The paper should be 2000 words or under.

Details on how to prepare and record your paper with images and the format for its online presentation will be sent to presenters soon. The deadline for your recorded paper will be for a date in November to be announced.

Note: Once a submission has been accepted, presenters will be required to pay the conference fee and register in order to present their paper or illustrated talk at the conference.

Please see the registration page, for detailed information about the new fees for the conference with revised and attractive package rates. Please note that most fees are lower if paid before October 10, 2021.

We are pleased to announce that prints by the following artists will feature in the Sumi-Fusion Juried International Exhibition, which will be held in Nara, and also available to see online

Ariadna Abadal Lloret, Christine Adame, John Amoss, Cameron Bailey, Katie Baldwin, Linda Beeman, Annie Bissett, Laura Bortoloni, Israel Campos, Hoi I Cheong, I.inking, Mara Cozzolino, Leah Crews, Judith Elisabeth de Haan, Manfred Egger, William Evertson, Jolanta Ewart, Zach Fields, Elizabeth Forrest, Eriko Fujita, Jane Fulton Suri, Paul Furneaux, Matthew Garcia, Michiko Hamada, Henrik Hey, Daryl Howard, Patty Hudak, Hisae Isogami, Ken Januski, George Jarvis, Mariko Jesse, Dariusz Kaca, Tomasz Kawelczyk, Ann Kavanagh, Sayaka Kawamura, Roslyn Kean, Irena Keckes, Ralph Kiggell, Jere Kilpinen, Kitayama Yamazaki, Keiko Kobayashi, Yuta Konno, Justin Larkin, Michele LeTourneur, Wai Yan Leung, Kate MacDonagh, Jacek Machowski, Jennifer Mack-Watkins, Joanne Madeley, Neil Malone, Masahiro Masuda, Karen Maurstig, Terry McKenna, Deborah Metz, Ed Miliano, Hiroyuki Mita, Ninomiya Miyuki, Shunwen Mo, Tuula Moilanen, Muntsa Molina, Kaoru Morita, Minako Murata, Yuzuru Muto, Yoonmi Nam, Florence Neal, Mia O, Walt Padgett, Nel Pak, Marilla Price, Tongji Philip Qian, Taina Rantala, Harina Räinä, Michael Reed, Chris Robertson, Pat Rougeau, Susan Rushforth, Sybille Schlumbom, Lucy May Schofield, Melissa Schulenberg, Benjamin Selby, Lynita Shimizu, Tatiana Simonova, Charles Spitzack, Richard Steiner, Faith Stone, Elisabet Alsos Strand, Julie Strasheim, Eriko Suzuki, Svetlana Swinimier, Yohei Takada, Chihiro Taki, Misa Tsuchiya, Asuka Tsutsumi, Kay Watanabe, Carol Wilhide Justin, Stephen Winiecki, Ho Ching Wong, Aleksander Woźniak, Nobuko Yamazaki, Jie Yang, Trish Yates, Katsutoshi Yuasa

Thank you for your patience. The IMC Conference will take place from Wednesday December 1 to Friday December 3. It will be both a live conference, and a virtual one. The schedule will be posted soon. The conference will include approximately 30 papers, presented by academics and artists around the world, and will be available over three time zones using an easily accessible virtual platform with breakout rooms for live discussions. There will also be demonstrations, open portfolios, and satellite exhibitions, as well as informative films about Nara, the history of sumi, and its varied applications. The fees for the conference will be revised and posted here in the next few days.

The Sumi-Fusion International Mokuhanga Exhibition will open on Tuesday November 30 and will continue to Saturday December 4, without change.

We will post news soon about a virtual format for the 2021 conference.

It is unlikely that travel to Japan will get easier before 2022. Those of you already in Japan will be able to attend the physical conference. Those of you who might be able to get to Japan and quarantine, can also attend. We hope for those of you who will not be able to get to Japan, that you will join us virtually. We will soon have updates on how to apply to attend the virtual conference, how to give a presentation, a demonstration etc.

We thank you for your patience, and apologise for any delays in news to you.

1. Marina Borodina, Nataliya Grebennikova & Alexander Litvinov. Mokuhanga in Russian
2. Claire Cuccio. Passage through Asia. The Cultural Diversity of Mokuhanga in Nepal
3. Julianne Dao, Lari Gibbons, Kazuko Goto. Mokuhanga Journey: Creating intersections through collaboration and education
4. Tomomi Furukawa. 古川朋弥.　西会津の伝統行事「虫送り」のリサーチとそれに係る作品制作 Research on the traditional event ’Seeing off bugs’ in Nishiaizu and production of related Mokuhanga works
5. Jennifer Giaccai. Identifying different types of sumi using Raman spectroscopy
6. Paola Beatriz Gonzalez Farias. Japanese Woodcut: the View from Chile
7. Keiko Hara, Akira Ron Takemoto. Water Dreams: Mokuhanga in Walla Walla
8. Wuon-Gean Ho. Making colour bounce, blend and break: a macroscopic and microscopic examination of mokuhanga techniques
9. Irena Keckes. Contemporary Mokuhanga and Print Installation
10. Ralph Kiggell. Itō Jakuchū and the Pleasure of Ink
11. Shoichi Kitamura. 北村昇一. Donald Groscostさんのドローイングを木版画にするためのプロセス The Process of Turning Donald Groscost’s Drawings into Woodblock Prints
12. Yuta Konno. 海外における水性木版画ワークショップ活動による技法普及への貢献とその報告ー次の世代へContributing to the Spread of Water-Based woodblock Techniques through Overseas Workshops
13. Marco Leona. A timeline for the introduction of synthetic dyestuffs in Japan during the late Edo and Meiji periods
14. Xiaoqiao Li. Image Decaying: exploring materials, surfaces and time within printmaking and moving image editing
15. Jennifer Mack-Watkins. The Influence of Political and Social Issues Using the Practice of Mokuhanga as a Change Agent
16. Shahida Mansoor. Self-Expression in the Art of Mokuhanga
17. Tuula Moilanen. Sumi Ink and the Woodblock Printed News Bulletins during the Edo-Meiji Period
18. Yoonmi Nam. Arranged Flowers & Four Seasons: Prints Inspired by East Asian Still Life Traditions
19. Hellory Maria Nella Ponte. Beyond Sumi Black and Color: the Light between ‘No Ink’ Karazuri and Tsuyazumi
20. Endi Poskovic. Craft Inside and Outside Japan: Teaching Mokuhanga
21. Harriina Raïnä. The Other as Matter – Animal Matter in Mokuhanga
22. Lucy May Schofield. Borderless – A collaboration across continents
23. Faith Stone. Buddha woodblocks: A Dying Artform
24. Elisabet Alsos Strand. My Practice
25. Asuka Tsutsumi. Fusion of classical and contemporary techniques: woodcut rubbing print and inkjet
26. April Vollmer. Coda: Creative Mokuhanga since 2015
27. Carol Wilhide Justin. Mokuhanga and the Sense of Touch
28. Helena Wright. Exploring the 1889 Tokunō Gift to the Smithsonian. Japanese woodblocks, prints, tools, and pigments on view in the West.
29. Katsutoshi Yuasa. 克俊湯浅.「版画は風のなかを飛ぶ種子　ファンタジーは可能か？」. ‘Prints are seeds that fly in the wind. Is fantasy possible?’

Please note that the deadline for the Juried International Show has now been extended until July 31 (midnight Japan time). Results will be given on August 15. Also note that there are several awards for outstanding mokuhanga work.