Bio:
April received a BFA from Savannah College of Art and Design and her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she studied the moving image.

Her films have screened at the Ann Arbor Film Festival, New York Film Festival at Lincoln Center (Views), Film Anthology Archives in New York, Black Maria Film Festival, Rotterdam Film Festival, Boston Museum of Fine Art, Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP) in Chicago, and on PBS. April taught film production, theory and history at the University level for over 20 years.

Her still images have shown in many group shows including at the Mint Museum in uptown Charlotte NC. Her first solo show Through the Ether at Cabarrus Arts Council was in 2026.

Work Process:
I use only found, preexisting images to create new, original content.  I collect and store unrelated images from different modalities and mediums—photographs, paintings, advertisements, film stills. I digitally isolate each item, remove the color, texture, and context from which it originated, taking each individual object down to a raw line drawing.

This process disembodies each object from its original composition and narrative, rendering it relationship-less, environment-less and devoid of its conceptual intent - it is removed from the very purpose from which it was created. 

However, what remains intact is the object’s original position. The perspective from which it was originally constructed.  This remains fixed, like a memory, an echo or a ghost of what it was originally created for, its true purpose is hidden, but faintly persists. 

These line drawings form a visual depository or footage bin, from which I create new compositions on cotton rag paper, mount to wood and then paint.