April is a storyteller, a collector of documents and a maker of still and moving images.
April received her 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 to name a few.
She has taught film production, theory and history at the University level for over 20 years.
In 2021 April returned to her first love —- photography.
She blends and blurs the mediums of drawing, painting and photography to create original mixed media works using only archival materials.
In working with still images April implores her filmmaking background to create an emotional landscape which is often described as darkly whimsical.
April lives both in the historic district of downtown Concord, NC and the mountains of Boone, NC.
She shares her life with her husband, children and two spoiled pups.