Bio
April Smith was born in Milford, Connecticut in 2004. Now a Chicago based artist, she is studying to earn her BFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Working mainly with mixed-media, Smith primarily utilizes various printmaking processes, textile, and craft in her work. Using these mediums, she combines imagined characters and abstracted environments to explore identity, memory, and vulnerability. Smith’s work ranges from crochet and needlework to offset and litho prints to medium format film photography. Smith has exhibited sculptural and print work at New Haven’s Shubert Theater for their TEDx talks “Hello World” in 2022. She also has participated in a collaborative public installation project in downtown New Haven called “Windowed Worlds” in 2022.
