April Gavin Art

Greetings, Bestus friendus maximus Michael Lownie sent me this homemade birthday card last week. It sums up how I'm doing. Some of you won't get the refere...

Greetings all, Back in September during a different catastrophe, I decided to make a new quilt for myself. I began by dyeing several yards of fabric in thre...

This past month, I took an experimental drawing class at Kala with Theadora Varnay Jones. Her teaching included drawing on transparent substrates like Yupo,...

Greetings, I didn't want to let the New Year pass without a post on what I've been up to and what's up for this year. One of the things about my drawing sty...

Greetings all, The Etsy shop is open and ready. You can access it on my website or on Etsy at April Gavin Textile Art. Etsy is an unruly stew and getting t...

Greetings, Is everyone feeling like Opossum these days? Upside down, hanging on by your tail, with an "Oh Dear!" look on your face. A lot has happened, i...

Greetings Everyone, For the last few months, I've been subscribing to textile artist Bobbi Baugh and am enjoying her technique and her style. She's also a ...

Solano Stroll: I'm vending a the Solano Stroll on Sunday, September 8th from 10-5. If you've never been to the Solano Stroll, it's a large street festival ...

New Art: Greetings, Before I go back to teaching for the next two weeks, I wanted to share what just came out of the studio. This small piece is called "Am...

Greetings all, Summer camp starts next week and my first week is Mixed Media Madness. But before I get absorbed in teaching art to small children and start ...

Greetings Everyone, I'm finally back to work in my new studio and it is a dream to work in. First thing is to get my samples ready for Camp 510. My initial...

Greetings everyone, A quick update on two things from my last post. I'm super excited to announce that I'll be teaching at Handcraft Studio School on June 2...

Greetings everyone, For those of you in the bay area, the beginning of Spring is glorious. It's been a while since I've posted primarily due to bookkeeping d...

Greetings everyone, A New Year's post to enliven the day. I have a few things to update. First, my three Saturdays at the Ecology Center craft fair were de...

Greetings, I'll be vending at the Ecology Center's winter craft fair in Berkeley on three consecutive Saturdays - December 8th, 15th, and 22nd. I will have...

I have a few different projects to share this time. As you can tell by the title, I'm super excited about sharing my first project. I've been attending a ...

Greetings, For those of you who couldn't be there, I wanted to share last weekend's adventure with you. It was a very mellow and nice experience to sit and...

https://flaxart.com/stores/workshops-events/ The link above proves that it's real. I'm really doing this next weekend from noon to four. I'm absolutely thr...

Greetings, Weird of me to have two posts so close together, but I wanted to share with everyone the event I did this past Thursday at Ideo. My friend Miche...

Just in case you forgot the song - here we go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VH6yD8zobM It's been such a long time since I've posted because I've been on...