April Gavin Art

This started as a drawing a few years ago resulting from the death of Eric Garner. There were a number of black men killed that same...

Form C: Daily Record of Cotton Picked combines my two jobs in this life: My day job as a bookkeeper and my work as an artist. I might win...

Greetings everyone, It has been an eventful time. To quote Zora Neale Hurston, "There are some years that question and some years that...

Exactly one year ago today, I last rode BART home from San Francisco. Normally the afternoon commute is noisy and bustling. I hate...

Greetings, There are many things to make the world feel darker or lighter, but life has felt brighter since the inauguration. It's...

Happy New Year! I never knew that my keep on keeping on could keep going for so long, but here we are. The COVID death toll gets higher...

I've been working with this concept of repair of the world, holding up the world, and maybe even improving the world. This gourd gave me...

"Do your best ... until you know better ... then, do better" - Maya Angelou It's evident that many have not received Dr. Angelou's memo....

My anxiety has been very high. On Tuesday, the Bay Area woke up to the familiar smell of smoke from nearby wildfires. The smoke ebbs at...

"Democracy does not lose by sharing its privileges. It loses by denying them." - Langston Hughes He wrote these words in the 1940s in...

Love empowers diversity. Fear empowers conformity. I saw this sign at the encampment at the University on/off-ramp. The statement...

Greetings everyone, The whole world is at sea right now and we are temporarily lost. We're lost because the people we expect to lead do...

Greetings all, The coyotes have been howling in our cities and taking naps on what once were busy streets. A doe ran past me on Alston...

Greetings, Bestus friendus maximus Michael Lownie sent me this homemade birthday card last week. It sums up how I'm doing. Some of you...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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