April Gavin Art

Yesterday, I entered an art contest hosted by the Manhattan Graphics Center. This is the fifth year they are hosting a miniature print...

Roughly twenty years ago, I bought my first copy of the Women Artist datebook published by the Syracuse Cultural Worker. I was a student...

Sometimes I wonder how art ever happens in my messy, jumble of a studio where no media has gone untried. A strategy is that if I plan...

January is the busiest month of the year for a bookkeeper. My tools for managing my work load are careful planning, copious...

Begin, then begin again, stop, re-visit and then keep on beginning until the work is complete. The Far Shore began as a monotype straight...

Form C: Daily Record of Cotton Picked won first place in The Uncommon Threads exhibition at Southern California Open Regional...

Greetings, The weekend of November 6th and 7th from 11-5, I will be participating in East Bay Open Studios. You can search on the home...

Stolen Children is the second in a series regarding compliance and the things we as a society give our tacit, unspoken approval. For this...

Humans are descended from bears! That's right. Creation theory and primate evolution take a back seat in this piece. Humans remind me...

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...