April Katz
April Katz received her M.F.A. degree from Arizona State University. She is Morrill Professor at Iowa State University where she has taught printmaking since 1999. For nineteen years she organized the university’s annual international postcard print exchange. From 2004 – 2006 Katz served as president of the Southern Graphics Council. Her prints, which synthesize digital and traditional printmaking processes, are in numerous collections and have been exhibited throughout the US and recently in Portugal, Spain and China. She has presented papers for print, photographic and visual literacy professional national and international conferences.
Katz’s primary language and tool is the print whose vocabulary includes transfers, layers, seriality and variations on a theme. Death of loved ones, serious illness and political discord are the forces that have shaken Katz to the core and led her to ask fundamental human questions about herself and her relationship to the world. She searches for connections between disparate elements to understand and convey their impact on current personal and cultural identity.
April Katz will be forever grateful for the bite of the printmaking bug that she first experienced through Tom Majeski at the University of Omaha, Nebraska while she was teaching high school art. It changed her life. She left and earned an M.F.A. at Arizona State University in 1988. She and JoAnn Boehmer together form the artist collaborative BOKA. April is Morrill Professor Emeritus at Iowa State University where she organized the Annual International Postcard Print Exchange and taught for 20 years.. From 2004–2006 she was president of the Southern Graphics Council.
Katz’s prints have been exhibited throughout the US and are in numerous collections including the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri; Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University; and the Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C.
SOURCE - https://octagonarts.org/event/print-retrospective-april-katz/ (Sept 2025) & https://www.aprilkatz.com/statement (Sept 2025)
