Hi! I’m April Hannah Llewellyn (aka aprilhl), and I’m glad to meet you!

April Hannah Llewellyn is an artist whose work explores the labor of love: how crafting and gifting can build relationships between people, communities, and places. She works in an interdisciplinary fashion and as such wears a lot of hats: papermaker, book artist, draftswoman, crafter, painter, web designer. She is originally from Huntsville, AL where she graduated with a degree in studio art from the University of AL in Huntsville in 2009. She is currently attending Columbia College Chicago’s Interdisciplinary Book and Paper Arts MFA program, where she has been awarded the papermaking graduate assistant, the Graduate Opportunity Award, and, most recently, the Albert P. Weisman award. She will be receiving her MFA in May 2012 and would like to attribute her success to her supportive and inspirational family, friends, colleagues, and mentors.

 
artist statement:

I am always searching for how art — process, experience, and object — can be used to build connections between each other, our surroundings, and our larger communities.  I create mixed-media books, works on and of paper, ephemera, and other objects with a focus on the handmade and DIY; my mediums range from handicrafts, recycled objects, and antiquated technologies to the more traditional processes of drawing, painting, collage, and photography.  An interdisciplinary approach allows me to investigate the cultural associations with these materials and the blurry divisions of art and craft.  I am interested in how these often labor-intensive techniques allow me to transform the time and energy spent in the act of creating into a labor of love.   I then distribute the work in ways that will offer accessibility to the art and artist – gifting, public placement, non-profit & local venues – as a further effort to build rapport with my audience.

If you are so inclined, you can download a current (as of spring 2012) pdf copy of my c.v.

Feel free to email me at aprilhl at gmail dot com.

My other online homes (facebook and delicious) have links to the right. Just send me a note if you want to friend me! :)