April Katz's Digital Portfolio

Welcome to April Katz's Digital Portfolio

April Katz earned her M.F.A. from Arizona State University in 1988. She is an associate professor at Iowa State University where she teaches lithography, relief, intaglio and monotype printmaking. As faculty advisor to the University Print Society she organizes the annual, international postcard print exchange. In 2002 the College of Design at Iowa State University awarded Katz the Polster Teaching Award and in 2001 the Faculty Award for Extraordinary Performance.

Katz served as president of the Southern Graphics Council from 2004 - 2006. She has been a visiting artist at the University of Colorado at Boulder, Arrowmont School, Frogman's Press, University of Wisconsin at Whitewater, East Tennessee State University, and Nene College of Art and Design in Northhampton, England.

In addition to solo and juried national exhibitions, her work is included in the collections of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri; Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University; and the Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C. Katz was featured in Carol Pulin's 2001 Contemporary Impressions article, "April Katz." Her work was also reviewed in the 2000 Contemporary Impressions article, Balancing Act: Man and Technology in the Digital Age, written by Brad Shanks.