April Camlin (b. Baltimore, MD) is an Oakland-based artist, educator, and healthcare activist. Her work is influenced by experiences with intergenerational community and by the grief of living in a complicated body on a changing Earth. After receiving her MFA from UC Davis she became a licensed insurance agent and now works as a healthcare advocate. She studies the US Healthcare system and the ways in which it brutalizes and marginalizes a massive percentage of people living in one of the wealthiest countries in the world. She works primarily with salvaged materials and orients herself to the world as a weaver. Since 2023 she has been collaborating with the Davis Threshold Singers, a choir that sings for the dying. Notable exhibitions include LISBETH Berlin, SPRING/BREAK, TSA Miami SATELLITE Art Fair and the Davis Cemetery. She was a 2024-25 Graduate Fellow at the Headlands Center for the Arts. Residencies include Ox-Bow, the Elsewhere Museum, Penland, and Haystack. She now lectures at UC Davis and previously served as adjunct faculty at Maryland Institute College of Art. She has facilitated many workshops and rituals in museums and community centers and for many years ran a free weaving school out of her studio in Baltimore. She was a part of the Baltimore-based Wham City Collective and toured internationally as a drummer for over a decade with her project Wume.
Back to Top