April Claggett

Selected talks, workshops, and publications

• "Lighting a Spar(K)," Art New England, January-February
• "The Color of Hope," SECAC
• "A Few of My Favorite Things," bit.ly/gilbo-mural
• "Getting to the Core," Art New England, November-December
• "May Is Mural Month," Art New England, September-October
• "Gallery Review, Galerie Oiseaux," Art New England, March-April
• "Inspired by Nature," What Women Create Magazine, Issue #14, Spring
• "Frank Walter and the Persistence of Unbelonging," SECAC (delayed to 2022)
• "Studio Visit with Alex Kanevsky," Art New England, November-December
• "Studio Visit with Hollis Heichemer," Art New England, November-December
• "Monadnock Art Tour's 50th Anniversary," Art New England, September-October
• Guest Poet, Tupelo Press, 30/30 Project, month of April
• "All's Fair in Art and War," Ghost Army Exhibition, Cheshire County Historical Society
• "After the Rain a Steamy Run," Smoky Quartz Journal
• "Abbott Thayer's Forgotten Animal Heroes and the Contest of Visibility," SECAC
• "Of Pulp, Process and the Anthropocene," Surface Magazine (feature and cover), Summer 2020
• "Rebecca Hutchinson's Ecological Forms," Sculpture Magazine, submitted
• "Preview: Double Bloom," Art New England, May-June (postponed)
• "Abbott Thayer's Monadnock: at the Intersection of Natural History, Artistic Research and World War," Monadnock Region Natural History Conference
• "The 'Oriental' Carpet in Western Painting," SECAC
• "Holosalgia," Artist talk, Brigflatts Meetinghouse, Sedbergh, UK
• "The Importance of Visual Literacy," University of Venda, South Africa
• "Branding for Rural Development Projects Workshop," University of Venda, South Africa
• "Twentieth Century American Art Styles," Scott-Farrar Community
• "Holosalgia," Artist talk, University Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
• "Murmurations: interview with Dennis Hlynsky," www.ecologyandevolution.org/2100nov2016.html
• "Art and the Value of Creating without a Map," www.ecologyandevolution.org/2100march2016.html
• "Giant Puppet-Making Workshop," Town of Peterborough, NH

Selected solo exhibitions

• A Few of My Favorite Things, wheatpaste mural, Keene, NH (curator, Rosemarie Bernardi)
• Selections from Entanglements, Hannah Grimes Center for Entrepreneurship, Keene, NH
• Entanglements, Runyon Gallery, Earlham College, Richmond, IN (delayed, slated for 2022)
• Foraged, Southern African Wildlife College, Hoedspruit, South Africa
• La Vie en Rose, Barns of Rose Hill, Berryville, VA
• La Vie Encore!, Dharma Studio Gallery, Winchester, VA
• April Claggett: Light Matters, Dublin Community Center, Dublin NH
• Echoes of Narcissus, Gallery 244, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
• April Claggett: Light Stories, Gallery 244, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
• Luz Monteverdensis, Monteverde Institute, Costa Rica
• April Claggett: Naïve, Dublin Community Center, Dublin, NH

Selected group exhibitions

• May Is Mural Month, Keene, NH (Rosemarie Bernardi, curator)
• Art and Design Faculty Exhibition, Anna Maria College, MA
• Peter Roos and April Claggett, Conant Gallery, Groton MA (Laurie MacGowan, curator)
• Into the Unknown, Miagliano Anfiteatro, Italy (funded by the European Union)
• Into the Unknown, San Giovanni Sanctuary, Campiglia de Cervo, Italy (Amici del Lana)
• Wit and Whimsy, Dublin Art Center, NH (Mary McDowell, curator)
• We Art Ukraine (Kate Schimke, juror), Wilton, NH
• Art from the Heart for Ukraine (Barbara Danser, juror), Dublin, NH
• Exhibition for the Citizens' Institute of Rural Design (with Craig Stockwell), National Endowment for the Arts, Keene, NH (Taryn Fisher, juror)
• Art and Design Faculty Exhibition, Art Center Gallery, Anna Maria College, MA
• Faculty Exhibition, Davidow Gallery, Colby Sawyer College, NH (delayed)
• Bird's Eye View, Depot Square Gallery, Peterborough, NH
• 2FOUR, Depot Square Gallery, Peterborough, NH
• Sonification, Thoreau Gallery, Franklin Pierce University, NH
• Annual Faculty Exhibition, Thoreau Gallery, Franklin Pierce University, NH
• M.F.A. Thesis Exhibition, College of Visual and Performing Arts Gallery, University of Massachusetts
• Dartmouth and Bromfield Gallery, Boston, MA
• To See and Be Seen, public drawing performance in New Bedford, MA