April Blankenship (aprilblankenship.com) was born and raised in the northwest United States and currently lives in rural Washington. She has a degree in Liberal Studies from the University of Montana and continues the lifelong learning process by reading over 100 books per year. April has created art in a variety of mediums from an early age including oil painting, photography and paper collage. Her photos have been published in online magazines, featured on NPR's Picture Show blog, and included in two books, “Street Art and the War on Terror: How the World's Best Graffiti Artists Said No to the Iraq War” (edited by Eleanor Mathieson, 2007) and on the cover of a coffee table book titled  "Through the Eyes of the World" for Mercedes-Benz (2008). She uses digital and analog cameras including an SX-70 Polaroid. Her current hyperfixation is making stream-of-consciousness paper collages, which began in January 2021 as a kind of art therapy. Deciding that hoarding donated books from her library job had become unsustainable, she began curating images and text from vintage sources to create collages that reflect her struggles with depression, anxiety and ADHD. Themes of sexism and misogyny, ecological distress, violence, and grief emerged along with dark humor and absurdity. Sharing her collages in a thriving online community has been therapeutic and feedback from that community affirms others are also struggling with some of these issues.

Growing up white on the Nez Perce Reservation and currently living on the Colville Indian Reservation has provided extensive and ongoing opportunities for learning about generational trauma and oppression experienced by Indigenous people as a result of colonization, racism, and capitalism. Bringing light to social justice issues remains a primary motivator in her creative process. She is proud to become a part of the Kancel Klan Kulture mission and will be donating a portion of proceeds from items sold here to The Audre Lorde Project, a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Two Spirit, Trans and Gender Non-Conforming People of Color community organizing center, focusing on the New York City area.