APRIL WERLE
"You have to eat vegetables!"
Artist: April Werle
Acrylic and stain on wood panel, 2024, 24 x 24 in
MORE ABOUT APRIL WERLE
"Each painting is based on a memory of sharing culture through food within my mixed-race family."
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~Quote from April Werle about her series of paintings
April Werle (b. 1995, USA) is a narrative painter based in Missoula, Montana. Her recent solo exhibitions include Secret Life of a Multicultural Couple, Bell Projects, Denver, CO; Halo-Halo: The Mixed Children, ZACC, Missoula, MT; and Mga Hunghong Sa Diwata (Whispers of Spirits), Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MT.
Werle was selected for the PlatteForum Artist-in-Residence (2025) and the Emerging Artist Residency at Centrum Foundation (2024). She was honored with the Creative West BIPOC Artist Fund Award (2024), and several Montana Arts Council grants. Werle’s work has been published in Create! Magazine, New Visionary Magazine, and Mahalaya.