About April
Born in The Bronx, April Stewart Klausner is a life–long New Yorker. Always sketching, painting or drawing, April once covered a long row of desks in 4th grade with an elaborate scene of horses grazing on a prairie. She was kept after class to scrub them clean, her creativity obviously unappreciated.
April later attended the High School of Music & Art and Parsons School of Design where in her freshman year, a life–drawing teacher told her to find another profession, perhaps nursing. For better or for worse, April stuck with it, graduating with a BFA in Illustration. She spent her senior summer with Parsons in France studying both French language and history in Paris and prehistoric cave art in the Dordogne.
April has created original art for textiles and print, editorial and botanical illustrations and Judaic art (ketubot, invitations and commissioned pieces). Her artwork has been displayed on clothing, subways, websites, note cards, fruit cartons, invitations, hospital banners, family trees and promotional mailings. April's illustrations use a combination of pen and inks, dyes, gouache, watercolor and colored pencil. When doing collage, she frequently paints her own papers before cutting them.
April lives and works on the Upper West Side of Manhattan with her husband Paul and their sons Gabe and Jonah, two of her greatest creations.
"April is so easy to work with; she's able to review our high level concept and bring it to reality for our customer through her amazing talent and professionalism."
– Deborah Polokoff
Senior Director, Research and Development, GapKids and BabyGap