Current Exhibition
Water-Ice-Sky, Antarctica
Prints of each painting and the informational panels for the exhibit are all now in the collection of the National Science Foundation and located at NCAR.
National Center for Atmospheric Research Gallery, Boulder, Colorado, October 2023- April 16, 2024
Plan Your Trip to the Exhibition
Recent Exhibitions
Water-Ice-Sky, Antarctica and Greenland, Giustina Gallery, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, May 13 – April 28, 2023
Water, Marin Society of Artists, CA, January - March, 2023
Water-Ice-Sky, Antarctica, Solo Exhibition, Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Willamette University, Salem, OR, May 14 – August 13, 2022
Time in Place: Northwest Art from the Permanent Collection, Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Willamette University, Salem, OR, September 18 – December 18, 2021
Altitudes (Group Exhibition), Rowboat Gallery, Pacific City, Oregon, May – June, 2019
Confluence: April Waters and Bets Cole, Bush Art Gallery, Salem, Oregon, September – November, 2016
Oregon Artists Series: Northwest Art from the Collection of the Hallie Ford Art Museum, Salem Convention Center, Salem, Oregon, March 2014 – March, 2015
Water’s Touch, Solo Exhibition, University of Portland Buckley Center Art Gallery, Portland, Oregon, August 20 – September 20, 2012
Sheroes: Women Reshaping the World, Women’s World Conference, Portland, Oregon, May, 2012
Contemporary Artists of the Pacific Northwest, The US Embassy, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, 2012 – 2015
Collaboration and Connection: Art Invitational, Sitka Center for Art and Ecology at the World Forestry Center, Portland, Oregon, November, 2011
Where Are We Now? (Group Exhibition), Gretchen Schuette Art Gallery, Chemeketa Community College, Salem, Oregon, October – December, 2011
Sheroes & Water, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, Oregon, March, 2011
Oregon Artists Series 4 (Group Exhibition), Salem Conference Center, Salem, Oregon, July 2010 – June, 2011
Natural Forces, A Visual Quartet (Group Exhibition), Jacobs Gallery, Eugene, Oregon, June – July, 2010
Contemporary Women for Peace and the Environment: Solo Exhibitions, Hallie Ford Museum Sponsorship, Willamette University, Salem, Oregon, February – May, 2010
Art About Agriculture: 25th Anniversary (Group Exhibition), Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, March 2008 – March, 2009
Conversations with Nature, Sitka Art Invitational at World Forestry Center, Portland, Oregon, November, 2008
Oregon Artists Series: Mayor’s Invitational (Group Exhibition), Salem Conference Center, Salem, Oregon, July 2007 – July, 2008
Private Contemplations/Public Conversations, Bush Gallery, Salem, Oregon, January – March, 2006
This Bountiful Place: Art About Agriculture (Group Exhibition), Oregon Historical Society, Portland, Oregon, May – September, 2006
Art About Agriculture (Group Exhibition), Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, February – April, 2005
Willamette and Beyond: Solo Exhibition, Mary Lou Zeek Gallery, Salem, Oregon, August, 2004
Office of Oregon Governor (Solo Exhibition), State Capitol, Salem, Oregon, September – October, 2003
Salem Masters Landscape Exhibition (Group Exhibition), Bush Gallery, Salem, Oregon, May – June, 2003
Crater Lake Centennial Exhibition (Group Exhibition), Schneider Museum of Art, Ashland, Oregon, June – October, 2002
American Portfolio (Group Exhibition), Gretchen Schuette Art Gallery, Chemeketa Community College, Salem, Oregon, January, 2002
Collections & Commissions
Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Willamette University, Salem, Oregon
Edward Allworth Veterans Home, Lebanon, Oregon (Oregon Percent for Art in Public Places)
Adventist Medical Center, Portland, Oregon
Anderson, Zeigler, Disharoon & Gray Attorneys at Law, Santa Rosa, California
BAM Agency, Inc., Salem, Oregon
Childhood Health, Salem, Oregon
Collier Law, Salem, Oregon
First Pacific Corporation, Salem, Oregon
Fullerton Orthopedic Surgery Group, Fullerton, California
Hermann Memorial Hospital, Houston, Texas
HOPE Orthopedic Group, Salem, Oregon
Mt. Angel Abbey Library, Mt. Angel, Oregon
Oregon Cherry Growers Association, Salem, Oregon
Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon
Sacred Heart Medical Center at RiverBend, Springfield, Oregon
Salem Hospital, Salem, Oregon
Salem Vascular Clinic, Salem, Oregon
Slocum Orthopedic Clinic, Eugene, Oregon
Unitarian Universalist Church, Salem, Oregon
Western Oregon University, Monmouth, Oregon
(Oregon Percent for Art in Public Places)
Willamette University, Salem, Oregon
Publications
OC Waves Vol 3.8: It’s The Water, 2023
Water Shapes, Water’s Endless Beauty: an interview with artist April Waters
Oregon ArtsWatch: April Waters’ Antarctic Visions, by Bob Hicks. June 3, 2022
Salem Reporter: Salem artist April Waters explores Antarctic in Hallie Ford exhibit, by Helen Caswell. May, 2022
Salem Art Association: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Centennial Celebration Book, 2019
Salem Magazine, Cover Story, Spring 2018
Oregon’s Artswatch, Antarctic Journey: Waters on Ice (Bob Hicks), October 2018
Ear to The Ground Newsletter, Cover, published by National Science Foundation, Fall 2013
Tranquil Relief Through Nature, Book published by Kaiser Permanente, 2013
Oregon Artist Series #4, Catalog published by Oregon Artists Series Foundation, 2010
Art of Broadway Place, Book published by YWCA, 2008
This Bountiful Place: Art About Agriculture, Book published by Oregon State University, 2006
Artist Residencies
Antarctica Artist and Writers Program, National Science Foundation
Palmer Station, Antarctica, November – Dec 2018
Ilulissat Art Museum, Ilulissat, Greenland, July 2022
Crater Lake National Park Residency, October 2001