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Artist: April Deacon (Wheelersburg, Ohio)
Sold directly by the artist. Contact: Venmo @April-Deacon-1. Please mention Pulp Stiction.
Year: 2025 | Medium: Little Golden Book cover, collage elements | Dimensions: 11.5 x 9.5 inches | Display: Wall-hung (2D)
Artist Statement
This piece features the presidential seal and children with targets on their backs. This could be interpreted quite literally with the president signing off on the deaths of children from gun violence in schools, to children in Iran, to children in detention centers. It could also be interpreted as metaphor for all of the other ways the government is harming children- cutting Snap benefits, Medicaid, and funding to the Department of Education.
About the Artist
April Deacon is an artist and art educator living in Wheelersburg, Ohio. She earned her BFA in
Studio Art from Ohio Wesleyan University and her MA in Studio Art from Marshall University. In
the studio, her paintings and mixed media works oscillate between celebrating and criticizing
humanity. April’s work has been exhibited nationally. Select exhibitions include Projecting
Grace at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, the Ohio Biennial Juried Exhibition at the Riffe
Gallery, Hear Our Voice: Art of the Women’s March in Asheville, North Carolina, Come Along
with Me at the Riffe Gallery, New Neon at the Bedford Gallery in Walnut Creek, California, and
Women of Appalachia at the Dairy Barn Arts Center. She is also a Joseph Editions Ohio
Portfolio Artist. April has spent her 23 year teaching career educating students in underserved
communities and has twice been awarded Teacher of
the Year.
https://www.aprildeacon.com
Pulp Stiction: Collage as an Act of Resistance. Hopkins Hall Gallery, OSU, Oct 26 to Dec 11, 2026.
Artist: April Deacon (Wheelersburg, Ohio)
Sold directly by the artist. Contact: Venmo @April-Deacon-1. Please mention Pulp Stiction.
Year: 2025 | Medium: Little Golden Book cover, collage elements | Dimensions: 11.5 x 9.5 inches | Display: Wall-hung (2D)
Artist Statement
This piece features the presidential seal and children with targets on their backs. This could be interpreted quite literally with the president signing off on the deaths of children from gun violence in schools, to children in Iran, to children in detention centers. It could also be interpreted as metaphor for all of the other ways the government is harming children- cutting Snap benefits, Medicaid, and funding to the Department of Education.
About the Artist
April Deacon is an artist and art educator living in Wheelersburg, Ohio. She earned her BFA in
Studio Art from Ohio Wesleyan University and her MA in Studio Art from Marshall University. In
the studio, her paintings and mixed media works oscillate between celebrating and criticizing
humanity. April’s work has been exhibited nationally. Select exhibitions include Projecting
Grace at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, the Ohio Biennial Juried Exhibition at the Riffe
Gallery, Hear Our Voice: Art of the Women’s March in Asheville, North Carolina, Come Along
with Me at the Riffe Gallery, New Neon at the Bedford Gallery in Walnut Creek, California, and
Women of Appalachia at the Dairy Barn Arts Center. She is also a Joseph Editions Ohio
Portfolio Artist. April has spent her 23 year teaching career educating students in underserved
communities and has twice been awarded Teacher of
the Year.
https://www.aprildeacon.com
Pulp Stiction: Collage as an Act of Resistance. Hopkins Hall Gallery, OSU, Oct 26 to Dec 11, 2026.