Livingston leads in the community classroom
Jennifer Zoghby interviews April Livingston for Focus Magazine. The interview followed the launch of an online fundraiser designed to replace a stolen sculpture of Cudjoe Lewis, the last living enslaved person from the Clotilda and a founder of Africatown.
Art and activism with Sarah rutledge fischer
Zoom interview. Sarah Rutledge Fischer, artist, and April Terra Livingston, Sculptor. April 24, 2021.
University of Alabama highlights Bicentennial sculpture Project
“Alumna Casts Sculptures for Bicentennial Project” is the title of a feature in the University of Alabama Department of Art and Art History alumni news. The feature highlights the completion of my sculpture, Motherwork, which celebrates the vital role of midwifery today and in history, using a term coined by scholar Patricia Hill Collins. The cast iron sculpture is one of three works commissioned by the Mobile Medical Museum in Mobile, Alabama.
Alabama public radio features ‘the street of many colors’ project
APR Gulf coast correspondent Guy Busby wrote a feature for Alabama Public Radio about a street art project in Mobile created as a response to the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. The event prompted protests around the country as well as throughout Alabama. In Mobile, children and other residents used a different medium to spread the message. They used chalk. Their canvas was a 300-year old street where slaves once walked. This section of Conti Street in downtown Mobile was closed while a mural a block long proclaiming “Black Lives Matter."
La Sirene Sculpture
A brief introduction to La Sirene iron sculpture by April Terra Livingston. Video by Laura Fosberg, in New Orleans. 2014.