Valentine Aprile

An artist of multiple disciplines all her life, Aprile has won varied arts awards for painting, performance art, and aerial dance theater creation. Her work has been shown in such galleries and stage venues as The Panama Art Factory (Sacramento CA), The Goggleworks Center For The Arts, The Reading Museum, Artists’ House Gallery, Columbia Art Center, The Print Club (Philadelphia PA), Harlem School of the Arts with NAWA, NYCOO Gallery, the Manhattan Borough President’s Office, The Painted Bride, Paolo Soleri’s Arcosanti, The Filmfare Awards in Mumbai India, Martha B Knoeble Dance Center, Temple University, Ursinus College, The Electric Factory, The Trocadero, Kumquat Dance Center, The Yard at Martha’s Vineyard, and others. As an educator she developed curriculum across artistic disciplines at the High School for Creative and Performing Arts. Aprile has taught at Moore College of Art and Design, LaSalle College High School, Burlington County College, and is involved as a dance director for ASL’S Drawing The Dance workshops. Her arts education includes The University of the Arts, The Art Students League of New York, Nimble Arts (VT), The Maggie Flanigan Acting Conservatory, and The Martha Graham School of Dance.