April Pameticky & Amanda Pfister
Wichita, Kansas & Westminster, Colorado
Biographies
April Pameticky
Mother, wife, teacher, poet. April Pameticky shares time between roles as public school educator and peer facilitator within the creative community of artists and writers in Kansas. She launched the Wichita Broadside Project and has served as editor of Voices of Kansas, an online poetry journal focused on the youth of Kansas. Her latest work, With Concern for How Words Land in the Body, was a semifinalist for the Meadowlark Birdy Poetry Prize and will be released from Spartan Press in Spring of 2026. Her first book, Waterbound (2019) is available wherever books are sold online. Follow her journey on Instagram @aprilinwichita.
Amanda Pfister
Amanda Pfister is a visual artist and curator based in Colorado whose photography practice explores identity, feminism, place, and community. She holds an MFA in Photography from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and a BSW from the University of Kansas.
Pfister is the founder of ICT Soup (2016–2022), a grassroots micro-granting dinner that funded local creative projects in Wichita, and she recently curated GAZE: Power & Politics a feminist view at Mark Arts (2023). Her artistic and curatorial work often takes the form of socially engaged projects, such as Dada Ball—a one-night event combining art, music, avant-garde fashion, and drag performance—created to ignite connection, creativity, and dialogue.
She believes that art has the power to change the world, one gesture at a time.
Artist's Statement
She Cast Her Gaze
A collaboration between photographer Amanda Pfister and poet April Pameticky
She Cast Her Gaze began when photographer Amanda Pfister sought a way to sustain her artistic practice after the birth of her third child in May 2018. Beginning June 25, 2018, she committed to taking one photograph each day, posting her images to Instagram as a form of public studio practice. The project concluded 365 days later, on June 24, 2019, becoming a meditation on art-making within the rhythms of motherhood and daily life.
Poet April Pameticky entered the project organically, responding to Amanda’s images with with 17 syllable haikus or also known as Ginsberg sentences—concise, evocative lines that offered their own daily ritual. This act of carving out space for writing mirrored Amanda’s practice, creating an intimate and ongoing conversation between the two artists.
Over time, a shared voice began to emerge—partly imagined, partly reflective of Amanda and April’s experiences—that speaks through 17-syllable poems. These haikus, whether read individually or sequentially, pair with the photographs to create a layered dialogue about motherhood, art, and finding the extraordinary within the ordinary.
Selection of 9 photos and poems from the Installation She Cast Her Gaze:
365 Photographs, various sizes
55 Seventeen-syllable haikus
April Pameticky
Mother, wife, teacher, poet. April Pameticky shares time between roles as public school educator and peer facilitator within the creative community of artists and writers in Kansas. She launched the Wichita Broadside Project and has served as editor of Voices of Kansas, an online poetry journal focused on the youth of Kansas. Her latest work, With Concern for How Words Land in the Body, was a semifinalist for the Meadowlark Birdy Poetry Prize and will be released from Spartan Press in Spring of 2026. Her first book, Waterbound (2019) is available wherever books are sold online. Follow her journey on Instagram @aprilinwichita.
Amanda Pfister
Amanda Pfister is a visual artist and curator based in Colorado whose photography practice explores identity, feminism, place, and community. She holds an MFA in Photography from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and a BSW from the University of Kansas.
Pfister is the founder of ICT Soup (2016–2022), a grassroots micro-granting dinner that funded local creative projects in Wichita, and she recently curated GAZE: Power & Politics a feminist view at Mark Arts (2023). Her artistic and curatorial work often takes the form of socially engaged projects, such as Dada Ball—a one-night event combining art, music, avant-garde fashion, and drag performance—created to ignite connection, creativity, and dialogue.
She believes that art has the power to change the world, one gesture at a time.
Artist's Statement
She Cast Her Gaze
A collaboration between photographer Amanda Pfister and poet April Pameticky
She Cast Her Gaze began when photographer Amanda Pfister sought a way to sustain her artistic practice after the birth of her third child in May 2018. Beginning June 25, 2018, she committed to taking one photograph each day, posting her images to Instagram as a form of public studio practice. The project concluded 365 days later, on June 24, 2019, becoming a meditation on art-making within the rhythms of motherhood and daily life.
Poet April Pameticky entered the project organically, responding to Amanda’s images with with 17 syllable haikus or also known as Ginsberg sentences—concise, evocative lines that offered their own daily ritual. This act of carving out space for writing mirrored Amanda’s practice, creating an intimate and ongoing conversation between the two artists.
Over time, a shared voice began to emerge—partly imagined, partly reflective of Amanda and April’s experiences—that speaks through 17-syllable poems. These haikus, whether read individually or sequentially, pair with the photographs to create a layered dialogue about motherhood, art, and finding the extraordinary within the ordinary.
Selection of 9 photos and poems from the Installation She Cast Her Gaze:
365 Photographs, various sizes
55 Seventeen-syllable haikus
