Artist: Jo-Ann Morgan | Location: Surfside Beach, SC
"Daddy Changed the World"

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Artist: Jo-Ann Morgan | Location: Surfside Beach, SC
Surfside Beach, SC
Visual artist Jo-Ann Morgan is Professor Emeritus of African American Studies and Art History at Western Illinois University, and author of The Black Arts Movement and the Black Panther Party in American Visual Culture (Routledge, 2019). Her book Uncle Tom’s Cabin as Visual Culture won a Seaborg Award for Civil War Scholarship (2008).
Morgan received a “Cultural Commentary/Social Change Grant” from Fiber Art Now (summer/fall 2021), and a Weyerhaeuser Juror Award at the 2021 Great Northern Art Explosion in Grayling MI,
A solo show of Morgan's stitched wall hangings was mounted at the Dalton Gallery, York County Arts Council, Rockhill, SC. Recent group shows include : Quilts Unlimited, View Center, Old Forge, NY; Language of Fiber Art, University of Incarnate Word, San Antonio, TX; Threads that Bind, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Brooklyn, NY; Art and Social Justice, Ellington-White Contemporary, Fayetteville, NC; and, Fantastic Fibers 2020, Yeiser Art Center, Paducah, KY.
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