Artist: Jo-Ann Morgan | Location: Surfside Beach, SC
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Jo-Ann Morgan
Surfside Beach, SC
Visual artist Jo-Ann Morgan is Professor Emeritus of African American Studies and Art History at Western Illinois University. She is the author of The Black Arts Movement and the Black Panther Party in American Visual Culture (Routledge, 2019) and Uncle Tom's Cabin as Visual Culture, which won the Seaborg Award for Civil War Scholarship in 2008.
Since 2020 Morgan is a full-time fiber artist, creating stitched fabric wall hangings on themes related to social justice and gun violence. Among her awards are a Cultural Commentary/Social Change Grant from Fiber Art Now (summer/fall 2021) a Not Real Art Award from Culver City Arts Foundation (2022), a Weyerhaeuser Juror Award at Great Northern Art Explosion (2021), and several honorable mentions. In addition to over thirty juried shows, her work has been featured in fourteen solo shows at community art centers, and at college and universities across the country. She was Project 2023 runner-up at Koger Center for the Arts USC Columbia.
Artist Website
www.picturingblackpower.com