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Recent Work

The Family of Jorge Garcia [diptych] (48” x 90,” 2025) Jorge Garcia came to the United States from Mexico as a child and had been in the country for 30 years when, in 2018, he was deported to...
Gaza, March 2025 (55” x 48,” 2025) Despite a March 2025 ceasefire agreement, the Israeli Army continued to bomb Gaza. Numerous civilian women and children were killed and...
Parable (54” x 46,” 2026) Instead of protest signs, these demonstrators hold placards with Bible verses. Leviticus 19: 33- "When a foreigner resides among you in...
Lexi’s Mom (53” x 41,” 2024) Kimberly Mata-Rubio is the mother of Alexandria “Lexi” Aniyah Rubio, one of the nineteen children killed in the mass shooting at Robb...
Jocelyn (48” x 37,” 2025) On February 4, 2025, Jocelyn Rojo Carranza took her own life. She was depressed following a classroom visit by the school principal to...
Smoky Found a Family (52” x 44,” 2026)
I, Virginia (46” x 36,” 2025) Virginia Roberts Giuffre was just sixteen, working at the Mar-a-Lago golf resort, when Ghislane Maxwell groomed her into becoming sexual...
Robb Elementary Memorial Teachers Banquet (53” x 50,” 2024) Irma Garcia (left) and Eva Mireles (right) were killed at Robb Elementary alongside nineteen of their ten-year-old students on May 24...
The Fisherman and His Son (54” x 49,” 2026) Alejandro Carranza Medina, pictured with his son Libiston, was a lifelong fisherman and a father of four from Santa Marta, Columbia. He was...
News from the Front [triptych] (43” x 34,” 2024) "News from the Front" is not about the heroics of war, nor political intrigue. Here are no grand ideals, no promoted ideology of...
La Frontera (43” x 34,” 2024) At the U.S./Mexico border (La Frontera) women face a kind of battle line after fleeing their home country for an unknown future in El...
Fall of the Assad Regime, December 8, 2024 (50” x 42,” 2024) A rare moment of joy in the mid-East was the overthrow of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad on December 8, 2024.
ART AS ACTIVISM: “The Mourning After” WHEN MY HUSBAND (the Lone Wolf) and I moved to France, it was to follow in the footsteps of painter Henri Matisse.
Spotlight: Jo-Ann Morgan, Visual Artist Jo-Ann Morgan creates memorial art quilts that tell the stories of current events. Look closely at the details in her work.
Jo-Ann Morgan: The Mourning After Burnaway takes a close look at Jo-Ann Morgan: The Mourning After at Myrtle Beach Museum of Art, South Carolina in 2026.
Gallery talk at Rehoboth Beach Art League
NOT REAL ART Grant Winner Jo-Ann Morgan In today’s episode, host Scott ‘Sourdough’ Power sits down with Jo-Ann Morgan to discuss her evocative fiber work that pays tribute to...
Gallery talk, ArtSpace, Richmond Jo-Ann Morgan discusses her artwork during an exhibition at ArtSpace, Richmond, VA, March 28 2026.
Gallery talk, ArtSpace, Raleigh Meet @Jo-Ann Morgan, the artist behind "A Portrait is a Prayer," currently on view in Gallery 1! A Portrait is a Prayer is a survey of...
The Airman’s Mom (43” x 33,” 2024) U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Roger Fortson was shot six times on May 3, 2024, by a Fort Walton Beach, Florida sheriff’s deputy who was at...
Je Rêve d'Haïti (76” x 42,” 2024) Je Rêve d'Haïti (I dream of Haiti) was inspired by a scene in the 1934 movie "Zou Zou" when Josephine Baker sings as a bird in a cage...
When Art Refuses to Look Away: A Conversation with Jo-Ann Morgan This is my first video interview for From the Inside Out, and I could not have asked for a better guest than artist and scholar Jo-Ann...