Janet Morgan

Artist Janet Morgan has painted all over the world, from Kyrgyzstan to Antarctica. Besides painting landscapes from low desert to high mountain, she has created a pantheon of 200 painted deities, wild woman and energy bodies. She has made art, large and small, about another passion of hers, belly dance. She has been artist-in-residence Death Valley National Park, Weir Farm National Historic Site in Connecticut, the Babayan Cultural Center in Cappadocia, Turkey, the Omega Institute and Hanksville Elementary School in Hanksville, Utah. She just taught a four session class at the Rubin Museum of Art on creating your own deity. She published a children’s book Welcome to Death Valley, which was launched at the exhibition “Death Valley, an Ongoing Exploration” at the Death Valley Visitor Center. She completed a public art commission for an Early Childhood Center in Queens, New York, made of ceramic reliefs on a circus theme. She has contributed for many years to the environmentally themed pageants of Earth Celebrations on the Hudson River and the community gardens. Her large paintings (8 by 8 feet) have been featured on stage at the Omega’s 2004 Women and Power Conference in New York City, at Burning Man and in many theatrical productions.