Janet Morgan, Master of Fine Arts, has had a long and varied art career involving painting, public art, environmental work, teaching, curating and children's books.
Among her large figurative painting series (40” x 26” watercolor and mixed media) are The Body Temples, Deities (traditional and homemade, numbering 150), the Wild Women, dancers and musicians.
During her travels she has painted landscapes from Antarctica to Kyrgyzstan, Central Turkey to high up in the mountains in British Columbia. She has been artist-in-residence in Death Valley National Park, Weir Farm National Historic Site, Babayan Cultural Center in Cappadocia, Hanksville Elementary School in Utah, Luminous Bodies Residency at Artscape Gibraltar Point in Toronto.
She was a teaching artist-in-residence at the Omega Institute for 14 years, and has taught at the Rubin Museum of Art, the Art Students League of New York, and the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors.
For 18 years she was an Expressive Arts Therapist with adults at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. Her large banner paintings have been featured at Omega’s Woman and Power Conference, Burning Man and the Parliament of World Religions, and National Museum of Art of Kyrgyzstan..