Janet Morgan has had a long a varied creative life, from painting to illustrating fine press books, from celebration art to teaching people of all ages. She has been artist-in-residence in Death Valley National Park three times, at the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck New York five times and once at the Weir Farm National Historic Site in Connecticut. Her children’s book Welcome to Death Valley is just being published this year. Her public art commission for an Early Childhood Center in Queens New York was completed last year and was made up of ceramic reliefs on a circus theme of aerialists, acrobats and animals.

For Earth Celebrations in New York City she worked on environmentally themed pageants on both the Hudson River and the community gardens; conducting workshops with school children to create robes, puppets and banners. Her large works have been featured on stage at the Omega’s Women and Power Conference in New York City in 2004, at Burning Man and have been used in many theatrical productions.

Janet worked for 18 years as an Expressive Arts Therapist with adult cancer patients at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, working in watercolor, stained glass, copper enamel, clay, drumming, and many other creative media. She is currently a full time artist.

Janet has traveled, taught and painted widely. Her expressive art comes from a dancer’s response to the earth and its inhabitants, capturing movement of the present moment as well as visual evidence of the geologic forming of the earth – always looking for gesture and force. She has painted landscapes inspired by her travels in Central Asia, Africa, South and North America, and she, with the painter Gregory Frux, was the first Americans to show at the National Museum of Art of Kyrgyzstan. http://artandadventures.com is Janet’s site with her art partner Gregory Frux, and you will find more landscape work on her page at http://janetmorgan.net/sacredlandscape.html

Janet has also created her own pantheon of Gods and Goddesses - 165 large watercolors, at http://janetmorgan.net and also series of works inspired by Middle Eastern dance at http://bellydanceart.com . She has had over 100 exhibits, and has shown at the Fashion Institute of Technology, Microcosm Gallery and the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building in New York City, the Tabla Rasa Gallery, the Coney Island Museum and the Williamsburg Art & Historical Center in Brooklyn, and the Cordova Historical Society and Museum, in Cordova, Alaska.