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Catherine Jo Morgan – C.V. [email protected] p (404) 436-1434 www.heartpainter.com f (732) 601-3940 RECENT EXHIBITIONS - PAINTINGS - 2014 October Quinlan Visual Arts Center, Gainesville, GA September The Color Spectrum - The Center Gallery, Sautee, GA August All Squares - Atlanta Artists Center, Atlanta, GA July SOLO SHOW: Heart Paintings"- Gallery, Church of the Epiphany, Atlanta, GA EARLIER EXHIBITIONS (forged iron vessels unless otherwise noted) 2004 Center Gallery, Sautee, GA – mixed-media vessel sculptures 1999 Center Gallery, Sautee, GA 1998 Women’s Altars – Women’s Spirituality, Blue Angel Gallery, Gainesville, GA – iron and soft paper vessels 1998 Center Gallery, Sautee, GA 1997 Center Gallery, Sautee, GA 1995 Three Artists, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA 1994 Invitational, Macon Gallery, Atlanta, GA 1994 By Women, Center Gallery, Sautee, GA 1993 By Women, Center Gallery, Sautee, GA 1993 Healing is Contagious, Ecstasy Forge, Clarkesville, GA 1992 Habersham Arts Council, Cornelia, GA 1991 Yuletide Show, Sautee Nacoochee Center, Sautee, GA 1991 Habersham Arts Council, Cornelia, GA – paper vessel 1991 Southern Women’s Festival, Cleveland, GA – paper & iron art 1989 Habersham Arts Council, Cornelia, GA – paper vessel 1989 Gallery 87, Cumming, GA – paper vessels 1988 Habersham Arts Council, Cornelia, GA 1987 Habersham Arts Council, Cornelia, GA 1987 Southeastern ABANA conference, Madison, GA 1987 The Blacksmith’s Art, Madison-Morgan Cultural Center, Madison, GA 1984 – 1987 Annual Foothills Guild Studio Tour, Village Show (New Morning Gallery, Asheville), Georgia Mountain Crafts (at Arts Festival of Atlanta) and many other juried craft exhibitions – iron fire tools, chandeliers, vessels, etc. PUBLICATIONS 2000 The Contemporary Blacksmith, Dona Meilach, Schiffer Press 1994 The Rural Sophisticate, winter issue 1990 The Anvil’s Ring, summer & fall issues 1989 ABANA traveling exhibit on contemporary ironwork 1989 North Georgia Artists - 1990 Calendar 1987 Atlanta Journal-Constitution review of wrought iron bowl AWARDS AND GRANTS 1992 Habersham Arts Council Award for Reclaiming the Fire paper bowl 1990 Demonstrator, ABANA international blacksmithing conference, Alfred, NY 1990 Offered lifetime residency at Colorado Rocky Mountain School 1990 Offered residency at John C. Campbell Folk School, Brasstown, NC 1990 Scholarships to Penland and Arrowmont craft schools for papermaking 1988 Scholarships to John C. Campbell Folk School BODIES OF WORK 2008 - 2014 Three series of abstract heart paintings in oil pastel, (providing full time care for life partner from 2009 through 2011) 2007 Abstract heart paintings in watercolor pencil and collage 2005 - 2006 (Time out – medical issues for partner and self) 2003 - 2004 Energy Harmonizers – mixed media vessel sculptures 2003 - 2004 Abstract acrylic paintings on canvas 1996 - 1997 Chi Energy paper medicine bags – soft cloth-lined vessels 1992 - 1994 Creative Fire openwork iron bowls 1990 - 1992 Paper bowls and masks (molded oriental paper, painted with acrylics), abstract gouache paintings 1987 - 1990 Commissioned chandeliers and other light fixtures 1986 - 1987 Openwork iron fruit bowls 1983 - 1987 Blacksmithing commissions and production items and ironwork (fire tools, trivets, door handles, candleholders, hooks, bathroom fixtures, etc.) TEACHING HIGHLIGHTS 2014 Discovering the Gifts of This Year's Journey, Church of the Epiphany, Atlanta,GA 2004 Creativity Intensive, Human Development Associates, Clarkesville, GA 2003 Tools and Techniques for Inner Guidance, Human Development Associates, Cornelia, GA 1996 Expressiveness in Iron, John C. Campbell Folk School, Brasstown, NC 1993 - 1995 Creativity Coaching with individual clients 1993 Blacksmithing, John C. Campbell Folk School, Brasstown, NC 1993 Relaxing Into Creativity, 13-week class, Habersham Medical Center 1990 -1993 Weekly artists’ group for artistic development, Clarkesville, GA 1990 -1992 Women’s Circles, Medicine Wheel at Stonebank Farm, Clarkesville, GA 1992 Gesture, rhythm and drawing, Special Arts Festival, Sautee, GA 1991 Claiming Women’s Creative Power, Southern Women’s Festival, Cleveland, GA 1990 Finding One’s Own Way with Iron, ABANA international conference, Alfred, NY 1987 Forging Copper, Quad State Blacksmithing Conference, Tipp City, OH ART EDUCATION 2008 Coaching for Visual Artists, Eric Maisel 2007 Collage Workshop, Jonathan Talbot, Franklin, NC 1998 Spontaneous Painting, Frederica Bishop, Sautee-Nacoochee Community Center, Sautee, GA 1995 Calligraphy, four one-day workshops, Friends of the Alphabet, Atlanta, GA 1990 Rethinking the Sacred Image conference, Nexus Art Center, Atlanta, GA 1989 Expressive Design in Ironwork conference, Penland, NC 1988 Copper Sculpture, Ed Gray, John C. Campbell Folk School 1988 ABANA conference, Birmingham, AL 1988 Drawing, 2 quarters, Dianne Mize Studio, Clarkesville, GA 1987 Quad State Blacksmiths’ Conference, Tipp City, OH 1985 Drawing, 1 quarter, Dianne Mize Studio, Clarkesville, GA 1984 Oxy-acetylene welding, N. Ga. Technical Institute, Clarkesville, GA 1984 ABANA conference, DePere, WI 1983 Southeastern ABANA conference, Madison, WI 1979 -1988 Study with Francis Whitaker, Brent Kington, Paul Lundquist, Jud Nelson, and Peter Ross at Arrowmont and at John C. Campbell Folk School 1978 Calligraphy Workshop, Margaret Rigg, Callanwolde, Atlanta, GA ART BUSINESS EDUCATION 2009 7-day Annual SmARTist Seminar 2008 7-day Annual SmARTist Seminar 2007 Workshop, Jonathan Talbot, Franklin, NC 2004 Workshop, Bruce Baker, Handmade in America, Asheville, NC 1985 Workshop, Georgia Mountain Crafts, Gainesville, GA TRAVEL TO CRAFT & ART MUSEUMS & GALLERIES 2008 London, including Frieze art show 2001 Pachuca and Puerto Vallarta, Mexico 1999 Cape Canaveral area, Florida 1990 New York, Denver, Aspen, San Francisco 1989 Berlin, Hanover, Koln, Paris including blacksmiths’ studios (month) 1988 Mexico City 1987 Samuel Yellin exhibit, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 1986 Mexico City 1983 Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC, Toward a New Iron Age SELF-DIRECTED STUDY & EXPERIMENTATION 2014 Notan; improving composition. 2012 Archival matting and framing 2008 - 2009 Oil pastel techniques 2007 - 2008 Collage techniques; Watercolor pencils 2002 - 2004 Painting with acrylics; film slide photography 2000 - 2004 Color theory & mixing; archival integration of iron, paper, copper mesh 2000 Color, metal finishing, maquettes 1996 - now Emotional & mental effects of specific colors, metals, gemstones, symbols, line divisions and angles 1996 Designing public art based on street interviews and analog paintings 1995 Emotional and mental effects of specific eye movements 1993 MIG welding 1990 - 1991 Molding oriental paper; making mask molds and paper masks. Painting spontaneously; preserving plant forms for collage; paper collage on steel 1989 Creativity Mobilization Training 2 1986 - now Using dreams & dream interpretation to facilitate artmaking 1986 Creativity Mobilization Training 1984 - 1995 Feminism, feminist art, and women’s spirituality 1983 Using Ira Progoff’s journal processes to facilitate artmaking 1979 Using sports psychology to facilitate artistic development and skill development FORMAL EDUCATION 1972 M.A. Psychology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 1969 A.B. with General Honors, Phi Beta Kappa, University of Chicago AFFILIATIONS Atlanta Artists Center, The Georgia Art League, Quinlan Visual Arts Center (Gainesville, GA), High Museum of Art (Atlanta), Helen Arts & Heritage Center, Christians in the Visual Arts (CIVA), Episcopal Church Visual Arts (ECVA), Grace-Calvary Episcopal Church (Clarkesville, GA), Mythological Roundtable Past Art Affiliations: Artist-Blacksmith Assn. of N. America (ABANA), Habersham Arts Council, Georgia Mountain Crafts, Foothills Guild, Tullie-Smith Blacksmithing Guild (Atlanta Historical Society) Past Other Affiliations: Leadership Atlanta, Resurgens Atlanta, Georgia Appalachian Trail Club, NE Georgia Hiking Club, Nat. Organization for Women (NOW), St. Luke’s Episcopal Church (Atlanta), East Lake Neighborhood Assn. (Chicago), Hull House Opera Guild EARLIER LEGAL NAMES - (Education, professional) Catherine Bowman Sterrett (Childhood name) Catherine Witham (College) Catherine Witham Harkins (Graduate school, consulting career, first art training) Since 1982: Catherine Jo Morgan .