Studio Sessions
Storytime
with Kristen Morgin
October 2024
About the Studio Session
Storytime includes adventures of woe+love+deceit; unhinged debauchery+delight; foggy remembrances; unabridged chronicles; bits of useless trivia+facts; spun yarn+woven narratives; unrealistic retellings of the legends you thought you knew; the juice+the tea+the buzz; and all the fantastic whoppers that fuel countless works of art.
Inspired by stories behind stories; tangents; trails+tales; and the act of storytelling itself, this Studio Session will meander through questions about histories (invented+real); artifacts; personal belongings; props; and the power of objects to contain our stories.
About the Lead Artist
Kristen L. Morgin (b. 1968, Brunswick, GA) is the eldest daughter of Lowell and Lucille Morgin. Kristen earned a BA degree from California State University, Hayward. She earned a MFA degree with an emphasis in ceramics from Alfred University in 1997.
Kristen has held job positions as an artist, a gallery docent, a children’s playhouse set painter, a secretary in an auto glass shop, and as a professor of art. She has taught at California State University Long Beach, University of Georgia, UCLA, and California State University Northridge.
She is known for her unfired clay sculptures. Her artistic practice has included aspects of sculpture, painting, illustration and drawing. Her artwork has been widely exhibited, is in many private collections, and the permanent collections of SFMOMA, the Hammer Museum, the Orange County Museum of Art, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. She currently resides in Gardena, California.
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Logistics
This Studio Session took place in October 2024.