Catherine Jo Morgan C.V.

579 Stonebank Road Fax 732.601.3940

Clarkesville, GA 30523 https://heartpainter.com/
Telephone 706.754.6509 cjmorgan@heartpainter.com

FORMAL EDUCATION
1972 M.A. Psychology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA (National Science
Foundation Fellowship) included study of Whiteheads process philosophy at
Emory University
1969 A.B. with General Honors, Phi Beta Kappa, University of Chicago

OVERLAPPING CAREERS
2003 - now Abstract painting and collage oil pastels and acrylic gradually integrating
ways to facilitate health, personal growth, and social justice
2002 - 2012 Web design; research and writing
1978 - 2004 Forged iron, paper, mixed media sculpture functional craft objects, art
vessels, mixed-media art vessels
1969 - 1984 Facilitating personal growth, organizational change, intergroup conflict
resolution. (Also had an herb business during this period, built a cabin with
partner, and move to the woods of northeast Georgia.)
1965 - 1972 Social Activism Selma, MS Meredith March, Chicago housing and school
integration, welfare rights
1959 - 1978 Active Motherhood Son and daughter, now adults living independently

PAINTING

BODIES OF WORK PAINTINGS & COLLAGE

2012 - now Just the Way You Are Acrylic on canvas and board, varied sizes
2008 - now Love 101 - Three series of abstract heart paintings in oil pastel
2007 Abstract heart paintings in watercolor pencil and collage
2004 - 2006 (Time out medical issues for partner and self)
2003 - 2004 Abstract acrylic paintings on canvas
1990 - 1993 Spontaneous gestural gouache paintings on paper
1976 - 1978 Calligraphy and leaf prints
1972 - 1974 Collage with pressed herb plants (co-owned an herb business at the time)
1967 - 1969 Calligraphy and tissue paper collage on paper

RECENT EXHIBITIONS
Oct. 2014 Quinlan Visual Arts Center, Gainesville, GA
Sept. 2014 The Color Spectrum - The Center Gallery, Sautee, GA
Aug. 2014 All Squares - Atlanta Artists Center, Atlanta, GA
July 2014 SOLO SHOW: Heart Paintings"- Gallery, Church of the Epiphany, Atlanta, GA

RELEVANT TEACHING & COACHING EXPERIENCE

2014 Discovering the Gifts of This Years 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
1993 - 1995 Creativity Coaching with individual clients
1993 Relaxing into Creativity, 13-week class, Habersham Medical Center
1990 -1993 Weekly artists group for artistic development, Clarkesville, GA
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1990 -1992 Womens Circles, Medicine Wheel at Stonebank Farm, Clarkesville, GA

1992 Gesture, rhythm and drawing, Special Arts Festival, Sautee, GA
1991 Claiming Womens Creative Power, Southern Womens Festival, Cleveland, GA
1976 Leaf Printing workshops for children and adults

ART EDUCATION
2015 Encaustic workshop
2015 Lightroom and Photoshop Intensive, Creative Live
2014 Mentoring Interview, Susan Bridges, Whitespace Gallery
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
1988 Drawing, 2 quarters, Dianne Mize Studio, Clarkesville, GA
1985 Drawing, 1 quarter, Dianne Mize Studio, Clarkesville, GA
1978 Calligraphy Workshop, Margaret Rigg, Callanwolde, Atlanta, GA
1955-57 Speedball Pen Lettering, assisted parents in family business, Champaign, IL

ART MINISTRY / BUSINESS EDUCATION

2015 - 2017 Online Workshops with Creative Capital
2015 Online class and forum, The Space Between Stories, Charles Eisenstein
2014 Online Course with Ann Rea
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

SELF-DIRECTED STUDY & EXPERIMENTATION - PAINTING

2015 - now Contemplative empathic responses to paintings, including drumming. Applying
Montessori to studio environment.
2015 - now DSLR photography, Lightroom, Photoshop
2014 - now Composition, notan
2012 Archival matting and framing
2008 - now Oil pastel techniques
2007 - 2008 Talbot collage techniques; Watercolor pencils
2002 - 2004 Acrylic painting techniques
2001 - now Web design and optimization
2000 - 2004 Color theory
2000 - now Cartoon drawing sporadic, a few months at a time
1998 - now Angeles Arrien: five basic cross-cultural shapes and their significance
1996 - now Emotional & mental effects of specific colors, metals, gemstones, symbols, line
divisions and angles.
1996 Designing public art based on street interviews plus analog paintings
1995 Emotional and mental effects of specific eye movements
1990 - 1991 Painting spontaneously. Preserving plant forms for collage. Paper collage on
steel.
1989 Creativity Mobilization Training 2 (mess-painting)
1986 - now Using dreams & dream interpretation to facilitate artmaking
1986 Creativity Mobilization Training (mess-painting)
1984 - 1995 Feminism, feminist art, and womens spirituality
1983 Using Ira Progoffs journal processes to facilitate artmaking
1972 - 1974 Basic layout skills for printing flyers, newsletters, and booklets
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SOCIAL ACTIVISM PARTICIPATING, ORGANIZING, FACILITATING

2016 - 2017 Participated in anti-racism training and service of repentance and reconciliation
at Church of the Epiphany in Atlanta. Participated in planning the local Jan. 2017
Martin Luther King Jr. Peace Walk in northeast Georgia. More anti-racism study
and training. Designed and co-led Lenten program on white privilege, for own
church.
1980s Intense study of radical feminism (Mary Daly, Judy Chicago, Adrienne Rich,
through more.) Occasional workshops and groups in northeast Georgia. At 1983
2015 conference of artist-blacksmiths, attempted to organize a womens caucus. 1990
1992, Held womens circles at my Medicine Wheel, opened womens coffee
house and retreat center in the woods. From 1990 to 1994, forged openwork iron
bowls as ritual art for co-creating a postpatriarchal culture.
1970s In 1970, organized a womens caucus during a professional training workshop in
organization development sponsored by National Training Laboratories (NTL).

Designed and co-led three ten-day community-building camps, in Georgia, NC,

and LA, to bring rich and poor, Black and white, girls and boys together for
personal growth, fun, and participatory democracy. Camps were sponsored by
Girl Scouts USA and United Way. For the regional Girl Scouts, designed and co-
led Operation Black Camp Staff program to recruit, train, and support Black
counselors for camps across the southeast.

Designed and co-led workshops on racism, sexism, and creative conflict

resolution. Led workshops on claiming power for the YWCA and NOW. Initiated
committee on diversity at Paideia School in Atlanta, and one on white privilege at
the Atlanta Society of Friends. Elected a member of Resurgens Atlanta, a group
promoting diversity in Atlantas leadership. Graduated class of 1979, Leadership
Atlanta (which included workshop with Charles King on structural racism).
Participated in an interdenominational support group for women challenging
sexism in churches.

Organized a cooperative alternative school in Atlanta, later merged with a free-

learning school (Riverwood) in South DeKalb. Moved to an integrated
neighborhood.

Organized a program, Country Bound, to help people learn back-to-the-land

skills and live apart from mainstream consumer culture. Studied deep ecology
and Wendell Berry, Ivan Illich, Dolores LaChapelle.
1960s Jailed twice during sit-ins downtown Chicago, protesting school segregation.
Marched at Selma in 1965, joined Mississippi Meredith March in 1966, marched
with Martin Luther King Jr. on the west side of Chicago in 1967. Participated in
research to document red-lining in Chicago real estate.

Participated in May, 1966 student sit-in at University of Chicago Administration

Building, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) asking the University not to
submit grades and class ranks to the Selective Service. Participated in American
Friends Service Committee program to bring rich and poor, Black and white five-
year-old girls together each Saturday for excursions together. Served on state
ACSW board representing other welfare recipients.

Moved from Chicago to Atlanta in 1969: joined Atlanta Lesbian-Feminist Alliance

and at NOW, initiated committee on race and feminism.
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FACILITATING PERSONAL GROWTH

& CONFLICT RESOLUTION

1991-2011 In local NE GA area, provided individual creativity coaching sessions for people
interested in any creative medium: writing, dance, photography, painting, and
more. Initiated and led group for local artists, based on Peter Elbows principles
for writers groups, for three years. Offered workshops on tools for accessing
inner wisdom.
1975-1982 Organization Development Consultant for Human Development Associates,
Inc. in Atlanta. (My name was then Catherine Witham Harkins.) Designed and
led year-long training programs and internships for people wanting to learn
professional-level skills in leading groups and workshops. Trained and led a
team who in turn trained volunteer trainers for the Girl Scouts of Northwest
Georgia (including the greater Atlanta area). Completely redesigned the
volunteer training for that agency, to focus on the personal growth of the girls
and their leaders a goal of the Board of Directors. Wrote grant applications for
The Link, carried out programs for United Way of Atlanta, and worked with a
number of other clients -- some business, mainly nonprofits.
1969-1982 Freelance human relations consultant. Designed and led personal growth
groups and classes on self-esteem, vocational development, assertiveness
training, and more. Worked with nonprofit and business staff groups to facilitate
conflict resolution and team building. Developed and led Self-Esteem Training
(S.E.T.) and trained others to lead it. Served more 45 organizations in the SE.
Crisis intervention services to nonprofits.
1967-1969 Mental Health Program Worker, Reed Zone Center, Chicago, IL, State of IL
Mental Health.

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING AS A FACILITATOR AND CONSULTANT

1969 - 1972 Two-year intensive training program for graduate students, in facilitating personal
growth and organization development, from the Midwest group of National
Training Laboratories (NTL). Two ten-day workshops interspersed with weekend
workshops and internship opportunities. Third-year followup intensive for
graduates.
1967 - 1969 Six-month full-time training program in personal growth and psychotherapeutic
skills, based on process philosophy and client-centered therapy. Followed by 1.5
years supervised work in crisis intervention, couples therapy, admissions, and
innovations in in-patient treatment. Reed Zone Center, Chicago, IL.

SELF-DIRECTED STUDY AS A FACILITATOR

Now Nonviolent communication
1983 - 1995 New Age, radical feminist, deep ecology approaches to personal/social change.
1978 - now Mind-body health and healing; dream interpretation.
1977 - 1984 Evaluating and facilitating moral development (Kohlberg)
1972 - 1983 Facilitating vocational development: finding strengths, values, purpose from inner
experience. Cognitive therapy.
1971 - now Quality of time; Creativity (including Synectics) and creative visualization.
Normative human development (Joseph Chilton Pearce, Marge Felder). Imagery
-- expression in metaphor as a key to facilitating change. Owen Barfield (final
participation), Eugene Gendlin (focusing), Peter Drucker (evaluating strengths),
George Leonard, Will Schutz (designing workshops), working with the Holy Spirit,
Christian healing (Agnes Sanford, Ruth Carter Stapleton), and of course, more.
1967 - now Process philosophy for undergirding psychotherapy, facilitating change and
normative human development
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RESEARCH, ANALYSIS, AND WRITING

2012 -now Writing and editing for my own sites: https://heartpainter.com/ for my paintings,
https://www.hda-inc.org/ for Human Development Associates, Inc., a nonprofit Im
reviving, and https://margefelder.wordpress.com/ as a memorial for my life
partners work as a woodturner.
2005 - 2012 Research, analysis, writing, SEO editing, blog articles, and special projects for
ConsumerSearch.com. Revamped SEO program and secured copyright
registration for the publication. Wrote full-length reports covering over 70 product
categories. Updated and reorganized many annually, to take new developments
into account. Found data often overlooked; probed deeply to uncover insights
valuable to consumers. For example, for a report on table saws, found that the
major woodworking magazines had misinterpreted the accident data from the
Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). Other publications eventually
came around to the same point of view.
1997 - 2006 Freelance research and web design for private clients.
1979 - 1983 Evaluation research and final recommendations for the Outdoor Therapeutic
Program, Cleveland, GA. Designed research, did testing and interviews, analyzed
data and wrote final report.
1969 - 2004 Varied freelance writing projects, including magazine articles. For nonprofit
organizations in Atlanta, wrote grant proposals, reports, training manuals, press
releases, and dozens of flyers and ads. For a nominee to Georgia Women of
Achievement, used fresh research, a strategic angle, and powerful writing to
transform a losing proposal into a winning one.

IRON, PAPER, & MIXED-MEDIA SCULPTURE

Studied blacksmithing with Francis Whitaker, Brent Kington and Peter Ross, became fulltime
artist-blacksmith in 1983. Iron, paper, and mixed-media vessels have been exhibited in the
Southeast, and are in private collections throughout the United States.

BODIES OF WORK
2004 Energy Harmonizers mixed media vessel sculptures
1996 - 1997 Chi Energy paper medicine bags soft cloth-lined vessels of oriental paper,
decorative or painted with acrylic, some with inner labyrinth designs
1992 - 1994 Creative Fire openwork iron bowls
1990 - 1993 Paper bowls and masks (molded oriental paper, painted with acrylics
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.

EXHIBITIONS (Sculptural iron art vessels unless otherwise noted)

2004 Center Gallery, Sautee, GA mixed-media sculptures
1999 Center Gallery, Sautee, GA
1998 Womens Altars Womens Spirituality, Blue Angel Gallery, Gainesville, GA iron
and paper vessels
1998 Center Gallery, Sautee, GA
1997 Center Gallery, Sautee, GA
1995 Three Artists, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA
1994 Macon Gallery, Atlanta, GA
1994 By Women, Center Gallery, Sautee, GA
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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 Womens Festival, Cleveland, GA paper vessels, masks, iron
sculptures
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 Blacksmiths Art, Madison-Morgan Cultural Center, Madison, GA
1984 87 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, light fixtures, vessels, etc.

PUBLICATIONS
2000 The Contemporary Blacksmith, Dona Meilach, Schiffer Press
1994 The Rural Sophisticate, winter issue
1990 The Anvils Ring, summer & fall issues
1989 ABANA traveling exhibit on contemporary ironwork
1989 North Georgia Artists - 1990 Calendar
1987 Atlanta Journal-Constitution review of iron bowl in The Blacksmiths Art exhibition,
Madison, GA

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 as artist-blacksmith, at Colorado Rocky Mountain
School
1990 Offered residency as blacksmith 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 for classes with iron and copper

SELECTED TEACHING & COACHING EXPERIENCE IRON

(Also had formal and informal students at my studio.)
1997 Introductory Blacksmithing, Ecstasy Forge, Clarkesville, GA
1996 Expressiveness in Iron, John C. Campbell Folk School, Brasstown, NC
1993 Womens Blacksmithing Day workshop, Ecstasy Forge, Clarkesville, GA
1993 Blacksmithing, John C. Campbell Folk School, Brasstown, NC
1990 Finding Ones Own Way with Iron, ABANA international conference, Alfred, NY
1987 Forging Copper, demonstrations at Quad State Blacksmithing Conference, Tipp
City, OH

EDUCATION AS AN ARTIST-BLACKSMITH
1990 ABANA conference, Alfred, NY (also demonstrated there)
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 (applied gesture
drawing, especially, to forging iron.)
1987 Quad State Blacksmiths Conference, Tipp City, OH (also demonstrated there)
1984 Oxy-acetylene welding, N. Ga. Technical Institute, Clarkesville, GA
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1984 ABANA conference, DePere, WI

1983 Southeastern ABANA conference, Madison, WI (interviewed the women smiths)
1979-88 15 weeks of blacksmithing workshops with Francis Whitaker, Brent Kington, Paul
Lundquist, Jud Nelson, and Peter Ross at Arrowmont and at John C. Campbell
Folk School

TRAVEL BEYOND ATLANTA 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

OTHER SELF-DIRECTED STUDY & EXPERIMENTATION -- SCULPTURE

2002 - 2004 Improving slide photography
2001 - Web design and optimization
present
2000 - 2004 Color theory & mixing. Ways to join iron, paper, copper mesh to form mixed media
vessel sculptures. Acrylic paint for both paper and iron. Integrating stainless steel,
wire, cord, and beads into mixed media vessels.
2000 Color and finishing options for steel: encaustics, Genesis oils, enamels, poly-oil,
patinas, acrylic varnish, acrylic paint and more. New series of finishing tests on
steel.
2000 MSDS for everything used in studio; extensive research on the chemicals and any
health hazards involved. Solutions to hazardous waste from studio.
2000 Making small maquettes for paper and iron bowl sculptures.
2000 Emotional and mental effects of specific line divisions & angles.
1996 - now Emotional, mental, physical effects of specific colors, numbers, gemstones,
metals, musical tones.
1996 Designing public art based on street interviews and analog paintings
1996 Using music and dance as part of studio process.
1995 Emotional and mental effects of specific eye movements.
1991 - 2013 Using Perelandra nature processes with studio process.
1993 MIG welding.
1991-1994 Spontaneous sculpture in steel.
1990 - 2006 Long-term tests of finishes on steel.
1990 - 1995 Ritual and ritual art; deep ecology; ecofeminist and postpatriarchal art.
1990 - 1991 Molding oriental paper; making mask molds and paper masks.
Painting spontaneously. Preserving plant forms for collage. Paper collage on
steel.
1990 Relationship between nonverbal gestures and bowl profiles. Emotional and mental
effects of specific bowl profiles.
Fibonacci sequences in nature, in relation to bowl design.
1986 - now Using dreams & dream interpretation to facilitate artmaking.
1986 and Creativity Mobilization Training (mess-painting) to facilitate spontaneous
1989 artmaking.
1984 - 1995 Feminism, feminist art, and womens spirituality.
1983 - now Using Ira Progoffs journal processes to facilitate artmaking.
1979 - 2004 Using sports psychology to facilitate skill in blacksmithing
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AFFILIATIONS
Clarkesville, GA: Christians in the Visual Arts (CIVA), Grace-Calvary Episcopal Church, Human
Development Associates, Inc. Am about to join Alternate Roots as a voting member.

Recent Affiliations: Atlanta Artists Center, Quinlan Art Center (Gainesville, GA), Georgia Art
League (Gainesville, GA) , Sautee-Nacoochee Center Gallery, Episcopal Diocese of Atlantas
Beloved Community Commission.

Past Affiliations: Oil Pastel Society, ABANA (Artist-Blacksmith Assn. of N. America), Habersham
Arts Council, Georgia Mountain Crafts, Foothills Guild, Leadership Atlanta, Resurgens Atlanta,
NOW, Atlanta Lesbian-Feminist Alliance, St. Lukes Episcopal Church (Atlanta), Tullie-Smith
Blacksmithing Guild (Atlanta Historical Society), East Lake Neighborhood Assn. (Chicago), Hull
House Opera Guild (Chicago), University of Chicago Camerata. Founded childrens clothing
exchange and a neighborhood play group in Chicago.