INTZERVIEW WITH: JO-ANN MORGAN - ART REFUSES TO LOOK AWAY

FROM THE INSIDE OUT by BETH ARNOLD · May 28, 2026 · 50m · transcript

This is my first interview for From the Inside Out, and I could not have asked for a better guest than artist and scholar Jo-Ann Morgan.

Jo-Ann is the artist behind the powerful works featured in my recent piece on art as activism — pieces that confront grief, violence, history, and political rupture not with slogans, but with the deeper language of image, symbol, memory, and witness.

In our conversation, we talk about how she came to this work, what it feels like to create art out of tragedy, whether some pieces were harder than others, and what she is working on now. We also talk about the…