Celestia Morgan
Celestia Morgan (b. 1981) is an artist and educator currently living in Birmingham, Alabama. She received her MFA from the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa in 2017, where she serves as an adjunct professor. Her acclaimed series, Redline, explores the histories of racially-based discrimination in Birmingham via the practice of redlining.
Morgan’s work has been exhibited at the Minneapolis Institute of Art; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (Bentonville, AR); the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute (Birmingham, AL); the National Public Housing Museum (Chicago); and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art (New Orleans), to name a few. Her work has appeared in publications including The New York Times; LensScratch; Southern Foodways Alliance Gravy Magazine; and Artnet News, and is held in the permanent collections of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (Bentonville, AR), the Birmingham Museum of Art (Birmingham, AL), and private collections nationally.