Morgan East is a painter based in North Charleston, SC. She is also the creator of the Park Circle Art Walk, an event developed in response to markets and galleries shutting down at the beginning of the Pandemic.Morgan’s work has been featured in publications such as Charleston Magazine and Charleston Style and Design, and she was the 2022 featured artist for Art on the Beach on Sullivan's Island. In 2023, her painting, Onyx, was selected for the Black + White exhibition at the Metamorphosis Gallery in Perth, Australia. In 2025, her painting, Inhale, won “Best in Show” for the Beyond the Surface group exhibition at the Tiger Strikes Asteroid Gallery in Greenville, SC.Morgan was born in Connecticut and raised in North Carolina. She attended Clemson University and graduated with a BS in Graphic Communications with a minor in Advertising in 2006. In 2018 and 2019, she completed an online program through the Visual Arts Passage for Illustration and attended the Illustration Academy in Kansas City, MO.Her latest work includes oil, watercolor, and ink paintings. She enjoys experimenting with new media and continues to explore figures and landscapes in addition to more conceptual ideas involving the human form and nature.