Mandeville fiber artist Jennifer Morgan recently took first place in the “New Orleans in Art: A Love Letter from the Crescent City” juried exhibition at the R.W. Norton Art Gallery in Shreveport. Louisiana artists who know and love New Orleans were invited to pour their love for the city into creations that reflect it.

Morgan created "Big Chief" from fiber and mixed media, and she and the vibrant chief took the big prize.

"I knew I was an artist from a very young age. It was in my genes," says this North Carolina native and daughter of a professional photographer (her dad) and a fine artist in oils (her mom).

Morgan holds a degree in the fine arts and has dabbled in many creative things in college and over the years, from photography, pottery and painting to metalwork, glasswork and jew

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