Morgan Overton

“We Are Not Going Back” was the campaign slogan of Vice President Kamala Harris, in her historic pursuit of President of the United States in the 2024 Election. We have been long overdue in actualizing a future where we have the freedom to live with self-determination. In this oil painting, I focused on our youth, as they are the ones who are directly impacted. Two Black teenagers are featured, confidently headed toward a future that is safe, bright, and values their livelihoods. They are wearing pink and green, a symbolic nod to Vice President Harris’ historically Black sorority, Alpha Kappa Alpha (AKA), which she joined while a student at Howard University. This piece exhibited at the prominent art fair, Spectrum Miami in 2024.

Morgan Overton’s artwork is a reclamation of history and humanity. She creates across a range of paint, drawing, and mixed mediums to interrogate the intersections of identity, power, and resilience – merging portraiture, abstraction, and symbolism to weave visual narratives that center Black and Global Majority voices. Rooted in her background in social action, psychology, and politics, her art is a platform for generational storytelling with the hope of collective liberation.