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Episode 63: Morgan S. East on Art Walks, Burnout & Building Creative Systems
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Welcome back to Sus Art Club — where we make creativity sustainable again. This week, we sit down with painter, organizer, and low-key logistics wizard Morgan S. East, who’s been quietly shaping Charleston’s creative scene through both her art and her action.
We get into it:
✏️ Drawing unicorns, eyeballs, and rebellion in calculus class
🧠 Balancing a math/science brain with deep creative impulse
📦 What 13 years at Amazon taught her about building a creative business
🗺️ Why she started the Park Circle Art Walk — and how it almost ended
⚡ Leaving corporate life and learning to trust her inner compass
⏰ Time-blocking, burnout, and getting Morgorganized™
We also talk about being an introvert with a mission, making your own lane when the gatekeepers aren’t vibing, and how to make space for your art even when your to-do list is stacked.
Whether you're sketching at 2am or trying to carve out space between your day job and your dream life, this one’s for the artists who build while they bloom.
📍Recorded at Odd duck Market in North Charleston, SC
🧠 About the Guest:
Morgan S. East is a painter based in North Charleston, SC, and the founder of the Park Circle Art Walk, an event born in the early days of the pandemic to reconnect artists and neighbors through creativity and community. Her work explores figures, landscapes, and conceptual moments blending the human form and nature.
Morgan’s art has been featured in Charleston Magazine, Charleston Style & Design, and Art on the Beach. Her work has been shown internationally, including at the Metamorphosis Gallery in Australia. In 2025, her painting Inhale won “Best in Show” at the Beyond the Surface group exhibition at Tiger Strikes Asteroid in Greenville, SC.
She holds a BS in Graphic Communications with a minor in Advertising from Clemson, and studied illustration through the Visual Arts Passage and the Illustration Academy. She brings that same thoughtful mix of logic, emotion, and intuition into every brushstroke.
IG: @morgan_s_east
And of course, shoutout to neighbors, unicorns, and organized chaos.
Host: Steph Frx (@rabidlegion)
Club: Sus Art Club | @susartclub
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