Gretchin Morris

Gretchin Nicole Williams-Morris, a Texas Southern University alumna, has had a passion for art ever since she was a toddler. Watching classic cartoons from the Disney Channel, Looney Tunes, Nickelodeon, and reading children’s books helped fuel this future illustrator, art director, and producer to create her own stories with inspirations from the Bible, her grandfather, and life experiences through pictures and words. To bring her stories to life, the native Houstonian, oldest of three daughters, uses mediums such as graphite, ink, charcoal, conte’ crayons, gouache, acrylic, and encaustic paints. John Baggers, Charles White, Tom Feelings, Norman Rockwell, Italian and Harlem Renaissance have influenced her to maintain excellence in the techniques of detailing, rendering, volume, shading and dematerialization. Gretchin’s work was featured in several exhibitions including the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Five A Citywide Exhibition, 2001 and 2008; Verizion Wireless National HBCU Art Exhibition in New York City, in 2003; and SHE: An All Female Art Exhibition in 2007.