**Robert Morgan's** family goes back to the earliest European settlers of Kentucky. Shaped by his Catholic childhood, Haight-Ashbury, and the AIDS epidemic, Morgan, now in his seventies, has been a LGBTQ activist since before Stonewall. As a teen he was taken in by artist Henry Faulkner who mentored him in the homosexual skills of survival. Morgan's work renders the marginalized: young addicts, queers, and street people. Remaining in conversation with his first artistic impulse, he creates memorials to new and ancient stories of birth, death, and rebirth that center the struggles and loss of those who often go unnoticed.