“Creating art isn’t about thinking your way through it... it’s about feeling your way through it. The feelings then translate into a body of work.”
––Stephanie Morton-Millstein
Stephanie Morton-Millstein is a Jewish American multi-faceted artist—photographer, oil painter, and clay painter—whose work explores identity, representation, and the quiet power of form. Her artistic practice is rooted in ceramics, where she finds both deep personal grounding and a connection to something far greater than herself.
Clay has transformed her life. As the oldest artistic medium on earth, it connects her to the shared heritage of humanity. Her vessels draw from one of the oldest functional forms in human history—born of necessity, refined by hand, and shaped to serve. In that simplicity, she finds the ultimate expression of beauty.
For Morton-Millstein, creation is not separate from life—it is essential to it. Her work emerges from a need to make, to reflect, to live. The forms she creates are quiet and intentional, offering space for stillness, memory, and presence.
Since October 7, she has been undergoing a profound rediscovery of her truest, most authentic self—both as an artist and as a Jewish woman. A lifelong advocate for Israel and a vocal defender of Jews worldwide, she now creates from a place of even deeper urgency, clarity, and conviction.
She is a mother, a wife, an animal lover, and a lifelong student of human connection. Her work invites intimacy, subtlety, and a return to what is element
Born and raised in Chicago, Morton-Millstein earned her BFA in Tucson, Arizona, with a focus in photography and a minor in video. Her award-winning artist book Who’s Tits Are Whose gained recognition for its bold, innovative approach. She also studied painting at the Leo Marchutz School in Aix-en-Provence, France. For over two decades, she has lived and worked in Los Angeles, developing a multidisciplinary art practice.
Stephanie has exhibited her work in New York City, Los Angeles, Kyoto, Mexico City,Costa Rica, and her pieces are held in private collections around the world.
