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The Artists of White Rabbit

Morgan Britt at work in the studio sculpting a ceramic figure
About the Artist

Morgan Britt

Owner / Artist

Morgan Britt has been working in clay for over 25 years. She began her formal training at Sacramento State University under Peter VandenBerge, and went on to study with some of the most significant figures in American studio ceramics — most notably Paul Soldner, who became a lasting mentor and friend.

In the early 2000s, Morgan opened her own studio, workshop, and gallery in Northern California, where she taught classes, hosted nationally renowned artists, created architectural ceramics, and developed a sculptural practice that continues to evolve today. After relocating to Southern California, she exhibited periodically throughout California before moving to the desert in 2020. In the Palm Springs area she has shown work at Desert Art Woman, Perez Art District, Cathedral City and Proulx Gallery, Lofts Arts District, Palm Springs, and has become an active presence in the broader arts community through Desert Open Studios and the Modernism Week Art District exhibitions.

White Rabbit Studio and Gallery is the next deliberate chapter — a space where 25 years of practice, teaching, and community-building come together under one roof.

Paula Kelley seated on rocks beside a stream with her black dog
About the Artist

Paula Kelley

Featured Artist

Paula Kelley studies what lives at the bottom of the ocean — organisms that have never seen light, that build structure from pressure and mineral accumulation, that exist in conditions most life cannot survive. A reference book of deep sea photography sits open in her studio alongside the work, its creatures providing a visual language for what porcelain can become: bioluminescent, skeletal, improbable, alive.

Her sculptures are built by layering slip over soft, textile-based forms, pressing color into the material itself rather than applying it to the surface. The result reads like something dredged up rather than made — forms caught between organism and object, between biology and geology. LEDs and fiber optics run through many of the works, feeding light into the porcelain from within. That internal illumination reveals what the material holds in its layers: variations in density, embedded color, structural qualities that ordinary light keeps hidden.

Her current research focuses on coastal and oceanic landscapes — the sensory conditions of place recorded through surface tracing, scent logging, and observational methods that resist easy translation into image. What comes back to the studio is not documentation but impression, and impression is what she builds from.

Paula Kelley lives and works in Palm Springs, California.

Kathleen Strukoff painting en plein air in a turquoise hat
About the Artist

Kathleen Strukoff

Modern Impressionist

Impressionist Kathleen Strukoff skillfully navigates diverse themes within her artwork, ranging from the vibrant scenes of Palm Springs to the dynamism of urban landscapes, serene natural settings, and the joyous presence of people immersed in their surroundings. With a distinctive approach, she employs a vigorous palette and a knife style, applying thick and chunky layers of paint that burst forth in vibrant hues.

Painting alla prima — or "at the first" — is what thrills Kathleen most about painting. Capturing the essence of a scene on location in one quick and energetic session when possible is the idea, but she often takes those on-location smaller paintings and develops them into larger ones in her atelier. She is known for her brilliant colors and capturing the light, whether it is a Palm Springs urbanscape or a landscape.

Strukoff's paintings transcend mere visual representation; they become emotional landscapes, invoking profound emotions and memories, capturing the essence of a specific place and time. Through her art, she invites viewers to experience the palpable energy and nostalgic resonance embedded in each stroke, creating a unique connection between the observer and the rich tapestry of moments she paints.

If Kathleen's oeuvre had a theme song it would be "On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair…"

Aurora Lucia-Levey in her studio holding cardboard face artworks
About the Artist

Aurora Lucia-Levey

Multimedia Artist

Aurora Lucia-Levey is a multimedia artist based in Palm Springs, CA. She focuses on representations of the human face and figure, often making her art using materials that would otherwise be thrown away. Most recently, she has used maps and recycled cardboard, layered with acrylic paint, pastels, marker, and collage. Aurora's art speaks through subject and material — the faces are imaginary, and ask for identity and recognition. Their expressions hint at an emotion that the viewer has to name. The materials link art and real life, suggesting the viewer might be an artist themselves, if they looked around the house and gave it a try.

Born in Boston in the early 80s, Aurora's parents co-owned (and lived at) a DIY avant garde art space in Boston's leather district called Gallery East. She was exposed almost immediately to a world of creativity and expression, including visual art, performance, poetry and music. Since then, the practice of making art has been woven throughout Aurora's life and work.

Aurora studied Art History and Documentary Film Production at CUNY Brooklyn College, after which she embarked on a decade-long career in Unscripted TV field production. After moving to Palm Springs in 2020, Aurora, like many, found inspiration and connection in the desert. Immersing herself in the local art community, she has participated in the last three years' Desert Open Studios, and shown her work at various art exhibitions throughout the Coachella Valley. In November 2025, she participated in her first gallery show at Impell Gallery in The Lofts Art District in Downtown Palm Springs and has since shown at Planet Rooth in the Perez Art District in Cathedral City.