John Jahni Moore is a southern-born visual artist. He is a graduate of Alabama
A&M University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Graphic Design, an M.
Ed. In Art, and an MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago. Moore
has taught art professionally from kindergarten to the university level. He is
the creator of numerous murals and public works from Chicago to Colombia,
South America where he twice served as Art Ambassador. Currently, he works
out of his studio he calls C.H.U.R.C.H. in Huntsville, Alabama. Red Earth
Invocation, a branch of the Southern Trees series, is inspired by his fascination
and adoration of Alabama red clay and reverence for his ancestors. His artwork
operates as a sacrament on those pillars, to reconnect to the sanctity of life.