[8][9][10] Morse graduated from Iowa State University with a degree in telecommunicative arts and distributed studies in 1972.
She was then hired as an artist in residence for the South Carolina Arts Commission,[13] where she taught for four years, and was filmmaker-in-schools in 1975–1976.
[16] There she also created, together with some of her students, a Flash animation for the international participatory project Flag Metamorphoses[18] Her film Lost Ground was part of the 1992 SIGGRAPH Art Show.
[25][26][27][28] She has made several films for Sesame Street,[3][2] including Dogs (1991),[1] Monkey's T-Shirt (1991),[1][29] and Night Sounds (1992).
[30] Plants was also reviewed by the Chicago Reader, which noted that she " ... creates still-life portraits of flowers using rudimentary (but then-sophisticated) computer drawing tools".