SCAD deFINE ART artist talks: Sarah Crowner and William Glaser Wilson

Join artists Sarah Crowner and William Glaser Wilson (SCAD B.F.A., photography, 2017) for two individual, in-depth conversations exploring their new respective exhibitions, presented as part of SCAD deFINE ART 2025. Crowner takes guests through the process of creating her experiential, site-specific installation Platform as Platform as a generous invitation to shift our relationship to painting and reconsider how we see the world. Then, speaking on his exhibition Spirit Sanctuary, Wilson will expand on themes such as the passage of time, family, and memory that inform his highly expressive, boldly colored paintings.

This event is free and open to the public and presented as part of SCAD deFINE ART 2025.

About the artists
Sarah Crowner’s (b. 1974, Philadelphia; lives and works in New York) work has been featured in exhibitions and installations including Beetle in the Leaves, MASS MoCA, North Adams, Mass.; Platform (Blue Green Terracotta for JC), Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas; Serpentear, Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico; Blues in Greens | Greens in Blues, Instituto Bardi/Casa de Vidro and Auroras, São Paulo; Around Orange, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis; and The Sea, the Sky, a Window, Hill Art Foundation, New York. An upcoming solo project will be mounted at the Bass Museum of Art, Miami, in 2025. Crowner’s work is held in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago; the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; the Contemporary Austin, Texas; the Dallas Museum of Art; the Guggenheim Museum, New York; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; MASS MoCA; and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.

In his practice, William Glaser Wilson (b. 1994, Yonkers, N.Y.; lives and works in the Adirondacks, N.Y.) uses photography, sculpture, and painting to portray collective struggles and pleasures through constructed environments. Wilson has shown his work in solo and two-person exhibitions at CCAN Art Gallery at Trinity College, Hartford, Conn., and the Savannah Cultural Arts Center, Ga., among others. His work was included in the group exhibition Self-Adjacent, which traveled to venues including the Visual Arts Center of Richmond, Va.; Massey Klein Gallery, New York; and the Kennedy Museum of Art, Athens, Ohio. He has participated in residencies including the SCAD Alumni Atelier.