Sarah Rogers Morris, PhD is an art historian and the founding director of Crowstep Projects. She is an independent curator who has worked across institutions including the Smithsonian’s Renwick Gallery, M+ Hong Kong, the Museum of Modern Art, the Frank Lloyd Wright Trust, Mies van der Rohe Society, and Graham Foundation.

Sarah’s writing has been featured in both scholarly and popular publications, including the Bloomsbury Global Encyclopedia of Women in Architecture, Future Anterior, and the International Journal of Islamic Architecture. She writes about art, architecture, craft, design, and the social and cultural foundations of education. You can read her recent article on the civic value of art history in The Chronicle of Higher Education. Her current research on the architecture of Ekbacken, a weaving school in Mill Valley, California, will appear in an edited volume on craft education next year.

As a teacher, Sarah has developed and taught graduate and undergraduate courses in art and architectural history at American University, George Washington University, and the University of Maryland, College Park.

Her work has been supported through awards from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, National Museum of American History, Mellon Foundation, James Renwick Alliance for Craft, and University of Illinois Chicago.

Sarah has nearly twenty years of experience in the museum and cultural sectors, leading strategic planning and board governance initiatives, fundraising, and developing and managing exhibitions and programs. She has served the Society of Architectural Historians as a board member, Development Committee chair, and member of its Executive Director Search and Membership committees.

Interested in working with Sarah? She’ll be delighted to hear from you below.

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