Sarah Rogers Morris, PhD is an art historian and the founding director of Crowstep Projects, an independent curatorial platform and forthcoming gallery in Washington, DC. She has worked on exhibitions and in collections at some of the world’s premier museums and cultural 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 writes about art and civic life; architecture, craft, and design; and the social and cultural foundations of education. Her writing has been featured in both scholarly and popular publications, including The Chronicle of Higher Education, Bloomsbury Global Encyclopedia of Women in Architecture, Future Anterior, and the International Journal of Islamic Architecture. 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 undergraduate and graduate courses in art and architectural history at institutions including George Washington University and the University of Maryland, College Park. She will begin teaching at American University this fall.

Her work has been supported through awards from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, National Museum of American History, Mellon Foundation (via the Society of Architectural Historians), 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.

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