Art + Artists

William Evans (b. 2000) is an interdisciplinary artist working across sculpture, textiles, and visual communication. Originally from the South, he combines traditional craft techniques with digital design and fabrication, creating tactile works drawn from everyday materials. His interdisciplinary approach is informed by community engagement and archival research, with a commitment to creating space for dialogue within and beyond the studio. 

He earned an MFA in Art from The Ohio State University with a concentration in sculpture and a graduate minor in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies. He also holds a BFA in Art, with an emphasis in sculpture, and an AB in Women’s Studies from the University of Georgia.

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I approach my practice as both an artist and cultural worker, exploring the layered relationships between identity, place, and power. Grounded in my experience as a Black queer Southerner, I use familiar objects—welcome mats, American flags, heirloom neckties—to reframe the everyday as sites of cultural tension and historical weight.

Through fabricating and assembling, I transform these materials into works that question the boundaries between belonging and exclusion, power and resistance, humor and harm. Satire and wit are central to my process, allowing me to expose contradictions in American cultural narratives while holding space for deeper reflection. My work does not offer solutions—it asks questions. It invites audiences to sit with discomfort, to examine how oppression is stitched into everyday life, and to imagine new possibilities.

At its core, my practice is centered around creative activism, forming a visual language built to challenge systems and spark cultural connection across divides.