On View in the RSM Art Gallery: Why We Make Featuring Sandworks by Brian Wilson

The RSM Art Gallery is proud to announce that Why We Make Featuring Sandworks by Brian Wilson (Faculty, English and Media Studies Department), will be on view beginning Tuesday, September 2. To celebrate, the Gallery is hosting an opening reception and artist talk on Wednesday, September 10. The talk will begin at 5:00pm followed by a reception from 5:30-7:00pm. We hope you can join us!

Why We Make
Featuring Sandworks
Brian Wilson
September 2–October 9, 2025

Artist Talk & Opening Reception:  
Wednesday, September 10
Artist Talk: 5:00pm | Reception: 5:30-7:00pm

About the Exhibit 

Why We Make is a photo-ethnographic project convened by Brian Wilson. This project aims to foreground the motivations of creative professionals and document their work in various disciplines. Artists have an innate sense that we see and experience the world in a different way and a persistent need to share these experiences with others. Portraits, interview excerpts, and the featured work from each of the nine participating artists will be presented.

Why We Make features Sandworks, Brian Wilson’s sculptural work that brings attention to our society’s relationship with sand. His Sandworks forms are created using glass and concrete, two building materials that have very different surfaces but are both derived from the same building block…sand. The familiar architectural forms of the sculpture serve to remind us that the construction sector is largest industrial consumer of sand.