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In Conversation: Artists Margaux Crump and Ash Eliza Williams **on ZOOM**
November 6 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Thursday, November 6 *On ZOOM* 12:00 – 1:00 PM
In Conversation: Learn how artists Margaux Crump and Ash Eliza Williams collaborate with non-human beings to create artwork. Meeting LINK .
Ash and Margaux consider the natural world an active contributor of aesthetic meaning. They will each describe their current art-making ideas and processes and discuss ideas raised by the exhibitions in which they are showing.
This is a joint program between Emerson Contemporary and Sala 1, Rome, Italy. Ash Eliza Williams is a visual artist showing in Learning with Trees, an exhibition at Sala 1 curated by Martina Tanga. Margaux Crump is a visual artist showing in a sentient land; artistic alliances with forests, beetles, salt, and air, curated by Shana Dumont Garr and opening at Emerson Contemporary, Media Art Gallery in January 2026.
Margaux Crump is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher exploring the entanglements between magic, ecology, and the spiritual Imagination. Born in Houston, TX, she spent her childhood playing in gardens where she was steeped in ancestral fairy lore. These experiences wove quietly through the background of her work, until she returned to Houston after earning her MFA in studio art from Washington University in St. Louis. With a renewed interest in the folklore and myths she grew up with, she immersed herself in the study of esotericism and ecology. She is currently investigating the phenomena of the unseen, from the microscopic to the mythic worlds that surround us. Taking form primarily through sculpture, photography, painting, and ritual, her work traces threads of the mythic, magical, and imaginal across disciplines and histories in search of how they inhabit and trouble the present.
Ash Eliza Williams grew up in the Blue Ridge Mountains in SW Virginia. Ash is a painter and multidisciplinary artist making work about interspecies communication, non-human language, and more vibrant methods of connection. Recent exhibitions include the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, the Anderson Museum, and the Chautauqua Institute. Ash often works with scientists, including as an artist-in-residence at Shoals Marine Laboratory, Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, the Museum of Comparative Zoology, and Mountain Lake Biological Station as a Lucille Walton Fellow. Ash is currently a 2025 – 2026 Roswell Foundation Artist-in-Residence.
