Last Updated on April 1, 2026 by Social Career Builder
Sara Sommers Wilks is a musician, live performer and freelance visual artist. Versatile and well-versed in numerous styles, her expertise spans theater, dance, poetry, fine art and album art illustrations.
Musician & Live Performer
Creativity That’s Technical and Expressive
At the core of Sara Sommers Wilks’s professional identity is her work as a musician and live performer. As an artist, Sommers Wilks has cultivated a performance style that is equal parts polished and expressive — a rare breed for the at-times messy world of music. Wilks takes her craft seriously — and that reflects in her live performances. Whether she’s entertaining a small party in an intimate setting or performing for a full theater, Wilks treats the space like a grand stage.
Sara Sommers Wilks creates and performs from a position of musicianship that draws on years of dedicated practice. Her technical skill is not a guess — her feel for music theory is not just a grasp on style, but a firm hold on pitch, rhythm, melody and harmony. Sommers Wilks is formally trained and precise in her creative process.
Art Education & Creative Leadership
Influenced by today’s teaching-artist and arts integration models, Sara Sommers Wilks believes strong arts education should be engaging, collaborative and grounded in real creative practice. As an arts instructor, Sommers Wilks guides students through workshops that connect performance, visual art and storytelling.
Teaching-Artist
Sara Sommers Wilks is a working Teaching-Artist; that is, a professional artist who also offers creative instruction. Sommers Wilks has lent her artistic guidance to a variety of programs and workshops over the years. She previously partnered with a community arts program to lead a week-long creative workshop on album cover design. For this program, Wilks guided participants through the full creative process from concept to final illustration. Through her guidance as a teaching-artist, Sommers Wilks encouraged participants to create album cover designs that captured the mood, story and emotional atmosphere of the music.
