CG x 6397 William Scott Muscle T

Our latest round of Creative Growth graphic t-shirts celebrates the incredible talent of Creative Growth artists and the 50th anniversary of the Creative Growth! The William Scott Muscle T features artwork by Creative Growth artist William Scott. A self-taught artist, William Scott’s practice imagines alternative realities that stem from a fundamental belief in the potential for positive human transformation. While deeply rooted in personal history, Scott’s paintings address wider questions of citizenship, community, and cultural memory. His portrait series of predominantly Black figures encompasses actors, musicians, politicians, and civil rights leaders, as well as self-portraits, family members, and women from the Baptist church he has attended since childhood. Frequently describing himself as an architect, Scott reinvents the social topography of gentrified San Francisco, which emerges as the utopian ‘Praise Frisco’ in works that combine architectural design with civic responsibili