AMY SANDERS DE MELO

ARTIST BIO

Amy Sanders de Melo is a Colombian-American interdisciplinary artist and educator with visual impairments. She creates ceramic work and installations that speak to the resiliency of the human spirit and utilizes Braille on porcelain as a way of telling stories, encouraging meditation, and creating space for grieving and healing.

Sanders de Melo is a resident artist at Red Heat Ceramics in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She has exhibited her work nationally and is a recipient of the inaugural Emerging Artist Cohort from the American Craft Council in 2021 and The Color Network + Arrowmont Fellowship in 2023.

PROJECT INFO

Invisible Voices is an ongoing interactive ceramic exhibition created and curated by Amy Sanders de Melo. Featuring voices of those who are often overlooked, forgotten, or silenced, this collection incorporates first-hand accounts from Oklahomans across all areas of marginalized society. Invisible Voices fosters conversation and healing during a prolonged period of isolation and division brought on by a lingering pandemic, racial tensions, and political discord in modern-day America.

Event Info: Exhibited at Positive Space Tulsa

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