Faculty

Erica Meryl Thomas

Erica Meryl Thomas is an interdisciplinary social practice artist whose projects occupy the space in-between the sometimes rigid lines that define other disciplines. She often works as an embedded artist, creating collaboratively with others to uncover layers of history in relation to the personal. The resulting projects take the form of installations, storytelling or documentary, interventions in public space, conversations, publications, and other experiential forms. In her studio practice, she is a printmaker, pigment forager, and book maker who always finds ways to fold words into her work.

Her work as an organizer grew out of her art practice. For the past 10 years, she has been digging deeper and deeper into the ways that art, education, and organizing can come together to make a better world. Her political activism, work as an educator, and work as an artist are intertwined, each informing the other.

https://www.ericamerylthomas.com/