ericamerylthomas [at] gmail [dot] com
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I am an interdisciplinary, social practice artist whose projects occupy the space in-between the sometimes rigid lines that define other disciplines. I often work as an embedded artist where I make work collaboratively with other people 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 my studio practice I am a printmaker, pigment forager, and book maker who will always find ways to fold word into my work.

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