Collection: Amy Sanders de Melo

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

She received her BFA from the University of Oklahoma where she studied ceramics, sculpture, and filmmaking. In 2015, she spent two months in Italy completing an artist residency and collaborating with international artists on public art mosaics. Sanders de Melo is a recipient of the inaugural Emerging Artist Cohort from the American Craft Council in 2021 and The Color Network + Arrowmont Fellowship in 2023.