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“Field” 2026; paper, kudzu.
a piece made in the studio with the support of @sarahreed and @merisanderss started last summer, finished over winter, but finally felt compelled to share it with you all here. Excited to continue scaling up and working large again 🌞

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There’s still time. New Contemporaries 2026. On view for one more month at Gelman Gallery, located on the second floor of the RISD Museum from Tues-Sun 10am-5pm. Always free and open to the public.

#risd #gelmangallery #contemporaryart #newcontemporaries

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Cousins trip to Iceland

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Meet Meri Sanders (they/she), a senior in Textiles, with a concentration in Nature-Culture Sustainability Studies (NCSS).

What question are you investigating in your thesis work?

So long as I have been a maker, my practice has situated itself around the act of storytelling. For my thesis, I developed my own process of writing in tandem with sculptural textile installation. My work started with a close look at Hans Christian Andersen’s tale titled, What the Moon Saw— this series consists of thirty-three vignettes where he traveled the world observing the human condition and writing about it from the moon’s perspective. I began crafting my own stories as a means of reflecting on unseen labor, acts of care, repair, and community that I have witnessed or experienced firsthand throughout my upbringing. This practice resulted in four total stories: What The Moon Saw, Tending To The Orchards, Letters From A Birdwatcher, and The Great Big House.

What are your plans after graduation?

Keep on writing, keep on gardening, keep on dancing, and most importantly, keep on making!

Website: merisanders.com

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All done!! All done?! And it was beautiful. So much love to all my fellow graduates, I am so excited to meet again and again and again out in the real world! And to the ISB scanner - I miss you already ❤️❤️❤️

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install shots (by @soakedrice_ and me) of group show at maison mono for #nycxdesign , up until june <3

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Opening Reception: May 15, 2026, 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM EDT @ Maison Mono 150 Bayard St Store 1, Brooklyn, NY, 11222

On view at Maison Mono from 5/16 - 6/2

Nothing Follows its Spontaneous Course brings together works by Ankita Bhat, Sihan (Tara) Chen, Greg Kmieciak, Zoe Maxwell, Olivia Moon, Maggie McCreery, Meri Sanders, Axel Anderson and Xinchun Xie with Dora Soong.

Using furniture as a central motif, the exhibition explores themes of feral domesticity. The artists push familiar domestic objects beyond function, transforming them into unstable, often impractical forms. Through material experimentation and disruption, they question the aesthetics and expectations of the home.

RSVP Here: https://www.maisonmono.art/event-details/opening-reception-nothing-follows-its-spontaneous-course

View Website Here: https://nothingfollows.cargo.site/

(Links in Bio)

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My sweet

A late senior show congratulation post but oh so happy to be around you as you make such wonderful work

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I just gotta say, I love these guys! Cheers to 3 years with the best 11 friends, and to all my other supporters along the way <3

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Meet the @bsrlive design team ⭐️

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Catching final moments @risdtextiles Senior Show “Curtain Call”. Blending sculptural wearables, fashion, woven jacquards, and fiber installations, it’s one of my favorite annual senior exhibitions exploring storytelling centered upon identity, space and the body through technique + texture.

Works shown above: Nathaniel Campos • Shirley Chen • Ada Franey • Fiona Fan • Crystal Han • Livia Kasarda • Anna Kosinski • Ethan Lam • Kara Petrosino • Meri Sanders • Zach Kim • Vince Zhang

#risdtextiles #textiledesign #patterndesign #fashiondesign #jaquard

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