Erica Meryl Thomas is an interdisciplinary conceptual artist, educator, and organizer living in both Portland, OR and Bellingham, WA. Her work explores labor, value, exchange, and the various ways art and political movements influence each other. She often invites participation or works collaboratively with others as an embedded artist to uncover stories through personal interactions. The resulting projects take the form of installations, storytelling or documentary, interventions in public space, conversations, printmaking, publications and books, performances, and other forms. She organizes education workers as Co-Chair of her adjunct faculty labor union, Portland State University Faculty Association AFT local 3571, as an at-large member of the United Faculty of Western Washington, and she co-chairs the Portland Democratic Socialists of America’s organizing committee Labor Working Group. Her work in political struggle, as a teacher and as an artist are intertwined, each informing the other.

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