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.

Sanders de Melo currently resides in Tulsa and is a resident artist at Red Heat Ceramics, an artist-run, community ceramics studio. She received her BFA from the University of Oklahoma where she studied ceramics, sculpture, and filmmaking. Sanders de Melo has exhibited her work nationally and she is a recipient of the inaugural Emerging Artist Cohort from the American Craft Council in 2021 and The Mid-America Arts Alliance Interchange Fellowship for 2024-2025.