Meghan Stanley is a New York–based ceramic sculpture artist working across small-scale and life-sized forms. She uses clay alongside materials such as silicone, metal, fabric, and paint to explore the body as a site of memory, vulnerability, and physical experience. Clay functions as an archive—absorbing touch and lived experience through texture and form. She has worked with clay from a young age, but her practice truly began in high school, where she received a perfect score on her AP Ceramics portfolio. During her freshman year of college, she was invited to join the Ceramics B.F.A. program. Her recent work responds to all the lived experiences that are kept so close from girlhood to womanhood. Through distorted, biomorphic forms and skin-like surfaces, she incorporates elements of body horror to examine how the body holds these moments however painful or sweet they may be. She is creating sculptures that function as acts of documentation of these memories. She currently finished her B.F.A Thesis Exhibition in New York City, and is working toward officially completing her Studio Art Major (Ceramics Concentration) and a minor in Art History at Indiana University Bloomington—all while living and maintaining an active studio practice remotely. She is interested in working towards ceramic/sculpture installation pieces incorporating viewer interaction and sound. When she is not working with clay, she is interested in painting, playing guitar, writing, fashion, and collecting.