Wesley Sanders
Assistant Professor | Co taught MFA 2D/3D Major Studio 2024/25
I’m interested in spatial relationships– between humans, objects, and our environments. I’m interested in ideas of enclosure. I’m interested in what makes us feel safe. I’m interested in the ancestral knowledge and embedded wisdom we all carry as it pertains to how we build shelter. I’m interested in light as a space maker and as a material. I’m interested in the immediacy of light as it creates borders between what is illuminated and what is left in darkness. I’m interested in the conversation between architectural forms and biological forms.
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Wes Sanders is an interdisciplinary artist and designer whose work seeks to rethink our assumptions of the built environment. Through sculpture, installation, furniture and exhibition design, he centers space making as the primary vehicle for stimulating imagination, building community and creating change.
Wes was born and raised in Shepherdstown, West Virginia before receiving a BFA from Brown University. He holds a Master of Design in Exhibition and Narrative Environments from the Rhode Island School of Design.
He currently lives and works in Providence, RI and teaches at Rhode Island School of Design as an Adjunct Professor.
