Meredith Stern

Meredith Stern (sometimes using the pseudonyms "Merry Death" or "Merry Def") is an artist, musician and DJ living in Providence, Rhode Island.

Biography

Stern graduated from Tulane University in 1998 with a B.F.A. in ceramics. While living in New Orleans, she collaborated with fellow artists Brice White and Icky Apparatus to create Nowe Miasto, a do-it-yourself warehouse space that has since hosted hundreds of bands and workshops. While living in New Orleans, she wrote several zines, including Mine: An Anthology of Women's Choices and Mine: An Anthology of Reproductive Choices, and published several issues of a personal zine called Crude Noise.

In 2003 Stern moved to Providence, Rhode Island where she is currently the program director for AS220. She is a linoleum block printer and a member of the Justseeds Radical Artist Cooperative. In 2006 she co-curated (with Pippi Zornoza) the "Pocket Change" printmaking show at AS220 featuring 15 contemporary printmakers. Artists included: Jo Dery, Mike Taylor, Neil Burke, Xander Marro, Kenn Speiser, Pippi Zornoza, Jenny Nichols, Cybele Collins, Meredith Stern, Alec Thibodeau, Kasey Henneman, Shawn Gilheeney, Brian Chippendale and Katie Truskoski. She also orchestrated a chapter on radical printmakers in the Josh MacPhee/Erik Ruin book Realizing the Impossible:Art Against Authority (AK Press, 2007).

In 2008 Stern curated Sustainability a printmaking show of local RI printmakers and Justseeds members.

From 2007-2008 she played drums in the band Teenage Waistband with Jo Dery (artist) who sang, Mikey Stoltz (bass) formerly from the band Reactionary 3, and Kate Gronner (formerly of the band The Coughs).

She had a solo show of prints and collages at the Morning Glory Coffeehouse in Pittsburgh, PA in February of 2009. In March 2009 she collaborated with other members of the Justseeds Radical Print Cooperative on an art installation at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee.

She currently lives in the only house in Lincoln Woods State Park in Rhode Island with her partner Peter Glantz.