Merit Thursday is an experimental animator and video artist. When he isn’t teaching animaton at MCAD, he runs the monthly variety show called Weird Stuff Only, and is a 2023/25 Jerome fellow.
Merit Thursday is an experimental animator, video artist, textile artist, and puppeteer. His process is highly material-based, and he is fascinated by the human body. As a transsexual queer man, Thursday's works also focus on queer desire, the queer fascination with artifice and fabrication, and the natural/unnatural forces that shape us.