Designer, Maker, Artist
ebere agwuncha (b.1997, Chicago) is a designer, maker, and artist based in Chicago via Anambra State, Nigeria. She earned a bachelor's degree in Industrial Design from Iowa State University in 2019.
Her dexterous practice aims to hybridize various craft and materials including wood, ceramic, and natural fiber. Through creating functional ‘care filled object(s)’ and speculative installations, they aim to preserve Igbo stories through more expansive iterations using a diverse set of techniques. She pushes the cusp of perfection - or imperfection - while intimately using her hands to physicalize ideas.
ebere will also be an inaugural artist-in-exchange with the Sculpture Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, this spring of 2022. Part of this residency period will be used to produce work for their upcoming first solo show at the Comfort Station (Chicago, IL) this May of 2022.
The Crafty Designer
In this session, ebere will share how her design-maker-artist practice hybridizes a ‘care-filled’ approach for working with her community while maintaining a creative practice. Through her dexterous work with various craft and materials including wood and ceramic, she will explore how one’s own culture and traditions can be infused with the work that they do. Lastly, they will shed light on the expansive non-traditional practices that stem from industrial design, using some of the key methods and teachings to guide work outside of the traditional career path(s).
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