Ebere A. Email & Phone Number

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.Currently she works with the place keeping collective, in care of Black women, and Studio Herron, a design studio that focuses on textiles, furniture and objects. 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.

Listed skills include Visual Design, Design Research, Adobe Photoshop, Organization Skills, and 6 others.

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  Iowa State University

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