updates
1/3 - As Ever, In Orbit | Jupiter Benefit Auction 2025
“Jupiter is delighted to announce its debut benefit auction, titled As Ever, In Orbit, taking place exclusively on Artsy.
Spanning painting, sculpture, and photography, the sale gathers 18 artists from across the globe whose work exemplifies the sensibilities we hold dear at Jupiter. They strive, as we name in our mission statement, to not only witness the world shift around them, but to be active architects of the world they wish to inhabit. Those included in this sale harmonize with our clarion call to create conditions that beget more viable writing lives for cultural critics by championing the exigent role writers play in the broader project of transforming the contemporary art world into a site of nurturance for artists across disciplines.
Since launching in January 2024, Jupiter has published five issues featuring an international constellation of writers and produced extensive free public programming—ranging from panel conversations and film series to movement and writing workshops—in cities like Chicago, IL, Detroit, MI, New York, NY, and Los Angeles, CA. Funds raised through this auction will amplify our capacity to do right by our mission statement by funding writer honorariums and funding our forthcoming slate of public programs, through which we advocate for the importance of cultural criticism in real time.”
about the work: soft bind (2025) by artist ebere agwuncha, is a sculptural memory that calls to the igbo technique of binding hair with nylon thread to lengthen it through a protective style; a hairstyle that the artist’s mother would do on her often as a child. The copper thread and woven reed bind to connect with hair (horsehair) at the base of the work.
bid on the work below here ->
2/3 - woven together: a summer workshop series by ebere a.
My project, woven together: a summer workshop series by ebere a., is a free basket weaving workshop event celebrating the collective memory of hands and craft practices that Igbo-Nigerian women have and continue to steward. After hosting free workshops for the last three years in Chicago and beyond, this offering naturally evolved into this inaugural ‘woven together’ series to take place this summer 2025 at a venue on the South Side of Chicago. I wanted to share this collective space with makers, creative minds, and folks that are interested in crafting together. In addition, I find it key to offer this as a free public workshop to my community since craft practice is often monetized thus becoming more inaccessible to artist, makers, and creatives like myself.
sessions are done for the summer! inquire about hiring me for a workshop on my offerings page.
archive of the session fliers below:
3/3 - “ebere agwuncha’s cenobitic praise songs” by Camille Bacon ->
“A feature of the artist ebere agwuncha who explores the regenerative, spiritual, and communal dimensions of material culture.” take a read of this wonderful essay written by a dear one, camille bacon via Sixty Inches From Center.
“... agwuncha’s artworks are cenobitic praise songs whose rhythm revolves around the Igbo principle of “eliminat[ing] the product and retain[ing] the process so that every occasion and every generation will receive its own impulse and experience of creation.”1 To this end, the sculpture (“the product”) is not satisfied with sitting inert and untouched. Like any alive thing, it calls out for touch, it yearns to be emptied and renewed. Like any reincarnation of history, it tugs on velvet rope to ring the bell of generational rememory. As such, the artist invited all who visited the exhibition to partake in a ritual (“the process”) in which they poured water from the owoko into glasses and offered it to the mound of loam upon which the sculpture was placed. Here, a means of coaxing whispers out from the earth’s core.”
read the full article here ->
recent ongoings
soft structures ->
soft structures is an installation of architectural points that are crafted alongside meditations of the lancet arch, a spear-like sacral form. this is a solo exhibition that ebere agwuncha had in 2024 at the chicago artists coalition. you may view the updated webpage, sharing the artworks featured in soft structures. you may contact ebere directly to inquire about purchasing.