ebere agwuncha
ebere agwuncha is an Igbo-American artist and educator born and based in Chicago, IL. Her artwork is an active vessel that is in conversation with various archives that connect to traditional techniques, methods, and materials of the Igbo-Nigerian, and adjacent African Diaspora, as a form of cultural preservation within a time where these practices are becoming obsolete. Her practice utilizes personal stories, collected ephemera, and researched collections to develop artworks that present in the form of functional objects, sculpture, and site responsive installation. They create precise artworks with traditional craft techniques including ceramics, woodworking, and fibers (reed basket weaving, cane wrapping, jute fish netting, willow weaving, and horsehair rerooting). In the summer of 2025, ebere started facilitating the program “woven together”, a series of free basket weaving workshops celebrating the ancestral memory of hands through collective making.
Major Accomplishments:
- 3Arts / Teaching Artist Award / 2025
- Hyde Park Art Center / Year-Long, Jackman Goldwasser Residency / 2026
- Penland School of Crafts / Winter Residency, Textiles Fellow / North Carolina / 2026
- School of the Art Institute of Chicago / Inaugural Artist in Exchange / 2022
- 4 solo exhibitions: Centrum, Roman Susan, Chicago Artists Coalition, Comfort Station.
- Group Exhibitions with work featured in: Artsy, EXPO, Buddy, Chicago Art Department
- Ladi Kwali Teaching in Chicago: A Visual Lecture by ebere agwuncha. Ford Foundation Gallery. A part of Body Vessel Clay: Black Women, Ceramics & Contemporary Art. 2025
- Reviews in Sixty Inches From Center, Ruckus Journal, New City Art
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email me at -> eagwun at gmail dot com
this website was designed and built by ebere agwuncha through the cargo collective platform.
image courtesy Centrum