Eseosa Ekiawowo Edebiri

Textile Designer and Fiber Artist

2026 Bodies of Work

Visual Arts

Eseosa Edebiri (she/it) is a Nigerian American textile designer and fiber artist from Northern California. Her work focuses on giving representation to Black and Brown bodies. Craft is her lifeblood and the medium that becomes the apparatus for her to share concepts, feelings, and her own train of thought.

She is invested in expanding and broadening the ways she creates and how to share that work with others accessibly. This is why she considers herself a jack of all trades rather than a master of any specific one.

While the goal isn't to "catch 'em all" like a Pokémon trainer, the mediums she seeks out are rooted in rich histories that should be celebrated through creation. She has been using craft as a soft mechanism to explore and share hard feelings, recently shifting her practice into creating cyanotypes and ceramics. Previously she had taught both mediums to students, but they hadn't surfaced in her practice until recently to explore loss, grief, trauma, recovery, and to define how she can move forward.

Featured Artworks

Textile hanging on the all. At the center is a dark blue background with a light blue butterfly, on top of the butterfly is a beaded ring.

To bits and pieces (3 of 9), 2026 Cyanotype, thrifted lace trim, and beads from a friend

A blue textile hanging on the wall, in the middle are two rabbits facing each other with four diamonds stitched with beads.

To bits and pieces (4 of 9), 2026 Cyanotype, thrifted lace trim, ribbon, and beads from a friend

A blue textile hanging on the wall. It reads Fly High and there are butterflies surrounding the lettering.

To bits and pieces (1 of 9), 2026 Cyanotype, thrifted lace trim, and beads from a friend

Damn, that cookie crumbled (but w̶e̶ I'll bake again), 2024 Ceramic, glaze, help from friends, and dust

A red lace like textile hanging on the wall. It is round with the words My Idols Are Dead And My Enemies Are In Power stitched in the middle in white thread.

What goes around comes around (big red), 2024 Crochet, found lace, craft roses, spilt tea between a friend and a cat

A blue textile hung on the wall. In the center there are butterflies and text which reads With you (me) always.

I'm gonna miss you like a child misses their blanket (4 of 4), 2024 Cyanotype, handcut butterflies, my grandmother's fabric, craft roses, and re-learning

A lace white textile hangs on the wall. On it is stitched in large white crochet the words Angels Are Real.

And sometimes you'll meet in a parking lot, 2024 Crochet letters on dyed lace, craft roses, two friends finding each other on (an emotionally) rainy day