Eseosa Ekiawowo Edebiri

Textile Designer and Fiber Artist

2026 Bodies of Work

Visual Arts

Eseosa Edebiri is a Nigerian American teaching artist, teaching 3D Foundations at Chicago Arts High School. Edebiri received a BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has exhibited work in spaces such as The New Orleans African Museum and The Mountain and Sea Art Museum in Beijing.

Craft is Edebiri's lifeblood, and the medium becomes the apparatus to share concepts, feelings, and the artist's train of thought. Edebiri is invested in expanding and broadening the ways she creates and shares that work accessibly with others. This is why Edebiri considers herself a jack of many trades rather than a master of any.

While the goal isn’t to “catch ‘em all” like a Pokémon trainer, the mediums the artist seeks out are rooted in rich histories that creation should celebrate. The artist uses craft as a soft mechanism to explore and share hard feelings—such as loss, grief, trauma, and recovery—as a way to define how to 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