Eleanor Koster (b. 2000, Minneapolis, MN) is an artist and designer based in Baltimore, MD who merges craft traditions in textiles and wood to explore the body, and our relationship to our lovers, entities, and computers. She recieved her BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, MD,  with focuses in Fiber and Product Design. Recent engagements include a solo exhibition “Hearth” staged in Gateway Gallery, at MICA, and participating in a woodworking residency at Penland School of Craft, NC. She unveiled the Colare Floor Lamp, her inaugural design for her recently started Inlay Studio, a company specializing in modular and flat-pack furniture that is handmade and inspired by craft traditions. She was a part of the 2025 cohort of the Up/Start venture competition representing Inlay Studio.

Eleanor is a research-driven artist and designer. Through the loom, chisel, and pixel, Eleanor explores the joints that connect fiber — of multiple ancestries — to space and time.  Her work is driven by an interest in the interdependencies of humanity’s relationships. Attuned to the familial-arities between oneself and the lineage of weaving, computing, supporting, romancing, and playing, she reconstructs the role of the lover to be present within all types of relationships. Eleanor proposes an actionable accountability of existing in a reciprocal romance with friends, materials, processes, and spaces – redefining a lover as the act of being in community with someone/thing else.  



eleanor.lorell@gmail.com





2025 
Baltimore

r/Desire Path

An exhbition made in collaberation with Sofia Klimkowski Arango






Candle holder

2024 
North Carolina






True Lovers Knot 
2024 
Baltimore






 Sext Tablets 

2024
Baltimore






 Colare Floor Lamp

2024
Baltimore







 Joints

2023
Baltimore




 Touching: A Study 

2023
Baltimore







 i had dream i picked a four leaf clover, thank god 

2022 
Baltimore




 Held

2023
Baltimore





 Pixel Bench


2023
Baltimore