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 received 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



 r/Desirepath
Eleanor Koster & Sofia Klimkowski Arango


May, 2025

Mount Royal Station
1400 Cathedral St.
Baltimore, MD


~ Dedicated to the paths that humans prefer, rather than the paths that humans create ~

Through the physical and digital landscape, we interweave ourselves into a queered history of the loom, just another meeting of warp to weft. In reflecting on our experiences growing up in the American South and Midwest, we find that we must trailblaze our own definitions of consumption and desire. The work reflects through selfies, soul connections, and spacial interruptions/entanglements. Being sexy and shy and insecure and hungry, we navigate between the public and the private orchestrating social cues/queues. We bastardize materials found within the commons: the sidewalk, the field, the internet, the bedroom to orient towards queer daydreaming. The path we’ve found has no definitives, no ends in-sight, just continued discovery and renewal.

We invite you to forge your own path, and experience wandering into what is rooted at your core. 




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