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