Hope Okere is a Nigerian-American interdisciplinary artist, who recently received her MFA degree from UCSB. Her work exists at the intersection of sculpture, fiber, and movement. Informing her art praxis are theories of Afro-Futurism, neo-conceptualism, and research of improvisational modern dance, African dance, and craft arts. She also explores dualities, distortions, translations, and hybridity. She holds a BFA from Parsons School of Design in New York City and has a past career as a fashion designer, working for companies such as Marc Jacobs, J.Crew, Converse, Gap, and Target. Hope has attended workshops at Haystack School of Craft in Deer Isle, ME, Yucca Valley Material lab in Yucca Valley, CA, The Textile Art Center in NY, NY and Pioneer Works in NY, NY. While at UCSB she has been honored in receiving the Levitan award and the Ron Newby award; and was a nominee for the Dedalus Foundation 2024 MFA Fellowship in visual arts.

Website: https://www.hopeokere.com/

Instagram: @hopengozistudio