Eleonora Edreva is a Bulgarian-American artist, textile heritage researcher, and educator. Her work lives at the crossroads of craft/cultural heritage, contemporary art, place-based ecological thinking, and community engagement.
She works in collaboration with and response to specific places, stories, beings, and lineages. Her practice takes form in ever-shifting arrangements of mediums and modes: weavings made from threads, text, or electrical cables; installations and videos; rituals and participatory workshops; photos and written texts; and the invisible efforts of creating and tending to webs of relationships. A recent focus has been natural dyeing, and she completed a 2024/2025 Fulbright Research Fellowship on the topic of Bulgarian natural dye plants and traditions.
She holds a BA in English Language & Literature from the University of Chicago and an MFA in Art & Ecology from the University of New Mexico. Her work has been shown in exhibitions and festivals such as the University of New Mexico Art Museum (Albuquerque, NM), Access Gallery (Vancouver, BC), Images Festival (Toronto, ON), and the Flat Earth Film Festival (Seyðisfjörður, Iceland), among others. Eleonora is currently based in Sofia, Bulgaria.
ele.edreva@gmail.com