Kibibi Ajanku

Artist  Innovator Storyteller Unifier 

FIBER ARTIST

Kibibi Ajanku is a fiber artist who makes and presents ethnically charged art. Her passion embodies the thrust of the African Diaspora. Ajanku’s creativity is the ongoing and ever-evolving effort of a life journey that is eclectic and innovative. It is ancient while at the same time new-world, and always changing. Kibibi Ajanku’s artistry is layered with, and entrenched in, indigenous folkways through work that embodies research, identity, and the gathering of elements of African retention. She hopes to evoke intuitive memories that reach back into ancestral histories and stories that impact the here and the now.

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Ajanku's work explores creative inheritance and indigo dye traditions that define the intersection of fiber arts between America and West Africa. 

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Recent Artist Awards:

 Rubys Artist Award 

Sue Hess  Arts Advocacy Award 

Kibibi Ajanku is Curator-in-Residence at the

Frederick Douglass-Isaac Myers Museum

3rd Floor Gallery (Bearman Gallery)

Fells Point, Baltimore, Maryland.

Kibibi Ajanku has continued her journey as an artist through her work as a curator, by creating new and innovative ways to present the past, present, and future of the Black diaspora. She uses this same lens to curate arts-based equity, diversity, and inclusion programming through her work as an educator within universities and arts organizations throughout Baltimore. Kibibi Ajanku’s work has and continues to uplift and empower Black artists and increase intercultural understanding within the city of Baltimore and around the world.

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