Odera Igbokwe

One to Watch Odera Igbokwe was born in 1990 in a cocoon of fire and stardust and raised in Maplewood, New Jersey. Odera received a BFA in Illustration from Rhode Island School of Design and studied movement-theater and West African dance at Brown University. Odera’s illustration work is in the collections of BeyoncĂ© Knowles, Solange Knowles, and Oumou SangarĂ©. Odera currently lives and works in New York City. As an illustrator, Odera loves to explore storytelling through character archetypes, afro-diasporic mythologies, and magical girl transformation sequences. Visit odera-igbokwe.com to learn more about Odera’s work. Source: Lightspeed Magazine