Marcela Adeze Okeke (she/they, b. Chicago) is a first-generation, Nigerian-Polish American artist who uses Panafricanist folklore to create passages into realms where belonging is birthright. Since her beginning as a self-taught acrylic and oil painter, Okeke has integrated indigo dyeing, found objects, drawing, rope-knotting, textiles and cement sculpture into their practice. The artist’s work has been exhibited in the Chicago Cultural Center, Lubeznik Center for the Arts, the Old Stone House in Brooklyn, Freeport Art Museum, internationally at Nafasi Art Space in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, among others. Their work was featured in New American Paintings Issue 161 and distributed internationally by the UN Human Right to Adequate Housing campaign. Okeke is a previous artist resident at Nafasi Art Space, Vashon Artist Residency with an upcoming residency at Mendocino Art Center.