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Olivia Eshe Holt (b. 1998) is a visual artist native to Detroit, Michigan. Her artistry spans from traditional handcrafting to experimental techniques in ceramics, masonry, and mixed media. Through her multidisciplinary practice, she explores how materiality can be used to symbolize and give form to intangible phenomena. Her installations, sculptures and ceramic works are the outcomes of deep reflection on emotion, existence, connection, memory and time. 

Olivia earned her BFA in Product Design with a minor in Craft & Material Studies from the College for Creative Studies. She is currently focused on developing new bodies of artworks in the city of Detroit.  


Selected Work
Crafted ObjectsDigitally DesignedSpatial Installation
Garden Novella
Other Work. 2021

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Project Article on Medium

A traveling garden of stories, plants, and lights. The stories are audio recordings from 15 residents and business owners from Southwest Detroit. As you approach the installation, motion sensors activate the lights and speakers, producing a soundscape choreography that introduces you to the community. Suspended plants evoke the sense of uprootedness and transplanted - and just as many immigrants in Southwest have had to plant new roots in a new ecology where they help one another thrive. Mirrors clad the underside of the canopy, reflecting the image of yourself as you hear someone else’s story, someone whose story may be much different than yours, as a reminder that even in our differences we are united. 


My impact: prototype development, handcrafting techniques, final installation