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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. She is interested in mud materiality, cognition through craft, diasporic traditions of symbolic encoding, and contemporary forms of meaning-making

Olivia earned her BFA in Product Design with a minor in Craft & Material Studies from the College for Creative Studies. She is currently working as a Teaching Artist with Community Arts Partnerships at the College for Creative Studies while developing new ceramic sculptural works in the city of Detroit.  






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Crafted ObjectsDigitally DesignedSpatial Installation


Reflections as Reminders 
zelkova wood cut, sanded, and planed with acrylic mirror. 2021.

Reflections as Reminders explores the wisdom of trees. Our lives are marked by rings and reflections of past and future. Tree rings reveal a cycle of growth offering lessons of adaptability guiding us to remain resilient.


This work was exhibition at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History as part of the D.Tree Studio: The Past, Present, and Future of Detroit Trees Exhibition, 

https://www.dtree.me/