Iviva Olenick

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Iviva Olenick at The Old Stone House
Iviva Olenick at The Old Stone House
The AP Questionnaire: Iviva Olenick
The AP Questionnaire: Iviva Olenick
Opulence: Roundtable Discussion at The Center for Book Arts
Opulence: Roundtable Discussion at The Center for Book Arts

Iviva Olenick is a Brooklyn-based artist and educator. She translates family and historic myths into beaded, embroidered, dyed and painted textiles intersecting poetry and portraiture. Muriel Guepin Gallery, NYC has represented her work since 2009, and she has exhibited at the Center for Book Arts, NYC; Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY; the Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA; the Sugar Hill Children's Museum of Art & Storytelling, NYC. Her work is in the collections of Washington University Library, the Center for Book Arts, the Schwartz Art Collection of the Harvard Business School, and the Newark Public Library. She has received several grants from the Brooklyn Arts Council, Puffin Foundation and Puffin Foundation West for projects intersecting language, textiles and community conversations, and for growing textile crops in urban spaces to create conversations about colonialism, enslaved labor and entrenched socio-racial inequities.