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Year 5 Fellows

Olivia Levins Holden

Olivia Levins Holden
Year 5 Fellow

OLIVIA LEVINS HOLDEN (they/she) is a queer, mixed Boricua muralist, organizer, artist, and educator living on Dakota homeland, Bde Ota Othunwe, Mni Sota Makoce, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Her work centers art as transformation, connection, and narrative. Olivia has painted murals in Minneapolis, California, and Puerto Rico. Since 2017, she has directed the Power of Vision mural program, where she trains artists and oversees community-painted murals. She co-leads the Transformational Creative Strategies Training (TRCSTR), a program for public artists intersecting art and social change, centering queer and BIPOC artists. Olivia received a 2022 McKnight Fellowship for Community Engaged Artists.