03/02/2024
Thank you Red Ribbon Skirt Society for the important work that you do to provide awareness, community support, and a space for healing for our relatives who suffer so deeply from the loss of their loved ones. I hope that the sculpture I am making will honor the lives of those Indigenous Women, children, and Two Spirits who have been taken from us. I hope it will give the community a place to remember, pray, and heal.
Each week we will feature speakers, artists that will be presenting at our Red Dress Gala, Expressing the Silence of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Children and Two-Spirit
"The Influence of Art".
Meet Rachel Olivia Berg
Rachel Olivia Berg (of Mnicoujou Lakota, Mexican, and German lineages) works in diverse media as an artist, art advisor, and the founder of LivArtfully Design Studio. She holds a BA from Princeton University and a MA in Art Education from Columbia University Teachers College. Since 2004 she has designed, developed, and created custom large scale commissions in commercial projects across Turtle Island, working with top art consultant and interior design firms. She is a 2023 Emerging Artist Fellow with the Ann Street Gallery in Newburgh, NY and is currently broadening her studio practice to more research based methodologies and practices that explore Indigenous ontologies and histories, connections in cultural relationships to nature and ecological activism.
Her work is held in corporate art collections including Virgin Hotels, Mountain Shadows Resorts, Spotify, Kimpton Hotels, Jane Street; As well as the notable health care spaces Cohen’s Children’s Hospital, NY and Oyate Health Center for Indian Health Services in Rapid City, SD. She is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe.
Rachel has been commissioned by the Red Ribbon Skirt Society to create a sculpture dedicated to MMIW.
https://www.livartfully.com/about
