Olivia Stoltzfus is a senior at the Rhode Island School of Design where she majors in Textiles and concentrates in Literary Arts & Studies. Previous to RISD, she completed the onemonth pre-college program at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where she studied painting, drawing, sculpture, and printmaking.In October 2023, Olivia was nominated by the RISD Textiles department for the Salone Del Mobile, Satellite 2024 exhibition. She was awarded the 6th Annual Baker & Whitehill Artists’ Book Contest Grand Purchase Prize in 2020, for her artists book Keep the Family Together. In August 2019, she was awarded the CX Carlson Trust Foundation Scholarship of $10,000 to support her post-secondary education in the arts.In March 2023, Olivia solo-exhibited her textile work at the Oxford Arts Alliance in Oxford, Pennsylvania. She exhibited as an young emerging artist at the Red Raven Art Company in her hometown of Lancaster, Pennsylvania in August 2019. She has had her drawings exhibited in the Experimental & Foundational Studies Triennial at RISD in 2020.Olivia has had her poetry published by the RISD student literary magazine, V.1. In May 2023, she self-published a poetry chapbook entitled Make My World Brighter.Olivia is presently employed at American Woolen Company in Stafford Springs, Connecticut, USA as Technical Design Assistant and Sales Associate, where she conducts fabric analysis for product development, prepares material research, and communicates with customers to discuss their fabric inquiries.Throughout her time as a student at RISD, she has worked in the Textiles department as a weaving studio and dye lab monitor. She also interned as a Studio Assistant for Anastasia Azure Designs in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, where she developed weaving samples for an installation proposal from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.