Olive Stefanski (they/she) is a queer Jewish visual artist working in Chicago. Their studio practice encompasses weaving, dyeing, spinning yarn, drawing, glass making and mixed media sculpture and installation. Their work is grounded in the study of Jewish ideas and texts related to mysticism, creation, cosmology and divinity.  They have had solo exhibitions at Roman Susan Art Foundation (2021) and Tiger Strikes Asteroid Chicago (2023). Their 2021 exhibition, And Before One, What Are You Counting?, was chosen as a partner exhibition by the Chicago Architecture Biennial. Their 2023 exhibition, Becoming One Who Holds Many, was awarded a Chicago DCASE Individual Artist Program grant. Currently, Olive is a 2024-2025 fellow for the New Jewish Culture Fellowship (2024-2025) 

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Their work is part of Beyond: Tapestry Expanded,  an ongoing group exhibition survey of contemporary artists working in tapestry curated by Erica Warren with support from the American Tapestry Alliance, which will be on view through December 8th, 2024 at the Peeler Art Center at DePauw University.  Olive's duo exhibition with Jewlya Sturtevant will open February 2025 at Roots and Culture, which is supported by a Creative Catalyst Grant from the Illinois Arts Council. They will be a Digital Weaving Lab Artist-In-Residence at Fiber Praxis Workshop in March 2025. 

 

They can be found online @floatyplace and can be contacted for studio-related inquiries at olive.stefanski@gmail.com.

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