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Huge Installation inspired by Disparate Threads at Lift+Love’s Gather Conference!
The logistics of preparing, transporting, and setting up a full-size tree pre-adorned with rainbow strips, in addition to a tent with lighting elements and a station for adding your own story, not to mention the rest of the whole dang art show, were insane. This was all for two days. We had about two hours to set up at the convention center. As a former theatre person, this is exactly my kind of life-giving madness.
Disparate Threads at Springville!
When I left the installation with the museum, it was a somewhat scaled down and reset version of Disparate Threads that I could recognize. When I returned to check on it a month later, I was shocked.
Utopia Book Release (+ AIGA 100 Recognition)
The book has finally been released! It was an honor to have some of my art and writing be chosen for publication. It’s such a special project with work by some incredibly talented and thoughtful humans.
Disparate Threads finally goes up (& Gets a Review!)
“The installation invites everyone to be more accepting, especially of themselves. Disparate Threads can represent a community or the multiple facets of an individual. Whichever it is, it is important to remember that only by weaving them together can harmony be found.“
Disparate Threads wins at Research Fair
I have been doing a lot of research for a future installation on queer faith called Disparate Threads. This includes reaching out to and interviewing queer people of faith in Utah, especially those who do not belong to Utah’s dominant religion. ... I guess some of the judges were just as curious about this overlooked group of people as me.
SLC Queer Review!
“Olivia’s piece explores the concept of bisexual invisibility, where bi individuals are labeled as either ‘gay’ or ‘straight’ based on their romantic partner or, equally bad, that bisexuality is a phase while someone figures out their ‘real’ sexuality”