OLIVIA LEVINS HOLDEN (they/she) is a muralist, organizer, artist, and educator living on Dakota homeland, Mni Sota Makoce, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Olivia earned a bachelor’s degree in history from Smith College, and went on to work in education, public history, data and research justice/organizing, and community-rooted public art. Her work centers art as transformation, connection, and narrative, drawing from community history as well as her own queer, mixed Boricua, and other identities. She is a founding member of Studio Thalo Collective, which creates live-painted murals and graphic recordings for community and liberation-centered events. Olivia has participated in fellowships including Dialects of Decolonizing with CEPA 2020, Intercultural Leadership Institute (ILI) 2023, Chicano Latino Studies Artist in Residence and the University of Minnesota 2024/2025 and has received a 2022 McKnight Fellowship for Community Engaged Artists and 2025 Cultural Expression grant through Minnesota State Arts Board.

At Hope, Olivia serves as the Art of Radical Collaboration (ARC) organizer. For 8 years, she directed the Power of Vision mural program, where she continues to train artists and community members in, and produce, justice-centered community-engaged murals. She co-facilitates the Transformational Creative Strategies Training (TRCSTR), a program for public artists intersecting art and social change.