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Karyn Olivier

The American Scholar
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Multimedia artist Karyn Olivier believes everyday materials “have multiple lives embedded in them, some out of necessity but some because of culture.” Olivier—who was born in Trinidad and Tobago and moved to New York as a child—grew up in an “immigrant family with an immigrant story. The idea of someone being an artist was not in the program,” she says. At her mother’s wish, Olivier studied psychology at Dartmouth, despite feeling drawn to art and art history. While working retail management job

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