Rachel Olivia Berg (Mnicoujou Lakota, Mexican, and German) works in diverse media as an artist, art advisor, teacher, and the founder of LivArtfully Design Studio. She holds a BA from Princeton University and a MA in Art Education from Columbia University Teachers College. Since 2004 she has designed, developed, and created custom large scale commissions in notable commercial projects across Turtle Island, working with art consultants and interior design firms. Berg expanded her studio practice in 2023 to engage with research based methodologies that explore Indigenous ontologies, histories, healing, and cultural relationships to nature and ecological stewardship. 

 

She was a 2023 Emerging Artist Fellow with the Ann Street Gallery in Newburgh, NY. Her work is held in corporate art collections including Virgin Hotels, Mountain Shadows Resorts, Spotify, Kimpton Hotels, Intercontinental Hotels, Jane Street, and The Ritz Carlton; In health care spaces such as Cohen’s Children’s Hospital, NY and Oyate Health Center for Indian Health Services in Rapid City, SD. She lives and works in Moh-He-Con-Nuk (Hudson River) Valley in New York and Paha Sapa (Black Hills) of South Dakota with her husband, son, dogs, and cat. She is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe.