Olivia Ann Carye-Hallstein

Olivia Ann Carye Hallstein is an internationally recognized artist with over a decade of experience as a designer, writer, and educator.

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Her expansive career began in set and costume design in Berlin's theaters. 

Her artistic work has explored topics related to synesthesia, whole systems approaches to sustainability, artistic materials and recipes (historic and contemporary), culinary arts, and creating a vertically integrated practice.

As an educator she mentors and teaches courses, lectures, and provides guided mentorship in sustainable artistic and culinary practices and Whole Systems Circular Design.

Her studio, the “Edible Nest Studio” (founded 2021) works to create whole systems and integrated circular approaches for design and culinary fields. Through her studio practice she has promoted resiliency through both research and practice by highlighting ‘sustainability’ as relevant to social and economic factors as well as by developing novel and innovative material solutions and methods. ​ https://www.instagram.com/edible_nest_studio/

She also interviews contemporary environmetal artists through  EcoArtSpace since 2019, and has published both creative writing and in academic contexts. 

Her career began as a set and costume designer in Berlin's theaters. Where she also studied at Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weissensee  and founded a community-oriented arts organization called …impy… in Neukoelln.

As part of …impy… she developed workshops in textile design, puppet making and cuisine and continued her artistic practice with 200 original designed garments, several painted series, a performance practice and was active as a local activist against exploitative gentrification.

In Boston-Cambridge, she graduated from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and studied Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning at Tufts University. 

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