Olivien Savastana is a young artist who, for roughly 5 years, has primarily created within the medium of ceramics and clay. She learned the skills from her time at a summer camp in Maine, where she found her passion for the art form of wheel-thrown ceramics. While she spent many summers there, she currently resides in the greater Boston area of Massachusetts. As a senior in high school, she received three awards for her works in ceramics and sculpture for Scholastics Arts and Writing. This past year she has chosen to pursue a degree in the arts; although transferring from her current school, The School of The Art Institute of Chicago, her large-scale ceramic works were window exhibited in their 2024 ArtBash. Since deciding to transfer and looking into that process, she plans to take a gap year investing herself in ceramics and obtaining an internship - a job within the arts. While her work is primarily in ceramics and sculpture, she enjoys exploring all mediums and seeing what can interplay within each medium and her preferred one. Within ceramics, Olivien often explores ideas of symmetry and the abstract, the decay of nature, and oneself over time and through our lived experiences, usually the vessels- sculptures reflect organisms and greenery but also can resemble the human form. By manipulating the symmetrical forms created from the wheel, she explores these compositions and is further inspired to continue creating and abstracting.