Book Aviva

Being a multigenerational maker effervesces in Aviva Stanoff’s DNA. Her dynamic creative spirit brings her a resolute dedication to being a conduit from the past to the future, a commitment that is as natural as breathing for this artisan. “I don’t see what I do as a job; I see it as a vital act of representing all the creatives who came before me,” she remarks. “Honoring that spirit, I would like to be certain that the legacy doesn’t stop with me.” Having been raised in a multicultural environment as a child of Japanese and Russian immigrants, she sees it as her duty to honor all of the forces that have helped shape who she is. And she is determined to use her power for good, a resolve forged during childhood summers studying traditional arts in her family’s Buddhist temple in Japan and renewed each time she hiked the old-growth redwood forests near her California home growing up or walks on her local beach now.