The Story
What "Livity" Means
Livity is a Rastafari-rooted concept describing the sacred current of life that flows through all living things — the divine force that connects us to the earth, to each other, and to every ancestor who came before us.
It is not a trend. It is not a brand name. It is a philosophy of conscious, intentional living — the understanding that how we move through the world is a spiritual act.
For the Kalinago, the Arawak, and the first peoples of the Caribbean and Americas, this concept already had a name long before it was given one. They lived it in ceremony, in adornment, in the symbols they carved into stone and painted onto skin. Livity Tree Art exists to carry that frequency forward.
"The ancestors did not die. They became the frequency we forgot to tune into."
— Katherin Joyette, Founder
Everything we create moves through five ancestral research threads:
Ancestral Bridges — Recovering the documented genealogical and cultural connections between African, Indigenous Caribbean, and European lineages across the Atlantic world.
Erased Daughters — Honoring the matrilineal lines that colonial record-keeping deliberately obscured. The mothers, grandmothers, and first women whose names were written out of history.
Spiritual & Ancestral Art — Sacred imagery channeled through ceremonial practice. Art as prayer. Art as portal.
Caribbean Tribes — The living nations of the Caribbean Aboriginal world: Kalinago, Garifuna, Arawak, Ciboney, Taíno — their cosmologies, governance systems, and cultural legacies.
Matrilineal Communities — The societies, kinship structures, and inheritance systems organized through the mother's line — the original model of human belonging.
Katherin Joyette unlocks ancestral connection, DNA awakening, and remembrance through her art and Aboriginal healing practice. Her work unveils lineage across the Caribbean, Amerindian, Native, African, Chinese, and Irish bloodlines — all alive in her pieces, her writing, and her research.
“I remembered through initiation — an awakening through the shamanic practice of my ancestral lineage. Releasing the wounds of colonization to find myself again. For me, and my daughter.”
Her bloodlines run through Eritrean royal ancestry, Arawak-Kalinago heritage carried through St. Vincent (Yurumein), and Irish-Fir Bolg roots traced through Montserrat's Daly and Dowdy families. Each piece Livity Tree Art produces — from fine art prints to organic cotton apparel — draws directly from this documented history rather than borrowed or decorative symbolism.
Katherin's earliest artistic inspiration was her late uncle, Anthony Joyette (1949–2014), among the first recognized Black Canadian artists in Montreal. His legacy of claiming space in a field that erased him is the ancestral throughline of everything Livity Tree Art makes.
Today, that same throughline continues in the next generation: Katherin's daughter, Charlie Andrade, a teen artist of Cape Verdean heritage, has had original work — including Eye of Ra and Cape Verdean Hibiscus — featured alongside Katherin's in gallery exhibitions.
Livity Tree Art is based in Taunton, Massachusetts, and is an alumna brand of the EforAll accelerator and a Massachusetts Cultural Council grant recipient. Katherin also leads the Livity Unity Alliance, a land-centered community project working to return resources and land access to the communities her art draws from.
Every print, every garment, is proof — not a costume.
Shop the Collection Read Erased Daughters Explore Livity Unity Alliance
Katherin Joyette unlocks ancestral connection, DNA awakening, and remembrance through her art and Aboriginal healing practice. Her work unveils lineage across the Caribbean, Amerindian, Native, African, Chinese, and Irish bloodlines — all alive in her pieces, her writing, and her research.
“I remembered through initiation — an awakening through the shamanic practice of my ancestral lineage. Releasing the wounds of colonization to find myself again. For me, and my daughter.”
Her bloodlines run through Eritrean royal ancestry, Arawak-Kalinago heritage carried through St. Vincent (Yurumein), and Irish-Fir Bolg roots traced through Montserrat's Daly and Dowdy families. Each piece Livity Tree Art produces — from fine art prints to organic cotton apparel — draws directly from this documented history rather than borrowed or decorative symbolism.
Katherin's earliest artistic inspiration was her late uncle, Anthony Joyette (1949–2014), among the first recognized Black Canadian artists in Montreal. His legacy of claiming space in a field that erased him is the ancestral throughline of everything Livity Tree Art makes.
Today, that same throughline continues in the next generation: Katherin's daughter, Charlie Andrade, a teen artist of Cape Verdean heritage, has had original work — including Eye of Ra and Cape Verdean Hibiscus — featured alongside Katherin's in gallery exhibitions.
Livity Tree Art is based in Taunton, Massachusetts, and is an alumna brand of the EforAll accelerator and a Massachusetts Cultural Council grant recipient. Katherin also leads the Livity Unity Alliance, a land-centered community project working to return resources and land access to the communities her art draws from.
Every print, every garment, is proof — not a costume.
Shop the Collection Read Erased Daughters Explore Livity Unity Alliance
Livity Tree Artists
The Artists Behind the Work
Livity Tree Art is not a brand conceived in a marketing meeting. It is the living continuation of a matrilineal legacy spanning Kalinago St. Vincent, Eritrean royal lineage - grandparent lineages, each carrying sovereign Indigenous identity, spiritual authority, and noble standing that colonial reclassification buried.
The late Anthony Joyette — among the first Black Canadian artists recognized in Montreal — planted a seed that now blooms through Katherin and the entire Livity Tree Art family. His vision of art as resistance, as cultural reclamation, as a transmission to future generations, is the heartbeat of everything we make.
Charlie Andrade
Cape Verdean Artist · South Shore, Massachusetts · Charlie’s Collection Charlie Andrade is the proof that a lineage does not end. It waits. Then it arrives again, in a new set...
Charlie Andrade
Charlie Andrade
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Katherin Joyette
Katherin Joyette is an Afro-Indigenous artist, storyteller, and founder of Livity Tree Art. Her work is rooted in cultural memory and resistance, weaving together the ancestral threads of the Caribbean,...
Katherin Joyette
Katherin Joyette
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Robert Joyette
Robert Joyette is a multidisciplinary fine artist from the island of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, whose work channels the spirit of resistance, ancestral memory, and cultural reclamation. A graduate...
Robert Joyette
Robert Joyette
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Rooted in the Caribbean Aboriginal
The Kalinago, Arawak, and Ciboney peoples were the first nations of the islands the world now calls the Caribbean. Their cosmology, matrilineal kinship structures, and earth-based spiritual practices form the living root of Livity Tree Art.
Art as Ancestral Transmission
Our art is not decorative. It is channeled through ceremony, breathwork, meditation, and deep ancestral research. Each piece carries encoded cultural memory — a portal to lineages that colonial history tried to erase.
Living the Culture — Not Displaying It
Livity means the culture lives through you. Not behind glass. Not on a shelf. On your body, in your home, in your daily choices. You are not a museum visitor — you are a living heir.
Your Ancestors
Were Never Lost.
Only Waiting.
Bring them home. Hang them on your walls. Wear them on your skin. Carry them in your accessories. Livity Tree Art exists so that the first peoples of the Americas and Caribbean are never erased again.
Aboriginal Amerindian Art & Culture