The Foundation
What Is Livity?
Livity is not a brand name. It is a philosophy of living consciousness — a Rastafari-rooted concept describing the vital force, the divine current that flows through all living things and connects us to our origins. It is the recognition that how we live is a sacred act.
For the Kalinago — the people the colonizers named "Caribs" — the living world was never separate from the ancestral world. The sea, the ceiba tree, the spiral carved into rock: these were not symbols. They were transmissions. Livity is that unbroken signal.
At Livity Tree Art, we carry this Caribbean Aboriginal understanding of sacred life-force into everything we create. Every brushstroke, every garment, every accessory is an act of remembrance — and an act of return.
"The ancestors did not die. They became the frequency we forgot to tune into."
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.
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