Olga Volchkova is a Russian-born artist currently resident in Eugene, Oregon. Volchkova was born in Tver, Russia, in 1970, in the former Soviet Union. Many of her relatives were collectivized subsistence farmers living in villages outside of the city, and across the seasons she would leave the city to farm, garden, and forage for berries and mushrooms with them. She developed a sympathy with nature that would influence her later art. As a child she went to math school, and studied piano for eight years in music school. A public television segment on her work was nominated for a 2016 Emmy award.