GLORIA I. RIVERA

Chicago based artist, Gloria I. Rivera is a self-taught visual artist and muralist. She continues to hold residency in the city’s south side Back of the Yards neighborhood where she was born and raised. She recently participated in an 8 month extended residency in Honduras. While there, she lived on a coffee farm where she created 4 murals, designed and updated the restrooms for the farm hands, designed a new entrance gate to the farm, and taught English to Honduran children and adults. The entirety of Rivera’s work focuses on encouraging viewers to go inward and work on self-love, self-acceptance, and to face the outward world with love, understanding and respect