This is the part where I’m supposed to tell you about myself-- and while I could just give you my whole resume or like my LinkedIn or something-- I'd rather tell you my story. I’m Esperanza. I’m a Chicagoland-based Chicana artist, multidisciplinary creative, and someone with approximately seventeen thoughts in her brain at all times. One of my many truths in life is that art has always been a necessity. Some of my earliest memories of joy involve drawing, making things, and g

There’s something incredibly surreal about making art in your home, surrounded by half-finished ideas, paint-stained clothes, random bursts of inspiration—and then realizing those pieces eventually leave your hands and end up in the world. Art is deeply personal to me (and every other artist duh). For me each work starts somewhere small: a feeling, a weird little thought, a color combination I can’t stop thinking about, or sometimes an odd experience that somehow turns into s