Veronica Martinez is a queer artist, muralist and Illustrator based in Chicago and Cicero.
Her work has been featured in the Chicago Reader, the Latinx Identity Podcast, and has been exhibited in Chicago, Italy, and Mexico through the art collective Pintoras Mexicanas. She has illustrated for Cicero Independiente, Injustice Watch, and The Trace focusing on voting, police misconduct, and education issues. She has created three murals in support of the movement for Black lives across the South Side of Chicago at three Alivio Medical Center locations and most recently finished “Flourish,” a 2,430 sq ft mural at Yorktown Center, with artist Edgar Sosa. She continues to seek projects that allow her to tell visual stories through a social justice lens.
She lives in Chicago with her wife and two cats, Mimi and Nacho.
Martinez received her Bachelors in Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in the spring of 2017.
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Deirdre Mulrooney & Evanna Lynch pitch their crowdfunder to make a short film imagining Lucia Joyce (embodied by Evanna), at her ‘full capacity’, choreographed by Megan Kennedy of Junk Ensemble, in an original costume after Lucia Joyce’s own creation, by Claire Garvey.
Thank you for doing this and bringing this woman who was basically erased, back to life.
How can I see the film?!
Such a talented woman, shadowed by her father, and resented by her mother. Sad she was institutionalized against her will.