{"id":81,"date":"2025-09-11T20:16:02","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T20:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vanessafloresart.com\/?page_id=81"},"modified":"2026-03-11T23:18:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T23:18:13","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/vanessafloresart.com\/?page_id=81","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-6c531013 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile is-vertically-aligned-center\" style=\"border-style:none;border-width:0px;border-radius:0px;margin-top:0;margin-right:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;grid-template-columns:auto 30%\"><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Vanessa Flores<\/strong> is an&nbsp;illustrator, author-in-progress, and recovering creative burnout raised&nbsp;on pl\u00e1tanos and old-school salsa.<br><br>Her passion for drawing began at the tender age of 3, when she reached the height of her artistic abilities by drawing her family as sausage-limbed characters on her portable chalkboard. Summers in Puerto Rico fueled her love for mountains and magic. Gardens, dancing, Studio Ghibli movies, and ghost stories are also a few of her favorite things. She loves illustrating humor, magic realism, and repping her DominiRican culture through the art of storytelling.<br><strong><br>Clients include:<\/strong><br>HarperChapters, Versify, Macmillan, Dial Books, Scholastic, Shadowmachine Studios<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Interviews:<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CFHg4ImhPcQ\/\">Puerto Ricans of Orlando<\/a><br><em>The Fight to Make Art in Borilando<\/em> by Raquel Reichard (p250) from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dukeupress.edu\/nuyorican-and-diasporican-visual-art\">Nuyorican and Diasporican Visual Art: A Critical Anthology<\/a><br><\/p>\n<\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"679\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/vanessafloresart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/000062510022-679x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-794 size-large\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vanessafloresart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/000062510022-679x1024.jpg 679w, https:\/\/vanessafloresart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/000062510022-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/vanessafloresart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/000062510022-768x1158.jpg 768w, https:\/\/vanessafloresart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/000062510022-1018x1536.jpg 1018w, https:\/\/vanessafloresart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/000062510022-1358x2048.jpg 1358w, https:\/\/vanessafloresart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/000062510022-8x12.jpg 8w, https:\/\/vanessafloresart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/000062510022-scaled.jpg 1697w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 679px) 100vw, 679px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-81","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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