America’s SweetART
Upcycle artist Geri Cordova is taking part in an Easter project at Primary Children’s Hospital to paint the heads of kids that are going through chemotherapy. “Instead of painting their faces, we’re going to paint their heads, so that’s going to be a really exciting thing, I love working with the kids,” she said. Cordova said her passion is keeping art in the lives of kids and ultimately, she wants to start a children’s art school on the west side.
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Cordova was born and raised in Utah, and went to college in Arizona. She said her family aren’t artistic, and therefore they are counting on her to be their legacy. Cordova quit her job as an industrial designer in order to spend more time doing art, including murals. “I’m painting something different every day, people call me and I go into their homes and bring their ideas to life,” she said. She also decorates shoes.
She said art has always been important to her. “It’s always been 100 percent part of my life, through fashion, changing my room around, painting and drawing on everything I possibly could,” she said. “Ever since I was a kid I’ve been painting on walls and I’m fortunate to still do that. They do say that one man’s trash is another man’s treasure, and definitely I’ve made some treasures out of some trash.”
