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Gladys Villalobos
Visual Artist with a passion for art with silk; Spanish-English translator and interpreter servicing a global community. After years combining both professions and succeeding, Gladys was diagnosed ...view moreVisual Artist with a passion for art with silk; Spanish-English translator and interpreter servicing a global community. After years combining both professions and succeeding, Gladys was diagnosed with a motor neuron disease, ALS Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis– Lou Gehrig’s disease. Facing a relentless, debilitating condition decides to use her creative gift of art and her knowledge in the skill of writing to show herself and the world that nothing can stop a desire to succeed; life is not over until the last breath.
Gladys was born in Ann Arbor. Michigan of Hispanic origin; her education centered in Washington, DC, after ending her college education in Arts, she moved to Mexico to pursue a degree in Simultaneous interpretation and translation; back in the US she took the workshop seminar for interpreters servicing Florida Courts; at around that time in 2009 to 2015 she started experiences the weakness and symptoms leading to her condition.
Currently resides in Lake Mary, Fl. and thanks to the ALS Association, Florida Chapter she has been introduced to the world of gadgets and technology to enable her to write and live a better quality of life, Being the most important, her Tobii Dynavox with eye gazer and communication tools. She now continues to create awareness to ALS in the hope for a treatment and cure.
Silk painters Internationals.; central Brevard art association; Spanish Translators and Simultaneous Interpreters in Brevard and Seminole counties in Florida; Her art was displayed at The Art Gallery of Viera, FL; Carolyn Seiler & Friends in Cocoa Village, Fl..; The Royal Town of Santa Fe was selected to appear in the Silk Artist International Calendar honoring the Annual Festival 2012.view less