Gloria Pacis is a painter dividing her time between New York City and Hoboken, where she has her studio. She received her BFA from the University of Washington in 1976. She credits her years working as a set designer and scene artist for the dramatic, character-based elements of her paintings. She has participated in exhibitions at public institutions and universities, including Wing Luke Museum, Mana Contemporary, University of Washington, Henry Art Gallery, Monroe Arts Centre, Seattle University, Act Theatreand Seattle Center Art Museum, where her work was chosen to showcase International Women’s Day. She has designed sets for many leading theatres, including notable productions of A Christmas Carol, Hamlet, The Doctors Dilemma, Hedda Gabler, and Salome."Sometimes  I'll paint images of people watching a parade go by, but nobody takes the pictures of the crowd watching. And just to focus the attention on: this is what you're missing. I like to do stuff like that. And it's just to draw attention to an aspect of humanity that I'm just trying to make people pay attention to, that's all. Like sometimes walking through Times Square, you see all the razzle-dazzle, and then every once in a while you see a dilapidated little section of Times Square. And I'm going: look at that. That's a good...nobody's noticing that. I don't know what it is, my fascination for just zeroing in on stuff that nobody will look at, but  I just like that, you know. I'd like to say that another artist I like is Rothko. And my opinion about him is that I just can't help but get sucked into his pictures. I just stare there for the longest time. Everybody has moved on, and I'm sucked in. I want to achieve something to stick people in that place. Just keep them still for a second."IG @gloriapaciswww.artofgloriapacis.comwww.creativeprocess.infowww.oneplanetpodcast.orgInstagram @creativeprocesspodcast