“I didn’t always feel capable of being an artist professionally,” says Cristina Martinez. “I did recognize very, very early on that art was my outlet.” Martinez, the child of a single mom, grew up bouncing around Tacoma and painting landscapes with nail polish on lasagna noodles. “I remember watching Bob Ross for hours and hours and hours and just thinking in my mind, ‘This is so cool that this is what he gets to do for a living.’”
Well, now it’s what she does for a living, too. Martinez, who is Black and Mexican American, has had her work appear regularly in galleries, as murals, and even on clothing,
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