Gabriela (Chanchita) Riveros is an illustrator / designer based in Milwaukee. She's Paraguayan-American and an empanada enthusiast. She has a BFA in illustration from the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design. She's currently a freelance illustrator and a product development artist for Kohl’s. Her work is inspired mostly by culture, art history and everything mythical and magical. She often draws from the past and her Latinx heritage. Multi-cultural identities, community and equality, and under-represented stories are an integral part in her work as an illustrator.

Water Gods (see gallery below) are a series of art panels featuring water deities by Gabriela Riveros that were installed in 2018 between 13th and 16th streets north of the Kinnickinnic River. Each panel shows water deities drawn from the mythic traditions of an ethnic or cultural group who came to live here in the KK River neighborhood! Explore the walking path to discover their myths and stories.