Yesi Pérez, She/Her/Hers, is a Latinx creative. A graduate from Marquette University and the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design with a major in political science and a focus in studio art, she continues to call Milwaukee her home as a proud Southsider. While she prefers working traditionally through the medium of painting, she also explores working through other traditional mediums and digital illustration.

Her style has been heavily influenced by surrealism, pop art, street art, and all those experiences as a young Latinx woman growing up in Milwaukee. Mental health, emotions, nature, identity, growth, life, and death are recurring themes in her pieces. Pérez loves to play with color and is drawn to creating fluid designs that carry heavy symbolism and meaning. Her goal is to make art that fosters reflection and conversation.

Yesi also serves as neighborhood revitalization coordinator at Sixteenth Street Community Health Centers. In that role, Yesi supports the Kinnickinnic River Neighbors in Action - Pulaski Park.

For WaterMarks, she supports the ongoing engagement along the Kinnickinnic River with a view to mindfulness and socio-emotional health and wellbeing.