Wilfredo Garcia didn’t know it then, but he began preparing for his trip across Latin America and to Chicago when he first picked up a pencil and started drawing as a child growing up in the Venezuelan heartland.
Garcia began drawing about age 4, realized his talent and began developing it at about 11, and got his first professional gig — painting the exterior of a small business in his hometown — at 15. He’s been painting nearly every day since.
