At 17 years old, driven by a combination of her competitive nature and rebellious spirit, Gloe began using the streets of Chicago as her coloring book. She painted the moniker far and wide, preferring to keep her artwork in the street as opposed to the classroom or galleries. She learned to paint quickly, dramatically, and with a bold approach to color and technique. While Gloe had informal art training, she credits both old and new mentors, influences from the street, and her tenacity for reading and studying history as being vital to her success.

In 2001 Gloe, brought together a group of 3 girls, Aura, She, and Eve, who later would go on to form a part in one of Chicago’s oldest graffiti crews. At that point BTB crew had one of the strongest representations of women in the Chicago hip hop scene. While short lived, Gloe continued to make a name for herself, keeping her style and painting technique gender neutral. She began supporting the break dancing scene by attending battles and volunteering at the University of Hip Hop aka Southwest Youth Collaborative. In 2003 she met Synergy, an all female hip hop collective who led mentorship workshops for younger girls who were getting involved in the hip hop arts. A few years later, with the help of the collective she was empowered to lead the first graffiti mural in Chicago history to be created entirely by women. A highly effective voice to the women in the Chicago graffiti scene, she has shape shifted the conversation by bridging generational gaps and bringing together women graffiti writers of all ages to make higher strides in a subculture often dominated by men.

In early 2003 she partnered up with Bgirl Envee to travel to France for the International Hip Hop Summit. With a cancelled summit and tickets to France, they ventured on a painting and dancing spree through the streets of Toulouse and Paris. With the support of BBoyB, Gloe mentored under the then owners of Xplicit Grafx, a magazine dedicated to Subway painting. Being heavily inspired by the ‘zine crew, she came back to the states with a few goals in mind: to continue practicing traditional letters, paint more trains, continue traveling and building with other artists in Chicago. Later, in 2005 she participated in the first annual BGirlBe Summit, an all women hip hop arts event that was a ground breaking moment for women in graffiti in the United States and abroad. In 2015 in celebration of the BGirlBe Summit’s ten year anniversary she tag teamed with an affluent woman’s voice in the hip hop arts, poet and visual artist, Krista Franklin; together they created a collaborative installation at Intermedia Arts in Minneapolis.

Hard times cropped up in 2005, when Gloe was in a car accident that left her with numerous fractures to her arm. Not being able to paint was emotionally hard to deal with for her, so she would go on to crawl under fences, sneak into tunnels, and paint graffiti along Chicago’s elevated train tracks with her most trustworthy crew mates. It was also during this time that she met her soulmate.

Gloe’s work has exhibited at the Chicago Meeting of Styles, The National Museum of Mexican Art, Beloit University, University of Wisconsin, Acapulco Mexico’s Graffiti Fest, The Chicago Park District, Chicago Truborn, and many other spaces across the country and abroad. In 2007, while in Canada and having “successfully” dodged the transit police during a graffiti adventure, Gloe had another accident – this time requiring reconstructive surgery. It was this accident that would keep her away from painting as consistently as she had been. Since then Gloe has been dedicated to being a mother, wife, graffiti educator, wall scout, archivist, community organizer, and founder of the Brown Wall Project.

The Brown Wall Project is a city-wide initiative to reinvigorate Chicago neighborhood aesthetics by beautifying browned buffed city walls. Gloe has been featured in numerous articles, but her most noteworthy to date has been her article contribution to Sixty Inches From Center’s 2015 Fall Health Issue, where Gloe speaks about floral murals for healing and shares the murals she has painted in Chicago’s Little Village community. Gloe is also a member of Mujeres Mutantes, an all women arts collective with a 2016 artist residency at Port Ministries in the Back of the Yards neighborhood, in Chicago. She is a teaching artist for the National Museum of Mexican Art’s youth initiative Yollocalli, where, throughout the last few years, she has had the opportunity to instruct graffiti oriented classes for teens. With the support of Vanessa Sanchez and William Estrada, Gloe is currently instructing her Studio To Graffiti curriculum–it focuses on helping students find their voice & learn new art making techniques. Gloe is co-organizing and curating a couple of events in 2016 as well as continuing her work with The Brown Wall Project.