Arturo Urista, the middle child of five, grew up in City Terrace in East Los Angeles. In his earliest upbringing, he established a need to be active in his community. He saw fires from the Chicano Moratorium from his backyard on August 29th, 1970. He was only nine at the time that persuaded him to be active in organizations that help foster the need for political empowerment. He became involved with UNO, the United Neighborhood Organization, and the Mothers of East Los Angeles. He worked for NALEO, the National Association of Elected and Appointed Officials, where he set up pop-ups at different communities for undocumented immigrants to apply for citizenship and take their pictures. From 1985 to 1995, he volunteered at Self Help Graphics and produced a variety of work using what he saw all over his neighborhood, graffiti. That would become his signature trademark, and it would become the background for all anger, happiness, confusion, anxiety, as he puts it, "Therapy for the soul and mind." He enjoyed thirty years of teaching Language Arts, History, and printmaking at the Los Nietos School District. The greatest activism for him was to be a public-school teacher, and there's no regret. 

Arturo works with different media, including drawings, paintings, and prints, both manually and digitally. He writes stories about every little experience he comes across. This is his website