Bibiana Saucedo’s middle-of-the-night art sessions usually end with exhausted brushes and fresh paint scattered around her family’s Pilsen home.

She stays up late so her inspiration doesn’t wane, said Luis Saucedo, her proud father, who despite having done technical drawing his whole life, said he never understood the possibilities of art until he saw his daughter’s work.

“No one messes with her when it comes to art. Take art away from her and forget it — you’re unleashing the lioness,” he said.

Bibiana Saucedo, 23, recently graduated from Columbia College with a bachelor’s degree. She has been doing “art gigs here and there,” but if she weren’t living with her parents, she doesn’t know if she would be able to afford living in Pilsen, the neighborhood where she was born and raised. At h

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