Gloria Matuszewski has lived in the California Bay Area since she was a young child, first in San Francisco and then primarily in Marin County. She has taught art and tai chi for several years, primarily for the Oakland Unified School District and currently she is teaching a Tai Chi class at the Marin Museum of Contemporary Art. Her artwork has been featured previously with the Art in Embassies Program in Saudi Arabia and in Myanmar, formerly Burma. She has exhibited in several national shows and throughout the state of California for over 40years. Her work is in several collections including Kaiser Hospital, Marin General Hospital, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the Ron Collins Collection, the William F. Black Collection, Stanford Medical Center and the Tempe Public Library in Arizona.