Facebook / October 10, 2016
New member Elisa Morera spent most of her life in Costa Rica. As a young woman she studied over a five-year period with five painting masters from whom she learned a wide variety of techniques and styles including still life, landscapes, impressionism, hyper-realism and abstraction. In her portrayals of the human figure, she focuses on eyes, faces and torsos as she offers a glimpse into the inner lives of her subjects.

Channel 6 News / April 29, 2016
Omaha is about to experience a Costa Rican art extravaganza at the opening of "Color Power" in the Nicholas Gallery, Hot Shops Art Center, 1301 Nicholas St, Omaha, NE 68102. The exhibition by three Costa Rican fine art Masters, Isidro Con Wong, Monica Lizano and Elisa Morera is part of the building relationship between Omaha and San Jose, Costa Rica artists. A Cultural Exchange between the two cities was spearheaded by Morera who moved to Omaha last year. Last February, with the help of Juan Diego Roldan, Director, Centro Cultural Costarricense-Norteamericano, she organized a group from Omaha's Artists' Cooperative (Lori Elliot-Bartle, Cheri Ginsburg, Linda Hatfield, Judith Anthony Johnston, Katrina Method-Swanson) to exhibit their work for four weeks in San Jose. Now we have the turn of the Costa Rican artists to display their unique colorful passionate interpretation of life through the eyes of Latinos. Following on from this will be another group of Latinos, June 1st, at the Artists' Cooperative.

Linda Hatfield / January 19, 2016
One of five featured artists in June, Elisa Morera spent most of her life in Costa Rica. As a young woman she studied over a five-year period with five painting masters from whom she learned a wide variety of techniques and styles including still life, landscapes, impressionism, hyper-realism and abstraction. In works displayed here, Morera focuses on details and fragments of flowers and fruit, as well as surrealistic pieces that evoke emotion in a theatrical scene. In her portrayals of the human figure, she focuses on eyes, faces and torsos as she offers a glimpse into the inner lives of her subjects.

La Pensa Libre Newspaper / September 03, 2013
Part of the legacy that the artist Elisa Morera wants to transmit is the strength and conviction with which she makes her works of art. "I think that art goes beyond a game of many things. We always look for to show or that we have inside and my Catharsis collection was part of that exhaust valve that I could use in a very hard time of my life in which almost 2 Years without being able to paint. Since she recalls Morera who loved to paint and it was during her early years when she decided to enter private classes with different teachers. This artistic enrichment allowed him to have a good command of techniques.

Diario Extra / July 12, 2013
Madres, esposas y empresarias. Las mujeres costarricenses vienen desempeñándose en todos los campos de la sociedad, sin dejar de lado el ámbito donde socialmente se las ha confinado, el hogar.

Sobre estos temas y los retos que tienen las pequeñas y medianas empresarias conversó un grupo de emprendedoras del Programa para el Desarrollo de las Mujeres Empresarias de la Cámara de Comercio de Costa Rica.

"Para mí es un honor el día de hoy recibir a estas mujeres líderes en sus respectivos campos. Como bien sabemos para la mujer no siempre es fácil ponerse a la cabeza de muchas iniciativas, sobre todo cuando se llega por primera vez, por lo que muchas de ellas han abierto brecha y son un ejemplo e inspiración. Además demuestran que en Cosa Rica no hay punto de regreso en materia de equidad femenina", afirmó Chinchilla.

Las invitadas le llevaron a la Presidenta un obsequio que consistía en un zapato pintado por la artista costarricense Elisa Morera, que representa la femineidad y la fuerza que tienen las empresarias, a quienes todavía no se les da el lugar que deben tener al lado de la fuerza gerencial masculina.
 

The Rose Movement Costa Rica / June 20, 2013
These are the two most important senses against the cancer fight. Bocas and its elongated shape is to emphasize that we should always fearlessly always say what we feel, many women when they go through the process of finding a different situation in their body are afraid to say it and that can cause death.

The Rose Movement Costa Rica / June 20, 2013
This is a bra that has a silver color that for me means the breast that left, but although it is not found, it still conserves that space its beauty, it shows with a stone the cancer that appeared. The other breast is white and pink, it symbolizes what we have left to care for and the small holes are the different cysts or carcinomas that many have and must be vigilant.
 

La Nación Newspaper / May 23, 2009

A few simple river stones have been transformed by 14 of the group "The 20 Artists" into works of art. The stones were treated according to the artistic expression, others sculpted and some were added vidios, fabrics, giving a result of the primitive to the contemporary. Total is 85 works that are exhibited under the name of "RUPESTRE" in the hotel Corteza Amarilla, in Colon city and from Tuesday, in the Institute of Mexico in Los Yoses. Although among the group there are sculptors, working river stones was a novelty for all. This work has been a novelty for all. "It has been very rewarding and rewarding because we had to investigate how to intervene the stones," Elisa Morera told La Nacion. The exhibition is very heterogeneous and is characterized by reflecting the artistic personality.

La Nación Newspaper / May 23, 2009
A lot of mud chanchitos were possession the Shophia Wanamaker gallery of the North American Costa Rican Cultural Center (CCCN) in the Yoses, Costa Rica. In this occasion the swines piggies that normally are used like reaches or decoration of many dormitories of children merge with other real beings and fictional, to create a colorful, critical and fun work.

Under the name of "La Chanchada 2009" the Artist Elisa Morera presents a collection of 25 ceramics chanchitos intervened with different techniques and materials to give life to the peculiar exhibition. From there, the rest of the memory remained, so they even proposed to make a "Chancho(Piggy) Parade" to the best style of the "Cow Parade" that lived in Costa Rica a year ago. It was as well as animated by friends, family and colleagues. The creativity of the works of Morera is not limited only to the form if not the names that are part of it. The manager of this porcine syncretism seized the ordinary ceramics of pigs in Different sizes, the polish, altered their forms the paint and resin and intervened with all kinds of materials emerging from them magical beings capable of counting them just looking at them. The sample of Elisa Morera is part of the exchange which the CCCN conducts and which brings together a proposal from the interest to support issues that contribute to the construction of identity, based on the diversity of aesthetic and cultural disciplines as a multiform and sociocultural approach that synthesize their conclusions through the medium of the aesthetic objective. Elisa Morera in each of the works of art in addition to being beautiful, make the audience laugh and reflect on the role that each person in the society associates with, so the artist not only uses his talent and imagination, which justifies each one of them. The aspects that permeate each creation.
 

CCCN / September 2, 2009
Pig Parade at Costa Rican North American Cultural Centre

CCCN / September 2, 2009
Pig Parade at Costa Rican North American Cultural Centre

CCCN / September 2, 2009

Pig Parade at Costa Rican North American Cultural Centre
 

La Nación Newspaper / April 24, 2007

Sculptors and painters Costa Ricans and foreigners uncritically approach the subject of the nude in an itinerant exhibition. Extract of Elisa Morera, this artist the painting called "Catharsis" and "Frustration" We must learn from the beauty of the naked, from childhood to maturity. Morera highlights the challenge of this subject. We must rescue the artistic nude leaving aside pornography and also must we think of the physical nude, Morera said - we must also think of the emotional nakedness that comes when the human being is completely in evidence.
 

La República Newspaper / November 18, 2006

As it is said the union makes the force. 15 national and international artists make up the Group gave the hand to promote their projects. This is "The 20 Artists". In Costa Rica it is very difficult for artists to promote their art, "said the artist Elisa Morera, so we seek to open new opportunities," added Elisa Morera. Interested artists must submit their CV and be accepted by the 15 people who are currently trained. The review takes into account technical and personal aspects of the interested party without a "mathematical formula". To show their art for the first time, the artists assemble a sample Collective this Thursday, in Visions Gallery, Escazú Commented its leader Francisco Castro Lostalo.
 

La Nación Newspaper / November 20, 2006

Convinced that a collective effort has greater repercussion than individual initiatives, several plastic artists came together to launch the adventure of integrate a group called 'The 20 ARTISTS' The group opening today at 7pm its first collective exhibition in the Visions Gallery Gallery , Escazu, San Jose The group consists of: Ricardo Alfieri, Leda Astorga, Renate Bale, Juan Carlos Chavarria, Olga Dorado, Cristina Bonilla, Lilibeth Martinez, Sebastian Mello, Florencia Madrigal, Elisa Morera, Mariamarta Pacheco, Irene Saenz, Arturo Santana And Ana Wien.
 

La Prensa Libre Newspaper / November 18, 2006 

Art in all its manifestations occupies a primordial place in each society, but the lack of support does not occupy that important site. This situation led a group of national painters and sculptors to talk about the current situation in the art and artistic field and on the opportunities available to artists. Many were the questions but they arrived at the great conclusion that before the challenges and difficulties the best thing was to join. That was born the group “The 20 Artists”, it was decided that the maximum would be 20 but for the moment would be only 15 with the possibility of uniting new artists. The members of the group are Ricardo Alfieri, Leda Astorga, Renate Bale, Juan Carlos Chavarria, Olga Dorado, Cristina Bonilla, Lilibeth Martinez, Sebastian Mello, Florencia Madrigal, Elisa Morera, Mariamarta Pacheco, Irene Saenz, Arturo Santana and Ana Wien. "When we speak of art, there is no mathematical formula with which to establish a single criterion of selection. However, within our rules, it is established that each artist interested in the group, in the first installation must be proposed by a member of the Group The 20 artists and send their information of their artistic work to be valued said the leader (Francisco Castro). For 2009 are working in Canada in which they will be performing in the middle of the year.