Amalia Polleri
Amalia Polleri de Viana was a Uruguayan teacher, artist, poet, journalist, and art critic.
Biography
Amalia Polleri devoted herself to painting, sculpture, engraving, poetry, and storytelling. She was a teacher of drawing and defender of women's rights. She wrote for La República, El Diario, La Mañana, Brecha, and other print media. She also worked in radio journalism. She received the from B'nai B'rith Uruguay.She was a teacher of secondary education at the Instituto de Profesores Artigas and Universidad del Trabajo del Uruguay.
Polleri died on 18 June 1996, at the age of 86.
In 2013, an exhibition was held at the that reviewed part of her work.