Molly Rivera grew up surrounded by the Great Lakes. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Minnesota-Duluth in 2017 with an emphasis in ceramics and art history. In 2020, she graduated from the University of Montana in Missoula with a Master of Fine Arts. She has taught several courses at the University of Montana, as well as community classes at Northern Clay Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In 2018 she was a director for a nonprofit gallery, FrontierSpace, located in Missoula, MT and in 2020 she began working as the Gallery Associate for Clay Coyote Gallery & Pottery in Hutchinson, MN. Molly is currently the Executive Director for the Hutchinson Center for the Arts. Her work has been exhibited nationally and is part of permanent collections at the Tweed Museum of Art and the Montana Museum of Art and Culture. Often autobiographical, her work explores the effects of time on memories and our attempts to preserve them.