Artist-in-Residence

Artist-in-Residence at the MACC

The Artist in Residence (AiR) studio is committed to providing artists of all backgrounds and mediums a designated space to experiment and create new work with access to the MACC’s state of the art facilities and exhibition space.

Our first series of Artist’s participating in the AiR program are featured in ¡Es Hora! / It’s Time!: Mexican American Art in El Paso 1960 – Now, in the MACC Main Gallery. Painter, Marianna Olague, will be our artist in residence for the month of April. Photographer, Ingrid Leyva, will be our artist in residence for the month of May. Printmaker, Marco Sanchez, will be our artist in residence for the month of June. All participating artists will lead a public workshop, present an artist talk, and hold open studio hours for visitors to learn more about their work and process.

June 2025 Artist-in-Residence: Marco Sánchez

Marco Sánchez; born in Ciudad Juarez, 1983, he is a visual artist based out in El Paso, Texas, where attended and received his B.F.A. from the University of Texas El Paso with a double concentration in Painting and Printmaking. Sánchez received his MFA in Printmaking from the Edinboro University of Pennsylvania in May of 2020. He has also participated in residencies throughout Southern and Central Mexico, in Cleveland at Zygote Press where he has served as juror for their BIPOC Fellowships. Sánchez is a visual artists, educator and curator whose practice is primarily conducted via printmaking, he’s also versed at oil painting, drawing, wood working and mixed media. His current studio investigations consist in the honoring of ancestral and familial knowledge and traditions. He serves as an Assistant Professor of Art at El Paso Community College. In the 2022-2023 academic year he was elected as a Mellow Foundation Fellow with the Humanities, in partnership with the University of Texas at El Paso and El Paso Community College.

Sánchez has exhibited nationally and internationally, most notably at the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago, the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque, Madison Wisconsin University, El Paso Museum of Art, was one of the inaugural exhibiting artist of the MACC in El Paso and most notably at the previous Presidential Palace in Mexico City, Centro Cultural Los Pinos.

Sánchez is Founder | Director of Taller La Espina and of El Paso Print Pachanga.

AiR Studio

• Open Studio Hours: Wednesday & Thursday from 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

AiR Workshop

Participants will choose from a selection of laser engraved plates and will learn the intaglio printing process. Optionally, there is a large block Marco will be working on which participants could assist in carving if they so choose to.

• Date: Saturday, June 7, 2025 from 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
• Title: Laser Engraved Intaglio & Intro to Large Format Carving with Marco Sánchez
• Location: Artist-in-Residence Studio
• Type: Intaglio Printing & Large Block Carving
• Registration: Free. Registration required. Please email [email protected] to sign up! 15+ and older. Space is limited.

AiR Artist Talk

Marco will give an overview of his first encounters with printmaking and how this practice has impacted his journey and artistic practice. Marco will also share about learning the different methodologies while pursuing his undergraduate degree and how he sharpened them in grad school, to his time in residencies on both sides of the border. There will be insight into what influences his imagery, and the familial, cultural and sociopolitical content that shapes his work.

• Date: Saturday, July 19, 2025 from 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
• Title: Printmaking: Traditions, Dissemination of Ideas, Art & Resistance
• Location: Auditorium
• Registration: Free. NO registration required.