Marta Sanchez
Artist/ Painter/Educator/Activist
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Marta Sanchez
Artist/ Painter/Educator
EDUCATION
1986 MFA in Painting, Tyler School of Art/ Temple University, Philadelphia, PA,
1984-85 Tyler School of Art, Temple Abroad Program, Rome. Italy
1979-82 BFA in Painting, University of Texas at Austin
AWARDS
2014 Independence Foundation Fellowships in the Arts
2010 Transformation Award, Leeway Foundation
2006 Art and Change Grant, Leeway Foundation
2002 Window of Opportunity Grant, Leeway Foundation
1998-99 Simons Recreation Center Public Art Competition Winner, City of Philadelphia
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2018 Teaching Artist of the Month for October 2018, Lifetime Arts, New Rochelle, NY
2017-20 Member of ArtTable, NY, NY
2015-20 Member, Women’s Philanthropy Network, Philadelphia Foundation, Philadelphia, PA
2005-20 Art Instructor, St. Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, PA
2019-20 Ward Chair Woman, 21st Ward, Roxborough, PA
2014-20 Democratic Committee member, 21st Ward, Roxborough, PA
2012-20 Brandywine Workshop Local Advisory Committee, Philadelphia, PA
2013-18 Education Advisory Committee for Visitenos Program, Taller Puertorriqueno, Philadelphia, PA
2004-05 Member, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Committee on Latin American Outreach
2004-10 Member, The Philadelphia Museum of Art Committee on Education
2004-13 Member, Inliquid.com Board member
2004-10 Member, The Free Library of Philadelphia Print and Picture
Collection Committee
2009-10 Delegate Selection Committee and Regional Leader for Vision 2020 In Equality, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA
2000-16 Art Instructor, Springside Chestnut Hill Academy, Philadelphia, PA
2000-02 Part-time instructor, Tyler School of Art/Temple University
1997-02 Coordinating assistant of outreach program, Division of Education, Philadelphia Museum of Art.
1997-12 Museum teacher, Philadelphia Museum of Art
2001-08 Member, Art in City Hall Exhibition Committee, Philadelphia P
1997-02 Member, Philadelphia Art Alliance Exhibition Committee
1997-00 Member, Taller Puertorriqueño ’s Exhibition Committee Philadelphia, PA
1998- 08 Instructor, ARTSTART Program, Tyler School of Art/Temple University
1992-19 Founder and coordinator, Cascarones Por La Vida/Cascarones for Life, an annual fundraiser
benefiting children with AIDS and the homeless of Philadelphia.
1997 Coordinator, Latin Artist Forum ‘97: Mapping Creative Energy, the first citywide created by and for
Latino artist of all disciplines, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020 Pensando en el Paraíso, Public art for HACE, Philadelphia, PA
Spiritual Armor, Public art for HACE, Philadelphia, PA
2019 Train of Thoughts, Ben Bailey Art Gallery, Texas A&M University -Kingsville,Kingsville, TX
Unfolding the life of Blanca Estela, The Mercersburg Academy Burgin Center for the Arts, Mercersburg, PA
Hopes and Memory, Pauly Friedman Art Gallery, Misericordia University, Dallas, PA
2018 Reclaiming Gurney St., Public Art for HACE, Philadelphia, PA
Train of Thoughts, House Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2015 Cuentos, The Art of Marta Sanchez, Midland College, Midland Texas
Unfolding the life of Blanca Estela, Crawford Center Campus Gallery, Episcopal Academy, Newtown Square, PA
Transcendental Train Yards, The Philadelphia Art, Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
2013 Marta Sanchez, Priya Gallery, Woodbury NJ
2012 Arte Bendito/Arte Filantropico, Taller Puertorriqueño,
Philadelphia, PA
2003 New Works on Paper in conjunction with National Council of La Raza 35th Annual Conference, Austin, TX
2002 Transcendental Train Yards/ and Other Stories, From the Heart, St. Joseph University, Philadelphia, PA
2000 Solo exhibition, Guadalupe Art Center, San Antonio, TX
Transcendental Train Yard: A Narrative Landscape, Pennsylvania State University, Middletown, PA
1997 The Ritualistic Narratives of Marta Sanchez, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
1996 Con Safos/With Soul, The Walt Whitman Cultural Art Center, Camden, NJ
SELECTED INVITATIONAL AND JURIED EXHIBITION
2019 Voyages by Road and Sea: Philadelphia Perspectives on Walt Whitman and Herman Melville, featuring collaborative with Norma E. Cantu. The Philadelphia Free Library of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
The Woodmere Annual: 78th Juried Exhibition Eileen Neff Juror, Woodmere Art Museum,Philadelphia, PA
2018 Making Space, Leeway Foundation, Moore College of Art Philadelphia, PA
Diversity Driven: 1975-2017, Brandywine Workshop and Archive, Philadelphia, PA
Looking In: Portraits and their Stories. Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA
2016 Confetti Eggs: Cascarones Por La Vida Art Fund, Creativity for a Cause, Art at the Airport, Philadelphia, PA
2015 -20 Pennsylvania Icons, The State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA
2015 Inaugural Exhibit of the Pennsylvania Art And Children’s Program, The State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA
2015 The McNay Print Fair, Ruiz-Healy Art, San Antonio Texas
2014 Art Basil, Miami Beach, Florida Ruiz-Healy Art
Gotas Hacen Mares, Borrelli’s Chestnut Hill Gallery, Phila.PA
Visual Narratives, prints from the Brandywine Workshop, Art in City Hall, Philadelphia, PA
2012 Dialogo 365: Carpe Diem, Philadelphia City Hall,
Philadelphia PA
Full Spectrum: Prints from the Brandywine Workshop, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia PA
2011-14 WE ARE YOU, Five-year traveling exhibition, traveling from New York to Europe. Wilmer Jennings Gallery, NY, NY
2011-15 Chicanaitas, Small Paintings from the Cheech Marin Collection {size doesn’t matter}, U.S. Traveling exhibition, curated by the Mesa Contemporary Arts, Mesa Arizona
2011 Arte Tejano: De Campos, Barrios y Fronteras, OSDE Espacio de Arte, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2010 Suenos: Contemporary Latin American Art, Noyes Museum of Art, Oceanville, New Jersey
2010 Daniel Brewer and Marta Sanchez: New works on Paper
Chestnut Hill Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2009 “Fusion,” American Classics meet Latin American Art, The Biggs Museum of American Art, Dover, DE
2008 Vidas Hispanas, Mundos Latinos-Simplicidad y Complejidad (Hispanic Lives, Latin Worlds, -Simple Complexities), Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE
2008-10 Celebration of Visual Traditions/New Works of Diverse Pennsylvania Artists/traveling exhibition, Penn State University, University Park, Jump Street Whitaker Center, Harrisburg, Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, PA Heeschen Gallery, Meadville Council on the Arts, Meadville, PA, African American Museum in Philadelphia, Philadelphia PA
2008 Memorias, a group exhibition of Latino and Latin American Artists in the Delaware Valley, Artesanos Gallery Philadelphia PA
2008 Frida and Me- Common Threads, Project Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
CHICANO ART AND SOUL, Cheech Marin Collection, The Muzeo, Anaheim, California
2007 Moving Culture (all over the map), Euphrat Museum, De Anza College Cupertino California
2006 Creative Exchanges, Rutgers Camden Center for the Arts
2001-03 Chicano Visions: American Painters on the Verge, traveling exhibit featuring the private collection of Cheech Marin. Featured at the San Antonio Museum of Art, Smithsonian Museum of Science and Industry, Washington D.C. Clear Channel Inc. presentation.
2001-03 Imagenes e Historias/Images and Histories: Chicana
1999 Altar-Inspired Art (Traveling exhibition): Tufts University, Medford MA, University of California, Santa Clara, The University of Texas, Lubbock, Texas
1998 A Sense of Self: Contemporary Ethnic Women Artist, The Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies, Philadelphia, PA
La Expression de un Pueblo en Pennsylvania: Artistas Latinos Contemporaneos (The Expressions of People in Pennsylvania), The State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg PA
Not Soon Forgotten: Homage to Paul Robeson, invitational mural exhibition, Levy Gallery, Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA
Artist Selection ll, Two-part invitational exhibition of six recognized and six new artists of Latin American and Caribbean heritages. Nexus Foundation for Today’s Art, Philadelphia, PA
1997 Art and Religion: The Many Faces of Faith (multi-ethnic interfaith exhibition); Villanova University Art Gallery Villanova, PA, The Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies, Philadelphia, PA (award for Excellence in Painting)
Latino Art in the Capital, (juried exhibition in celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month) The State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA (Honorable Mention)
1997 The Varieties of Religious Experience, The Painted Bride Art Center’s Annual Independent Curator’s Series, Curator Sid Sachs, Philadelphia, PA
Retablos and Vessels: The Ritualistic Narratives of Marta Sanchez and Susan Donato, Taller Puertorriqueno, Philadelphia, PA
1996 Rome Selection: 30 Years of the Tyler School of Art, Temple/ Rome Program, Temple Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Ars Botanica: Art and Nature, City Hall, Philadelphia, PA
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2019 Train of Thought, video Ben Bailey Art Gallery, Texas A&M University -Kingsville, Kingsville, Tx
The Woodmere Annual: 78th Juried Exhibition catalog Eileen Neff Juror, Philadelphia, PA https://issuu.com/woodmereartmuseum/docs/annual2019_catalogue_final/44
Artist shares Mexican-American celebrate art, celebration and tradition, Mary Therese Biebel, July 22,2019 https://www.timesleader.com/features/750485/artist-shares-mexican-american-artcelebration-traditions
Steps from Philly’s former heroin encampment along Conrail’s tracks, affordable housing for seniors will soon rise, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Caitlin McCabe, Residential Real Estate Reporter, May 16,2019 https://www.philly.com/real-estate/housing/casa-indiana-hace-affordable-senior-housing-development-fairhill-north-philadelphia-conrail-heroin-encampment-20190516.html
Hispanics in Philanthropy conference intervew https://drive.google.com/open?id=1eDGaXLd3B_2IpEZDh9e4fOajk3r-tC9C
Somos En Escrito, The Latino Literary Online Magazine, May 13,2019 https://somosenescrito.weebly.com/writings-escritos/archives/04-
2018 A new vision at former ‘El Campamento’ site
Al DIA http://aldianews.com/articles/culture/social/new-vision-former-el-campamento-site/53859
Marta Sanchez Beautifies the Conrail Yards, by Suji Kanneganti, INLIQUID art and DESIGN, Member News, https://inliquid.org/member-news/marta-sanchez-beautifies-the-conrail-yard-gurney-st-philadelphia/
2016 Pains, Trains, and Automobiles, The mechanics of meaning in works by Marta Sánchez and Margarita Cabrera, presented by Dr. Constance Cortez, IUPLR Fifth Biennial Latino Art Now! Conference, Chicago, Ill
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2015 Transcendental Train yards, Wings Press, San Antonio, TX http://wingspress.com/book.cfm?book_ID=203
2014 Collective of Latino artists open exhibit in Chestnut Hill, Tara Lynn Johnson, 21st Century Media
OPERATING OUTSIDE THE LINES, video documentary about Brandywine Workshop, Scribe Video Center, Philadelphia PA
2012 On Faith, Dreams, and Art, Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies, UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, Los Angeles, CA
2012 Archival file established for the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection, University of Texas at Austin, Texas
Philadelphia Folklore Project, PFP’s artist biography for 2012 Community Supported Art (CSA program) http://www.folkloreproject.org/folkarts/artists/sanchez_m/index.php
2011 Mt. Airy Artist Receives $15,000 Leeway Transformation Award
Sara Zia Ebrahimi, Mt. Airy Patch, Philadelphia
2010 Artwork used for the set of NBC television series, OutLaws
2007 Interview for Teachers Package for the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Education Department
From San Antonio to Mount Airy with love (and fine art), by Jillian Byron, Chestnut Hill Local, November 2007
Marta Sanchez, Hispanic Today, September 2007
2004 Marta Sanchez, An Artist’s Journey by Wuanda Walls in Art Matters, Philadelphia, PA August 2004
2002 Mestiza Aesthetics and Chicana Painterly Visions by Tere Romo, essay from Chicano Visions American Painters on the Verge, Bulfinch Press Book, Boston, New York, London
2002 Aztlan in Tejas: Chicano/Chicana Art from the Third Coast by Constance Cortez, essay from Chicano Visions American Painters
on the Verge, Bulfinch Press Book, Boston, New York, London
Contemporary Chicana and Chicano Art: Artist, Work, Culture, and Education, Arizona State University (see: www.latinoartcommunity.com)
2000 Quotable Women, published by Running Press, Philadelphia, PA
1999 Women Artists, 1940 to the Present and Contemporary Latin-American Artists educational slide sets produced by Davis Art Slides, Worcester, MA
1998 Hispanic Artist in the Capital, Diana Myers-Bennett Roberts in Art Matters Philadelphia, PA December 1998-January 1999,
The Art t of Womanhood by Rene Lucas Wayne in October 16,1998, Philadelphia Daily News
A Sense of Self: Ethnic Women’s Perspective in Art by Deborah R. Kravetz November 1998, Art Matters, Philadelphia, PA
1997 Mothers, published by Running Press, Philadelphia, PA
Radio interview for Art and Religion exhibition, Radio Times, WHYY, Philadelphia, PA, July
1996 Profile: Marta Sanchez by Judy Hartheimer, (May 15, Vol. 62, No. 25) Germantown Courier, (Philadelphia, PA
1995 Break an Egg: David Warner’s Critic’s Pick, April 14-24 (no. 556),Philadelphia City Paper 1995
1995 In the Family, Abington Art Center exhibition featured by Karen Smyles, CNN Headline News
Family in all forms is exhibition’s subject by Pheralyn, Pore, Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia, PA
GUEST LECTURES AND PANEL DISCUSSIONS
2019 Cascarones Por La Vida Panel, featured during the 2019 DreamWeek Conference, San Antonio, Texas
2018 Keynote speaker for “Towards and Aesthetics of South Texas Women Artists”, Texas A&M University, Kingsville, TX
2017 Chicana Art & Artists in the Twenty-First Century, Symposium, Trinity University, San Antonio, TX
Poetry on Art: Mariachis and Train Yards in the Southwest, 38th Annual Southwest Popular/American Culture Association
Annual Conference, Hyatt Regency Hotel and Conference Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico
2016 Transcendental Train yards presentation, Gemini Ink Conference, ` San Antonio, TX 14th Annual A Viva Voz! A Panel presentation with Marta Sanchez, and Liliana Wilson, moderated by Norma E. Cantu. The Benson Latin American Collection, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
2015 Discover your Inner Philanthropist, Philadelphia Foundation, Philadelphia, PA,
To mentor is to educate, the innate instincts of Frank Bramblett, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA http://issuu.com/woodmereartmuseum/docs/bramblett-catalogue-fnl-pgs
2013 Hispanic Art, The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia PA
2009 Bridging Art and Literature, an Anzaldúan, Practice, co-presenter, with Norma E. Cantú, Panel for The Society for the Study of American Women Writers, Philadelphia, PA
2008 Kahlo Today: A Contemporary Artists Panel, moderator, co curator Emily Hage, Lesley Dill, Sarah McEneaney, Janet Kaplan Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
2008 Keynote speaker for the Women’s Studies Institute, University of Texas in San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas
2003 Keynote speaker, Latinas Breakfast, National Council of La Raza, 35th Annual Conference, Austin, TX
Art and Activism, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA
1999 Weaving the Threads for Quality Care, presenter for the Philadelphia Museum of Art” DVAEYC & PICC Conference, Philadelphia, PA
1998 Ties That Bind, panel discussion, The Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia, PA
1998 Retablo Art, Guest lecture, Pennsylvania State University, Schuylkill Haven, PA
1997 Healing Through Culture/ A Level Playing Field, Panel discussion for the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts
WORKSHOPS
2018 With Moving Stories: Sharing Memories through Art-Making, Taller Puertorriqueño, Philadelphia, PA
2008 Art and Society, a panel and workshop for teachers in the Delaware Valley, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
2003 Art and Activism, panel leader, National council of La Raza Conference Austin Texas
1998 Development of a Latino-Inclusive Community Based Curriculum, Latino Cultures Art Education Conference, Kutztown University, Kutztown, PA
Retablo Workshop, Nexus Foundation for Today’s Art, Philadelphia, PA
Teacher of numerous outreach workshops in the Philadelphia School district sponsored by Taller Puertorriqueno, Philadelphia, PA
1996 Printmaking sessions for Taller Puertorriqueno’s Youth Artist Program, funded by the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Samuel Fels Fund, and the Philadelphia Foundation
AIDS Street Bilingual Banner Project; Outreach coordinator and teacher, Funded by All Walks of Life, Philadelphia, PA
VISITING ARTIST PROGRAM
2002 Brandywine Workshop, Philadelphia, PA
1998 Vail Visiting Artist Program, Denison University, Granville, Ohio
Coronado Studio, Austin, Texas
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS (list incomplete)
2020 St. Joseph’s University, Art Collection, Philadelphia, PA
2019 Library, Kingsville, TX
2018 The Free Library of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
HACE, Philadelphia, PA
2016 Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
2016 University of Michigan, Lansing, MI
University of Texas in San Antonio, TX
2015 Midland College, Midland Texas
Dr. Constance Cortez, Lubbock, Texas
2014 Barbara Bassett, Philadelphia
Shelly Langdale, Philadelphia, PA
2013 Luis Cortez, president and CEO of Esperanza USA, the largest Hispanic faith-based evangelical network in the United States.
2013 Arturo B. Suarez, Executive Director Positive Solutions Charter School, San Antonio, Texas
Robert Hunt, Philadelphia, PA
Dr. Priscilla Sands
2012 Lydia and John Krzemisnski, Philadelphia PA
2011 Noyes Museum of Art, Oceanville, New Jersey
2010 National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago, IL
Dr. Gilberto Cardenas, Institute for Latino Studies-Norte Dame
2009 The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia PA
University of California in Los Angeles, Los Angeles California
2009 The McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX
2008 La Salle University Museum, Philadelphia PA
Bill Salas, Philadelphia, PA
University of Texas, San Antonio, Texas
University of Texas at Austin, Benson Latin American Collection
2005 Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin, TX
Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX
2004 The University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio Texas
Bob Brand, Philadelphia, PA
Ricardo Romo, San Antonio, TX
Norma E. Cantú, San Antonio, Texas
2001 Cheech Marin, Los Angeles, CA
2001- Print and Picture Collection, The Free Library of Philadelphia,
2000 Simons Recreation Center, Philadelphia, PA
1999 The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, New Britain, Pennsylvania
1998 Vail Visiting Artist Archives, Denison University, Granville, OH
The Museum of Fine Art, St. Petersburg, FL
West Regional Library of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
The State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA
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