The Printing Museum is pleased to announce the Fall 2021 class of the Museum’s Artist-in-Residence Program. The artists will join the vibrant, creative community at the museum and use our studio spaces and teaching resources to create unique bodies of work.
Launched last fall, the Artists-in-Residence provides access to TPM studios, one-on-one instruction in book arts, mentorship, and a materials stipend. Each artist will create a unique body of work from the residency and donate an edition to the museum.
Welcome!
Melissa Aytenfisu
Melissa Aytenfisu specializes in oil painting, printmaking, digital print media and mixed media collage. A native of Edmonton, Alberta, Aytenfisu earned a Bachelor’s degree in Education at the University of Alberta and a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts degree at Concordia University. Aytenfisu’s experience growing up in a multi-racial family of nine and travelling through Africa, Asia and North America have directed her artistic practice towards themes of identity, mobility and social justice.
Gaby Hurtado-Ramos
Gaby Hurtado-Ramos is a multi-disciplinary artist making prints and illustrations dedicated to immigrant justice and queer futures. Her drawings express queer resilience through instances of joy and pleasure in the midst of a world on fire. Inspired by radical printmakers, Gaby believes art should be socially engaged and accessible. Following this tradition, she crafts illustrations and prints that support immigrant communities and organizing in the US/Mexico borderlands. She has collaborated with groups in Tucson including the Coalición de Derechos Humanos, Mariposas Sin Fronteras, Borderlands Theater, and the Jewish History Museum.
E. Oscar Maynard
E. “Oscar” Maynard has a self-designed B.A. in Visual Art, Psychology, and Gender Studies from Antioch College and an MFA from San Francisco Art Institute in Printmaking. Their work has been shown at Somarts, Mission Cultural Center, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and in National Queer Arts Festival shows. In 2016, they curated You Are Enough, a visual arts show looking at mental health and survival through a queer lens. Past residencies and fellowships include: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Blue Mountain Center, the Equal Justice residency at Santa Fe Art Institute, Kala Art Institute, and A Studio in the Woods. They fell in love with letterpress in 2017 and have never looked back.
Ignacio E. Sanchez
Ignacio Eloy Sanchez, better known as “Nacho,” is a Mexican-American artist whose work is recognized for its colors, patterns, repetition, and his travels to Mexico and South America. Nacho experiments with scale in artwork ranging from paintings to murals where he utilizes various mediums such as ink, pastels, acrylics, oil bars, and aerosol paint.
Nacho recently received his Bachelor’s of Arts from the University of Houston. Recent exhibitions include Dolores Huerta: Revolution in the Field/Revolucion en los Campos at the Holocaust Museum Houston and a mural at the Station Museum.
Nacho currently resides in Houston’s historic Third Ward where he works with local businesses and nonprofits to bring color and life to the neighborhood.