January 18 – A Land That Remembers: Workshop with Alejandro Macías
Sunday, January 18, 2026 | 11 am | 516 Arts | Free/Sliding Scale Ticketing | RSVP Required
Image credit: Alejandro Macías
516 ARTS is pleased to host an artist-led workshop with Alejandro Macías, whose multidisciplinary practice moves across painting, drawing, and video to examine questions of identity, migration, and belonging. This is your opportunity to engage more deeply with the ideas that shape his work on view in The Armor We Wear, and to hear directly from the artist about the processes—both material and conceptual—behind his practice.
Students in this workshop will explore mixed-media painting and drawing techniques through the format of portraiture. Working with acrylic and graphite on paper, they will develop their traditional drawing and observational skills while simultaneously exploring abstraction. The result will be a series of “split portraits” presenting a range of materials and artistic executions. All levels.
Alejandro Macías has been an artist in residence at Vermont Studio Center, The Studios at MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts, CALA Alliance, Phoenix, Arizona, the Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency in Granville, New York, among others. He was the recipient of the Lehmann Emerging Artist award, which included a two-person exhibition at the Phoenix Art Museum, and has had solo shows at Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts, Lubbock, Texas, Presa House Gallery, San Antonio, Texas, Tucson Museum of Art, and Latch Key Gallery, New York, New York. His artwork was recently featured in the New York Times. He is currently Associate Professor of Painting and Drawing at the University of Arizona School of Art in Tucson, where he lives and works.
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Image credit: Alejandro Macías, Drowning Man, 2025