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Award-Winning Work in Juried Art Shows for Over Twenty Years

   
 



  

Awards & Honors

1st Place, Oil Painting, International Exhibition IV, The Laredo Art League, Laredo, TX.

1st Place, The National Society of Arts & Letters Career Award in Oil Painting, Washington, D. C.

1st Place, Portraiture, Grand Prairie Parks & Recreation Juried Exhibition, Grand Prairie, TX.

Honorable Mention, Breckenridge Fine Arts Juried Show, Breckenridge, TX.

Acceptance in the Arlington Visual Artist's Association's and the San Antonio Art League's annual exhibitions. 		  

Education & Training

The University of Texas, Bachelor of Fine Arts.  Concentration:  drawing and painting.

North Lake College, A.A.S. Computer Graphics.  G.P.A. 3.9.

Teaching certificate, secondary level art, from the Texas Education Agency.

Academic Honors

Dean's List.

Who's Who Among Students in American Universities & Colleges. 		  
  

BIOGRAPHY

   

  

         

The Artist's Heritage

    On the artist's father's side, his great-grand father brought the large Sanchez family from the ranch country of Villa de Sabinas-Hidalgo, in the northern state of Nuevo Leon.  Most of them eventually settled in New Braunfels, in rural south-central Texas.

On his mother's side, his grandparents came to Texas with their children and other relatives from rural Las Lermas, near Monterrey, also in Nuevo Leon state.  They settled within San Antonio's humble Mexican immigrant community. 		   Within families, displacement and assimil- ation bring change.  And so, the artist was of the first generation to be brought up in an English-language-only household.  Instances when his parents spoke Spanish happened only when discussions between them turned private, or while they brought him along on visits with older relatives.

These experiences, among others, left lasting impressions, leading the artist later in life to examine what constitutes his identity and what gives people a sense of belonging. 		  
A native born Texan who's from San Antonio, Marc Sanchez is a second generation U.S. citizen who iden-tifies as a Mexican-American, from his heritage.  Some one hundred years ago, his ancestors were among the steady wave of Mexican nationals who had to abandon their homeland because of conditions before and during the Mexican Revolution.

         
  

  Formal Art Classes and Undergraduate Work

As a teenager, with money earned by doing yardwork, he enrolled for summer classes at the Southwest Craft Center in San Antonio - which later became the Southwest School of Art and Craft.  Celebrated watercolorist and instructor, Caroline Shelton, was generous with her encouragement for the young artist. He also took instruction at the San Antonio Art Institute, which was once on the grounds of the McNay Art Museum. 		   At the University of Texas, he first majored in chemistry.  However, believing in his artistic ability - especially after receiving the recognition and generous support from the National Society of Arts and Letters - he committed to finishing his degree with a major in art.  He had come to realize, with invaluable help and instruction from the faculty, that he indeed was a painter.

While also helping to operate a paint and wallpaper store during these years, he returned to campus for the credits to earn a teaching certificate from the Texas Education Agency.  With years of study, which spanned across an array of different subjects, he had demon- strated a passion for learning.



  

Teaching and the Transition to the New Visual Media

In teaching art at a Texas public school for thirteen years, the artist acquired and shared an objective and practical method to understanding art, by using steps developed in art criticism and art history.  During these years, however, a revolution in C.G.I. (computer graphical interface) was well under way, and bringing with it new visual media.  Needing to keep up with the changes, he left the public school campus to return once more, as a student, to the college campus.  He earned another degree - associate of applied science, computer graphics.  Production of this website has been one of the outcomes since he acquired new media experience.