BUCKET EXHIBITIONS: SUMMARY -- PRINT PACHANGA 2026 in El Paso

MARCO SANCHEZ pulled off a second EL PASO PRINT PACHANGA in July 2026, putting El Paso on the national Printmaking Map again:

Marco Sanchez inking

the linocut plate by Juana Estrada Hernandez

KTEP interviewed Marco Sanchez about the 2026 PRINT PACHANGA:

The KTEP interview

about the 2026 PRINT PACHANGA

PRINT PACHANGA 2026 -- Downtown El Paso

Pulling big prints

at the El Paso Museum of Art

Programing for the 2026 Print Pachanga

in El Paso

BLOG POSTS

PRINT PACHANGA 2026 -- Downtown El Paso

MANUEL GUERRA Exhibition at Bowie Bear Grocery Printshop

ALBU-BRIJES -- side busting in the El Paso Museum of Art

PRINT PACHANGA 2026 --
Downtown El Paso

Marco Sanchez inking for the big press

at the El Paso Museum of Art

MANUEL GUERRA Exhibition

at Bowie Bear Grocery Printshop

Manuel Guerra (purple shirt) at his print opening

in the Bowie Bear Grocery Printshop

ALBU-BRIJES -- side busting
in the El Paso Museum of Art

We side busted on the El Paso Museum of Art

with our ALBU-BRIJES

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PRINT SALE

Your blogger did not go to the PRINT SALE, however here are a few photos below:

LUGAR DE HUIDA came from Mexico City:

The table of Lugar de Huida

PRAIRIE ALLIGATOR PRESS -- JESSICA WEYBRIGHT from Albuquerque also came to sell prints:

Jessica Weybright from Albuquerque

at the Print Pachanga Print Sale

ERICAZAMORARTE

ERICAZAMORARTE at the Print Sale

FALSTAFF BUILDING

Nor did I go to the exhibitions. However Federico Villalba sent these photos below of the exhibitions at the Falstaff Project:

Juried Print Show for the Print Pachanga

opening on July 18, 2026

Louie Salazar's print

for the Juried Print Show of the Print Pachanga

LÜP GALLERY

The LÜP GALLERY hosted the IDEAS from CUARTITOS print exhibition:

IDEAS from CUARTITOS

Louie Salazar curated the IDEAS from CUARTITOS exhibition --

hear the KTEP interview

The FALSTAFF patio

Preparation

PAST PRINT EVENTS

MARCO SANCHEZ of El Paso has been really busy organizing big print events since he got his MFA from Pennsylvania Western University – Edinboro in 2020:

PRINT PACHANGA 2023

PRINT PACHANGA in El Paso

Large Format Prints and Artists

from the PRINT PACHANGA 2023

GLASSTIRE interview of the first El Paso PRINT PACHANGA in 2023

NEXO ENTRE RAICES

MARCO SANCHEZ organized a print show between the US and Mexico -- NEXO ENTRE RAICES -- and exhibited it across the country:

Nexo Entre Raices -- exhibition at the National Hispanic Cultural Center

Exhibition and Panel Discussion in 2023

at the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque

Nexo Entre Raices -- exhibition at the National Hispanic Cultural Center

NEXO ENTRE RAICES --

Print Exhibition at the National Hispanic Cultural Center

EL Paso -- March 2024

Exhibition at the El Paso Museum of Art in 2024

MARCO SANCHEZ speaking in Queretaro, Mexico in 2019 -- at La Madriguera studio, with some of the printmakers in the NEXO ENTRE RAICES portfolio:

Summary -- "Corrido" of the Mexican Printmaking Tour

Marco Sanchez speaking at Studio La Madriguera

in Queretaro, Mexico in 2019

MORE EL PASO

BLAST had an exhibition in the El Paso Museum of Art:

BLAST showing in the El Paso Museum of Art

PANCHO VILLA

PANCHO VILLA is a hero in Mexico, a villain in the United States, and used to hang out in El Paso. Hotel Paso Del Norte in downtown El Paso has two statues of Pancho Villa greeting General Pershing from the US, before the two had a falling out.

Statues of Pancho Villa and General Pershing

in front of the Hotel Paso Del Norte

Friendly meeting on August 26, 2014

Pancho Villa was a teetotaler, abstaining from alcohol, and used to drink Strawberry Soda at ~~Burger Kin~~g Emporium Bar in downtown El Paso, less than a mile from the Mexican border: