Zona Maco Experience
February 3 - 7, 2027
Price per person: tba
Includes 6 days of tuition/art related programs: painting/drawing workshops, museum tours (and tickets included), and excursions to art galleries and private artist studios. All meals are included as well as necessary art supplies.
Spend a week immersed in the vibrant art world of Mexico City. A unique opportunity to to meet gallerists in some of Mexico City’s largest galleries as well as the tucked away and advant garde; connect with artists in their private studio’s, and learn about Mexico’s vibrant art scene from the pre-hispanic to the contemporary.
Museums
Mexico has more museums than almost any other city in the world. Below is a list of the museums we will be visiting during the course of the week. All museum tickets are included in the program.
Museo Nacional de Antropología
Located in Mexico City’s Historic Center, Museo Nacional de Antropología (Museum of national Anthropology) is perhaps one of Mexico City’s most famous museums. The museum holds the world’s largest known collection of ancient Mexico artifacts, ranging from Mayan, Aztec, and Olmec cultures.
Museo Kaluz
Museo Kaluz is a relatively new, private museum dedicated showcasing 18th-21st century Mexican art, with an emphasis on figurative and landscape painting. Museo Kaluz has one of Mexico’s most important collectors of Mexican Modern Art.
Museo Casa Estudio Diego Rivera y Frida Kahlo
Museo Casa Estudio Diego Rivera y Frida Kahlo (Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo’s Studio House Museum thats holds the studios of Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo in Mexico City. The property has three separate houses, one for Diego Rivera, one for Frida Kahlo and one for famous Mexican architect of the houses Juan O'Gorman. The three of them lived and worked from these houses at various times in their lives.
Artist Studios
Mexico City has an incredible amount of talent, below is a list of local contemporary artists who have studio’s we can visit. Some artists have moved from other countries to the city, while most are from Mexico (either CDMX or another part of the country). We will visit 3 of the artist studio’s listed below. You will meet the artist, view their work and learn about their process.
Carlito Dalceggio (???)
Carlito Dalceggio is a contemporary artist whose multidisciplinary practice—spanning painting, sculpture, installation, video, and public murals—blurs the boundaries between art, ritual, and lived experience.
Working nomadically from cities like Mexico City, Istanbul, and Paris, he draws on influences ranging from Día de los Muertos and Sufi traditions to Beat poetry, modernism, and jazz, creating a vivid visual language that is both folkloric and futuristic.
His immersive projects—murals, temples, performances, and large-scale installations—propose a borderless, participatory world in which art functions not as a commodity but as a transformative, almost shamanic force, reflecting his broader mission to connect cultures and reimagine contemporary mythology.
Said Dokins (Mexico)
Said Dokins is a multidisciplinary visual artist, designer, and researcher whose practice spans drawing, painting, installation, performance, video, photography, and public space interventions, alongside curatorial and cultural management projects. His work has been exhibited internationally at venues such as the Grand Palais Immersif in Paris and the Sharjah Art Museum, while in Mexico he is the founder and president of Sociedad Dokins for New Artistic Practices A.C., an organization focused on expanding access to art and engaging diverse communities. His recent projects further integrate urban art with science and technology, including collaborations with the Science Gallery and the Art, Science and Technology Laboratory at Tecnológico de Monterrey.
Alexis Matta (Mexico)
Alexis Mata is a Mexico City–based artist whose practice spans collage, drawing, painting, installation, and digital media, evolving from a street artist to creating materially diverse yet conceptually cohesive body of work. Marked by a strong social and political undercurrent, his work frequently engages themes of death, violence, beauty, and the contradictions of an idealized yet corrosive past. Mata explores visual archetypes through processes of fragmentation—glitch, pixelation, and cut—reconfiguring classical imagery into new compositions that question authorship, representation, and aesthetic value across analog and digital formats. His work has been widely exhibited in both institutional and gallery contexts in Mexico and internationally.
Nicolás Guzmán
Said Dokins is a multidisciplinary visual artist, designer, and researcher whose practice spans drawing, painting, installation, performance, video, photography, and public space interventions, alongside curatorial and cultural management projects. His work has been exhibited internationally at venues such as the Grand Palais Immersif in Paris and the Sharjah Art Museum, while in Mexico he is the founder and president of Sociedad Dokins for New Artistic Practices A.C., an organization focused on expanding access to art and engaging diverse communities. His recent projects further integrate urban art with science and technology, including collaborations with the Science Gallery and the Art, Science and Technology Laboratory at Tecnológico de Monterrey.