Marisa Skelpsa-Muñoz (she/they) is a Phoenix-based painter who has been honing their watercolor and oil painting skills as a Phoenix College student since 2019. She’s a queer, mixed-race Chicana and third-generation Phoenician.

Marisa paints as she loves: fiercely and tenderly. A pleasure activist born and raised in this desert, she is moved by the intrinsic connection between the joys and pains of our bodies and this land. She expresses that movement using evocative imagery and a color palette that cackles in the face of shame and repression.