John Machado
Founder | Chief Executive Officer | President of the Board
John Machado has been a full-time professor of art history at local Chaffey College since 2005. After completing undergraduate work in art history at San Diego State University he earned his graduate degree at the University of Texas at Austin specializing in the culture and art history of Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica. He has worked at various museums and galleries and taught art history at universities and colleges in California, Oregon and Texas. Machado teaches courses in art history covering the complete Western survey as well as the Ancient Americas, Africa and the islands of the South Pacific. He also has a passion for seeing the world and has traveled extensively throughout the Americas, Europe, and recently Asia.
In 2015 Machado returned to graduate school to attain a Master’s in Arts Management from Claremont Graduate University, Drucker School of Management. He then created an undergraduate program to provide arts business management courses.
In 2016 Machado founded the nonprofit organization The Arts Area and currently serves as CEO and President of the Board. In this position he also serves on various city and regional advisory committees.