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Star in a neo-film noir party scene… (film shoot)
“Bright like the Sun,” in concert.
Bryson Brooks is the Master of Ceremonies.
Please wear 1930s-1940s attire
Men dress suave
Ladies dangerously classy

Maybe it was all a dream, Jack McGilvray

“I present the observer with a non-linear photographic narrative—one ungrounded, lost in space and time. These images are an invitation to step into a dream.
Can you recall a period in your life that no longer seems real, not just because of a temporal distance, but a chasm of trauma that your mind cannot cross, as if the former you entered and emerged a stranger? As time passes, that past seems out of reach. In contrast, the imagined and found feel like truths rising to the surface, the realest things in a dream-like present. You begin looking everywhere for clues.

This body of work is about the tide between pain and the sublime. Have you ever felt lost in the haze of another world and looked back at the world you left behind? Sometimes those worlds feel at opposite ends of a galaxy. At other times, the reconciliation of your pre and post-chasm self seems to rely only on finding the right clues.”
Opening Reception
Friday, March 18th
7pm

Hand Papermaking Workshop by Mobile Mill, Western Drive: This two-hour workshop located at Guenther’s Upper Mill in hand papermaking includes live demonstrations in hollander-beating (pulp-making from recyclable fibers) and hands-on instruction in western style sheet-pulling using traditional wooded mould-and-deckle sets. Working with portable studio equipment via a push-cart transported by truck, The Mobile Mill has the ability to operate in indoor or outdoor settings, in either private or public realms. Any number of participants (of all ages; no prior experience is necessary) will leave the workshop with their very own handmade paper.

The workshop collaborates with artist Kellen Walker’s Western Drive perfume series, planned to forage forest materials in north Texas, specifically, the location where Walker’s performance and perfumes of Western Drive originated, to be made into handmade paper. The paper will end up as perfume blotter strips for the Western Drive line, and for a limited-edition, scented artist book.

All tools and materials are provided by The Mobile Mill.

Saturday March 19th, 2016

11am-1pm

Guenther’s Upper Mill

http://kellenwalker.com/Western-Drive

Everyone is invited to bring and fly a homemade “art” kite at Pittman Sullivan Community Garden. Prizes will be given to the most creative kites that fly. Bring a picnic lunch, blankets to lay on, or chairs to sit in. There will be live musical entertainment and food trucks for those who wish to purchase food and beverages. Fun, art, and nature for the whole family. Pittman Sullivan Community Garden is locoed on the corner of S. Palmetto and Dakota a few blocks south of E. Commerce on the cities near east side.

Hausmann Millworks will be open from noon – 4pm March 19, 2017  for “Open Studios CAM San Antonio 2016”.
Studios open: Rex Hausmann, Hector Garza, Mary Frances Art, Brandy Garcia, David Almaguer, Danson Slater, Micah Bell, David Segura Jr., Andrew Lozano, Alyssa Danna, Paul Martin, Louis Vega Trevino, Jenifer Crowder, and more of The Millworks in house studios.
What we are: As San Antonio locals, our goal is to provide a constructive, professional setting in which San Antonio artists and small businesses can thrive and succeed. The Millworks is a group of creative people—painters, sculptors, photographers, glass artists, fashion designers, furniture designers, woodworkers and metal fabricators—who have created a community and sense of place. We have over 35 studios in Alta Vista in San Antonio. 5 min from Down Town San Antonio.
www.hausmannmillworks.com (for more info)
facebook: Hausmann Millworks: A Creative Community

Art Exhibit at Tex Pop “A Mutagenic Mustering 1970-1979” by SA Artists Jim Harter, John Rogers, Donjon Evans, Norman Avila, and George Horner.

The exhibit is dedicated to Jim Harter and John Rogers who each died in 2015.

The art will include drawings, prints, photos, music posters, magazines, underground newspapers, and performance art programs from these 5 artists from the time period.

Saturday March 19 from 4 to 8 p.m. for exhibit opening.

Exhibit will run through Sunday April 10.

$5 suggested donation to the non-profit local culture museum Tex Pop.

The Color of Blind is a unique and one-of-a-kind art exhibit, It is in our exhibit that allows for the visually impaired and special needs community to participate. All art pieces are touch pieces and guest are encouraged to experience the art through touch. Some art pieces also have smell and sound. People can also experience the taste, smell, and feel of color with a curriculum developed by curator Trina Bacon.
The Color of Blind is a basic interpretation and comprehension of art through using taste touch and smell. San Antonio is one of the only leading cities in the United States that produces an art exhibit to include our special needs community. This art exhibit is a compilation of different mediums, from stone sculptures, to paintings, to mixed media. The Color of Blind will exhibit over 40 artist this year. This event is free to the public and is for all ages. Come experience the perception and comprehension of art through senses.

Join the fun on March 19, 2016 at Dorćol, an official CAM2016 Sponsor,

for a Live Art & Music event.

V.T.A – Vandali Transit Authority

The party’s on at Dorćol for Contemporay Art Month. We have the ABCs in place: Art, Beats and Cocktails. Join us for this offical CAM 2016 event, featuring Vandali Transit Authority, a show with live works from San Antonio artists Aphro Oner, Duoone, David Fink and Sarah Brooke Lyons.

Local artist Christopher Rabb ‘s exhibit titled, “The Astonishing Memorable Thing” is also on display.

The eveining’s soundtrack will be brought to you by DJ Novasoul (djnovasoul.com). And, of course, the Dorćol crew will rock craft cocktails behind the bar all night.

Ay Papi’s Puerto Rican food truck will be onsite to provide eats. Admission is free. All ages welcome from 7-10 pm. 21+ only from 10 pm – 1 am.

Chris Rabb current art exhibition runs through March 31, 2016.

Jose Gerardo Balli—Mexican-American artist from Reynosa, Tamaulipas, Mexico/McAllen, TX

I started sketching in old books by happenstance. My attention has always been piqued by the many books I’ve seen reach their final resting place on some neglected bookshelf, Salvation Army or public library donation program. Seeing life still remaining in each one of those books, I decided to give them a second chance, repurposing them in my own way.

I commence my artistic process by examining the old books and manuscripts. I sketch my daily life—capturing characters, objects, scenic and urban landscapes in Texas and Northern Mexico. I render crude, vivid sketches on the pages of the books using oil pastels. The books become an extension of my thoughts, taking lives of their own—with my creations slowly covering the work of someone else. By morphing their content, juxtaposing the sketches with the typography and images on the pages into something new, the books regain the vitality they lost when they were relegated to the places in which I found them.

Once I feel a book is complete, I select a number of sketches to turn into oil paintings (or other large-scale pieces). Rendering the pieces into larger formats is my way of paying tribute to the moment. My sketches and paintings serve as a drawbridge between a time and place in my personal experience.

The Korean Diary of Jose Balli; Experiencias Fronterizas ( A Border Experience)

The border is a unique place with experiences and characters that are only found in the region. This collection includes my personal vision of the border, the collection was developed as a series of sketches made in the “Korean Dairy”. The “Korean Diary” was a book that consisted of a group of economic essays which discussed east asian economic relations ,written in Korean. I intervened the book utilizing it as my sketch book, the book took a life of its own once the book was complete I then selected my favorite peaces to turn into oil paintings, this is how the collection came to be. The value of daily life in the frontier is very easy to ignore always moving always changing, at different rates at different times, on both sides of the Rio Bravo. This collection includes my personal vision of the border, where I endeavor to capture everyday moments, experiences and characters that are ignored or forgotten with the passage of time.The collection pays tribute to all of them, sharing my vision of the border and the great love I have for it.

Alyssa Danna will transform the space with “Love After Love,” a series of assemblage sculptures that relish in the tasteless decorative revival of things loved and left.

Artist Statement
My work relishes in the tasteless decorative revival of things love and left. The results are a growth of the object and a mounting humor laden empathy at its predicament.

Alyssa Danna is a local San Antonio artist that holds a Bachelors of Fine Art emphasizing Painting from Lamar University in Beaumont Texas, her hometown, and a Masters of Fine Art emphasizing Sculpture from UTSA. She is the proud keeper of three fur babies, three lizard friends, and untold plant life. She hopes you enjoy the show.

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Clamp Light Artist Studios & Gallery and Freight Gallery will be exchanging their exhibition spaces for Contemporary Art Month! Multi-media artist Raul Gonzalez is serving as guest curator for an exhibition at Clamp Light. Instead of organizing a single CAM event, Gonzalez stepped onto the court looking for Three The Hard Way, three solo exhibitions by San Antonio based artists Rafael Fernando Gutierrez Jr, Eric Breish, and Alyssa Danna. Throughout the month of CAM the space will be taken over by each of these artists for exhibitions ranging in painting, sculpture, drawing, performance, and installation.

Three The Hard Way is a basketball term often used to describe a player scoring three points in a difficult fashion, usually from the three-point line. In this instance, the challenging part is coordinating three solo shows in one month. “Being that Contemporary Art Month is about highlighting San Antonio’s artists, I thought it would be an excellent opportunity to find a way to showcase several artists’ work. So, I had to figure out a way to bring more than one exhibition into that environment in a short period of time.” – Raul Gonzalez

In addition to each solo show, artists will add smaller works to a “community wall” that will evolve as the shows interchange.
Back patio musical entertainment will be provided by guest curator Raul Gonzalez, performing as “Mr. Playlist”

Image:
Alyssa Danna
Twinkle Toes (detail)

new work, drinks and bites of course.

MBS Founder Josh Levine has been an ardent supporter of the local, regional art community for over 10 years. As part of his overall mission to align mind, body,and soul, he nurtured an inspiring collection of contemporary artwork that will finally be displayed in its entirety for public viewing at the King William studio gallery.
The collection includes artworks by Mignon Harkrader, Nicholas Hay, Jayne Lawrence, Dennis Olson, Justin Parr, Katie Pell, Cruz Ortiz, Chuck Ramirez, Julie Speed, and many others.
A portion of all artwork sold during Contemporary Art Month (CAMSA2016) will go to the Artist Foundation of San Antonio, an organization that has dedicated over 10 years to furthering the arts in our community by providing grant opportunities to local artists.

New Watercolors by Ana Fernandez.
Upon returning from Los Angeles, Ana Fernandez began drawing from her immediate surroundings to create enigmatic streetscapes in paintings and works on paper. Fernandez began her visual studies at San Antonio College and holds a BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA from UCLA. Ana was born in Corpus Christi and raised in San Antonio. She is also the founder and owner of Chamoy City Limits, San Antonio’s #1 Raspa!
Silkwörm cordially invites you to attend the CAM Open Studio Tours at 1906 S. Flores.

Stop by for another opportunity to view our March exhibition featuring recent work by Audrya Flores.

Stop by Caliente Hot Glass for live off-hand blown glass demos by our artists. Our glass blowers will share their knowledge and expertise with you, answer questions, and maybe even let you join in, all while making unique one of a kind art from this amazing, molten material we call glass!

Our gallery features all one of a kind, off-hand art glass & sculpture by our members, so take a gander!

Group exhibition featuring works (paintings, prints, sculpture, installation and ceramics) by John Atkins (Usa), James Cobb (Usa), Verena Gaudy (Austria), Farad Ibrahimovic (BIH, UK, Austria), James Raska (USA) and Heimo Wallner (Austria, USA)
Please join us at 105 Blue Star Arts Center Apt 3 (enter from S. Alamo), San Antonio, Tx 78204

Stop by and visit Franco Mondini-Ruiz during this years CAM Open Studio Tours at Brick at Blue Star Arts Complex #108.  Live portrait painting and new works.

Hello Studio will be hosting the closing for T Hopkins exhibit, Plasticity, with mimosas and baked goods. Drop by to visit the new gallery space and to learn more about the recently initiated studio residency program.

Jorge Villarreal: La Habana, A Documentation of Cuba ~  Open Studio Tour

WHEN: Sunday March 20, 2016
WHERE: 1119 S St Mary’s
San Antonio, TX 78204
COST: Free
CONTACT: www.jorge-villarreal.com

Jorge Villarreal takes an invitation from texture and color to connect to the culture and way of life in Cuba. His relationship is incredibly personal, deepened by his visitation of the area year after year since 2010.
Villarreal documents a tactile economic downturn historically, with contrasting bright color of pure life movement.
The stories that make up “La Habana” are shared as an intimate dialogue, exposing the unfamiliar rituals of the folklore of Cuba through a permeation of the streets.

Villarreal has been presented in three solo exhibitions, and a part of several group shows in San Antonio, Miami and New York.
Free and Open for All from 12:00 pm to 4:00 pm

Works (paintings, prints and ceramic sculpture) by European artists featuring Farad Ibrahimovic (BIH/UK/Austria), Heimo Wallner (Austria/USA) and Verena Gaudy (Austria).

Works: past, present and in-progress. Mixed media, painting and photography. Kari Englehardt and Carra Garza

Oil, Acrylic, Encaustic and Mixed Media original works. Ginobili Art T-Shirts and Limited Edition prints.

Please join us for open studio featuring works by Pamela Ortiz Swart and Antonia Richardson

Ali Wiesse is a San Antonio based artist who creates 2 and 3-dimensional artworks inspired by nature. Wiesse is currently working toward her BFA at the Southwest School of Art, expected to graduate in 2018 with an emphasis in painting and printmaking.

Ali Wiesse’s fascination with the natural world is her primary motivation as an artist. Drawing inspiration from ordinary objects, Ali is in search of beauty and purpose in the everyday. Her creative process involves intuitive explorations of physical boundaries between humans and nature. Drawings, paintings, and sculptures evolve through layers of precise, organic structures. Consciously or not, her work is evocative of living organisms and the human body, which suggests a symbiotic boundary between what is universal and what is individual.

Preview Raul’s new TEXAS series, which will be part of his upcoming solo exhibition at Freight Gallery. Show opens April 9th.
You can also check out plenty of other projects this multi-media artist is werking on, from clothing ideas to printmaking to lots and lots of painting.

Abstract Photography

Please join us Sunday March 20 from 12 – 4 during the CAM 2016 Studio Tour. Visitors will be able to view the 2016 CAMx(Denver) exhibition, Stephanie Kantor:Mock Pavilion, as well as tour our residency space Casa Chuck, the home of the late artist Chuck Ramirez.

Drop in, see how terrible the studio looks when we’re not open on Second Saturday’s. -Alejandro Augustine Padilla/James Supa Medrano

Geometric Sculptures/Models – It’s a learning space for students to get inspired about art, architecture, engineering, science and mathematics all at the same time.
I’ll be open from 12-4 for CAM Open Studios on March 20, 2016.

The Upstairs Studios is a collection of artist studios and exhibition spaces focused on developing a supportive artistic environment in San Antonio.

Featuring Xavier Gilmore and members of The Upstairs Studios: Donna Simon, Stefani Job Spears, Carolina Flores, Kathleen Baker Pittman, and Ramin Samandari.

Any artist who wishes to participate and open their own studio to the public can list their information free of charge. Just submit your details to the Contemporary Art Month Calendar on the Calendar Page.

Are you an artist in San Antonio? Submit your contact info and be part of a list of artists that we provide to future curators of the CAM Perennial Exhibition.

Sign up TODAY for the official CAM Open Studio Tours follow by an after party at Zollie Glass Studios.

CAM Official Open Studio Tour:  March 20th noon to 4pm

CAM official Open Studio Tours After Party: March 20th 4pm – 8pm, with live Glass Blowing, Music, Food trucks Beer & Wine.

Open Studios

Blue Moon Beer Official CAM 2016 Sponsor. 

The Cammie Awards honor exceptional art during Contemporary Art Month. The Cammies are determined by popular vote. Cast your vote by submitting the form, linked below. The deadline is midnight on Wednesday, March 23, 2016. Artists and curators working in all mediums are qualified. The only requirement is that they present an artwork, exhibition, or performance during Contemporary Art Month, prior to the Award Ceremony on Friday,  March 25, 2016, and be listed on the 2016 CAM calendar. You may only vote once. You may edit your votes anytime before the deadline.

Break Fast & Launch Dinner Day is a celebration of the learning that has occurred through the nation’s first culinary business accelerator. Whether you’re an aspiring culinary entrepreneur or just a lover of fine cuisine, come check out an exposition of up and coming culinary tastes in San Antonio. Registration for the event can be found at https://dinnerdaysa.eventbrite.com

ATTENTION CULINARY ARTS
Break Fast & Launch Dinner Day is a FREE celebration of the learning that has occurred through the nation’s first culinary business accelerator. Whether you’re an aspiring culinary entrepreneur or just a lover of fine cuisine, come check out the Break Fast & Launch Dinner Day for an exposition of up and coming culinary tastes in San Antonio.
teams set up tables/stations where they can cook or display their products during the event.
Participants of the current cohort include:
Dukes Seafood
Chula Vista Farms
Hijazi
True Wellness
O Fudge!
Red Spoon Catering
Honeysuckle
Toro Taco Bar
Hon-E
SE Asian
Dumplings
Berbier Ethopian Cuisine
Le Sucre Catering

Join us March 22nd for our first Art Talk with the upcoming guest curator, Michelle Grabner, who will select our Spring 2017 artists-in-residence.

Michelle Grabner is an artist, curator, and writer. She co-curated the 2014 Whitney Biennial and the 2016 Portland Biennial, along with co-founding The Suburban in Oak Park, IL. Her reviews are regularly published in Artforum, and she is a contributor to several art journals.

Doors will open at 6:00pm, discussion is from 6:30pm – 7:30pm.

Join us for a San Antonio Museum of Art tradition! Participants will work as a group and receive individual attention to complete representational drawings that depict works in the Museum collections.

This month, local artist, James Cobb leads different activities throughout the month to help you get to know Corita Kent and the Language of Pop!

This will be an Open Studio and Exhibition at the Graduate Studios for Sculpture and Ceramics, a facility on the west Campus of UTSA. Along with the exhibition/open house there will be Outdoor installations and Performances. Artist include John Atkins, Justin Korver, Eden Collins Verena Gaudy, Braydon Gold, Jason Gonzales, Christopher Hardgrove, Kallie Pfeiffer, Kaela Puente, Zach Slough, Martin Rodriguez, and more.

TEXAS ART STARS get down on skateboard decks as their medium to experiment on.
A fun evening of cutting edge art and Live music by The Gay Sportscasters and Churchwood.

San Antonio’s ultimate dining event returns and this time, San Antonio Flavor is bigger and more delicious than ever, serving up sample bites from 40+ local restaurants, beer, wine and cocktail samples, live entertainment and the coveted Culinary Showdown!

We’ve expanded the event footprint to include a beer & wine garden, themed culinary pavilions (ie. Latin, Mediterranean, Asian, Italian, etc., and libation & dessert lounges and so much more).

Participating restaurants include Bite San Antonio, Boudro’s Texas Bistro, Tre Trattoria, Shuck Shack, Smoke Shack BBQ, The Old Main Assoc., Feast, FOLC, Nectar Wine Bar & Ale House, Pharm Table, The Box Street Social, The Friendly Spot Ice House, Grayze, Max’s Wine Dive, Vida Mia, Thai Topaz– the list is still growing.

The highly anticipated and deliciously entertaining Culinary Showdown returns. Notable San Antonians compete with the city’s top chefs (Chef Lisa Watel, Chef Robbie Nowlin, Chef Jason Dady and Chef Stefan Bowers rematch!) to win the title, bragging rights, a trophy and cash prize. A panel of guests and culinary experts will choose the winning team.

Tickets are $60 and include food, dessert, coffee, beer, wine and cocktail samples plus a CAM art exhibit, live music and a live culinary showdown.

San Antonio Flavor benefits Culinaria San Antonio 501c3.

This Is What It Feels Like works by Braydon Gold & Raul Gonzalez.

Opening reception March 25, 2016

6:00 PM – 9:00 PM

This is the Final Official CAM event, thanking all those that participated in Contemporary Art Month and recognizing the best art events with our CAMMIE Awards.

Spare Parts | Mini Art Museum

Blue Moon Beer Official CAM Sponsor

Big Guido’s | NY Italian and More Food Truck

DJ Armando Estrada | Music

$10 Dollar suggested donation

Smoke Free Event!

spare parts MINI ART MUSEUM presents
That Thing On The Side Of The Road
Honoring the overlooked; the cast-off; the abandoned; the peripheral. If the title sounds like it could be the name of a B-Horror film, you’re hearing it the way I do. Not going to bother you with pretentious words like hierarchy, transgressive, etc., but those concerns are there, they just won’t fit in my pickup truck. That’s really all there is to it. Why say more? -Hills Snyder, Curator

Francis Bogside will be hosting the OFFICIAL official CAMMIE Awards & Closing Party AFTER PARTY with Yummy Drinks, Eats and Great Bartenders.  See y’all then…

March 25, 2016  | 10:30 PM – 1:00 AM

Hands are a prominent symbolic element in artist, Audrya Flores’ work, and in this workshop, she will share her process for creating a “ghost hand” fabric and paper collage. Participants will be encouraged to explore this imagery by creating their own unique work of art.

$5 Suggested Donation, includes all materials and light refreshments.

Space is Limited.
Email stephtorressa@gmail.com to register.

Event Info: La Villita Artist Collective presents an afternoon of contemporary art in the plaza. This historic arts village is home to unique galleries, working artist studios and shops. Enjoy live demonstrations in paint, metal, glass and leather with live music and dance.

Roberto Gonzalez: Sacred Waters is an exhibition comprised of 44 recent large-scale paintings that treat pre-Columbian imagery as experienced through dreams and visions inspired by Jungian psychological theory. These paintings constitute an aesthetic and psychological exploration of ancient Mexican myth and religion. In the artist’s view, water is an agent of transformation, as well as the source of life. Water resonates from ancient symbolic images across the millennia to take on new forms in this time and place.

Life imitating Art. . .
Pro Wrestling International presents an extraordinary showcase of brawn and wit, welcoming seasoned american freestyle wrestlers from across Texas. The Doors open at 7 with the first of 6 exhibition matching beginning at 8. Tickets day of are 10$ for adults and 6$ for children under 6. Pre-sale tickets are available at the Brick for purchase 4-pm-12-am daily for 8$. This is sure to be an once in a life time performance. Come out and support San Antonio’s own Pro Wrestling International for “The Art of Wrestling”

Join us for a San Antonio Museum of Art tradition! Participants will work as a group and receive individual attention to complete representational drawings that depict works in the Museum collections.

This month, local artist, James Cobb leads different activities throughout the month to help you get to know Corita Kent and the Language of Pop!

St. Mary’s University Marianist Brother A. Brian Zampier discusses the religious aspects of the exhibition and leads you in a creative word and image response to the works. Bring a journal and pencil!

Our grand finale event for Contemporary Art Month will be a comparison exhibition between Kenya and Nigeria. ‘East meets West’ provides a balanced approach to understanding the distinctions between African cultures.

In partnership with Palo Alto College, The Olaju Art Group is presenting a contemporary art exhibition that takes a multi-national approach. By infusing authentic aspects of two dominant African societies (Maasai & Yoruba), curator Obafemi Ogunleye is able to bring pieces of Africa to Texas and foster cross-cultural awareness.

In this showcase, Nelson Ngotiek and Temi Coker serve as cultural ambassadors from Kenya and Nigeria, respectively. Photographs and objects from the featured countries will be on display for the month of April at the college’s ‘Project Space Gallery’. Here, students will be introduced to significant themes associated with a region that has proven to be opaque.

This collaboration symbolizes a commitment to the advancement of African arts and culture at the community college. For more information, visit; www.fromwestafrica.org

Capitalizing on Berlin’s prominence as a center for creativity, Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum launched the Berlin Residency Program with Künstlerhaus Bethanien, a non-profit organization known for its international residency studio program. René Paul Barilleaux, Chief Curator/Curator of Contemporary Art at the McNay; Mary Heathcott, Executive Director, Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum; and past Blue Star Berlin Residency Program participants discuss the city’s allure and trends evident in this contemporary art epicenter. – See more at: http://www.mcnayart.org/events/event/conversation-made-in-berlin/#sthash.uTjb9tIQ.dpuf

“When you look between the colors of the rainbow, two things stand out. It’s as clear as day and as dark as night, contrast is just black and white.” Sean Thomas Johnston

Solo exhibition at FL!GHT Gallery at Blue Star Arts Complex, doors open at 7:00 pm.

Kinetic Skyline by Bill FitzGibbons is a site-specific light sculpture installation.

> Raised in a family of photographers, musicians and artists in Alamo Heights, Texas, Patrice was taught not only to appreciate art but how to view the world through the lens of a camera by her father, photo journalist, Bob Collins. Hence, Ms. Villastrigo was destined to become an artist herself, also a musician, an author and publisher, among other talents. She travels the world searching for and recording her own view of composition, colour, depth, form and beauty. She sold her paintings, sculpture and photography at her art gallery in Washington. Ms. Villastrigo has a permanent exhibit at The Historic Jackson Ranch.

> “ Since I was a child, my imagination lead me to creative outlets of all kinds, drawing, painting, sculpting, singing, writing, photography, and even designing matching clothes for Barbie and myself. I investigate often uncommon sources to search for that shot combining a perfect composition of color, depth, form, and beauty. Creating art using a variety of resources, I must admit that the camera lens is my favorite medium!”

> Live Music: First ~ pianist Edward Lewis, then, Pete’s Best featuring John Michael Ramirez, Karl Yelderman, Joe Killough and Daryl Chadick. Refreshments Served.

>Witness the incredible art of Neka Scarbrough Jenkins!
>Live Music: First ~ pianist Edward Lewis, then, Pete’s Best featuring John Michael Ramirez, Karl Yelderman, Joe Killough and Daryl Chadick. Refreshments Served.
>Neka Scarbrough Jenkins, a native of San Antonio, wears many hats as an artist! She is not only a skilled photographer, but an avid painter as well! having won numerous awards for her work, she never ceases to amaze! The extensive training she has received is only a one part of what defines her as an artist.

> Each photograph within this exhibit features Neka’s abstract graphics fused with her photographic images of Texan musicians. This exhibit is an excellent representation of Neka’s imagination at work in her art. She has creatively captured the spirit of Texas music legends with each image. Through colors and form within each print, Neka’s images express her spirit’s response to the unique sound produced by each band and musician. There is no doubt that each work of art within this exhibit will please everyone!
>> Included in the exhibit are her representations of Curley Mays, Billy Gibbons, Christopher Cross + band, Augie Meyers, Spot Barnett, Johnny Cockrell, The Court Jesters, Los #3 Dinners band, and many more!

Blue Star Contemporary and the San Antonio Botanical Garden are delighted to announce Alyson Shotz as the artist for their 2016 Art in The Garden collaboration. Brooklyn- based Shotz will be in attendance at the opening reception on Thursday, June 30, 2016, from 5:30-7:30 pm located at the San Antonio Botanical Garden. This event is free and open to the public.

For her yearlong exhibition at the Garden, Shotz has conceived a newly commissioned large-scale, freestanding steel sculpture, Scattering Screen, which will interact with viewers and the Garden’s natural surroundings. Known for ethereal artworks that build on natural phenomena and play with human perception, her piece for the Garden is a site-specific installation that encourages viewers to engage with the Garden landscape in new ways.

Of this new work, Shotz says, “Scattering Screen is a sculpture that explores the space between things. The small mirrored circles reflect light and scatter the visible surroundings into thousands of tiny pieces, shifting and moving across the sculpture like an analogue screen. The play between the reflections and spaces between reflections draws attention to the idea of solidity itself as the sculpture creates an optical continuum where negative and positive spaces continually intertwine.

Homage

February 2 – May 7, 2017
Opening Reception is February 2 from 6-9 p.m. and is free and open to the public

Main Gallery
Featuring artists David Almaguer, Joe Harjo, Jennifer Khoshbin, Michele Monseau, Andrei Renteria, Rainey Rabbit, Anthony Rundblade, Ed Saavedra
In celebration of BSC’s 30th birthday, Homage pays tribute to the exhibition that started it all back in June of 1986, The Blue Star Exhibition. The selected artists were asked to respond to an artwork from the original exhibition, but were only given the title and description details, and prompted to make a new work inspired by these details, without ever having seen the original work. The new artworks range from screenprints to video work to sculpture, providing an interesting take on the exhibition that was the inception of Blue Star Contemporary.

M*dres

February 2 – May 7, 2017
Opening reception is February 2 from 6 – 9 p.m. is free and open to the public

Gallery 4

Featuring Julia Barbosa Landois

M*dres is a series of silkscreen prints employing phrases in English and Spanish which contain the words mom/mother/madre. The work examines how gendered language reflects and structures our political and cultural attitudes towards women. Some are common phrases, some are swears, and some are backhanded compliments. In English, using the word “mom” as an adjective automatically devalues what follows, and what follows often has to do with appearance – mom jeans, mom body, mom haircut, etc. The Spanish phrases seem relatively harmless in literal translation, but in context, transform to vulgarities you probably wouldn’t use in the presence of your own mother.

“My interest in these phrases is what they connote for the larger social framing of motherhood, as well as my own paradoxical existence as a caretaker in a profession that lionizes the unattached individual living only for the work.”– Landois

Serious Work, a performance held on January 13, 2017, as part of Landois’ upcoming exhibition, satirically contrasts the banalities of parental life with the performance artist persona, using a smartphone as mediator and monkey wrench. Landois physically manifests the concept of over-sharing while text-messaging with her “mom body” on view, simultaneously highlighting the artistic cliché of nudity as instant gravitas. Though the audience was deprived of their own devices, she ends up receiving and responding to texts from her partner and a friend, exposing the psychic architecture (and clutter) behind even the simplest performance.

Gallery Hours
Thursdays 12:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Fridays-Sundays 12:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
First Fridays 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.

M*dres

Feburaury 2 – May 7, 2017
Opening reception is February 2 from 6 – 9 p.m. and is free and open to the public.

Gallery 4

Featuring Julia Barbosa Landois

M*dres is a series of silkscreen prints employing phrases in English and Spanish which contain the words mom/mother/madre. The work examines how gendered language reflects and structures our political and cultural attitudes towards women. Some are common phrases, some are swears, and some are backhanded compliments. In English, using the word “mom” as an adjective automatically devalues what follows, and what follows often has to do with appearance – mom jeans, mom body, mom haircut, etc. The Spanish phrases seem relatively harmless in literal translation, but in context, transform to vulgarities you probably wouldn’t use in the presence of your own mother.

“My interest in these phrases is what they connote for the larger social framing of motherhood, as well as my own paradoxical existence as a caretaker in a profession that lionizes the unattached individual living only for the work.”– Landois

Serious Work, a performance held on January 13, 2017, as part of Landois’ upcoming exhibition, satirically contrasts the banalities of parental life with the performance artist persona, using a smartphone as mediator and monkey wrench. Landois physically manifests the concept of over-sharing while text-messaging with her “mom body” on view, simultaneously highlighting the artistic cliché of nudity as instant gravitas. Though the audience was deprived of their own devices, she ends up receiving and responding to texts from her partner and a friend, exposing the psychic architecture (and clutter) behind even the simplest performance.

Turning Memory

February 2 – May 7, 2017

Project Space

Featuring John Steck Jr.

Evoking themes of ephemerality, physicality, materiality, fragility, and mortality, Turning Memory features photographs from the artist’s series Lament (Disappearing photographs). The exhibition also includes two exposure boxes where the images are created during the span of the exhibition, punctuating our need to permanently document and hold a moment longer.

By allowing images to slowly disappear, Steck Jr. calls attention to the medium of photography and its ability to capture memories. Photography is seemingly forever, yet whether physical or digital, the medium remains as impermanent as the moment depicted in its frame.

By manipulating the image-making process of particular images from his archive, he negates the archival function of them. Using gelatin silver paper, but with a non-traditional approach, these images are created without a darkroom or chemicals. Because of this process, the images remain sensitive to light; and, in a fairly short, yet unpredictable amount of time, they will disappear completely. The photographs will shift and change the same way that we change as physical beings. The artist uses this fading process to alter his memories of particular images that he finds disruptive, both visually and internally, due to sensitive memories. These images relate to moments of loss, nostalgia, fondness, and love. This concept has taken on a new meaning for this series and leaves us to consider the fleeting impermanence of materials, objects, images, and life itself, through a medium that is meant to act as a time capsule.

Gallery Hours
Thursdays 12:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Fridays-Sundays 12:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
First Fridays 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.

Turning Memory

February 2 – May 7, 2017
Opening reception is February 2 from 6 -9 p.m. and is free and open to the public.

Project Space

Featuring John Steck Jr.

Evoking themes of ephemerality, physicality, materiality, fragility, and mortality, Turning Memory features photographs from the artist’s series Lament (Disappearing photographs). The exhibition also includes two exposure boxes where the images are created during the span of the exhibition, punctuating our need to permanently document and hold a moment longer.

By allowing images to slowly disappear, Steck Jr. calls attention to the medium of photography and its ability to capture memories. Photography is seemingly forever, yet whether physical or digital, the medium remains as impermanent as the moment depicted in its frame.

By manipulating the image-making process of particular images from his archive, he negates the archival function of them. Using gelatin silver paper, but with a non-traditional approach, these images are created without a darkroom or chemicals. Because of this process, the images remain sensitive to light; and, in a fairly short, yet unpredictable amount of time, they will disappear completely. The photographs will shift and change the same way that we change as physical beings. The artist uses this fading process to alter his memories of particular images that he finds disruptive, both visually and internally, due to sensitive memories. These images relate to moments of loss, nostalgia, fondness, and love. This concept has taken on a new meaning for this series and leaves us to consider the fleeting impermanence of materials, objects, images, and life itself, through a medium that is meant to act as a time capsule.

Ángel Rodríguez-Díaz: A Retrospective, 1982-2014 at Centro de Artes Gallery Guest curated by Ruben C. Cordova, Ph.D
The exhibit runs through June 11, 2017 and is the largest and widest-ranging exhibition of works by the Puerto Rican native artist, best known for his portraits that engage in social commentary. The exhibit provides new insights into Rodríguez-Díaz’s stylistic evolution and artistic objectives covering 32 years of the artist’s career.

This is the first of many fundraising art exhibits, hosted and created by Las Lloronas, benefiting nonprofit organizations in San Antonio, Texas.

Artists:
Cindy Garcia
Julia Carranza

*50% of door entry/raffle proceeds will be donated to The ARC of San Antonio.*
Entry Tickets are available at the door for $5 or an unopened/ unused toy donation will be accepted.
*The unopened toys will be donated to The Battered Women and Children’s Shelter of San Antonio.*
Raffle tickets may be purchased for $3 and door prizes will be raffled at 9 pm (you do not have to present to win).
Cash bar provided by The Brick
Come join us for the debut premier of “Beauty Out of Tragedy” and support a great cause!

Join us for a night of excitement! Art meets Fashion with a Fetish twist! This is a BDSM themed event and is brought to you by La Santa Boutique. A Fetish gallery featuring four local San Antonio Photographers. Fire performance by Saterra Rene. Also performing Nate Ryan,Le Strange Side Show, the beautiful Toni Andrews, Amerie Parker and musical performances by Skeleton Creek. Ending the evening with a Fashion Show featuring two local designers. All hosted by San Antonio’s very own Wayne Holtz.

21 & up ONLY
$10 cover at the door
Encouraged to wear your sexiest attire. This is a singles and couples events.

LOVE LOVE LOVE — tell us your story
Shop . Sip . Sit . See . Storytell . Smack
Shop Local. Choice Goods and have fun.. See people . Sip from our bar…$2.00-$5 beer, wine and mimosas –Rare vinyl record finds, Art, Photography, Fashion, Cards, Vintage looks, Astrology… come eat Rene’s empanadas for brunch, lunch, or high tea
New merchants
photo cred: http://www.ritewhileucan.com/letters-juliet/

The 10th Annual On & Off Fredericksburg Road Studio Tour weekend kicks off Friday evening, February 17, 6 to 9 pm, with the not-to-be-missed On & Off Fred Autograph Party at Bihl Haus Arts, 2803 Fredericksburg Road. The exhibition showcases one work by each of the more than 60 featured visual artists. They will also be on hand to autograph your personal copy of the tour catalog. Lavish hors d’oeuvres, wine, craft beers provided by Silver Eagle Distributors, live music by Latin-fusion band Los Nahuatlatos, hands-on art making, flash performances and the opportunity to mingle with artists, event sponsors and community leaders fill the evening. Purchase of the $10 catalog admits two to the Autograph Party. Buy it in advance and bring it with you to the Party, or purchase it on site at Bihl Haus Arts.. See the website for more details.

CREATIVE CREATURES Presents The Twilight Zone Tribute
Brick at Blue Star Arts Complex
All Ages Welcome
$5 | Kids 12 and under get in FREE
OVER 40 ARTISTS & VENDORS of ALL genres with both Twilight Zone themed and non-themed work to SHOWCASE and SELL!
Including work by Creative Creatures Founders,
EDDY RIOS (Tri-Circle Designs)
+
KAREN RIOS (Pointe & Chute)

For more information about Creatures Creatures, visit:
www.facebook.com/creativecreaturessatx

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LIVE MUSIC by
PINK LECHE – 11:00PM
www.facebook.com/pinkleche
VOODOO BOOGALOO – 10:00PM
www.facebook.com/fillingupyourcup/
CARLY GARZA – 9:00PM

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SPECIAL GUEST PERFORMANCE Piece by
MISS TAINT based on “The Eye of The Beholder” Episode
Themed DIY PHOTO BOOTH
Food Vendor: FRANK HOT DOGS
DJ Spinnin’ ALL Night
“The Twilight Zone is an American science-fiction, fantasy, psychological-supernatural horror, anthology television series created by Rod Serling, which ran for five seasons on CBS from 1959 to 1964. The series consists of unrelated dramas depicting characters dealing with paranormal, futuristic, Kafkaesque, or otherwise disturbing or unusual events; characters who find themselves dealing with these strange, sometimes inexplicable happenings are said to have crossed over into “The Twilight Zone”. Each story typically features a moral and a surprise ending.”
– Wikipedia
OUR FULL ARTIST & VENDOR LINE-UP
Albert Gonzales
Anthony Lopez
April Meeks-Garzes
Avery Palewich
Blue OneThirty
Carly Garza
Cecilia Arce
Christine Diaz
Colin Heatherington
Cristobal Licea
David Prieto
Dorothy McCormick
Enrique Briones
Erik Ybarra
Jason Garcia
John Gutierrez
John Padron
Jonpaul Espino
Juan Gomez
Kenneth Schwoerke
Kitty Masi
Lenora Palacios
Leticia Onofre
Linda Monsivais
Lorraine San Miguel
Luis Portillo
Michelle Gonzales
Mike Arguello
Mike Fisher
Naomi Ruiz
Nathan Zertuche
Nik Soupe
Paul Garson
Rebecca Gonzalez
Rigo Ortiz
Robert Tatum
Rooster Sample
Scott Wilson
Shally Brady & Stevie Brady
Tressa Gonzalez
Vanessa Macias
Victoria DeLeon
Yvonne Lackey
Zach Espinoza
Zane Thomas

On and Off Fredericksburg Road Studio Tour Reaches a 10 Year Milestone
60 Artists Participate in Neighborhood Art Walk Feb. 18-19

When Dale Jenssen moved to San Antonio, specifically the Fredericksburg Road area 10 years ago, she discovered the nonprofit arts organization Bihl Haus Arts and befriended the executive director, Kellen McIntyre.
Through her involvement with Bihl Haus Arts, she learned that the area is home to a number of thriving artists. Jenssen along with McIntyre and Eric Lane, along with local artists David and Maria Guerrero, struck upon the idea of starting a neighborhood art tour. Today, the On and Off Fredericksburg Road Studio Tour celebrates its 10th anniversary this year and continues to draw people from across the four corners of San Antonio and other cities, such as Houston and Austin, who come for an intimate peek into the homes and studios of local artists.
“It’s definitely evolved from 27 artists to more than 70 participating artists,” Jenssen said, and that includes the artist herself, who has been showcasing her works to the public ever since the annual gallery stroll began in 2007. She invites the public to stop by her studio, the Jenssen Studio on W. Woodlawn Ave., during the 10th annual On and Off Fredericksburg Road Studio Tour celebrates its 10th anniversary from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 20, and noon to 5 pm, Sunday, Feb. 21 in the Deco District.
“The On and Off Fredericksburg Road Studio Tour is the longest, continuously running, art studio tour in San Antonio,” McIntyre said, adding that Bihl Haus Arts hosts the tour each year. “We have evolved tremendously since its inception 10 years ago.”
“Fred,” as the event is known, is a self-guided tour of private homes, art studios and galleries of more than 70 artists, including painters, sculptors, photographers and metal smiths. In addition, more than 200 musicians, poets, and theater and dance groups help make this community event one of the most diverse studio tours in Texas.
Last year, more than 2,500 locals and visitors walked, biked and drove the meandering 15-mile tour on and off Fredericsksburg Road up and down a 5-mile stretch of Fredericksburg Road to get a first-hand look at the artists working in their studios and to purchase their art, McIntyre said.
Attendees can purchase either the hardcopy color catalog consisting of a map to help people plan their route, artist bios and an image of their work, or the online catalog for $10. For more information, visit www.OnandOffFred.org or call Bihl Haus Arts at (210) 383-9723.
McIntyre, who has lived in the Monticello neighborhood of the Deco District for the past 20 years, envisions the studio tour as helping bring exposure and economic growth to the Fredericksburg Road Cultural Corridor. “I’m proud to say that there has been an investment and development in the neighborhood as an indirect result of the exposure that the Fred Studio Tour has provided to the area over the years,” she said.
The Deco District, she adds, has become a hot spot for many of the Alamo City’s artists. In fact, all artists featured in Fred live and/or work in the surrounding Fredericksburg Road communities: Alta Vista, Beacon Hill, Jefferson, Keystone, Los Angeles Heights, Monticello Park and Woodlawn Lake.
Jenssen, meanwhile, has invited several other artists to display their works at her studio during the Fredericksburg Road Studio Tour. While she specializes in custom and limited-edition light sconces, Jenssen also creates chandeliers; table, floor and hanging lamps; folding screens; tables; mirror and picture frames; punched metal door and cabinet panels; and sculpture.
She also enjoys designing in any architectural style: contemporary, retro, arts and crafts, southwestern or my own quirky amalgam of them all. “I usually work alone, meticulously crafting each piece start to finish and using a variety of techniques and materials,” she said.

Join us at Brick in the Blue Star Arts Complex on Saturday, February 18th for the latest installment of Shop Rare Marketplace.

The party starts at 5pm and will continue until 11pm.
We’ll be hosting 15 + of San Antonio’s favorite quality local brands. This Febuary we’ll be focusing on creative women in the San Antonio and Austin areas. Majority of shops will include women artists and female ran handmade and vintage shops. Our music set list will also be filled with some of the best female artists in the local area. A portion of proceeeds will be donated to women’s orginizations.

Featured artist: Marina Arriola of Precious Bbyz.

-Free & all ages
-RSVP & share here & on IG so you and friends don’t miss out!

Vendors:
Angel Vintage
Art De Coco
Chifladazine
Coda Rollins (ATX)
Gaylunchable
In Search Of
Massive Curves
Moist Siren Vintage
Oddballl Vintage (San Marcos)
Pinkushion
Poco A Poco (ATX)
Purewears
St. Sucia
The Come Up
Valerie Brown
Xiobahn
210 Vintage Thrift

Snacks by:
Kuma
Honey Suckle Tea Time

DJs:
Amelie Oheron
DJ Heavyflow
Soulstairs

Performers:
Bitter Birds (ATX)
Polly Anna
Topo Chica

On and Off Fredericksburg Road Studio Tour Reaches a 10 Year Milestone
60 Artists Participate in Neighborhood Gallery Walk Feb. 18-19

When Dale Jenssen moved to San Antonio, specifically the Fredericksburg Road area 10 years ago, she discovered the nonprofit arts organization Bihl Haus Arts and befriended the executive director, Kellen McIntyre.
Through her involvement with Bihl Haus Arts, she learned that the area is home to a number of thriving artists. Jenssen along with McIntyre and Eric Lane, along with local artists David and Maria Guerrero, struck upon the idea of starting a neighborhood art tour. Today, the On and Off Fredericksburg Road Studio Tour celebrates its 10th anniversary this year and continues to draw people from across the four corners of San Antonio and other cities, such as Houston and Austin, who come for an intimate peek into the homes and studios of local artists.
“It’s definitely evolved from 27 artists to more than 70 participating artists,” Jenssen said, and that includes the artist herself, who has been showcasing her works to the public ever since the annual gallery stroll began in 2007. She invites the public to stop by her studio, the Jenssen Studio on W. Woodlawn Ave., during the 10th annual On and Off Fredericksburg Road Studio Tour celebrates its 10th anniversary from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 20, and noon to 5 pm, Sunday, Feb. 21 in the Deco District.
“The On and Off Fredericksburg Road Studio Tour is the longest, continuously running, art studio tour in San Antonio,” McIntyre said, adding that Bihl Haus Arts hosts the tour each year. “We have evolved tremendously since its inception 10 years ago.”
“Fred,” as the event is known, is a self-guided tour of private homes, art studios and galleries of more than 70 artists, including painters, sculptors, photographers and metal smiths. In addition, more than 200 musicians, poets, and theater and dance groups help make this community event one of the most diverse studio tours in Texas.
Last year, more than 2,500 locals and visitors walked, biked and drove the meandering 15-mile tour on and off Fredericsksburg Road up and down a 5-mile stretch of Fredericksburg Road to get a first-hand look at the artists working in their studios and to purchase their art, McIntyre said.
Attendees can purchase either the hardcopy color catalog consisting of a map to help people plan their route, artist bios and an image of their work, or the online catalog for $10. For more information, visit www.OnandOffFred.org or call Bihl Haus Arts at (210) 383-9723.
McIntyre, who has lived in the Monticello neighborhood of the Deco District for the past 20 years, envisions the studio tour as helping bring exposure and economic growth to the Fredericksburg Road Cultural Corridor. “I’m proud to say that there has been an investment and development in the neighborhood as an indirect result of the exposure that the Fred Studio Tour has provided to the area over the years,” she said.
The Deco District, she adds, has become a hot spot for many of the Alamo City’s artists. In fact, all artists featured in Fred live and/or work in the surrounding Fredericksburg Road communities: Alta Vista, Beacon Hill, Jefferson, Keystone, Los Angeles Heights, Monticello Park and Woodlawn Lake.
Jenssen, meanwhile, has invited several other artists to display their works at her studio during the Fredericksburg Road Studio Tour. While she specializes in custom and limited-edition light sconces, Jenssen also creates chandeliers; table, floor and hanging lamps; folding screens; tables; mirror and picture frames; punched metal door and cabinet panels; and sculpture.
She also enjoys designing in any architectural style: contemporary, retro, arts and crafts, southwestern or my own quirky amalgam of them all. “I usually work alone, meticulously crafting each piece start to finish and using a variety of techniques and materials,” she said.

In support of March Contemporary Art Month, the King William Cultural Arts District will host a show by A.J. Rodriguez. A.J. is a local contemporary painter who lives in King William. The exhibit will be on display Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

UTSA architecture group, panelists, explore the meaning of Puro in symposium at Brick in Blue Star on Feb. 21

WHAT: Dr. Antonio Petrov, assistant professor in the UTSA College of Architecture, Construction and Planning, invites San Antonio to engage in dialogue to gather a broad understanding of Puro. We hope to shed some light onto its meaning and how it materializes through the lenses of art, music, graffiti, performance, food, religion, cultural history, film, social media, TV, marketing, philosophy, and literature. The symposium, which includes UTSA students, will be led by community members who embody the term.

Puro |ˈpo͝orō|
The statement San Antonio is “Puro” is possibly a provocation. A city the size of San Antonio with all its cultural layers is so much more than one term could describe, but yet, Puro exemplifies something that belongs to all of us; an expression; attitude; a cultural sensibility; betterment; collective accomplishments; something precious the city is dearly holding on to. For some, it is reflected in rituals, art, tastes, values, aesthetics, and a certain sense of authenticity. For others, it is an underlying vibe or lifestyle that exemplifies the social fabric of San Antonio. Of all things, however, it is an active expression of a city that filters through all parts of public life. Architecture, as such, and the way its physical manifestations are contributing to how people use, create, and live in space, one could argue, has not embraced what characterizes Puro. The aesthetics of Puro are mentioned in relation to artistic movements such as expressionism, minimalism, and surrealism. In architectural discourses, however, Puro’s underlying aesthetic could be seen as kitsch, hypernormal, or ordinary; architects fear to design something that could be considered ordinary, kitsch, or not special. Though Puro defies categorization and is ubiquitous to San Antonio, this one-day symposium aims to recover what makes and shapes it and how this might translate into architecture. Through the lens of art, music, graffiti, performance, religion, cultural history, film, social media, TV, philosophy, and literature we hope to explore values, attitudes, and cultural sensibilities and how they inform the relationship between the social and the physical shaping of our city.

As San Antonio is “on the edge of future” and contemporary urban design is not only a matter of iconic architecture and ambitious masterplans, we argue, Puro is about social and cultural sustainability through which formal and informal practices not only shape the environment but also address urban problems and inequalities. Perhaps Puro is the recognition of a “new urban frame of mind” our city needs moving forward with designers that embody emancipatory processes of how we think together, experiment, collaborate, and cooperate in open and active processes of shaping and defining urban space as we are straddling the edge of future. We hope to initiate dialogue and discuss possible ways to integrate the social and cultural fabric into new ways to co-design, co-produce, co-own, and co-manage the spaces we live in. This, of course, raises the question of the role of the architect and planner in the process of developing these alternative models of urban habitation. As a result we hope this symposium can identify alternative models, ideas, and actionable objectives that build on local know-how, craftsmanship, cultural sensibilities, attitudes, and interests and thus have more direct relationships and a more Puro way of critically mediating between ethical positions and aesthetic formulations.

— Dr. Antonio Petrov

WayneHoltz/MrPidge/Orsinger/TrueIndigo/OpticArrest/DoralClub+MOR
Join us on Feb. 24th at BRICK at Blue Star Arts Complex for:
❀SPRING❀ VIBES❀LIVE!❀
An evening of enchanting music, thought-provoking art, and DELECTABLE food and drinks

**SMASH BROS TOURNAMENT STARTS AT 5:00pm**
**Winner will recieve a $25 VISA gift card**
$5 cover
5:00pm-5:50pm SMASH BROS TOURNAMENT
5:55- 6:25pm The Marmalights
6:30pm -7:00pm Mariana Be
7:05pm – 7:35 True Indigo
7:40pm – 8:10pm Orsinger
8:15pm – 8:45pm Noah and the Skyark
8:50pm – 9:20pm Optic Arrest
9:25pm – 9:55pm Doral Club
10:00pm – 10:30pm Rock Bottom String Band
10:35pm -11:05pm Mr. Pidge
11:10 – 11:40pm Wayne Holtz
11:45pm -12:05pm DJ Chuy

We are featuring many local San Antonio artists at this event who will be selling their work and working together on a mural!
Buy a raffle ticket to enter for a chance to WIN this community mural!!!!! :O
This is going to be one absolutely incredible night!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’m extremely excited and I hope to see you there!!!!!
Y’ALL DON’T WANNA MISS OUT ON THESE SICK VIBES

Time for a “Tune Up”!!
#LoveThySelf

Find Balance, clear your Mind, Lift your Spirit and Re-Charge your Body
Bring YOURSELF 02/25/17

Metaphysical and Holistic practitioners focused on wellness guidance and tools.

A holistic fair with something for everyone!

Held at the historic Blue Star complex dating back to 1860, you will enjoy the atmosphere and interacting with all the different practitioners.

You can get answers to your most important questions from an intuitive or astrologer, appreciate the fine work of nature through crystals and mineral lamps, and relieve your aches and pains with a holistic healer.

Have a great afternoon learning about yourself and the ways to get in touch with what is really important for you. Spend time and find the modality that resonates with your highest good. This could be life changing, come out and take a look!

Intuitive and clairvoyant readings, Reiki, massage and reflexology, crystals, artisan products and much more!
*Drumming will be held at the beginning of Holistic fair.

The Best Metaphysic & Holistic exhibitors focused on Alternative Wellness/Living Guidence & Tools, Intuitive Tarot, Psychic Astrology & Angel Readings, Mediums,Reiki Masters,Massage, Reflexology Therapist, Chakra & Aura Readers, Numerology , Crystals, Rocks, Artisan Jewelry, Pop-Up Boutique, Skincare & Artisan products and much more.

Free admission & Free parking
The Mystic Market will be offering FREE Intuitive sesions to anyone who invites 20+ guest or more on this event page to the Mystic Market!! thats a FREE reading for every 20 or more guest invited..
**we will verrify your invites at the door!

Call: (714) 926-4131 for more info. or email

Trebla Art Gallery Presents “Diverse Views” a Group Exhibition.

Artist:

Chris Riggs

Elias Vieyra

Kristen Phipps

Paul Cooley

Raul Gonzalez

Diego S Martinez

Cherise Munro

Victoria Waite

Ana H Burwell

Chris Koenig

Braydon Gold

Mauro C Martienz

The Lone Star State’s most lovable heathens are back in action with a brand new album! Collective Dreams celebrates the release of their fourth record (“The Evergreen Sessions”) joined by friends Animal Spirit (“Best Live Band” – Ft Worth Music Awards 2016), Wayne Holtz (“20 SA Bands You Should Pay Attention to in 2017” – SA Current), The Gentlemen Swank, and Red Cardinal. Presented by Brick at Blue Star Arts Complex, join us for THE live music event to kick-off your spring concert season!

Collective Dreams:
“Listen…when your soul needs some massaging…” – DO210

“Collective Dreams give pure instrumentation the recognition it deserves with proggy post-rock jams.” – SA Current

Animal Spirit:
“…dynamic, with lots of ebb and flow…The vibe is decidedly earthy and spacey.” – Ft Worth Weekly

“Animal Spirit pairs indie pop hooks and good ole rock ‘n’ roll with North Texas flavor. Like their name suggests, Animal Spirit is a guide into the future of the always-growing indie alternative rock scene.” – SA Current

Wayne Holtz:
“Holtz’s fuck-shit-up panache has propelled him to some of the loftiest heights scaled by a local musician in recent memory…” – SA Current

“Holtz is pure, unmatched fabulousness.” – SA Current

The Gentlemen Swank:
“From the south Texas brush country comes the Gentleman Swank with a totally original and eclectic sound that touches the hearts and ears of their listeners.” – SA Current

Red Cardinal

Shop . Sip . Sit . See . Storytell . Smack
Shop Local. Choice Goods and have fun.. See people . Sip from our bar…$2.00-$5 beer, wine and mimosas — Art, Photography, Fashion, Cards, Vintage looks, Cool Jewels Astrology …come eat Rene’s empanadas for brunch, lunch, or high tea.

Art historian and occasional FL!GHT guest curator Dr. Ruben C. Cordova presents a lecture and slideshow in conjunction with one of two stunning Ángel Rodríguez-Díaz painting exhibitions closing at the gallery on March 3: “El Mero Chile.”

Straight outta Montreal, Canada, FL!GHT resident artist Krista Muir unleashes her synthesizer-wielding “fauxvarian” alter-ego Lederhosen Lucil to help kick off CAM with an ausgezeichnet genre-bending show!

Known for legendary live shows that often include improv and audience participation, Lucil returns to San Antonio after having rocked Tacoland (RIP) and Artpace with DJ Jester The Filipino Fist. Lucil has performed with Quintron & Miss Pussycat, Kid Koala, Le Tigre, Joe Jack Talcum (to name but a few) and on one occasion was driven to a remote village in Italy to play a private birthday show for Diesel fashion mogul Renzo Rosso. It’s time again for music, theatre and costume design to meet!

Cost: PWYC

AY PAPIS PUERTO RICAN FOOD TRUCK specializes in authentic food from the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico. We currently alternate locations from West to East and different locations around San Antonio, TX.  Check our facebook & Instagram pages for up-to-date locations and times.  Call /txt 210-712-7941.

Ángel Rodríguez-Díaz: El Mero Chile / The Full Monty

Ángel Rodríguez-Díaz: Nueva York – San Antonio

Closing: 6-9 pm, Thursday, March 2 (exhibition

continues through March 3, 2017)

FL!GHT

134 Blue Star

(210) 872-2586

Blue Star Arts Complex in San Antonio, Texas

FL!GHT opens two exhibitions featuring rediscovered

early works by renowned painter Ángel Rodríguez-Díaz

on February 2.

SAN ANTONIO (December 23, 2016) – FL!GHT in the Blue Star Art

Complex presents two exhibitions devoted to Ángel Rodríguez-Díaz

that shed light on the origins of the Puerto Rican native’s dazzling

portrait technique. A search of the artist’s studio revealed nine rolled-

up canvases and a number of other paintings that had not been

unpacked since the artist moved to San Antonio from New York in

1995. The majority of these rediscovered paintings are on display at

FL!GHT. Most of them have never been publicly exhibited, and none

of the rediscovered paintings have been seen by anyone in over

twenty years.

After achieving considerable success as an undergraduate,

Rodríguez-Díaz received his BFA degree at the University of Puerto

Rico in Rio Piedras in 1978. He moved to New York City in 1978,

where he found a place within the gay and Latino communities.

Rodríguez-Díaz received his MFA degree at Hunter College in New

York City in 1982.

Rodríguez-Díaz utilizes dramatized self-portraiture as a vehicle for

social commentary and political criticism. He views portraiture as a

distillation of the sitter’s essential traits, as well as an opportunity to

celebrate diversity and the dignity of the self.

El Mero Chile / The Full Monty in the FL!GHT Salon gallery

The Salon gallery exhibition celebrates the beauty and sensuality of

the male body with paintings made in New York between 1983 and

1992. The rolled-up paintings found in the artist’s studio include an

untitled painting from 1983 that combines influences from El Greco

and Francis Bacon, and “The Cannibal” (1988), a hyper-masculine

nude that addresses Caribbean stereotypes. It includes “Adam” (1991),

Rodríguez-Díaz’s most famous nude. A large-scale portrait of a black

man who has seemingly jumped out of a tropical fire, Adam is a

critique of African slavery in the Caribbean and of colonial wars of

conquest. It became a cause célèbre when it was censored in a New

York exhibition in 1992. Rodríguez-Díaz quit painting male nudes that

year because most exhibition venues would not display them. He

regards these restrictions as a form of prior restraint. FL!GHT is

against censorship in the arts and is proud to present this exhibition,

which is the first one devoted to Rodríguez-Díaz’s nudes.

Ángel Rodríguez-Díaz: Nueva York – San Antonio in the FL!GHT

main gallery.

The main gallery exhibition emphasizes Rodríguez-Díaz’s New York

period and it features many of the recently rediscovered

paintings. One of the highlights is an undated double self-portrait from

1987 that references Frida Kahlo with a skeletal pelvis and a large,

disembodied heart. It is the most dramatic example of four paintings

on colored and textured fabric in this exhibition that inspired the

painted fabric patterns that are featured in most of Rodríguez-Díaz’s

subsequent paintings. Kahlo utilized self-portraiture to create complex

narratives and her art is the most important precedent for Rodríguez-

Díaz’s utilization of self-portraiture as a vehicle for social criticism.

Rodríguez-Díaz experimented with a wide range of painterly effects

and artistic sources in the works in this exhibition. Paintings made in

San Antonio include a partially finished portrait based on Franciso

Goya’s “Naked Maja”.

Reception dates:

6-10 pm, February 2 & 3 and March 2 & 3.

Lecture:

“The Penis in Art: A Short History,” by Guest Curator Ruben C.

Cordova, date and time to be announced.

Rodríguez-Díaz’s Exhibition History and Public Collections:

Rodríguez-Díaz has been exhibiting since the 1970s. His solo

exhibitions include: Blue Star Contemporary, San Antonio; Instituto

de Mexico, San Antonio; Southwest School of Art, San Antonio;

Beeville Museum of Art, Beeville, TX; Taller Boricua Gallery, New

York; Intar Gallery, New York; Oller/Campeche Gallery, Department

of Puerto Rican Community Affairs in the United States, New York;

The Step Gallery, New York; Ollantay Center for the Arts, Queens,

NY; Mendelson Gallery, Pittsburg, PA; Zolla/Lieberman Gallery,

Chicago; the IPC Museum of Fine Arts, San Juan, Puerto

Rico; Cayman Gallery, New York; Carnegie Library, San Juan, Puerto

Rico.

The artist has participated in numerous group shows, including some

at: Museo del Chopo, Mexico City; El Museo del Barrio, New York;

Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC; National Museum

of Mexican Art, Chicago; Art in General, New York; the Museum of

Contemporary Hispanic Art, New York. He has been an artist-in-

residence at Arts International, the Marie Walsh Sharpe Art

Foundation, Yaddo, and Artpace in San Antonio.

Rodríguez-Díaz’s work is in the following permanent collections: The

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC; El Museo del

Barrio, New York; The National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago;

San Antonio Museum of Art; San Fernando Cathedral, San Antonio;

The Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi; the Mexic-Arte

Museum, Austin; The Blanton Museum of Art, Austin; El Museo de

Arte Contemporaneo de Puerto Rico, San Juan; Instituto de Cultura

Puertorriqueña, San Juan; Museo de Historia, Antropologia y Arte,

Universidad de Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, among others.

About the guest curator:

Ruben C. Cordova is an art historian, curator, and photographer. He

holds a BA from Brown University (Semiotics) and a PhD from UC

Berkeley (History of Art) and has taught at UC Berkeley, UT Pan

American, UT San Antonio, Sarah Lawrence College, and the

University of Houston. Cordova has curated or co-curated twenty-

eight exhibitions, including the Mel Casas exhibition at FL!GHT in

2015.

About the gallery:

Since 2002, FL!GHT has exhibited the work of hundreds of artists

from down the block and across the globe. San Antonio’s “Best Art

Gallery”* was born in a small grain silo just downriver from its fourth

and current location in the Blue Star Arts Complex. Founding

Director Justin Parr and Senior Creative Co-conspirator Ed

Saavedra have established their gallery’s reputation for presenting

consistently excellent yet challenging work in a relaxed, inclusive

atmosphere.

*San Antonio Magazine, 2015

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instagram: @flightgallery
facebook.com/flightSA

We opened in 2011 and are still around trying to preach the gospel that good food is about taking risks. The concept of Bombay Salsa Co started with a late night munchie mix combining tandoori chicken and pico de gallo. Now, a few years later we have converted several connoisseurs; some forcefully, but mostly by offering our captivating cuisine. Even a couple of critics think we’re doing ok, and have mentioned us now and again. Some guests have even invited us to feed their friends, which we do with pleasure serving out of trademark orange truck. Sometimes they ask us to drop it off and leave, but we watch them through the windows and see them gobble it up. We have even married a couple of customers off–taking our homemade goodies and polishing them up for the big stage.

We look forward every week to seeing everybody, because this is our social life. We put in late hours after work or early in the morning, we cut and chop and boil and bake, stir and even shake a bit, just for you our guests. Why ? Because we want you back with your friends— even dragging them by force if you have to — don’t worry we’ll be gentle. If you throw a party, give us a call. We’ll cater it and you’ll be the talk of the town.

Food has always been a passion in our family. In fact, we’ve been serving food in one way or another for four generations. We love food. We delight in preparing it, presenting it, partaking in it, and most importantly watching our friends enjoy it. We love it here in San Antonio our home away from home. So come by, visit us, and enjoy.

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Join us on March 2nd at Blue Star Contemporary and the Blue Star Arts Complex to KICK-OFF Contemporary Art Month, 6 pm – 9 pm

Ribbon cutting at 6:00 PM
From Those Who Follow the Echoes (FTWFTE) choir collective choral performance at 6:30 PM
Dance Dance Dance to music by DJ Novasoul of Labkids.
Enjoy EATS from Ay Papi’s & Bombay Salsa Co. FOOD TRUCKS
(prices start at $3.00)
Beer Sponsored by Blue Moon Beer

Blue Star Contemporary Exhibitions:
Turning Memory featuring John Steck Jr. (Project Space)
M*Dres featuring Julia Barbosa Landois (Gallery 4)
The Blue Hour (A clock stopped) featuring Jessica Halonen (Middle Gallery)
Homage (Main Gallery) – In celebration of BSC’s 30th birthday, Homage pays tribute to the exhibition that started it all back in June of 1986, The Blue Star Exhibition. Featuring artists David Almaguer, Joe Haro, Jennifer Khoshbin, Michele Monseau, Andrei Renteria, Anthony Rundblade and Ed Saavedra. http://bluestarart.org/all-exhibitions/

Art Happenings throughout the Blue Star Arts Complex and The BRICK The UTSA New Media Arts Collective Present “CAM WOW” A night of new media art and performance.

CAM DANCE 3 – Let’s get our groove on at The BRICK for this year’s CAM DANCE 3. Music by Agosto Cuellar starting at 9:00 PM. Free and open to the public with a cash bar.

Visit our CAM Calendar for more information at http://contemporaryartmonth.com/calendar/ or contact Contemporary Art Month at (210) 630-0235 and info@contemporaryartmonth.com

Free and Open to the Public!

Featuring Julia Barbosa Landois

M*dres is a series of silkscreen prints employing phrases in English and Spanish which contain the words mom/mother/madre. The work examines how gendered language reflects and structures our political and cultural attitudes towards women. Some are common phrases, some are swears, and some are backhanded compliments. In English, using the word “mom” as an adjective automatically devalues what follows, and what follows often has to do with appearance – mom jeans, mom body, mom haircut, etc. The Spanish phrases seem relatively harmless in literal translation, but in context, transform to vulgarities you probably wouldn’t use in the presence of your own mother.

“My interest in these phrases is what they connote for the larger social framing of motherhood, as well as my own paradoxical existence as a caretaker in a profession that lionizes the unattached individual living only for the work.”– Landois

Elizabeth Carrington’s new works resonate with power and movement. The paintings conjure up the passage of time represented by candy colored cakes and icons, heroic swords and kingly rings.The possibility of peace and happiness are woven through her paintings as unexpected bold graffiti images. Contradictory commands of “say anything ” and  “shut up” might present a commentary on current world affairs but are left for individual interpretation.

Open Reception: Thursay, March 2nd, 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm.

Things We Used To Know emerges out of connections and parallels discovered in the practices of five artists living in different parts of the country. Born of a common appreciation for space travel, mirrors, the mapping of uncharted wilderness, magic, and concepts like Wheeler’s Participatory Anthropic Principle – the proposal that the universe requires conscious observers to exist – this exhibition reframes natural history and external observation as a form of self-investigation and vice versa. Here is the world taking measure of itself, the cosmos peering in as we peer out.

Ariel Lavery

Christopher M. Lavery

Matthew Weedman

Jason Pearce Willome

Ethan Worden

Gallery Hours: Thursday, Friday & Saturday noon to 5:00 pm.

Featuring John Steck Jr.

Evoking themes of ephemerality, physicality, materiality, fragility, and mortality, Turning Memory features photographs from the artist’s series Lament (Disappearing photographs). The exhibition also includes two exposure boxes where the images are created during the span of the exhibition, punctuating our need to permanently document and hold a moment longer.

By allowing images to slowly disappear, Steck Jr. calls attention to the medium of photography and its ability to capture memories. Photography is seemingly forever, yet whether physical or digital, the medium remains as impermanent as the moment depicted in its frame.

By manipulating the image-making process of particular images from his archive, he negates the archival function of them. Using gelatin silver paper, but with a non-traditional approach, these images are created without a darkroom or chemicals. Because of this process, the images remain sensitive to light; and, in a fairly short, yet unpredictable amount of time, they will disappear completely. The photographs will shift and change the same way that we change as physical beings. The artist uses this fading process to alter his memories of particular images that he finds disruptive, both visually and internally, due to sensitive memories. These images relate to moments of loss, nostalgia, fondness, and love. This concept has taken on a new meaning for this series and leaves us to consider the fleeting impermanence of materials, objects, images, and life itself, through a medium that is meant to act as a time capsule.

Hello Studio is pleased to present Wesley Harvey’s most recent body of work, Pretty Hurts. Harvey, a former San Antonio resident, continues his investigation into Queer Theory, examining the ideas of deviance and perfection associated with homosexuality. “Perfection, at least in terms of being a gay man, has become quite the disease. Perfection is sought after no matter what the cost or consequences. I want to address the social and cultural differences of being gay and examine not only the normative behavior but also the deviant lifestyle that often gets neglected and chastised.”

Harvey will present a new body of functional and sculptural ceramics, as well as works on paper.

Pretty Hurts is on view March 2 – March 18.

Ana Fernandez’s paintings and Hiromi Stringer’s drawings provide unique perspectives on San Antonio’s diverse cultures and landscapes.

Show runs from March 2nd through April 30th 2017.

Artist Statement

I paint to better understand myself and world around me. My intent is to look at and portray Millennials as they deal with contemporary situations. The characters in my paintings, which I like to call “adults”, have classical Greek busts as heads with incomplete skeletons as bodies with emphasis on their rib cages and pelvis. The rib cage is where we think we store our feelings – in our hearts – and the pelvis is where our reproductive organs are. The classical busts represent a preconceived image of perfection and are also one of the most copied styles in art; they are supposed to be cool, blank and objective. The “adults” have arms and hands to provide for themselves and express themselves but lack legs and feet because they cannot escape their current situation. I place these “adults” in surreal scenes while giving the scenes aspects of ordinary everyday life. In these pieces I am exploring individual identity with the use of cross-cultural ideas with an emphasis on the exploration of the inner self.

http://www.hernandezburwell.com/

March 2 – March 4, 2017

For more information contact Nina Hassele at (210) 630-0235. ninafrombrooklyn@gmail.com

The UTSA New Media Arts Collective Presents CAM WOW.  A featured event to kick off Contemporary Art Month 2017.  A night of new media art and performance at The BRICK at Blue Star Arts Complex.  One night only, completely FREE

Parental Advisory Explicit Content. 

FREE
CAM DANCE 3 — Join us after the opening ceremony of CAM 2017
UTSA New Media Department Installation — 5-12am
CAM DANCE starts at 9ish pm
PHOTO CRED: Polly Becker http://www.pollybecker.com/assemblages/nc5ey6nqaltmsog3r828ngx151g97h

CAM: More Than a Month – Pt I

Friday March 3rd, 2017, 4:30 – 6 pm

Still kicking yourself for missing the CAM Kickoff at Blue Star Contemporary

last night? Just looking to relive the glory? Was so much glory had you now need

a new copy of the calendar because you can’t find the one previously provided to

you? Come get the lowdown (or a refresher) on Contemporary Art Month 2017,

swap best practices for making the most of all the action, and get a caffeinated

head-start on First Friday compliments of Merit Roasting!

Media Contact: Hyland O’Brien, Gallery + Program Manager, Haus Collective

hyland@hauscollectivesa.com

210-837-7155

Join photography students from the Art Institute of San Antonio to experience Juxtaposition. “This body of work, like the word itself, reflects the unique perspective with which each artist approached their work.”

Carolina G Flores latest oil paintings on canvas.

Shopping . Singing . Swilling . Swaying.
BANDS . MARKET . BAR .
Great night for arts market, music and eating and drinking…

The Spare Parts MINI ART MUSEUM proudly presents “Fine Print” featuring 16 contemporary artists working in an range of printmaking techniques and styles, from letterpress and lithograph to photogravure, photopolymer etching and chine collé. Editions of these limited-edition miniature-sized original prints will be available to benefit museum programming and “Fine Print” artists. Free admission.

ARTISTS: Cynthia Emma Alderete, Sabrina Alfaro, Linda Arredondo, Kim Bishop, Lisette Chávez, Danielle Cunningham (DC), Jennifer Ling Datchuk, Janet Lennie Flohr, Michael Menchaca, Amada Claire Miller, Sable Mirelez, Anthony Rundblade, Michael Stoltz, Hiromi Stringer, Luis Valderas and Rikkianne Van Kirk.

Special thanks to Hotel Emma, Rotary Club of San Antonio Mission Trail & Spare Parts.

In celebration of Contemporary Art Month, Show Down Gallery and Robert Tatum Present “Pardon My Glitch” – a solo show featuring well known street artist, SCOTCH! This new body of work showcases SCOTCH!’s further exploration and mastery of Glitchism – an art technique that he developed which incorporates a precise layering of color, pattern and off setting of images for complex visual stimulation using hand cut stencil and spray paint in true street art form. Join us Thursday for a soft opening and First Friday for to meet the artist. The show will be up until March 26, 2017.

I will be at the Upstairs Studios, Rm. 215, in the Blue Star complex. https://www.facebook.com/theupstairstudios/ I will have woodcuts, etchings, silkscreens, and collagraphs, as well as my drawings from traveling abroad.

“Color Cycle” Participating Artists from Miami Laundromat Art Space:

This March, SAY Sí celebrates 20 years of showcasing the best local art, culinary fare and refreshing libations at its Small Scale • Big Change events.

The exhibition and month-long silent auction features the region’s most esteemed artists with over 200 unique artworks – all up for auction in support of SAY Sí’s tuition-free creative youth-development programs. Each artist’s small-scale donation has the potential to make BIG change for SAY Sí, as Small Scale continues to be the organization’s single largest money-raising campaign.

In honor of this Small Scale • Big Change milestone, SAY Sí is channeling the Summer of Love: the summer of 1967 where like-minded young people converged in San Francisco to celebrate love, peace, hope, community and acceptance. So get groovy and show up in your favorite 1960’s garb!

The exhibit and silent auction opens on Friday, March 3, 2017, where guests can mix and mingle with exhibited artists and begin placing bids on original works [online or on a mobile device] or purchase pieces at the buy-it-now price. Digital bidding and buy-it-now purchases are available until Thursday, March 23, 2017.

Small Scale • Big Change
Opening Night Event | Free & Open to the Public | Friday, March 3, 2017, 7 – 10 p.m.
Final Auction Night | $60 Presale, $75 At the Door | Friday, March 24, 2017, 7 – 10:30 p.m.
FREE Public Exhibition Viewing, March 3 – March 23, 2017
Gallery Hours: Mon. – Thu. | 10 AM – 7 PM, Fri. & Sat. | 10 AM – 5 PM
Full details and tickets available at bit.ly/smallscale2017

Kite Flying Fandango is part of a city wide, month long celebration of kites! The Kites of March includes events in north, south, east and west neighborhoods, because, the winds of San Antonio blow in all directions.

Come explore an installation created especially for children and families to enjoy Contemporary Art by local artist Richard Armendariz. The Dream Keeper will bring to life visions of an instructive, fable-like narrative grounded in the framework of an interactive childhood bedroom.

Güilas de Viento ~ Community Kite Flying is part of a city wide, month long celebration of kites! The Kites of March includes events in north, south, east and west neighborhoods, because, the winds of San Antonio blow in all directions.

A Centro Cultural Aztlan event

“GAGA@TRIBECA,” an exhibition of artwork by eleven artists from the Gentileschi Aegis Gallery Association, will be on display at 212 TRIBECA.  Artists’ Reception: 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday, March 4. Hours are 4 p.m. to 10 p.m., Tuesday-Saturday and 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sundays. 212 TRIBECA is at 4331 McCullough Ave., San Antonio. Artworks – ranging from the figurative to the abstract – are by artists Kate Badash, Beverly Blair, Ligia Bedenkop, Beatriz Fedele, Priscilla Ferguson, Tina Karagulian, Virgina Lukefahr, Ana Montoya, Loretta Young-Medellin, Lisa Stamper Meyer and Dawn Marie Rae.

Opening Reception March 4, 2017/2:00 pm to 4:00 pm

Exhibition run March 4, 2017 through April 27, 2017.

Trebla Art Gallery Presents “Diverse Views” a Group Exhibition.

Artist:

Chris Riggs

Elias Vieyra

Kristen Phipps

Paul Cooley

Raul Gonzalez

Diego S Martinez

Cherise Munro

Victoria Waite

Ana H Burwell

Chris Koenig

Braydon Gold

Mauro C Martienz

Driven by a passion to make her art available to everyone, Mexico City-based urban artist, Paola Delfín creates highly technical paintings depicting the complex relationship between the human body and other organic forms. In addition to gallery exhibitions, her public artworks are marveled at worldwide in countries such as Mexico, Germany, Ukraine, China, USA, Spain, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Brazil and Romania, to name a few.

Curated by Hillarey Jones, Paola Delfín | Effloresce, is a new iteration of the feminine ideal stemming from techniques the artist has consistently used throughout her career. In an effort to address the constant development of, not only our biological physiology, but also the link to the natural world around us, Delfín has created a series of new work that radiates with the metaphor of blossoming femininity anchored in the roots from which we came.

“The focus is about having an identity and remembering that much like a plant..or a flower…we all have a growing process, and we are able to transform our lives in many ways. The reason I focus on women is because the world has a way of portraying them as being fragile, or having the idea that because you are beautiful you cannot be strong…what I try to convey is that a woman can be everything in one.” –Paola Delfín

Please join us for the unveiling of Paola’s new mural for San Antonio and an exhibition of her paintings in the S.M.A.R.T. projectspace on March 4, 2017

from 6-9 pm.

I will have a table set up with woodcuts, etchings, silkscreens, and collagraphs, as well as my drawings from traveling abroad. http://www.dockspacegallery.com

John Mattson, The Nebulous Hum, acrylic and mixed media on paper.Opening Reception:1st Saturday, March 4, 2017, 6 – 9 PM.March 4 – April 21, 2017. REM Gallery regular hours: Fridays and Saturdays 12 – 6 PM.
Artist statement:
This work, as all my work, is the result of all that has preceded it. My vision is only that which I feel – a nebulous hum that would have no real meaning if I did not attempt to make it visual. I strive to do this with iconography that has slowly evolved as I mature. I see most of my work as one frame, one snapshot, in a life of personal observation and inner search. It is a lifelong process of finding my own voice.John Mattson 2017

Shop . Sip . Sit . See . Storytell . Smack
Shop Local. Choice Goods and have fun.. See people . Sip from our bar…$2.00-$5 beer, wine and mimosas — Cool Jewels, Art, Photography, Fashion, Cards, Vintage looks, Astrology — come eat Rene’s empanadas for brunch, lunch, or high tea

Popular painter and photographer Neka Scarbrough-Jenkins will display her newest work for the duration of CAM. For the opening date, March 5, local rockers Los #3 Dinners will provide the party music.

Art! In the Plaza presents “Bellas”
Monday, March 6
5:30-8:30
Plaza Club
100 W. Houston 21st Floor of the Frost Bank Building
Artists:
Debra Benditz
Laura Caldera
Gizelle Diaz
Ana Montoya
Yaeko Coburn

Participants will work as a group and receive individual attention from local artist and educator Terry A. Ybáñez in the Of Country and Culture exhibition.

Señor Rodeo (Ken Little, Bart Nichols, and Paul Farrell) will be performing original music as well as classic covers of Western Swing, Country, and Rock and Roll. They will be joined by Hyperbubble (Jeff and Jessica Decuir) who will be releasing their latest CD  “Western Ware”.  The Liberty Bar has great food and drinks! There is NO COVER!

Discover the world of Aboriginal art and culture through the exhibition Of Country and Culture. Investigate the idea of the Dreaming, the Aboriginal understanding of the world, its creation, and its stories through dot-painting, pigment-making and printmaking activities you can take back to the classroom.

Reception and exhibition opening for artist Cheryl Sheehan’s debut art show. With intuition as her guide for color and material, and inspiration from nature, childhood stories and fairy tales, Sheehan’s work begins with the eyes of her characters, which are often described as “pretty girls.” Her intent is use art to convey personality and emotion, with any concept of aesthetic beauty the creation and interpretation of the beholder.

Join Dwight Hobart & Patty Ortiz on Wednesday, March 8 for the second Liberty Bar wine pairing dinner in our “Serious Food & Wine Series” featuring wines from Bending Branch Winery. 

Wednesday, March 8 

7:00 pm Reception 

7:30 pm Dinner 

Limited seating available

$75 per person  + tax & gratuity 

Reservations: 

Teri Wright 

210-552-0333

teri@libertybarsa.com

Full dinner menu @ www.liberty-bar.com

This exhibit of fifteen Latina artists is an acknowledgement of where women artists have been, looks to the places they occupy now and the roles they will fill in the future.
This cross-generational exhibit, with artists ranging in age from 20 to 80, includes women who were active participants in the first wave of feminist art and younger artists who are just now discovering the mythic history of that rich legacy.

Curated by Kathy Vargas

Featuring:
Sarah Castillo
Lisette Chavez
Cat Cisneros
Jenelle Esparza
Audrya Flores
April Flores Taylor
Mari Hernandez
Ana Laura de la Garza
Chloe Rivas
Elizabeth Rodriguez
Diana Rodriguez Gil
Elva Salinas
Victoria Suescum
Anita Valencia
Carla Veliz

Eric Breish:
SAN ANTONIO, TX- AnArte Gallery is thrilled to be hosting Eric Breish’s opening of a uniquely hypnotizing exhibit entitled “Into The Void” on Thursday, March 9, 2017 from 5-8pm! Live music by Antique Sunlight, & Coyote Sings! Whiskey & vino reception, lite bites, art talk & more! Exhibit on view through April 1, 2017.
Breish states, “We live in such uncertain times where information from most media sources is fear based. Hysterical panic stemming from potential financial collapse, race-based tensions, social inequalities, wars, and a general lack of humanity create visions of crisis at every turn. My show entitled, “Into the Void,” is an escape from the constant bombardment of social tensions. The idea is to transform the gallery into a deep space, creating a visual experience that will transport the viewer into a realm outside of our world, where there are neither messages nor intentions put forth by the work. Nothing to digest nor interpret, no hidden meanings, just a visceral experience being fed by paintings that represent nebulas, supernovas and the vast galaxies that exist in the void of our expanding outer space. One’s presence is required to fully interact with these three-dimensional paintings, presenting themselves as holographs as you move around each individual piece.”

Eric Breish was born in Houston Texas. Upon graduating high school, Breish joined the US Marine Corps in 1997. After being honorably discharged as a decorated Sergeant in 2001, he attended Full Sail University in Florida where he earned an A.S. degree in Recording Arts, a B.S. degree in Entertainment Business and graduated Salutatorian in 2005. Upon graduation, he returned to San Diego where he worked for a company that designed clothing and accessories for action sports companies like Hurley and Billabong. It was these formative years that planted the creative seed that ultimately grew into an interest in visual arts. In 2007, Breish moved to Houston, TX, and during his visit, he discovered the New Gallery where he was first introduced to the work of internationally known artist Andreas Nottebohm. He was immediately fixated with metal art. After meeting with Andreas, they developed a strong friendship and Breish began studying under his guidance and continues to work alongside Nottebohm in San Antonio, TX. It was this mentorship that pushed him to find his artistic voice while carrying on the tradition of this very unique style of metal-based art. Although he doesn’t currently have a formal degree in art, Breish believes the lack of formal education has allowed him to create a style that is not only unique and powerful, but one that cannot be learned in a classroom. Breish consistently shows throughout south Texas and his work resides in numerous private and public collections throughout the US.

Sweet Sixteen!

A group show filling both rooms of our gallery in Blue Star, as we celebrate 16 years of showing Contemporary Art in San Antonio.

Posters designed by Ryan Parker will be available to commemorate the occasion. Our resident artist for Contemporary Art Month, Krista Muir, will be performing as well at an as of yet undisclosed time in the night.

Artists such as ;

Daniel Johnston
Jeff Wheeler
Leslie Tolbert
Ryan Parker
Alex Rubio
Jake Zollie Harper
Jesse Amado
Nate Cassie
Ethel Shipton
Derek Allen Brown
Amada Claire Miller
Thomas Cummins
David Vega
Jonathan Sims
Lloyd Walsh
James Smolleck
Adam Smolensky
Maisie Marie Alford
Rachel Cozzi
Sean Von Merveldt
Greg Mannino
Gary Sweeney
Skyler Saucedo
Raygun Johns
Rigoberto Luna
Patrick Zeller
Krista Muir
Rodolfo Choperena
Jeremiah Teutsch
Joe De La Cruz / McHug

and MORE!!!

Presenting a group show celebrating 16 years of FL!GHT Gallery. Artist list to be announced…

Enjoy live music, gallery tours inspired by the Contemporary Aboriginal Art exhibition Of Country and Culture at 5:30, 6:15, and 7:15 p.m. (space is limited), specialty cocktails by The Esquire Tavern (cash bar) and art making!

Art Party is a collaboration between the San Antonio Museum of Art and KRTU Jazz 91.7.

In the event of inclement weather, Art Party is held indoors.

Art Party generously funded by the John L. Santikos Charitable Foundation, a fund of the San Antonio Area Foundation.

https://www.facebook.com/events/273177213079502/

Welcome to Scary stories to tell in the art! A very dark lush collection and exhibition of local and international artists inspired by the art of Stephen Gammell’s “Scary stories to tell in the dark”. The location of this event will be Brick art gallery. March 10th 2017. 7pm-12 am. Full bar provided! Free admission. Keep checking back as the event page will be updated accordingly. Thank you for your support!
-curator-Vidvad Scare
Costumes inspired by Scary Stories to tell in the dark are welcome!
Cosplay something spooky or even your favorite character, story from the books! A raffle for specific items will also be held for artwork, shirt, prints, and even a signed book by Gammell himself (donated by a fan).

Music provided by Dj Rickbats

Performance by Black water revival
https://www.facebook.com/BlackwRevival/

This exhibition is also to be included in an upcoming scary stories documentary! Check out the link for details on the documentary.

http://www.scarystoriesdoc.com/
more info on event page

PSW opens the doors to our Olmos Park community to welcome you to our first “Art in Spaces” opening! In support of the arts, we’re featuring light bites, art, and conversation with artists Katy Silva, Abraham Vasquez, Melissa Sanchez, Eric Morse, Garcia Art Glass, Lida Steves, and Max Woodward. We’re excited to host them and look forward to your company.

PSW opens our door to welcome you to our Olmos Park community by supporting the arts in high style! Join us for PSW’s first “Art in Spaces” opening featuring art and conversation with artists Katy Silva, Abraham Vasquez, Melissa Sanchez, Eric Morse, Garcia Art Glass, Lida Steves, and Max Woodward. We’re excited to host them and look forward to your company.

Papalote Day ~ Kite Day is part of a city wide, month long celebration of kites! The Kites of March includes events in north, south, east and west neighborhoods, because, the winds of San Antonio blow in all directions.

Land Heritage Institute, 1349 Neal Road between Applewhite & Pleasanton/Moursund, SATX  78264

Enjoy the music of local favorites, the singer songwriters Rex Foster and Claude “Butch” Morgan while viewing the paintings of Claire Casseb and Neka Scarbrough-Jenkins.

Please join me for the opening of my show at Cappy’s from 3:45 to 5:00 sharp!

“GOOD FOOD GOOD PEOPLE”

AY PAPIS PUERTO RICAN FOOD TRUCK specializes in authentic food from the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico. We currently alternate locations from West to East and different locations around San Antonio, TX. Check our facebook & Instagram pages for up-to-date locations and times. Call /txt 210-712-7941.

We specializes on making our customers HAPPY!

Pinchos/kabobs pork & chicken, Cuban sandwich, pernil sandwich, tripleta sandwich with 3 meats, empanadillas stufffed with chicken, beef, pizza, shrimp, alcapurrias, rellenos de papa, bacalaitos, tostones with special home made chimichurri salsa. We also make mofongos, carne frita y traditional plates.

Our menu changes daily. We are available to cater private parties and events. For more information please contact us.

Thank you!

Deviation – an action, behavior, or condition that is different from what is usual or expected.

Deviation: Artistic Expression and Actualization
Brick – 108 Blue Star, San Antonio, TX
Saturday, March 11, 2017
6:00 pm | Free Event | Open to the Public

We proudly present the second installment of Deviation; featuring new and returning artists, for a night of creative wonderment.

Mixed Media Artists
Zach Espinoza
Robert Mata
Caroline Adam

Photographic Artist
Vincent Gonzalez

Musical Artists
George Garza Jr.
Polly Anna
Matt Canning

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Mantle is pleased to present “Spacial Fragments”, a collaborative show from San Antonio artists Sara Corley Martinez and Sarah Lawrence.

The work strives to strike a balance between the micro and the macro, the cosmos and earthly plane.

Sara Corley Martinez explores micro biology and macro ambiance. Her work explores things that can’t be seen, energies and experiences on otherworldly planes.

Sarah Lawrence works primarily digitally, creating large scale prints intended to confront the viewer and place them in the aetherial vastness of space.

Art Show and House Concert.
Group art show featuring works by local artists Rainey, Jennifer Khoshbin and Ann Michele Morales.

Musical entertainment for the evening will be provided by Sweet ‘Shine & Honey

Provenance Gallery is pleased to present, “Dreams Are for Those Who Sleep,” an exhibition featuring recent works on paper by San Antonio-based artist, Jose Fidel Sotelo. These large-scale graphite drawings are a departure from the intimate, primarily black-and-white drawings Sotelo is best known for. In this body of work, Sotelo continues to explore the meditative quality of repetitive symbolic imagery, but on a larger scale and in a more subtle tonal palette. This aesthetic shift imbues the work with an ethereal feeling, and the scale of the work envelops the viewer in Sotelo’s nocturnal world. Based on his experience of dreaming and insomnia, these autobiographical dreamscapes combine imagery from Aztec mythology and memories of the first stages of existence of a Mexican American family.

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Jose Fidel Sotelo has been active in the arts since 2005. He started his studies in design and photography in 2004. A year later he was moved to start painting. Sotelo considers himself a self-taught artist, but his paintings carry a lot of influence from his studies in design – using patterns and symmetry to express his relationship with the seen and unseen world and his experiences. In more recent years his work has moved from colorful paintings to black and white illustrations, prints, and drawings. As Sotelo’s art moves through its process, one thing that continues to hold true throughout its stages, is his effort to bring together the ancient symbols of his Mexican ancestors, the natural world, and the beauty of the mundane things from everyday life.

ABOUT THE GALLERY
Provenance Gallery is an independent art space dedicated to featuring innovative work by local and regional emerging artists.

Sculptor Ken Little will be exhibiting works from 2017, as well as, other recent work. The works incorporate a number of media, including bronze, neon, $1 bills, shoes, and found objects. Little has been a resident of San Antonio since 1988 and teaches sculpture at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Little will also be performing original music at the opening. After the Opening night Dock Space Gallery will be open by appointment.

Lady Base Gallery presents a pop-up art show for contemporary art month featuring the work of Michael Martinez. Martinez presents, Lujuria, a body of work that expresses and celebrates Queer endurance that articulates the pressures of “coming out” and a lust for life, freedom, and respect. The pop-up art show will take place at AP Art Lab.

About the Museum of Pocket Art (MoPA)

The Museum of Pocket Art began thirteen years ago with an idea that everyone should carry with them a small artwork in a pocket to enrich their day and share with others. MoPA developed this idea and organized it into a formal venue for contemporary artists and patrons.

MoPA introduces artwork from contemporary artists in an intimate and personal way. The Museum displays works of art created to fit in the pocket, usually around the size of a business card, in galleries selected to best frame the work, which range from wallets to mobile devices. MoPA shows at the opening of other art exhibits, or “leaches” the reception. At the reception, a MoPA representative approaches people individually and asks if he or she would like to visit the museum, and then shares the works on display. Currently MoPA hosts two shows a year.

Gil Rocha-Rochelli

Bio

Rocha-Rochelli currently resides in the U.S.-Mexican border city of Laredo, TX. He has a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts Degree from the University of Texas in San Antonio (1999) and Masters of Fine Arts from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2006). Rocha-Rochelli is currently an art instructor at a fine arts school and is represented by Zoya-Tommy Contemporary Gallery in Houston, TX.

Statement

Since the invention of fabric, its purpose has become vast. From clothing, to art, it may be transformed into almost any form yet it has no defined form in many ways. With this series of works I embrace the gestural forms a fabric maintains while at rest; as it awaits to become something “useful”. I love the way fabric hangs, the way it melts unto the floor when thrown, the way it tells a story. By embellishing and hardening fabric with vivid colors and tangled forms, my intention is to visually destroy every object around it. I want it to take a stance and visually yell, “I am not here awaiting another use! I will no longer abide to your will and time. After today you will see me everywhere!”

Image: Comet with flower seed

Roberto Jackson Harrington

Bio

Harrington creates drawings and sculptural installations from everyday materials that center on the concept of potential. Recent exhibitions include The IV Bienal Ciudad Juárez- El Paso Biennial 2015, Ciudad Juárez, MX & El Paso, TX and TEXAS DRAWS IV, at the Southwest School of Art, San Antonio, TX.

Currently he directs the Museum of Pocket Art and is a member of the Center for Experimental Practice and the curatorial collective, Los Outsiders, based in Austin, TX.

Driven by a passion to make her art available to everyone, Mexico City-based urban artist, Paola Delfín creates highly technical paintings depicting the complex relationship between the human body and other organic forms. In addition to gallery exhibitions, her public artworks are marveled at worldwide in countries such as Mexico, Germany, Ukraine, China, USA, Spain, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Brazil and Romania, to name a few.

Curated by Hillarey Jones, Paola Delfín | Effloresce, is a new iteration of the feminine ideal stemming from techniques the artist has consistently used throughout her career. In an effort to address the constant development of, not only our biological physiology, but also the link to the natural world around us, Delfín has created a series of new work that radiates with the metaphor of blossoming femininity anchored in the roots from which we came.

“The focus is about having an identity and remembering that much like a plant..or a flower…we all have a growing process, and we are able to transform our lives in many ways. The reason I focus on women is because the world has a way of portraying them as being fragile, or having the idea that because you are beautiful you cannot be strong…what I try to convey is that a woman can be everything in one.” –Paola Delfín

Ro – Matúm

Ro-Matúm:  Exploration of one’s culture helps reveal and enhance your underlying identity – your unique meaning, value and character – of the physical and social form.  This identity is reflected through a community’s character and sense of place.  A community’s sense of place is not a static concept; rather, it evolves and develops over time, reflecting the spectrum of social values within and around.  As a first generation mainland Puerto Rican, I have been creatively connecting with my Taino heritage through performance and multidisciplinary work incorporating my indigenous past.

Exhibition runs March11, 2017 – April 29, 2017

For more information contact Nina Hassele at (210) 630-0235. ninafrombrooklyn@gmail.com

Opening Reception

Second Saturday – March 11, 2017, 7:00-10:00pm

Closing April 1, 2017

The Wong Spot Retrospective honors the original concept of an artist run and curated space Robert Tatum, Alex Rubio, Gary Sweeney, George Schroeder, James Cobb, Regis Shephard (Posthumous) collectively curated contemporary exhibits and events at the wong’s Grocery building in 1995. This show documents the progression of each artist’s work with visual timelines, as well as showcases current works and the influence each artist has had on the local arts community over the years. The Wong Spot Retrospective will not only inspire, remind, and expose the current local community to the idea of artistic cooperation but seeks to revive the direction of artistic collaboration in contemporary vision.

Shop . Sip . Sit . See . Storytell . Smack
Shop Local. Choice Goods and have fun.. See people . Sip from our bar…$2.00-$5 beer, wine and mimosas — Cool Jewels, Art, Photography, Fashion, Cards, Vintage looks, Astrology — come eat Rene’s empanadas for brunch, lunch, or high tea

The documentary movie “Las Tesoros de San Antonio: A Westside Story” will be shown. It features Rita Vidaurri, Perla Tapatia, Beatriz Llamas, and Blanca Rosa. Learn more about these amazing local songbirds. The paintings of Claire Casseb and Neka Scarbrough-Jenkins will be available for viewing in our gallery.

Travis Tile Design Center and SAC Art Guild Present:

“Contemporary Textures” Art And Tile celebrates a new collaboration of visual art and tile design.

In Association with Contemporary Art Month

Tuesday, March 14th – 31st, 2017

Curated by Jody Baker and SAC Art Guild

Opening Reception: Tuesday, March 14t

“Señor Rodeo” (Ken Little, Paul Farrell, and Bart Nichols) will be playing original Music as well as classic covers of Western Swing, Country, and Rock and Roll. They will be joined by Mitch Webb for an opening set. Great Food and NO Cover!

Since it was conceived in 1986, Contemporary Art Month (a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization) has been supported by a loose but dedicated coalition of institutions, artists, private art supporters, and commercial entities. This support comes in many forms, from financial and in-kind donations, to the time and energy each artist, curator and gallery director invests in the myriad individual projects that occur throughout the month.

Support Contemporary Art Month.  Wednesday, March 15, from 7-10pm the Liberty Bar will give 10% of all food sales and CAM specialty cocktail to Benefit Contemporary Art Month.

http://www.liberty-bar.com/

https://www.facebook.com/LibertyBarAtTheConvent/

Galeria Ecos y Voces del Arte tiene el honor de invitarles a un exposicion colectiva de Mujer con la participacion de los artistas Hector Garza,
Pamela Ortiz Swart, Giselle Diaz, Ruth Guajardo, Caroline Adam, Denise Homer, Lucy Llera,
Yvette Benavides, Giovanna Diz Zurita, Gloria Diaz, Gloria Urrabazo. Comisario de Hector Garza.
Abierto Martes-Sabado 11:00-6:00pm
Cita cualquer dia.
Hours Tuesday -Saturday 11:00-6:00pm
Call for appointments any day

Join us to celebrate new exhibitions by artists-in-residence Kate Newby (Auckland, New Zealand), Nicholas Frank (Milwaukee, Wisconsin), and Robert Hodge (Houston, Texas). Enjoy food truck fare and live music on the rooftop, free and open to the public.

BECOMING

New Works by Jesse Amado

On View March 16 through April 29, 2017

RUIZ-HEALY ART 201-A East Olmos Drive, San Antonio Texas 78212

Public Opening Reception Thursday, March 16, 2017 6 – 8pm

Artist Talk 2:00pm Saturday, March 25 moderated by Rainey Knudson

Fest of Tails ~ Kite Festival & Dog Fair is part of a city wide, month long celebration of kites! The Kites of March includes events in north, south, east and west neighborhoods, because, the winds of San Antonio blow in all directions.

A San Antonio Parks Foundation event.

Four young artists, Walden Booker, Faith Fisher, Tirzah Lawson and Leroy Winter come together to display their most recent work in an art exhibit during San Antonio’s yearly Contemporary Art Month (CAM) opening March 18th at the Leal Art Gallery titled “Imagination is the Only Weapon (in the war against reality)” curated by Kimberly Garza.

In this exhibit, the talented young artists negotiate between the formal academic structure they have experienced the past four years and the inevitable shift as they transition from Senior’s at the North East School of the Arts (NESA), a competitive Fine Arts magnet program, to their post graduation educational goals. The work covers a range of interpretations of traditional/non-traditional portraits and still lifes that engage the viewer on a creative journey through the visual language of a generation of artists confronted with inevitable growing pains that segue into adulthood.

“Imagination is the Only Weapon (in the war against reality)” is a quote from Lewis Carroll in Alice in Wonderland that illustrates a common thread woven in the work of these four artists. Although the styles vary, the dedication to the development of their skills combined with a creative innate talent is a testament to the power of the imagination and the exploration of art in a contemporary and sometimes skewed social reality.

Opening Reception
Saturday, March 18, 2017
6pm-10pm
Work on view thru May 2017
Closing Reception TBA

Border & Boujie is a collection in which artist Jose Balli chooses to juxtapose high-class society and place them in the shoes of the poor & hungry. Balli intervenes society-type magazines with oil paint assaulting the lifestyle of the rich and famous, transforming the background into the urban landscape of the border.

Urban self-employment is the means for many people to create and establish an income for the families. Whether the job be selling chicle, chips, chile del monte, windshield-wiping or panhandling, people are proactively seeking to survive.

Studio will be open from 11-5 pm.

www.joshhuskin.com

Come see my new works on linen, wood panel, and paper created during “Open,” and learn more about what I’m doing and working on here at Artpace. Also, get a more personal view of some of my past works hanging here at Artpace. The event will be LIVE on Artpace’s Facebook page and Instagram.

REALITY CHECK …
Shop . Sip . Sit . See . Storytell . Smirk with Nina Hassele
Shop Local. Choice Goods and have fun.. See people ..Healthy Juices Sip from our bar…$2.00-$5 beer, wine and mimosas –Cool Jewels, Art, Photography, Fashion, Cards, Vintage looks, Astrology . Fresh empanadas….New merchants
photo cred: http://www.hooplaha.com/photographers-create-surreal-images-of-paris-metro-2078397550.html

Established in 2009, Clamp Light Studios and Gallery is an organization of visual artists who have come together to support one another’s creative process, to network as artists and build an established relationship of creative community.
Our current resident artists are: Carol Cunningham, Sarah Fox, Sarah T. Roberts, Jen Frost Smith, Tom Turner, Jose Villalobos

Established in 2009, Clamp Light Studios and Gallery is an organization of visual artists who have come together to support one another’s creative process, to network as artists and build an established relationship of creative community.
Our current resident artists are: Carol Cunningham, Sarah Fox, Sarah T. Roberts, Jen Frost Smith, Tom Turner, Jose Villalobos

Visit the Contemporary Art Month calendar for individual “Open Studio” listings.

Christine Zuercher is an honorary astronaut and member of the American Interterrestrial Society. Her work focuses on shortwave radio, the Space Race, and transmission technologies with a focus in interdisciplinary and alternative photographic processes.
Distant Transmissions dissects shortwave radio and space travel as landmarks of exploration and includes photographs, shortwave spy codes, and a handmade spacesuit.

If you missed the Opening Reception on Second Saturday, here is another opportunity to view Dreams Are for Those Who Sleep, an exhibition featuring recent works on paper by San Antonio-based artist, Jose Fidel Sotelo.
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This series of large-scale graphite drawings are a departure from the intimate, primarily black-and-white drawings Sotelo is best known for. In this body of work, Sotelo continues to explore the meditative quality of repetitive symbolic imagery, but on a larger scale and in a more subtle tonal palette. This aesthetic shift imbues the work with an ethereal feeling, and the scale of the work envelops the viewer in Sotelo’s nocturnal world. Based on his experience of dreaming and insomnia, these autobiographical dreamscapes combine imagery from Aztec mythology and memories of the first stages of existence of a Mexican American family.

You may find his work at the San Angelo Museum of Fine art, San Antonio Museum of Fine art, both private and public collections and Dimension Gallery in Austin.  You may find a video athttps://vimeo.com/165021064 of his recent exhibit and conversation with Rene Barilleaux at the McNay Museum.  On November 17, 2016 KLRN aired his work on “PBS/ARTS”.  You may also find his work published in the New Earthworks: and Sculpture Magazine.  In April, 2017 he will be participating in ArtAroundRoswell / Roswell, Georgia.

Come out and enjoy Justin Parr’s new Upstairs Studio at Hotwells from noon to 4pm.

Our glass blowers are stepping it up a notch for this demo! Working in larger teams on larger pieces, more fire and more fun are certainly in store! Watch as our artists manifest beautiful art from molten glass.

Studio available for viewing noon to 4pm – view paintings, sculpture and works on paper by artist Larry Graeber. www.LarryGraeber.com, light refreshments.

Come sit a spell with a loom in a living room, pet a precious puppy, peruse favorite reads, pilfer through a pantry, generally talk shop.

Topics up for discussion include, but are in no way limited to, natural dyeing, worm bin composting, textile history, material culture, Texas lore, arts management, library science, preservation, education, and where to find the best frozen margarita.

Studio available for viewing noon to 4pm – view Drawings, paintings, sculptures by artist Fernando Andrade. www.arte-2020.com, light refreshments. Please call for gate code.

Visit my studio and display room. View many of my paintings including new works. Light refreshments.

Mercury Project, artist studios, art gallery and creative venue
Establish 2012
CAM open studio tour
March 19th 12-4p

Viewpoints from The Artists & Open Studios at The Millworks:
A conversation on Art, The New York Project with The Hispanic Society of America & Open Studios at Hausmann Millworks.

March 19th, 2017, Noon to 4pm
Hausmann Millworks
925 W Russell Place, San Antonio TX 78212
www.hausmannmillworks.com

Spend a Sunday afternoon in Chris’s world. His art and music are intense and passionate – unique and personal. You’ll enjoy the visit! In addition, the delightful paintings of Claire Casseb and Neka Scarbrough-Jenkins will be on display.

Fun Family gathering.  Bring your lawn chairs.

Free and open to the public.