Blogs: Posts Tagged ‘ art ’

If you want to get in on the ground floor of the underground comics scene as an artist or a fan, this weekend is your chance. Just up road in Austin, it’s comics central with STAPLE!, the 9th  annual Independent  Media Expo, happening March 2-3 at the Marchesa Hall and Theater. 2013 panel moderators...
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A conversation with director Maxim Pozdorovkin.
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Media access giant Time Warner Cable cancelled Ovation, their only arts channel, on January 1. We agree with the sentiments voiced above. But there’s fight-back at bringbackovation.com, where a petition to reinstate arts coverage can be signed. For local SA arts coverage, stay tuned at sacurrent.com, where art is life.
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Have you checked out the Mummies of the World exhibit at the Witte yet? You should definitely get over there before it comes to an end on January 27! But first, let’s talk about how this mummified monkey in the Witte exhibit look a lot like the now infamous IKEA monkey. We appreciate each...
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Sharing–resources, space, skill-sets, knowledge, equipment–that’s what a hackerspace does by definition. 10BitWorks Hackerspace, a nonprofit located at 1020 Roosevelt, is reaching out at the grassroots level by partnering with other nonprofits, artists, software programmers, techies and DIY enthusiasts. “In founding 10BitWorks with Mike Perez and Jeremy Zunker, we envisioned becoming a part of the...
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What role does art play in a nation’s identity? How do architects help shape that identity? And how should the state be involved? These are the questions asked by Unfinished Spaces, a documentary airing this Friday on VOCES, the PBS Latino arts and culture series. In 1961, shortly after the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro...
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Last week, I attended the Creative Economy Luncheon, hosted by the San Antonio Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and the City of San Antonio Office of Cultural Affairs. Held at Pearl Stable, the luncheon was an unveiling of the 2011 Growth and Prosperity report by Dr. Steve Nivin, Chief Economist for the SABÉR Institute. Except...
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One hundred years ago, with San Antonio on the verge of becoming a bustling metropolis, the San Antonio Art League was born. Since then, Art League members have acquired more than 450 paintings and other artistic works, and supported the development of art in San Antonio with competitions, lectures and patronage. As a result...
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Spare parts founder Mary Elizabeth Cantu and her crew of interns are sweating all summer to gather and sort art supplies–cleverly disguised as trash–for a big Teacher Fair. There’s still space available for teachers, so Mary sent me the details to publish. The nonprofit spare parts is offering a FREE materials/supplies fair on Monday,...
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Mary Cantu’s fledgling nonprofit, Spare Parts, is poised to take flight. You know what I say…’behind every nonprofit are people with a passion for helping others.’ Cantu is a smart, talented young woman with a passion for art, education, environment, and collaboration. Those four elements are the definition of Spare Parts. Connect with various...
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Más Rudas, a multimedia Xicana art collective based in San Antonio, aims to perpetuate the significance of Xicana consciousness or “chicanisma” in a contemporary context.
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Albert Alvarez’s show of drawings and a single painting at Fl!ght Gallery were, from a distance, innocent enough. Black ink drawings rendered envelope-size. But when approached, the painstakingly hatched characters — slovenly obese, wretched, and just plain disturbed — become electric.
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