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It moved from July to March in 2010, but this year’s Contemporary Art Month gets a head start at the tail end of February. Launched in 1986 to raise the national profile of San Antonio contemporary art and artists, CAM continues to evolve and grow via additions and innovations including the CAM “Perennial” exhibition...
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If you missed it, check out the YouTube video of Angelina Mata’s Fashion Show for Contemporary Art Month (CAM), at the Special Projects Social. Video shot and chopped by Cindy Chaffin.
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On Saturday afternoon, artists Bryson and Holly Hein Brooks showcased their work at “Glam, Bam, Thank You Ma’am” for Contemporary Art Month (CAM). The stylish event, hosted at John Speegle and Leandra Hernandez’s urban San Antonio Riverwalk Space, featured iconic artwork ranging from $50 to $5,000—with a twist. The silk-screen and fully-painted works of...
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Cindy Chaffin, the Current‘s top video shooter, covers the CAM Opening Party, the crowning of Amada Claire Miller as Miss CAM 2012, and visual highlights from shows at 3 Walls, Joan Grona Gallery, and Blue Star Contemporary Art Center.
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Hello, it’s day four of  Contemporary Art Month. During CAM we are  posting a mystery art pic every day here at Artifacts. What is it? Where is it? We’ll get back to you on that…..if you know,  just leave a note below. Nina, you’re right, of course. (see comment below). The wheels are part...
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Hello, it’s day three of Contemporary Art Month. During CAM we are  posting a mystery art pic every day here at Artifacts. What is it? Where is it? We’ll get back to you on that…..if you know,  just leave a note below.
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Contemporary Art Month is March, but dear artist, if you are planning on participating this year,  you’ve only hours left to sign up for the print calendar — deadline is midnight tonight. The San Antonio Current publishes the hardcopy edition of the CAM Calendar each year, but if you don’t register today, you’ll miss...
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After blindly speculating last Sunday that the bandit knitting covering a light pole near Blue Star might be the work of outside agitators — neither Artifacts nor Blue Star Contemporary had a clue as to who really left the pole-warmer next to the Riverwalk pathway — readers informed us that the graffiti knitting was the...
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Scott Andrews sandrews@sacurrent.com Over the last decade or so two domains in the art world that were previously thought of as rather dull have taken on a new air of glamour. Fiber arts, once considered craft tradition and therefore (like anything with a folk or feminine heritage) not high art, are becoming the media...
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