Under the leadership of Juan Gutierrez, former Executive Director of the Southtown Alliance, Conjunto Heritage Taller, a grassroots Conjunto workshop/school, is reaching out to a wider group of constituents with their involvement in the different cultural opportunities afforded by international festivals like FOTOSEPTIEMBRE USA. At Conjunto Heritage Taller, Mario Perez, musician and photographer, presents his […]

Long a mainstay of contempo and cool in Southtown, Robot Creative and Robot Art Gallery, have been creating synergies between design and art for many years. ROBOT was founded in 1998 as a boutique creative firm by Lara August. When ROBOT relocated to San Antonio’s historic Southtown Arts District in 2002, Robot Art Gallery was […]

Ramin Samandari presents Cloud Compositions: A Work In Progress, a series of studies of cloud formations which have captured Ramin’s fancy of late. The images are on display at Magical Realism Studio, owned and operated by Ramin Samandari and also housed in the Blue Star Arts Complex.

ArteReyes Gallery, also located in the Blue Star Arts Complex, featured Christmas In New York, a one-day only exhibit of images by Ruben Cordova (ex SA, now Houston). Christmas In New York was curated by Chris Davila (photo above), an independent curator and ex-alumna of Ruben Cordova’s while he was teaching at UTSA.

Implied Metaphor by Brianna Burnett, a series of diminutive images of fruit and vegetables, is on display at Studio 106B in the Blue Star Arts Complex, which is normally Alba de Leon’s working studio. Alba generously opens up her studio to different artists, allowing them to show their work in her space. A recent transplant […]

Once again, the folks at Say Sí have made a terrific impression on us and our festival guests with the images and installations presented in the Memories: Projected And Invented exhibit, housed in the Say Sí campus on South Alamo. Featuring a wide variety of works by Middle and High School Students, the exhibit is […]