Owned by artist Cindy Palmer, and located on the Eastern edge of the Tobin Hill neighborhood, just North of downtown San Antonio, High Wire Arts is a contemporary art gallery with a community-based focus emphasizing a broad spectrum of artistic expressions including film, performance art, and installations as well as traditional media. With an emerging artist-in-residence program, High Wire also offers national and international artists a venue for working on-site and showing their work. High Wire Arts is also a an eclectic performance space for original works in music, film, dance, and art installations, and a meeting place for for special interest group meetings or functions. High Wire offers free wireless internet and film projection facilities. Gourmet catered food services are also available.

Having just opened a few months ago, High Wire Arts is already a busy hub for artists and art enthusiasts who come out for the newly established Tobin Hill Arts Alliance Second Friday Art Walks.

The participation of High Wire Arts in FOTOSEPTIEMBRE USA was coordinated by photographer, photography instructor, friend and featured artist Rebecca Dietz, whose series of images Closer, is on display in High Wire Arts front gallery. Also in the front gallery is Beneath The Tropic Of Cancer, a series of images by designer-cum-photographer Warren Borror, a long-time friend of FOTSEPTIEMBRE USA. The rear gallery spaces of the High Wire Arts space showcase the group exhibit From Here To F-Stop 64, which includes images by Emily Blase, Eduardo Juarez, Jennifer Khoshbin, Philip Luna, Steve Lewis, Asenet Martinez, Leland Outz, Caroline Royall, Elva Salinas, and Kelly Shannon Fichter.

Cindy Palmer and one of her many wards. Cindy and her husband are the owners of High Wire Arts.

Rebecca Dietz, featured artist, Closer, High Wire Arts.

Warren Borror, featured artist, Beneath The Tropic Of Cancer, High Wire Arts.

Elva Salinas, gallery manager and featured artist, From Here To F-Stop 64, High Wire Arts.

Jeniffer Khoshbin, featured artist, with her miniature magnifying glass pieces, From Here To F-Stop 64, High Wire Arts.

Closer series of images by Rebecca Dietz.

Detail from Rebecca Dietz’s Closer series.

Some of the images in Warren Borror’s Beneath The Tropic Of Cancer series.

Detail of Warren Borror’s Beneath The Tropic Of Cancer series.

Images by Elva Salinas.

Images by Leland Outz.

Images from the From Here To F-Stop 64 group exhibit at High Wire Arts.

Images from the From Here To F-Stop 64 group exhibit at High Wire Arts.

Video projection from the From Here To F-Stop 64 group exhibit at High Wire Arts.

FOTOSEPTIEMBRE USA opening reception at High Wire Arts.

FOTOSEPTIEMBRE USA opening reception at High Wire Arts.

FOTOSEPTIEMBRE USA opening reception at High Wire Arts.

Joan Frederick and Sherry Cardenas at the High Wire Arts opening reception.

Ann Kinser and Rebecca Dietz.

The art appreciation crowd at High Wire Arts is not limited to upright bipeds. Some quadripeds can be scathing art critics.

Entrance to High Wire Arts. As we left, later in the evening, a second wave of art strollers began to arrive.