TEATRO AUDAZ ANNOUNCES 2023 SEASON: “RECLAIMING OUR ROOTS”
Teatro Audaz, a Latinx theatre company known for its artistic excellence and the representation of multiculturalism on and off stage, is excited to announce the start of their 2023 season with a robust summer schedule beginning on June 1st. Teatro Audaz will tell...
Cesar Martinez’s Art Acquired By New York Museum of Modern Art
The prestigious Museum of Modern Art [MOMA] in New York City, in conjunction with the Ruiz-Healy Art Gallery of New York and San Antonio, recently announced the purchase of three paintings by San Antonio artist Cesar Martinez. Patricia Ruiz Healy noted that the MOMA...
Centro Cultural Aztlan presents: Luis “Chispas” Guerrero: Metal to the Pedal
Centro Cultural Aztlan is delighted to present Luis “Chispas” Guerrero, a well-known San Antonio artist who has taken the rich legends and icons of the Mexican American community and forged them into a unique high-volume body of work. Known as Luis “Chispas” because...
Fernando Ramos: The Brilliant Career of an Artist and Dancer
An exhibit at the Witte Museum in San Antonio pays tribute to Fernando Ramos, a remarkably talented Latino artist and dance performer from the period 1930 to 1970. As a fourteen-year-old teen, Fernando Ramos won his first art prize, a citywide poster competition for...
VIA Park & Ride Service to Red Hot Chili Peppers Concert Is Just $1.30 Each Way
VIA Metropolitan Transit will offer convenient and affordable Park & Ride service to riders planning to attend the Red Hot Chili Peppers Concert at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 17, 2023 at the Alamodome, 100 Montana St. Park & Ride service is a convenient...
Latino Artist Joe Peña Exhibits at “Soy de Tejas” and Cheech Marin Museum
Joe Peña’s success as an artist has hit a career high. His work is included in the exhibit “Soy de Tejas” at the Centro de Artes in San Antonio and is featured prominently at The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art in Riverside, California. The “Soy de Tejas: A...
The American Indians at the Spanish Colonial Missions: A Model Center for American Cities
The recent opening on the eastside of downtown San Antonio of the American Indians in Texas at the Spanish Colonial Missions [AITSCM] center is a significant accomplishment. San Antonio is one of a few cities where such centers exist. San Antonio mission families,...
Art As Healing: The Uvalde Mural Project
As Abel Ortiz followed the evening news about the horrific killing of 21 of his fellow Uvalde, Texas residents nearly a year ago, he knew that he would have to do something. Inaction was not an option. He knew two of the families who lost their children that day, and...
The San Antonio Philharmonic Celebrates El Cinco de Mayo with the Avenida Guadalupe Association, the Mexican Consulate, Guadalupe Dancers and Azul Barrientos
The Avenida Guadalupe Association (AGA) continues its 30-year tradition of hosting a Cinco de Mayo Community Celebration by featuring the San Antonio Philharmonic, Guadalupe Dance Company and beloved San Antonio singer-songwriter Azul Barrientos in a grand performance...
Images of the Chicano Barrio: Artist Joe Lopez at Centro Cultural Aztlan
Joe Lopez is known for his portrayal of everyday life in the barrios of San Antonio. His oil paintings displayed at a new Spring exhibition at the Centro Cultural Aztlan are about Mexican American life in a poor Southwestern city where the street vendors pitched their...
