Arts/Culture/Photos

Photographer Frederick Preston and poet Carmen Tafolla deliver a tour-de-force overview of San Antonio’s vast reservoir of public art in the beautiful book of photos and poetry Arte Del Pueblo. Preston and Tafolla chose to focus on public art that all residents and...

Richard Arredondo’s art gained international visibility following a commission by the City of San Antonio in 2021 to provide his art as official gifts to sister cities in China and South Korea. The Alamo City has friendship agreements with eleven sister cities....

Latino art might be coming to your neighborhood soon. Cultural centers, small businesses, and non-profit organizations in large Latino communities are increasingly placing art in their prominent open spaces. Their exhibitions complement rather than compete with...

Larry Portillo, a talented San Antonio artist, has worked as an art framer for most of his life. Like many Latino artists, Portillo has never been able to earn enough money as a full-time artist, but he considers himself fortunate to work in an art supply and framing...

Latinos are a growing population, and their booming numbers are evident in large cities of the Southwest. As they become the majority ethnic group population in some of America’s major cities, such as Los Angeles, Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, and El Paso, Latinos...

The Prospect Hill neighborhood in San Antonio, Texas was one of the first major middle-class Latino communities in the United States. Over the period 1920-1950, many of the city’s leading Latino merchants, lawyers, and community leaders resided in Prospect Hill. Among...

The Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center is proud to announce Grupo Animo’s 2023 summer theater production of “Unfiltered & Unsolicited – 30 Years Later: We’re Getting Stronger” on Saturday, July 1, 2023 at 7 p.m. with free admission at the historic Guadalupe Theater,...

Spanish-language newspapers were important to the Mexican American community before television and radio became common gadgetry in the majority of households. The San Antonio Mexican-origin community, which was largely comprised of residents of immigrant status before...