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...
Centro Cultural Aztlan presents: Joe Lopez / el Gallista Momentos en Tiempo/Moments in Time Opens April 6 with Performance by Manolo “Mano” Martinez
Centro Cultural Aztlan is delighted to present Joe Lopez with a new exhibition titled Momentos en Tiempo/Moments in Time. This will be Joe Lopez's first exhibit in over three years. Lopez was to have an opening at Freight Gallery (the original Gallista building) when...
Latina Artists Rise, Speak, and Act to Celebrate International Women’s Month
The Witte’s collection of Texan Art:Kinship and Culture is extensive, beautiful, and impressive. For this year’s 2023 “Trailblazer,” event, Witte curators selected the works of several Tejanos, including Porfirio Salinas, Boyer Gonzalez, Jr., Xavier Gonzalez, Fidencio...
Latina Artists Rise, Speak, and Act to Celebrate International Women’s Month
Rise, Speak, Act! an art exhibition recognizing International Women’s Month opened on March 2, 2023 as part of the Annual La Mujeres de Aztlán celebration at the Centro Cultural Aztlan. Sarah Shore, the lead artist, proposed that the 2023 exhibition focus on “social...
