By JASMINA WELLINGHOFF, Editor Music can be understood by all, and so can dance and even the visual arts, but poetry is a language art. If you don’t understand the language that a poem is written in, the poem cannot speak to you. Or maybe it can? A unique poetry-and-performance evening that will take place at the Guadalupe Cultural Arts …
By SUSAN YERKES, Contributing Writer While taking a walk along San Antonio’s famous River Walk, you may be startled by a wild, rocky grotto on the Museum Reach of the promenade. It’s a magic place, with a trickling waterfall and a huge spirit face looming in the rock. Rest on a handsome wooden bench in the shade and wonder what …
You would think that arts organization would have lots of special events planned for Valentine’s Day weekend but that is not the case. Valentine’s “special events” are all about dining-and-wining, and, maybe some cheek-to-cheek dancing. One promising concert, Il Divo, smartly scheduled for Valentine’s Day at the Tobin Center, had to be postponed due to “a scheduling conflict.” So, if …
By JASMINA WELLINGHOFF, Editor For arts-minded San Antonians, the names Kellen McIntyre and Bihl Haus Arts are so firmly interlinked that it’s hard to imagine one without the other. But they will be unlinked in a mere couple of months. As hard as it is to believe, McIntyre and her husband, Eric Lane, will be leaving San Antonio in May, …
By JANIS TURK, Contributing Writer “I see color everywhere,” says painter, designer, and Master Colourist Sam Ehrlich of Keepers Interiors of Seguin, “I experience color in everything: sounds, tastes, smells, sights. All color has meaning, and all meaning has color.” Standing in his art studio at the back of Keepers, the home dĂ©cor store Ehrlich and his wife Amber own …
There is exciting news on the music front! One of the world’s best classical guitarists, Sharon Isbin, is coming to the Alamo City to perform Sunday at the San Antonio Chamber Music Society concert at Temple Bethel. A multiple GRAMMY winner, Isbin was also named the 2020 Musical America Worldwide Instrumentalist of the Year, the first guitarist to be so …
By JASMINA WELLINGHOFF, Editor The Agarita Chamber Players are known for their collaborations with other artists who add another dimension to their concerts. Dancers, poets, storytellers, lighting artists and even a chef have partnered with them over the years. For their upcoming concert on Saturday, the adventurous quartet has paired up with glass artist Gini Garcia whose amazing blown glass …
By JASMINA WELLINGHOFF, Editor When Jade Esteban Estrada assumed the role of artistic director at the Overtime Theater just three weeks ago, he started his new job by asking a crucial question: Who is the Overtime Theater? “We can’t do everything here, so we needed to define what we wanted to accomplish,” he said in an interview Tuesday. “We need …
The Blue Star Contemporary has installed two new spring exhibits: Threads Bare in the center’s main gallery, and the Black Art Library in the Art Learning Lab. The first is described as“an exhibition investigating intersections of art and fashion through textiles and related materials as medium or subject, to generate a more expansive understanding of how fashion and adornment play …
By JASMINA WELLINGHOFF, Editor After being closed for an extended period of time due to COVID, the city-operated Centro de Artes in Market Square has just reopened with a large and unique exhibit that exclusively features immigrant artists and some who are first generation American-born. This was made possible thanks to the New York Foundation for the Arts Immigrant Artist …
