By JANIS TURK, Contributing Writer It’s a bright bluebonnet-filled spring Saturday in the Texas Hill Country, when I stop outside San Marcos Texas to visit Tim de Jung and watch him at work in his Wimberley Glass Works glass-blowing studio. When I arrive, Jung, a fun-loving Canadian-turned-Texan, known for his blown-glass art, says he’s going to be busy for a …
The poems we are publishing today were inspired by the Ruby City installation: “Hub, 3rd Floor, Union Wharf, 23 Wenlock Road, London N1 7ST, UK” by Do Ho Suh ADULT WINNERS Pop-Pop’s HallwayBy Robert J. Cavazos A purple haze outline formsthree access points to memory.Sans the RAM of lived experience,what’s sculpted crumples like fabric. Memory only has some steel to …
Fiesta is still with us and it brings us some good music this weekend. But let’s start with the promisingMusical Bridges Around the World’s Sunday concert “Happy Birthday Schubert.” Poor Schubert lived only for 31 years but he sure left a huge musical legacy, including 600 songs. The San Antonio Cathedral concert will mark the composers 225 birthday in a …
By JASMINA WELLINGHOFF, Editor Austrian composer, Franz Schubert died young, at the age of 31, but his music lives on to this day, including his many beautiful songs, that vocalists and audiences have cherished for nearly two centuries. And San Antonians will have the opportunity to hear some of them this coming Sunday – as well as Schubert’s chamber music …
As promised last week, we are publishing today Part 2 of the Ekphrastic Poetry Contest organized in honor of National Poetry Month. The poems included here were inspired by a sculpture on the grounds of the McNay Art Museum, a striking piece of art made out of shoes. Yes, you read that correctly, though you may not spot the actual …
This weekend is going to be a mightily busy one! First, there’s Fiesta, which, although not an arts event/festival has arts-related components. Our favorite is Fiesta Arts Fair at the Southwest School of Arts. It’s a juried art show featuring the work of 110 artists from across the U.S. A range of art styles are always represented, including paintings, prints, …
By SUSAN YERKES, Contributing Writer Fiesta San Antonio starts this week. Are you ready? Get out your sunscreen and your flip-flops, and a big summer hat – preferably with lots of bling attached. Get ready to party like it’s… well… like it’s 2019 –the last year we had a full Fiesta. “We’re back!” declared Retired Army Colonel Jon Fristoe, the …
As part of National Poetry Months, a group of San Antonio poets joined forces for the second year in a row to organize an ekphrastic poetry contest for both youth and adults. For those who are not familiar with the term, “ekphrastic poetry” is poetry inspired by other works of art, in this case visual arts works, selected for the …
Two significant exhibits have just opened in town: the 92nd Juried Artists Exhibition at the San Antonio Arts League and Museum, and “Mars Needs More Women” at the Centro Cultural Aztlan. Like every year, SAALM issued an open call to artists to submit works for the Artists Juried Exhibition, but this year the museum broadened its reach by inviting artists …
BY JASMINA WELLINGHOFF, Editor San Antonio is home to people of many cultures and backgrounds and some of those folks will come together this weekend to dance, learn from each other and have fun at the 64th San Antonio Folk Dance Festival – and the entire community is invited to join them. After having to cancel the 2020 fest due …
