December 2009

Monthly Archive

Hard Bargain at Overtime Theater

Posted by thomas-cummins on 30 Dec 2009 | Tagged as: upcoming events

Tue, Dec 8
8:00 pm to 10:00 pm

The Hard Bargain: New “Film Noir” Drama.

San Antonio playwright Scott McDowell brings back gritty detectives Blake and Winters from the hard-boiled, film noir play “The Good Samaritan.”

This time the detectives return to solve a seemingly impossible murder that leads them into the smoky world of jazz, nightclubs, and sensuous femme fatales. The murder tests the limits of their own worlds and morals in a noir play that can only be seen at the Overtime Theater.

Directed by Andy Thornton and written by Scott McDowell.

Dates: January 8-10, 14-17, 21-24, and 28-30.

Times: 8 pm Thursdays-Saturdays and 3 pm on Sundays.

Tickets: Tickets are $12 general admission and $9 for teachers, students with current ID, and seniors 65+.

Note: There’s a special $9 ticket price for all local actors and crew in other shows! Simply bring a program or playbill from a current December or January show with your name in the credits, and you’ll get to see “A Hard Bargain” for only $9!

Portfolio Building at Hausmann Millworks

Posted by thomas-cummins on 29 Dec 2009 | Tagged as: upcoming events

Wed, Jan 13
7:00 pm to 9:00 pm

Portfolio Building

Host:
Type:
Network:
Global
Date:
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Time:
7:00pm – 8:45pm
Location:
Hausmann Millworks San Antonio TX 78212

Description

Building a Portfolio

Images, resumes, words and statements

Presented by: Rex Hausmann and John Davis

@ Hausmann Millworks
925 W. Russell Place San Antonio TX 78212

Wednesday January 13th 2010

Come and get some helpful tips on how to present a portfolio.
Discussions range from presenting ideas and proposals, to applying for grants, presenting work in a standard format and photographing works of art correctly.

It’s a mixed bag out there as to presenting art work, come and get some helpful tips on how to make your presentations better and more polished.

This is an open event and we hope to see you at the Mill!

Royal Punisher at Overtime Theater

Posted by thomas-cummins on 28 Dec 2009 | Tagged as: upcoming events

Fri, Jan 1
7:00 pm to 10:00 pm

Royal Punisher New Years Day Concert

Host:
Type:
Network:
Global
Date:
Friday, January 1, 2010
Time:
7:00pm – 10:00pm
Location:
Overtime Thearter at Blue Star 1414 S. Alamo, Suite 103

Description

Royal Punisher is a musical art form which originated at the beginning of 2009 in downtown San Antonio,Tx from a confluence of African and European music traditions (with some Yiddish thrown in) and the desire to travel in outer space.

Royal Punisher features members of rock monster bands Worm, Boxcar Satan, Shit City Dreamgirls and guitar virtuoso Don Robin. Playing the music of John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Frank Zappa, Charlie Parker, Bernie Miller and MANY others as well as original jazz compositions.

Taco Truck Friday at artpace

Posted by thomas-cummins on 28 Dec 2009 | Tagged as: upcoming events

Fri, Jan 8
12:00 pm to 2:00 pm

Taco Truck Friday!
Every Friday from 12-2pm Artpace’s Taco Truck-in-Residence will offer traditional Mexican delicacies in the museum’s picturesque courtyard patio. Whether you’re tempted by the finest in curbside cuisine or the internationally-renowned exhibitions, join Artpace to make Taco Friday a healthy habit. Cash only please. Taco Friday maybe canceled in the event of rain.

Wiegand at BlueStar

Posted by thomas-cummins on 28 Dec 2009 | Tagged as: upcoming events

Wed, Jan 6
6:00 pm to 9:00 pm

Now That You Are Here, Begin.

Host:
Type:
Network:
Global
Date:
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Time:
6:00pm – 9:00pm
Location:
Featuring Marc Wiegand
Street:
116 Blue Star
City/Town:
San Antonio, TX

Description

In the beginning, I asked, “How can I paint in a way that represents light?” Years later, I asked, “How can I paint with light itself?”

Over time, I realized we do not ‘see’ a painting, but rather nothing more than wavelengths of light reflected from the canvas. But, that ‘nothing more’, a neuro-optical event at the back of the eye, is everything. For there, in the instant when immaterial photons strike the optic nerve, is the beginning of memory. So, the primacy of image gave way to its essential medium – not paint or canvas – but light itself, and the experience of light.

These ‘light boxes’ are the improbable and inadequate – yet to me, surprising – solution to my questions. Through them, I learned to ‘paint’ by combining wavelengths, instead of pigment, to make colors that have no name – because, unlike paint, they are neither stable, nor have an ‘edge’. This new, translucent color was made of continuous evolutions of hue resolving into one another so imperceptibly that their margins were indistinguishable.

And the color-structure changes as you move – making precisely what you ‘see’ extremely difficult to remember. Thus, memory, came into play, and posed a new question: Which has preference: the primal and momentary nature of perception, as something that is ‘real’, or the lingering, dream-like nature of memory that is not?

It may be that the resulting work denies the intellectual, the cool and rational character of perception, and all of its categorizing impetus, in favor of that warm realm – the emotional, the irrational quality of experience, and the storehouse of experience – the dreamy world of memory, the essence of existence with which we are only ever partially acquainted.

Performance Party at JumpStart

Posted by thomas-cummins on 28 Dec 2009 | Tagged as: upcoming events

Sat, Jan 9
7:00 pm to 11:00 pm

Performance Party 25

Intergalactic Adventure

Host:
Type:
Network:
Global
Date:
Saturday, January 9, 2010
Time:
7:00pm – 11:00pm
Location:
The Sterling Houston Theater
Street:
108 Blue Star
City/Town:
San Antonio, TX

Description

Performance Party 25: Intergalactic Adventure
Saturday, January 9, 2010

Doors open at 6.30 | Show at 7 p.m.
$5 suggested donation

The annual Performance Party, the fundraiser benefiting Jump-Start’s innovative and original artistic programming, has become a signature event for Jump-Start and San Antonio. Come for all of it or stay for some! This year it’s our 25th anniversary and it’s going to be out of this world! There’s something for everyone: season previews, big groups, solo performers, dance, live music, performance art, comedy, video, fire-eating, glamour, and the absurd! Strap on your space-helmets, it’s going to be a fabulous ride.

Awesome food provided by our friends at Acenar Restaurant!

Lush Handmade Cosmetics will be set up in the lobby with lots of fabulous free goodies! We will also be raffling off some fabulous Lush Prizes!

Confirmed guests include: Azul Barrientos, Stars & Garters Burlesque, S.T. Shimi, The Push Pens, Mocha Dior, Marisela Barrera & Anna De Luna, Doyle Avant, Jessica St. John, Kevin Evans, Rudolf Harst, The Powerhouse Divas and One Divo, Dos Generaciones, Mountin Lion Dance Company, Guadalupe Dance Company, Alamotion, Mellissa Marlowe, The San Antonio Shakespeare Company, Urban 15 & many more!

NYE at Bent Easel

Posted by thomas-cummins on 28 Dec 2009 | Tagged as: upcoming events

Thu, Dec 31
6:00 pm to 9:00 pm

New Years Eve

Host:
Type:
Network:
Global
Date:
Thursday, December 31, 2009
Time:
6:00pm – 9:00pm
Location:
121 Blue Star, Suite 6. 78204

Description

Start your evening at the Bent Easel Art Gallery. We will be open to the public from 6-9pm. Enjoy a calm and casual art experience before ringing in the new year.

Nye at Witte

Posted by thomas-cummins on 22 Dec 2009 | Tagged as: upcoming events

Sat, Jan 16
10:00 am to 5:00 pm
Michael Nye: Stories of Hunger and Resilience
Witte Museum
January 16 – April 3, 2010

Photographer Michael Nye’s Table of Contents: Stories of Hunger and Resilience is a multi-media exhibition that documents the voices, stories, and portraits of 50 individuals who have experienced hunger. “Nye spent the past four years traveling and interviewing people of all ages and backgrounds, recording their personal stories and their portraits through photography. Spending several days with each subject, Nye documented the complex fabric of their lives.”

Location
Witte Museum
http://www.wittemuseum.org
3801 Broadway
San Antonio, TX 78209   

Relative Distances at UTSA Satellite

Posted by thomas-cummins on 22 Dec 2009 | Tagged as: upcoming events

Thu, Jan 7
6:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Relative Distances
UTSA Satellite Space
January 7 – January 24, 2010

UTSA Assistant Professor Ovidio Giberga has curated a great ceramics show featuring four recent arrivals to San Antonio; Jennifer Link Datchuk, Wesley Harvey (shown), Paul Northway, Ryan Takaba. Don’t miss it!!

Location
UTSA Satellite Space
http://art.utsa.edu/satspacegallery.html
112 Blue Star
San Antonio, TX 78204   

Cesarco at ArtPace

Posted by thomas-cummins on 22 Dec 2009 | Tagged as: upcoming events

Thu, Jan 14
6:30 pm to 8:00 pm

Members Preview and Opening Reception: Alejandro Cesarco
Join us for the debut of the 10.1 Hudson (Show)Room exhibition, featuring New York-based artist Alejandro Cesarco. For the first time ever, Artpace will unite the different components Index, a body of work that the artist created between 2000 and 2008. The exhibition also includes a new film commissioned for the occasion entitled The Two Stories, which presents the reading of and telling of a story, with the two narratives overlapping one another. Members preview 5:30-6:30pm; Gallery walk-thru with the artist at 7pm. On view through May 2.

Final Friday BikeRide

Posted by thomas-cummins on 21 Dec 2009 | Tagged as: upcoming events

Fri, Dec 25
9:00 pm to 11:59 pm

The last Friday ride is happening this Friday. Same meeting
place(alamo) same time(9pm)

Solar Jam

Posted by thomas-cummins on 19 Dec 2009 | Tagged as: upcoming events

Mon, Dec 21
11:00 am to 2:35 pm

Solar Jam

Type:
Network:
Global
Date:
Monday, December 21, 2009
Time:
11:00am – 2:35pm
Location:
311 Howard St

Description

On the Shortest day of the year, 2009, sun powered electric music at the Farm in SATX.

Come Hang out with us at Farm on the Solstice from Lunch Time through the afternoon. We’ll be jamming and Carrying on with the help of some solar panels and local musicians… who’s coming out? We’ll be dropping that info leading up to Monday…

WTF RU HANGING!?!

Posted by thomas-cummins on 19 Dec 2009 | Tagged as: upcoming events

Thu, Jan 7
6:00 pm to 10:00 pm

WTF RU SHOWING!?! Hanging Party

Type:
Network:
Global
Date:
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Time:
3:00pm – 9:00pm
Location:
The Feburary Collective

Description

WTF RU HANGING!?!

For my last hurrah as curator at The February Collective, I’ll be doing a non-juried group show. Anything goes – painting, drawing, photography, sculpture – surreal, dada, conceptual, aesthetic, classical, modenrnist – WhateverTF! However I’d like to encourage off the wall and strange “sculpture”.
Non-”artists” are also welcomed and encouraged to put their own WTF’s on the walls as well.

WTF RU HANGING rules/details:

One space per person!
You can do whatever you like in the space and put multiple WTF’s in it, but you only get one space

WTFs must be kept within the 12×12″ space!
The walls will be divided into 12×12″ squares over the entire gallery. The WTF may extend out from the wall as much as you’d like, provided it still does not go outside the 12×12″ area defined on the wall.
There will be no “border” space between the squares, so be aware of that.

First come first serve!
Hanging your WTF must be done on Wednesday. No spots will be held for anyone. If you show up late don’t complain about the lack of choices or space.

You are responsible for hanging your own WTF!
I will provide nails, a few hammers, a power drill (with screwdriver bits), and some pins to hang WTFs. If you need any additional hardware (screws, a shelf, staples, tape, gum, a noose, etc) to hang your WTF, you must bring it yourself.

Have fun!
I want this be a chance for you to do something different, get out of your comfort zone, and most importantly to have fun and enjoy the act of art!

The WTF RU SHOWING!?! Hanging Party will be from 3-9pm on Wednesday, December 30th.
We’ll have refreshments, some food and music during the hanging to make sure it’s fun for everyone.

WTF RU SHOWING!?! at the February Collective will be open for First Thursday December 31st and First Friday January 1st.

The February Collective is located upstairs in Building B in the Blue Star Arts Complex, up the staircase that is located between the Jump Start Theater and Stone Metal Press.

WTF! RU ready!?

Here’s the deal: I’m filling the gallery with 12×12″ prints I made donning the characters of W, T, and F.

When you arrive with your work, you’ll pull one of these down and in it’s place you will hang your work. You are welcome to keep this print as a souvenir of the event.
Also I will have a form for you to fill out, so be prepared to give me the title, medium, date, and price of the work so I can keep track of everything and create a list for the show.

I have also been aware that the First Friday in January is on New Years Day, and I’ve heard rumors that some galleries won’t be open this weekend, but instead will be the weekend of the 7th. In this case, I will be open this Thursday/Friday as well as next Thursday/Friday, provided there are still people out. If anyone has any word on the ‘official’ information regarding this, I would greatly appreciate hearing it.

I look forward to seeing WTF you guys come up with!

WTF! RU ready!?

Here’s the deal: I’m filling the gallery with 12×12″ prints I made donning the characters of W, T, and F.

When you arrive with your work, you’ll pull one of these down and in it’s place you will hang your work. You are welcome to keep this print as a souvenir of the event.
Also I will have a form for you to fill out, so be prepared to give me the title, medium, date, and price of the work so I can keep track of everything and create a list for the show.

I have also been aware that the First Friday in January is on New Years Day, and I’ve heard rumors that some galleries won’t be open this weekend, but instead will be the weekend of the 7th. In this case, I will be open this Thursday/Friday as well as next Thursday/Friday, provided there are still people out. If anyone has any word on the ‘official’ information regarding this, I would greatly appreciate hearing it.

I look forward to seeing WTF you guys come up with!

Bent Easel/Overtime Theater Reception

Posted by thomas-cummins on 19 Dec 2009 | Tagged as: upcoming events

Sun, Dec 20
4:00 pm to 6:00 pm

Wine Reception after Overtime Theater performance

Host:
Type:
Network:
Global
Date:
Sunday, December 20, 2009
Time:
4:00pm – 6:00pm
Location:
121 Blue Star, Suite 6 San Antonio TX 78204

Description

On Sunday the 20th of December at 3pm the Overtime Theater will have their final performace of “An Actor’s Christmas Carol”. To welcome the Theater’s new move to the Blue Star and to celebrate the last show of the season the Bent Easel Art Gallery will be hosting a wine receptions after the show.

Everyone is welcome and we especially encourage the actors, staff, and audience of the Theater. The event will be held at the Bent Easel Art Gallery located at the Blue Star Arts Complex. Become a fan of the Bent Easel and check their photo section for maps and directions.

Details for the show are here:

…and here
http://www.theovertimetheater.net/

The Bent Easel Art Gallery’s Wine Reception is a free event. There will be a modest wine selection and non-alcoholic beverages available. Light snacks will also be served. For those interested in wine be sure to bring your ID.

Xmas Birthday Party Holiday Sale

Posted by thomas-cummins on 17 Dec 2009 | Tagged as: upcoming events

Mon, Dec 21
7:00 pm to 11:00 pm

Christmas Birthday Party Holiday Sale

Ed is turning 30! FL!GHT has rad stuff on sale!

Type:
Network:
Global
Start Time:
Monday, December 21, 2009 at 7:15pm
End Time:
Tuesday, December 22, 2009 at 11:15am
Location:
1906 building (the mustard colored building on the oldest thoroughfare in town)
Street:
1906 S. Flores
City/Town:
San Antonio, TX

Description

Ed Saavedra is Turning 30! FL!GHT Gallery is having a BIRTHDAY Party / Annual Christmas Party / Holiday Art Gifts/Objects Sale.

Pose for a photo with our very own Santa!

FREE MUSIC

CELEBRATION ALE

LOVE (new work by your favorite artists)

ORTIZ OPEN STUDIO

Posted by thomas-cummins on 14 Dec 2009 | Tagged as: upcoming events

Sun, Dec 20
4:00 pm to 7:00 pm

CRUZ ORTIZ OPEN STUDIO SALE!!!!!!!!

Type:
Network:
Global
Date:
Sunday, December 20, 2009
Time:
4:00pm – 7:00pm
Location:
1025 E.CROCKETT

Description

so you went to the PULGA for last minute shopping- and you still didnt finish— then head-on over to EASTtown!!!! – weve got a ton of screenprinted POSTERS and ARTworks for super CHEAP!!!!!!! – we got some classics and some NEW WORKS—-we need to empty out the flat files!!! —-and for those folks who like collectin’ big art- weve got chingo deals for you – COLD BEERS AND YUMMY SNACKS- so get yer good chanklas – bring the suegra- bring the kids- and bring your checkbooks!!!

Best Pound for Pound

Posted by thomas-cummins on 13 Dec 2009 | Tagged as: upcoming events

Thu, Dec 17
6:00 pm to 9:00 pm

Best Pound for Pound

Host:
Tommy Gregory
Network:
Global
Date:
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Time:
6:00pm – 9:00pm
Location:
Gallery 118
Street:
118 Broadway
City/Town:
San Antonio, TX

Silkscreen Sunday

Posted by thomas-cummins on 13 Dec 2009 | Tagged as: upcoming events

Sun, Dec 20
3:00 pm to 5:00 pm

DIY Silkscreen Sunday 101

Type:
Network:
Global
Date:
Sunday, December 20, 2009
Time:
3:00pm – 5:00pm
Location:
the Farm
Street:
311 Howard
City/Town:
San Antonio, TX

Description

This workshop will be an introduction to the art of screen-print or a.k.a. silk screen. Attendees will learn about the materials needed to start their own screen-print projects. There will be a hands on demonstration on the silk screen process, so you are encouraged to bring a T-shirt or an item that you want to make a print from silk screen. The workshop will be lead by artists Cruz Ortiz and Ernesto Olivo.

Artist Foundation at Saks

Posted by thomas-cummins on 08 Dec 2009 | Tagged as: upcoming events

Sat, Dec 12
1:00 pm to 5:00 pm

Shopping to benefit the Artist Foundation

15% discount at Saks (includes cosmetics)

Type:
Network:
Global
Start Time:
Tuesday, December 8, 2009 at 10:00am
End Time:
Saturday, December 12, 2009 at 6:00pm
Location:
Saks North Star Mall

Description

Saks shoppers will receive a 15% discount when they present the coupon at check out. This offer is good from Tues Dec 8 till Saturday Dec 12. Despite words to the contrary on the coupon, photocopies of the coupon are indeed accepted.
There are exclusions of course. Some designers such as Chanel, Prada and others are not included in this offer.
SATURDAY, DEC 12 there will be artistic performances throughout the store from 1 to 5 p.m. Produced and directed by Rick Frederick!! Please come by then if you can.
The Line UP- John McBurney and his fabulous costumed models will be on view, Katchie Cartwright & Rich Oppenheim jazz sounds, Bettie Ward and the Bumblebees hot tunes, readings by Mellissa Marlowe, the cast of ‘Lydia’, the Overtime Players, Doyle Avant, modern dance performance by Andrew Coronado and more!

Nathel and Hogechon Holiday

Posted by thomas-cummins on 08 Dec 2009 | Tagged as: upcoming events

Sat, Dec 12
2:00 pm to 8:00 pm

Nathel and Hogechon Holiday Open Studio

Type:
Network:
Global
Date:
Saturday, December 12, 2009
Time:
2:00pm – 6:00pm
Location:
102 Glorietta (at the corner of Mesquite)

Description

Run don’t walk to the Nathel and Hogechon Holiday Open Studio Sale!

Lots of holiday gifts hand-made and ready to hang by studio-mates Nate Cassie, Ethel Shipton, Mark Hogensen, and Kimberly Aubuchon.

Please stop by Saturday, December 12 from 2-6pm for fabulous art, festive food, and lots of fun at our studio on the corner of Glorietta and Mesquite Streets near St. Paul’s Square.

Give the gift of art please!

Jack Rose

Posted by ben on 07 Dec 2009 | Tagged as: music, r.i.p., rock!

Rest in peace, Jack Rose.

Ice Wars at La Casa Rosa

Posted by thomas-cummins on 06 Dec 2009 | Tagged as: upcoming events

Fri, Dec 11
6:30 pm to 9:30 pm

Gevers Studio Presents “Ice Wars” at La Casa Rosa

Network:
Global
Date:
Friday, December 11, 2009
Time:
6:30pm – 9:30pm
Location:
527 West Dewey

Description

The Gevers Street Studio is moving it’s monthly “Ice Fights” to La Casa Rosa Studio for the month of December. Yes that means all the art, poetry (hosted by Jim Stewart), music (Sixth Son Rising), Ice Sculpting (Buddy Rasmussen against Dean DeMarais), food, drinks and fun. It will resume back at the Gevers Street Studio in January. Check out Ice Sculpting (Including Buddy Rasmussen) on the Learning Channel on Sunday December 6, 2009 at 9:00 pm Central Time. Then come on out and be a part of this happening.

More Info Hebron Chism or Jim Stewart

FL!GHT Closing Reception

Posted by thomas-cummins on 06 Dec 2009 | Tagged as: upcoming events

Mon, Dec 7
6:30 pm to 10:00 pm

Closing Reception – Welcome to the Gunshow / Blown In San Antone

Type:
Network:
Global
Date:
Monday, December 7, 2009
Time:
6:30pm – 10:00pm
Location:
FL!GHT GALLERY 1906 S. Flores

Description

It’s your last chance to come out and check out the show. Come see the fully functional bar and collaborative works of Ray Gun & Jake Zollie Harper. We will have two kegs of Freetail Brewery beer on tap for your enjoyment. Don’t miss it, it is all coming down Tuesday morning……..

Hope to see you there!

The touch of love mean that you are my girl

Posted by thomas-cummins on 05 Dec 2009 | Tagged as: upcoming events

Thu, Dec 17
8:00 pm to 11:00 pm

The touch of love mean that you are my girl

Host:
Type:
Network:
Global
Date:
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Time:
8:00pm – 11:00pm
Location:
SMART Art Project Space (aka Salon Mijangos)
Street:
1906 S Flores
City/Town:
San Antonio, TX

Description

This is a $5 show * all ages * byob

* Layne Garrett (Washington, D.C.) * will be visiting San Antonio to share his guitar-based bluesy noise improv. He will be joined by several Texas artists:

* James Sidlo + Sanford Allen *
* James Woodard + Mario Trejo + Viridiana Rivas *
* Kristy Perez * installation will be on display
* Very special guests * will be joining us

“Layne Garrett has created some truly original and at times mindblowing material… that straddles folk music and surreal sound collage surprisingly well.” — Charles Franklin, Foxy Digitalis

Traveling Video at Unit B

Posted by thomas-cummins on 05 Dec 2009 | Tagged as: upcoming events

Fri, Dec 11
7:00 pm to 10:00 pm

Circulatory System: Traveling Video Show #1

Type:
Network:
Global
Date:
Friday, December 11, 2009
Time:
7:00pm – 10:00pm
Location:
Unti B (Gallery)
Street:
500 Stieren Street
City/Town:
San Antonio, TX

Description

Please join us December 11, from 7-10pm to welcome Circulatory System (Austin, TX), a new curatorial venture that
travels exhibitions connecting the dots between Texas’ various cities, to San Antonio. Their converted school bus will park in the Unit B yard to debut their inaugural program, Traveling Video Show #1, organized by Austin- and New York-based performance artist Jill Pangallo. This one-night only exhibition features seventeen artists from Austin, Atlanta, and New York and was originally screened at the Trans-Pecos Festival of Music and Love in Marfa, Texas (in conjunction with Monofonus Press and El Cosmico); in Austin (Fusebox Festival’s MERGE); and will travel to Dallas in 2010.

Artists include: Leigh Brodie, Michelle Devereux, Jody Fausett, Lillian Gerson, Max Juren, Duncan Malashock, Michael Nelson, PJ Raval, Shana Robbins, Carlos Rosales-Silva, Stephanie Saint Sanchez, Corkey Sinks, Skote, Brina Thurston, Trish Tillman, Alex P. White, Joseph Winchester

For more information about Circulatory System please visit their website at www.texascirculatorysystem.org

Also on view in the gallery:
Diamond LIfe curated by Kurt Mueller, featuring work by Jillian Conrad and Moo Kwan Han on view thru January 2, 2010.

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