Free Center for Architecture Lecture

Wednesday, February 24th 2010

www.aiasa.org

5:30pm

AIA San Antonio Presents:  Tom Kundig, FAIA

Olsen Kundig Architects, Seattle, WA

SHELTER

Join us a the Center for Architecture, 200 E. Grayson, Ste. 110, located at the Full Goods Building for this free lecture, book signing and reception.

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Final Tuesday of the month like every month at Sam’s Burger Joint

Date: 02-18-10
Location: San Antonio Texas
Project: Sam ’s Video Jam
Deadline: 03-20-10

Sam’s Video Jam is currently taking submissions for the March 30th showing!
They are looking for video work that is under 15 minutes in duration, with no restrictions on content. There is no monetary prize , but for best in show, they will be offering original art work by Michael Stoltz and Utah Snyder.

If you have something you would like to submit, please format it into a .mov file or a .dv file, burn it to a cd and do one of the following
1) Send to this address:

Deluminated Inc.

312 Mission

San Antonio, Tx 78210
2) Bring your burned files to the February 23rd Video Jam
The deadline for submissions is March 20th.

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XXVI Annual Student Art Exhibition

Venue:  The University of Texas at San Antonio Art Gallery (Main Campus) Curator:  Juror: Dan Sutherland, Artist and Professor, The University of Texas at Austin Dates:  Thursday, Feb 25, 2010 – Wednesday, Mar 10, 2010 Receptions:  Thursday, Feb 25, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Images:

Juried exhibition featuring the award-winning work of current graduate and undergraduate students. Works represent diverse media and make use of the full range of traditional methods and innovative interdisciplinary techniques.  Themes range from the representational to the abstract and the conceptual.

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A silent art auction featuring over 200 small-scale artworks from local, regional and national artists all benefiting the innovative arts programming of SAY Sí.

EXHIBIT up through February
Mon-Thurs. 11 AM to 7 PM

SMALL SCALE BENEFIT
Friday, Feb. 26, 2010
6:30 to 9 PM
3 progressive bid closing times

PREVIEW the artwork at saysi.org

Small Scale Work for a Larger Cause, SAY Sí

Venue:  SAY Si Central Artists:  200+ local, regional and national artists! Curator:  SAY Sí Dates:  Friday, Feb 5, 2010 – Friday, Feb 26, 2010 Receptions:  Friday, Feb 26, 6:30 pm – 10:00 pm Images:As a prelude to Contemporary Art Month, The public is invited to take the pulse of what is happening in San Antonio’s rich and varied artistic community.  With over 200 artworks in every discipline, Small Scale serves as both a fundraiser for SAY Sí’s free award-winning programs, and a survey of up-and-coming, mid-career and established artists and their current work.

The exhibit runs the entire of month of February and culminates with one of the best fundraising event in town:   a silent auction and an un-silent party! Featuring food, drink and three silent auction closing times.

Gallery Hours: Mon. – Thurs. 11 AM – 7 PM; Fri. & Sat. 9 AM – 5 PM; Closed Sun.

Small Scale Benefit: Friday, Feb. 26, 6:30- 9 PM, $40 per person, pre-sale, $50 @ the door

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Alamo @ 9pm

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Gemini Ink Autograph Series

This spring’s talks feature David Liss, author of the popular Benjamin Weaver series, including 2009’s The Devil’s Company, and Andrew Porter, author of The Theory of Light and Matter, winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. The authors will each read a selection of their works, followed by an audience question and answer session. Chapman Graduate Center Auditorium, Trinity University, One Trinity Place, 734-9673, geminiink.org.

Join Gemini Ink readers and writers gather to hear local authors, David Liss and Andrew Porter at a free public reading at Trinity University’s Chapman Graduate Center Auditorium on February 18 at 7 pm. A book signing follows. For more information, call or visit geminiink.org.

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I’ll try to put up some of the openings coming up next month but check out the official CAM site for a comprehensive calendar.

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Local 782 begins our meetings with a focused topic discussion to provide attendees with valuable insight and resources.

JJ Lopez will be leading a discussion about Intellectual Property and the pros of Community Radio. JJ is a local DJ for KRTU 91.7FM and is responsible for organizing the event series known as Super Soul Shakedown. He also can be found spinning at various events in and around San Antonio.

The event will take place at the C4 Workspace located on the corner of King William & S StMarys, right behind The Filling Station pizza joint.

Musicians are especially invited to attend.

If you have recordings of your music or plan to record and sell/distribute your music, this information will prove very important. Come have your copyright questions answered by a very knowledgeable music professional.

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On and Off Fredericksburg Road Studio Tour

Venue:  Bihl Haus Arts Artists:  David Alcantar Fernando Andrade AVI Norman René Avila Cee Jay Black Steve Bell David Botello Brianna Burnett Danville Chadbourne Carol Cisneros Jennifer Ling Datchuk Richard De La O Abraham De La Torre Alexander Devora Rebekka Flores Kirk G. Forster Oscar Galvan Chuck Glave Le Green-Schubert Rudy Garza David Guerrero María Guerrero Wesley Harvey Oscar Hernández Rex Hausmann James Helm James Hetherington Venessa Hill Marleen Hoover John Karlis Barbara Kelley Michelle Love Dale Jenssen Amy Jones Eric Lane Sally Lewis Norma Jean Moore Jane Madrigal Jimena Marín Michael Marínez Yolanda Martínez Alejandra Martínez Salazar Stacy Parten Kevin Rayhons David S. Rubin Kimberly Rumfelt James Saldivar Jill Schlichenmaier Russell Stephenson Ryan Takaba Tommy Travieso Alicia Ybarra David Zamora Casas Rosie Zertuche Dates:  Saturday, Feb 20, 2010 – Sunday, Feb 21, 2010 Receptions:  Friday, Feb 19, 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm

The 3rd Annual On & Off Fredericksburg Road Studio Tour takes place in San Antonio’s famed Deco District, along a section of the celebrated Old Spanish Trail Auto Highway. The event, scheduled for Feb. 20 and 21, 2010, features two full days of leisurely self-guided tours that offer visitors the rare opportunity to interact with area artists in their work spaces. From reclaimed former neighborhood grocery stores to intimate backyard sanctuaries, the studios on the tour provide the environments in which artists create a variety of works, such as large ceramic sculptures, metalworks, one-of-a-kind light fixtures, art photography, and a variety of paintings in various styles. Demonstrations, hospitality, and opportunities to purchase art are all part of the On and Off Fred experience.  The Mission of the On and Off Fredericksburg Rd. Studio Tour is to promote the work of diverse visual and cultural artists in the area, enhance the appreciation for the arts in the community, and stimulate neighborhood revitalization.

The tour weekend kicks off Friday evening, February 19, 6:00-9:00 pm, with the not-to-be-missed On & Off Fred Autograph Party and Reception at Bihl Haus Arts, 2803 Fredericksburg Rd.  On exhibit will be works by each of the studio tour participating artists who will be on hand to autograph copies of the tour catalog. Lavish hors d’oeuvres, wine, live jazz by George Prado and George González, and the opportunity to mingle with artists, event sponsors, and community leaders fill the evening.

Visiting the tour website— www.onandofffred.org —provides the visitor with complete tour information, a downloadable map (available Feb. 12), and images of each artist’s work.  On the tour, visitors are guided by a color-coded map that makes navigating the tour easy. Seven neighborhoods are featured on the tour this year: historic Monticello Park, stately Jefferson, Woodlawn Lake, Los Angeles Heights, eclectic Keystone, charming Beacon Hill, and delightful Alta Vista.  A full-color, 80-page studio tour catalog ($10) may be ordered off the website starting February 1st, or may be picked up at local participating businesses, including Vee’s Hair and Spa (1022 Donaldson), IAMA Coffee House (just off Fredericksburg Road @ 131 Babcock), and Chris Madrid’s (1900 Blanco Road).  A free map will be available at the San Antonio Visitor’s Bureau.  A complimentary copy of the catalog is available to members of the press by email request to

The On and Off Fredericksburg Road Studio Tour is made possible with the support of the City of San Antonio Office of Cultural Affairs and City Council District 7.  The tour is organized by area artists and Bihl Haus Arts (www.bihlhausarts.org), which is located at Primrose at Monticello Park Apartments, the only non-profit professional art gallery on the premises of senior affordable housing in the U.S.  The gallery is also supported by The Potashnik Family Foundation and Primrose.  For more information, , or

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The best show Blue Star has mounted since Lonely Are the Brave is closing this Saturday, and it’s well worth checking out on your way to Second Saturday down the street on S Flores. Familiar Unknown: Contemporary Ceramics takes advantage of Blue Star’s large main exhibition spaces to highlight four women working at the forefront of clay art. It’s another example of ceramics becoming an increasingly visible medium in the San Antonio contemporary gallery scene, something I hope to cover more soon. Curated by Ovidio Giberga, an accomplished ceramic artist in his own right, and director of UTSA’s ceramics program, the show is full of strong work, installed impeccably.

Anne Drew Potter’s disfigured characters laugh and scowl devilishly in installations that are both spare and overflowing with heavily wrought emotion. Three bulbous women direct their menacing gazes at a frail, limp rabbit doll in “The Judgment of Br’er Rabbit.” A large yellow baby glazed in dense, bright yellow (which I’m told is a reference to Chinese glazes) delights in the misfortune of a large cloth baby who has tumped over. Across the gallery, another pair vaguely mirror these poses: a young, naked girl ecstatic lifts her arms above her as she stands over a young, naked boy fallen back on his elbows, gazing up.

Anne Drew Potter: The Judgment of Br'er Rabbit

Anne Drew Potter: Big Baby

In the middle of the triangle formed by Potter’s works, an installation by Rebbeca Hutchinson strikes a counterpoint of humble, organic engineering. Apparently built from materials collected on-site, Hutchinson’s spindly sticks with nest-like forms built of paper and clay are scattered sparsely through the space. I feel like I could do a better job describing them if I only knew Japanese, but there’s definitely a healthy dose of wabi in this installation. From the literature, it sounds as if these pieces are destroyed after the exhibit, so I’ll say it again: see this show before it disappears.

Rebecca Hutchinson Installation

Rebecca Hutchinson Installation

The last installation in the main gallery draws another contrast, with Susan Beiner’s baroque composition of imaginary flowers and and man-made detritus (both exquisitely rendered in porcelain), the only piece that actually hangs on the wall. At first this assemblage appears to consist entirely of flowers and other organic forms, but a close look reveals bolts, pieces of furniture or anonymous industrial objects strewn throughout. Nearby, the flowers growing from the gallery floor make porcelain, foam, and polyfil seem like a most natural combination of materials.

Susan Beiner: Synthetic Stems & Synthetic Reality

Susan Beiner: Synthetic Stems & Synthetic Reality

Finally, in an adjacent space Blue Star calls the middle gallery, Rebekah Bogard has installed a fantasy world that takes some cues from CGI children’s movies, but sexualizes the characters just a touch. Bright colors and incredibly smooth glazes produce an exhibit that hardly seems ceramic at all. In the artist’s statement, and some other reviews of her work, references to a darkness lurking beneath the candy surface are ubiquitous, but as much as I tried I can’t see it in this installation. It seems very sweet and fluffy to me. Either the artist has moved away from the dark side to some degree, or I’m being naive; judge for yourself.

Rebekah Bogard Installation

Rebekah Bogard Installation

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President Ricardo Romo & Dr. Harriett Romo
The University of Texas at San Antonio,
Joan Grona Gallery
&
Radius

Present

C a r m e n O l i v e r

Curated by Arturo Almeida

February 12 – May 10, 2010

Opening reception:

Friday, February 12, 2010
5:30pm – 8:30 pm

Radius
106 Auditorium Circle
San Antonio, Texas 78205

www. Radiuscafe.org

Carmen Oliver was born in Mexico City. Over the last three decades, she has been painting and showing her work in both Mexico and the United States. In 2000, Oliver’s work was included in the Biennale Internazionale d’Arte Contemporanea di Firenze, Firenze, Italy.

She was selected to be apart of The Texas Contemporary Artists Series at the Institute of Texan Cultures. The exhibit will be from February 2 thru May 10, 2010. A reception will be on Thursday, March 4, 2010 5:30pm- 7:30pm

SEE LINK FOR MORE DETAILS:
http://www.texancultures.com/museum/oliver.html

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Live classical chamber music courtesy of Magdalena Strings. Music from 6pm to 8pm.

Come see our new exhibits and the Valentine’s Day themed work. Special thanks to Joel Bangilan for coordinating the group’s appearance.

There is no charge for this event but the musical group will be accepting tips.

Magdalena Strings is a group of musician friends who love to make music together, both for work and fun. All are music major graduates and students from the University of Houston. While they are classically trained, they also enjoy playing other genres of music, including pop, oldies, and jazz.

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CRONYISM. Statement*

Hey there. Um. I’m Jeremiah, the curator of “Cronyism.” It’s…well it’s kind of hot in here…does it feel warm to you? Jody…Jod…could you, yeah, could you turn down the, turn up the air conditioner a little. Thank you.
So, as I was saying, I’m Jeremiah. You can call me Mr. Teutsch if you feel like it, or Jerry is very popular these days. Anyways I curated the show “Cronyism” which is up at the FL!GHT Gallery and opening on the Second Saturday of February, which is the 13th. Yes. From 7 to 10. Be there!

And basically what I’m doing with this exhibit is letting San Antonio see what my friends from Denver are doing, since everybody has seen all the artists already that I would have picked from here. So I pulled together four of my old college buddies, said “Hey buddies, I want to bring some new talent to San Antonio, and you guys are the top of my list of favorite artists. in. the. world. Any of you fellows want a show?”
And they were all like, “sure.”
So here it is, a beautiful show of a group of some of my friends from Denver. New work from four people you’ve never heard of, but upon seeing the show, you probably won’t forget. (Because it’s awesome.) Hand-plucked.
And why not show off my friends? It’s what every curator does. Come on; don’t deny it! See…but they don’t tell you that they’re showing off their buddies. At least I’m being truthful. You have, for once, nothing but honesty from a curator. Feels nice doesn’t it?
This is a win-win situation! They get a great show in a progressive gallery; I get accolades and public attention. And, times being what they are, I don’t even have to bullshit around with talk about “meta-this” and “post-that”, and “pre-whatsits” and feelings and intentions and blah blah blah. (Though there are all of those things in this show. These guys – Harry C. Walter, Justin Beard, Travis Egedy, and Zane Carroll – they’re not dumb-dumbs. They all have degrees from the Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design – that’s a fine school!)
God… I heard this numb milquetoast of a man talking about his vision for the show he was curating the other day, on and on about the passion, and the merit, and the play of light…give me a break. Go feed a goat at a petting zoo, you maudlin putz.
It’s still too warm in here…I…yes, yes…yes, no ice is fine. No-no-no-no. In the drink. In the tea. No. Yes. Thank you Jody…will you delete that bit about the…

From the hurt little office of
Jeremiah C. Teutsch

*Dictated but not read.

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OPENING RECEPTION: Saturday, February 13, 6 – 8:30 pm

RECEPTION: Thursday, March 18, 6 – 8 pm (performance by a group from the SA Symphony at 7 pm).

EXHIBIT RUNS THROUGH SATURDAY, MARCH 20.

The title of the exhibit is derived from the artists’ thoughtful explorations and perceptive expressions of social, political, and cultural issues; sexuality; nature; fantasy, and everyday reality. Through a variety of mediums—including drawing, painting, and sculpture—the artists address the past and present, as well as potentialities for a better future.

Judith Cottrell, Sara Frantz, Jayne Lawrence, and Vincent Valdez are the four newest artists represented in the gallery. They all create relevant, insightful, and stunning art that, while conceived through a diverse set of realities, is greatly complementary. Their work conveys thought-provoking messages, based on experience, imagination, and hope, that are at times serious, often humorous, and always intriguing.

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The Second in the Series: The Buisness of Art 101

HOW TO: Keeping your books with Karen Powell

HOW TO: PDF e mails (Art Books Maid on the Computor) with Rex Hausmann and John Karlis. How to photograph your show, put it together with PICASA and e mail it to all your clients.

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

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