Hands on Sculpture
Posted by thomas-cummins on 04 May 2009 at 04:29 pm | Tagged as: upcoming events
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Saturday, May 16, 2009 Where: The Sculptors Dominon Parking Available at |
When:Hands On Sculpture
Let art take form at our latest family adventure, Hands on Scultpure. We’re convening at the beautiful Sculptors Dominion to explore world-class sculpture in a variety of media. Texas Public Radio members are invited to join us on Saturday, May 16, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. for a day full of dance, music, poetry and art.
Activities
Volunteers will provide two guided tours of the grounds, beginning at 10:30 a.m. and noon. Throughout the tour enjoy dancers and poets performing their craft amid the beautiful pieces. Artist Don Williams will demonstrate how sculptures are made with a live bronze pour.
Over 60 sculptures were placed on the Sculptors Dominion property in April and are for sale to the public.
A Note to Participants: The sculptures are art pieces that are for sale. There is no climbing or touching of the pieces. Please be mindful that the Sculptors Dominion is a private residence.
Participants
Alamo Arts Ballet Theatre
The Alamo Arts Ballet Theater provides San Antonio with a professional ballet company committed to artistic excellence, high-caliber training, and outreach to diverse audiences within the greater San Antonio community. Performers will be entertaining guests on the grounds of the Sculptors Dominion.
Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center Dance Academy
Located in the heart of San Antonio’s west side, the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center preserves, promotes and develops the arts and culture of the Chicano, Latino, and Native American peoples for all ages and backgrounds through public and educational programming in six disciplines: Dance, Literature, Media Arts, Theater Arts, Visual Arts and Xicano Music. The GCAC Dance Academy will provide folklorico dancers to entertain guests on the grounds of the Sculptor’s Dominion.
Alamo City Dance Company
The Alamo City Dance Company performs ballet classics, contemporary jazz works, modern expressionism and even explores the realms of tap and ethnic dance. Performers from the company will perform of the grounds of the Sculptors Dominion for Texas Public Radio guests.
Marian Haddad, MFA
Poet Marian Haddad is the author of Somewhere between Mexico and a River Called Home, published by Pecan Grove Press (Fall 2004). She previously compiled a poetry chapbook entitled Saturn Falling Down as part of Texas Public Radio’s Hands On Poetry event in 2003. Her poems and essays have appeared in magazines and journals including The Texas Observer, The Rio Grande Review, and Sin Fronteras/Writers Without Borders and in various Arab-American, California, and Texas writer’s anthologies. A recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship to study philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, Haddad currently lives in San Antonio and works as a lecturer, manuscript consultant, freelance writer, and visiting writer in public and private schools and universities. Haddad also holds private mentorships in creative writing and conducts poetry, creative non-fiction and fiction workshops.
Is this for TPR members only, do you know? Don’t tell anyone I asked.
lol. It kinda seems like on the radio they have been advertising this as open but I copied this straight from their website and according to this -
“Texas Public Radio members are invited”
FYI:
I called Gilbert, it’s for TPR members only.
So here’s a partial, un-runnable Artifacts column!!
Artifacts:
COLOSSUS OF ROADS
by Sarah Fisch
What’s the first thing you think about when you think about Colossal Sculpture? The Sphinx? The Statue of Liberty? Koons’ “Puppy”? I’ll bet it’s not an outdoor sculpture park on Vance Jackson. And yet, there it is, “The Sculptors Dominion,” acre upon acre of outdoor exhibition space, owned and founded by local, and possibly slightly insane, sculptor Gilbert E. Barrera. It’s a private residence, not a public park, mind you, and all the sculptures are for sale.
The 2009 roster of exhibited artists include sculptors from Australia, Iceland, Germany, India, Sri Lanka, Venezuela, and various U.S. states, as well as locals Danville Chadbourne, Sun McColgin, Delbert Beckham, Jim LaPaso, Fritz Ozuna, and Krisanne Frost. And this Saturday the 16th, a family-friendly event called “Hands On Sculpture”, from 10 am – 1 pm, spotlights these artists’ works, as well as a performance by the TK TK TK…”
Dude, now I have to write about “Agnes of God.”
He only once describes her complexion, and her “emerald” eyes.