Thu, Apr 22
7:00 pm to 9:00 pm

One-Day Friends Exhibit & Reading by John Phillip Santos

Type:
–
Date:
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Time:
7:00pm – 9:00pm
Location:
Bihl Haus Arts (Primrose at Monticello Park Senior Apartments)

Description

John Phillip Santos’ New Memoir Inspires Ephemeral Exhibition at Bihl Haus Arts

San Antonio, Texas – In a special reading from his new, recently released memoir, “The Farthest Home Is in an Empire of Fire (A Tejano Elegy),” John Phillip Santos will present at Bihl Haus Arts surrounded by the work of some of his artist friends whose work inspired him during the years he was writing the book.

This ephemeral exhibition, up only for the reading on Thursday, April 22nd at 7:00 p.m., includes a unique cross-section of San Antonio art visionaries, including Ricky Armendáriz, Norman René Avila, Rolando Briseño, Joan Frederick, Raphael Guerra, Pedro Luján, Cesár Martínez, Franco Mondini-Ruiz, Angel Rodríguez-Díaz, Terry Ybañez, and Davíd Zamora Casas.

“San Antonio’s artists are at the vanguard of transforming our city,” says John Phillip Santos, “Our artists are leading the way to becoming a cultural capital of the new República Cósmica of the United States.”

Bihl Haus Arts Executive Director Dr. Kellen Kee McIntyre welcomes this exceptional multi-disciplinary event. “The collection of works on exhibit will envelop John Phillip Santos and his audience in an intimate atmosphere that reflects the author’s own sophisticated aesthetic and underscores his deep personal relationship with each of the remarkable artists included in the show,” said McIntyre.

The reading and exhibition are free and open to the public. Books will be available for signing.

John Phillip Santos, a San Antonio native, is the first Mexican American Rhodes Scholar to study at Oxford and whose awards include the Academy of American Poets’ Prize at Notre Dame and the Oxford Prize for fiction. His articles on Latino culture have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, and the San Antonio Express-News, among numerous other publications. Santos served as writer and producer for more than forty television documentaries for CBS-TV and PBS-TV, two of them Emmy nominees. Santos’ 1999 family memoir, Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation (Viking / Penguin) was a finalist for the National Book Award. In 2006 it was selected for the “One Book, One City” reading program in San Antonio. After a 21-year stay in New York City, Santos moved back to his hometown several years ago, where he resides with his wife, poet Frances Santos, and their new born daughter.

Bihl Haus Arts is located at 2803 Fredericksburg Road, across the street from Tip Top Café. Parking is outside the gates of the Primrose Apartments, over flow parking is in the Redeemer Church parking lot on Fredericksburg Rd. @ Quentin.

No Comments »