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CineFestival 2009
Feb 5 - 8
Guadalupe Cultural Center
Four Guitars from L.A.
Feb 6 & 7
Majestic Theatre
Ballet Hispanico & the
Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra
Feb 7
Lila Cockrell Theatre
Southwest Guitar Festival
Feb 7
Petrushka Plus
Feb 13 & 14
Majestic Theatre
On and Off Fredericksburg
Road Studio Tour
Feb 14 & 15
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 Zou Ba: Let's Go
January 29 - March 31
Southwest School of Art & Craft
300 Augusta
This trade portfolio from the China Sanbao International Printmaking project includes work by SSAC Printmaking Department Chair Margaret Craig. The exhibition opens with a reception January 29. Also opening January 29 at Southwest School includes; "Estevan Arredondo: Pencil Sounds," a Marcia Gygli King retrospective "Spontaneous Combustion" and "Osamu Watanabe: My San Antonio." www.swschool.org |
 Green & Brown: Leamon Green and Lenard Brown
January 30 - February 28
StoneMetal Press Gallery
1420 S. Alamo, #104
The exhibition features original prints and mixed media by two African-American artists. Leamon Green draws his inspiration from a photographic archive from his hometown of Anniston, Alabama. These anonymous portraits allow Green the freedom to imply a history. The content of Lenard Brown's prints revolves around functional, man-made objects. Brown visualizes these objects as African masks and dance shields. As a result, his works relate Western thinking to African philosophy and Christianity to African mythology. www.stonemetal-press.com |
 Asian Festival: Year of the Ox
January 31
Institute of Texan Cultures
801 S Bowie Street
The Asian Festival at UTSA's Institute of Texan Cultures is a community event honoring Asian cultures and traditions from the Pacific Rim. In addition to the wide variety of delicious foods - including Chinese, Japanese, Thai, Vietnamese, Pakistani, Filipino and Polynesian - the festival showcases a wide variety of performances, including martial arts and dance demonstrations. www.texancultures.utsa.edu |
 YOSA Winter Concert
February 1, 4 pm
Edgewood Fine Arts Auditorium
607 S.W. 34th Street
Bringing music to the community, the City Series presents concerts on the North, West and East sides of town. Enjoy extraordinary concerts by talented young musicians representing middle and high schools from across the city. The concert features the Symphony Orchestra, Sinfonietta Strings and Capriccio Strings, and is conducted by Deana Johnson, Lisa McCutchan and Nile Mendoza Wilson. www.yosa.org |
 Black and Blue
February 2, 7pm
San Antonio College
1300 San Pedro
Gemini Ink kick-starts Black History month with Sterling Houston's Black and Blue, an hour-long snapshot of the African-American odyssey, pairing jazz and blues with documents from the American slavery era. Written and compiled by Sterling Houston, this performance pairs traditional jazz and blues with readings of actual historical documents from the American slavery era, including public postings offering rewards for runaway slaves, excerpts from letters and journals by both slaves and slave owners, and a San Antonio ordinance defining punishment for slaves caught out after curfew. www.geminiink.org |
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Don't miss OCA at the Buckaroo Breakfast Sunday January 31 at The Village at Stone Oak. ArtPace, the Guadalupe Cultural Art Center and the Woodlawn Theater will be there with fun art activities for those of all ages! Make sure to visit the SAHEARTS table while you're there. We'll have plenty of stickers and coloring pages for the kids. For more information visit our web site at HERE.
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 Get to know San Antonio artists!
The January artist of the month is Bettie Ward.
View work by Bettie Ward this month at Blue Star Contemporary Art Center. The exhibition, "Optimism and Horror," opens with a reception January 22, 6 - 9 pm, featuring music by Queenie and the Bumblebees. For more on her exhibition at Blue Star visit their website at www.bluestarart.org.
(Left: "Two lovers who double as twins" Todd Johnson photographer)
Read more about Bettie Ward here.
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Art News Headlines |
SAN ANTONIO
San Antonians among Medal of Arts winners
San Antonio Express-News (1/22/09)
Hector Saldana
"Prominent San Antonians are among this year's recipients of the biannual Texas Medal of Arts Awards presented by the Texas Cultural Trust. Lake/Flato Architects will receive the award for architecture, and author T.R. Fehrenbach will be honored for literary arts."
TEXAS
Lawmakers say more fine arts education is needed
Austin American Statesman (1/27/09)
Kate Alexander
"As Texas' education leaders focused on increasing standards and accountability in the 1990s, fine arts education was pushed out the door to make room for more intensive focus on test performance. On Monday, legislators heard that it is time to bring fine arts education back in from the cold."
NATIONAL
Stimulus Package Includes Millions For The Arts
NPR's All Things Considered (1/27/09)
Elizabeth Blair
"The current economic stimulus package includes $50 million for the National Endowment for the Arts and $150 million for infrastructure repairs at the Smithsonian."
INTERNATIONAL
Canadian culture back on the national agenda
Globe and Mail (1/27/09)
James Bradshaw and Gloria Galloway
"The federal government has heard the arts community's cries and offered its largest investment in culture, but some sectors will have to make do with the status quo."
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