Bernice Williams was recently awarded first place at the 79th Annual Juried Artists Exhibition at The San Antonio Art League Museum, the award is also known as the Julian Orderdonk Memorial Purchase Prize. A second piece entered also was awarded The Claudia Huntington and Marshal Miller Sponsor Award. Williams was also selected as an artist in residence for the Serie Project in Austin, and will be there from May 4-15. If you have news or announcements, let us know! Email Linsey at linsey.whitehead@sanantonio.gov. |
OCA Technical and Economic Development Assistance Program applications are now open. The Technical and Economic Development Assistance Program is designed to assist local not for profit arts and cultural organizations and artists with organizational stability, development and professional growth. For more information, including application and guidelines, visit the web site HERE.
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 April Artist of the Month |
 Get to know San Antonio artists! The April artist of the month is writer, poet, performer, and educator, Dr. Carmen Tafolla.
Dr. Carmen Tafollas' work has appeared in more than two hundred anthologies, magazines, journals, readers, American Literature textbooks, Big Books, and in the Poetry-in-Motion series installed on city buses. The co-author of the first book ever published on Latina Civil Rights leader Emma Tenayuca (That's Not Fair! Emma Tenayuca's Struggle for Justice, which Críticas Magazine listed among the Best Children's Books of 2008), she is the recipient of many awards, including the Art of Peace Award in 1999 for writing which contributes to peace, justice, and human understanding.
Find out more, and read an interview with Tafolla HERE.
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TEXAS
Austin Arts Hall of Fame inductees 2009 named
Austin American Statesman (4/30/09)
Jeanne Claire van Ryzin
"Without them, our artful Austin landscape wouldn't be as rich. Creators, organizational founders and philanthropists - the 2009 inductees to the Austin Arts Hall of Fame represent the wide talents needed to grow and sustain a creative culture."
NATIONAL
Dr. Maya Angelou, National Poetry Month
PRI, The Tavis Smiley Show (4/24/09)
Tavis Smiley
"World renown renaissance woman Dr. Maya Angelou joins the program's annual observance of National Poetry Month and shares how even at 81, she's still learning and is even a student.in the literal sense."
INTERNATIONAL
Arts Council England (ACE) launches £40 million fighting fund to combat effects of recession
The Stage (4/24/09)
Alistair Smith
"Arts Council England has announced a new £40 million fund to which cultural organisations will be able to apply for support if they are struggling financially because of the recession." |
First Friday Reading
Hand-Pulled Prints XIV
Fathers & Sons II
Garden Jazz Party
The Universe Within
