March is Contemporary Art Month
Check out the community events for CAM 2024
Family Workshop: Mixed Media Mural Making
Photo from San Antonio Botanical Gardens website.
Taco Talk: Spring Exhibitions
Join the Contemporary for a new installment of “Taco Talk” an exhibition program and curator walk-through with coffee and breakfast tacos. Learn more about the work in Mosh Now, Cry Later and Alyssa Danna’s Tantalizing Middle Part. Visitors will have the opportunity to ask questions and engage with the artists in the exhibitions.
Registration is required for this free program.
Would you like to support exhibition programs like these? Consider donating $5 with your registration!
"Fringes: Desaparecidx/ The disappeared"
Image provide by bitti’s GAMBREL at cactusBARN.
16th Annual Mujeres de Aztlan | Mujeres Artistas: Iluminando El Futuro
Image provided by Centro Cultural Aztlan.
Grant Writing for Artists 101
Are you an artist looking to secure funding for your next project? Join us for an informative workshop where you’ll learn the ins and outs of grant writing.
San Antonio grassroots organizations San Antonio Ethnic Society (SAEAS) and Contemporary Art Month (CAM) are coming together in partnership with Contemporary at Blue Star to bring back the Grant Writing for Artists 101 for Contemporary Art Month! We invite artists at all stages of their career to join this grant writing workshop designed to help understand the application and reporting processes, along with practical tips and tricks to help applications stand out among the crowd. The workshop will be lead by the Contemporary’s Director of Development, Elaine Leahy.
We invite artists at all stages of their career to join this grant writing workshop designed to help understand the application and reporting processes, along with practical tips and tricks to help applications stand out among the crowd.
Location: Education Space at Contemporary at Blue Star | 132 Blue Star (located between the Contemporary’s main entrance and Slab Cinema)
This event is FREE and open to all. Registration is required.
CAM Student Film Festival 2025 at BRICK at Blue Star Arts
Image by Casie Lomeli & Nina Hassele.
Far More Precious than Jewels Exhibition Panel Discussion
Flyer provided by Theresa Newsome.
CAM Breakout lV
CAM Breakout IV: A series of performative happenings by UTSA New Media Collective at Ruby City in collaboration with Contemporary Art Month. Curated by Martín C. and Verena Gaudy.
More information coming soon.
CAM Perennial 2025
Contemporary Art Month (CAM) 2025 Perennial exhibition, The Inbetweenness, curated by Marisa Sage. In partnership with the UTSA Southwest Campus, the 2025 perennial will feature artists Huakai Chen, Brittany Ham, Gabi Magaly, Bella Martinez, Josie Norris and Jorge Villarreal, and will be on view in the Russell Hill Rogers Galleries in the Santikos building from March 22–April 12, 2025. The opening reception information will be announced in the coming weeks.
In her curatorial statement, Sage told CAM, “In an ever-evolving world where boundaries—be they linguistic, cultural, material, or conceptual—are increasingly fluid, artists working with translations and transformations within their practice embody a spirit of inquiry and alchemy. Translation is not merely the conversion of one language into another, but a process of negotiation, rupture, and reinvention. Likewise, transformation speaks to a metamorphosis: the reconfiguring of form, personhood, meaning, and perception.
The artists featured in this exhibition engage with these concepts as both method and metaphor. Through scale and process experiments they grapple with the movement of ideas across mediums, histories, and identities. Some address translation as a mode of cultural dialogue, exploring themes of displacement, migration, and hybridity. Others see transformation as a visceral act, turning materials—be they physical or conceptual—into sites of possibility and renewal.”
The CAM perennial exhibition was introduced in 2012 with the goal to connect San Antonio contemporary artists with curators around the world. For over a decade, this exhibition has served as an important bridge between San Antonio's artistic community and the global contemporary art scene. Through carefully curated exhibitions that highlight diverse perspectives and practices, the perennial has become a cornerstone of Contemporary Art Month's mission to elevate and celebrate San Antonio's contemporary art scene. CAM is thrilled to continue this tradition for the 2025 perennial exhibition.
“Artist Talk” Plantcestors | Solo Exhibition by Suzy González
Image provided by Suzy González.
Glorious@Mercury Project Closing & Movement Performance by Amber Ortega, Tanesha Payne and Jennifer Jones
Image provided by the artist Barbara Felix.
CAM Student Film Festival 2025 at Confluence Park
Image by Casie Lomeli & Nina Hassele.
Cochineala Nature and Art Series Haunted Halloween
Come experience a hauntingly good time at Cochineala: Halloween Festival of Nature and Art located at Confluence Park. From 6-10 PM, bring the whole family for a night of spine-chilling surprises and creative activities inspired by the mysteries of nature. Dress up in your favorite costume and wander through the park’s dark paths—who knows what you’ll discover lurking in the shadows! Festivities include Monarch Butterfly Tag & Release, photos with The Donkey Lady, Loteria Card Reading, BYO Textile Live Screen Printing, Spooky Video Games, Pedal-Powered Batty Fruit Smoothies, Night Wing Watch Texas Pollinator Bioblitz, Trick-or-Treat candy stations, Bat-friendly pot-a-plant Activity, Marigolds with Latino Outdoors, Calaverita Clay Painting, and more! BYO chair and enjoy free popcorn and a screening of Gremlins 2 at 8:30 PM.
Join us for a night of eerie enchantment and spooky delights—you won’t want to miss this frightfully-fun adventure! The event is FREE and open to the public! Bring your own lawn chairs and blankets for seating.
Newspaper Boys: Ayer y Hoy en San Anto
Join us for the closing reception of our latest exhibit, Newspaper Boys: Ayer y Hoy en San Anto, on Thursday, October 3, 2024 from 6:00-9:00pm.
In this two-man exhibition, life-long visual artists Oscar A. Galván Jr. and Martin Emmanuel Rangel work together to give new life to the old practice of spreading the news. The exhibit pays homage to the artists’ ancestors and nostalgically explores the aesthetics of past eras. The artists depict newspaper delivery boys across generations and time periods, blending past and present to share a unique perspective of the evolution of the time-honored tradition of delivering the news. This exhibit honors those who may have started out delivering newspapers and have gone on to become leaders and make significant contributions in their community.
The exhibition is free and open to the public and will be on view through Thursday, October 17, 2024 Monday-Thursday, 10:00am-4:00pm. For more information, please call Centro Cultural Aztlan M-Th. 10am to 4pm at 210-432-1896 or come by Centro Cultural Aztlan’s office located in the Deco Building at 1800 Fredericksburg Road, Suite 103.
Email: centroaztlan@gmail.com
Chicano Arts Curriculum Project: Student Work
San Antonio is a city with a rich Mexican-American and Chicano arts and cultural heritage. However, this heritage has been largely excluded from mainstream K-12 educational resources. Thanks to Congressman Joaquin Castro’s work to secure funding for the arts and education on San Antonio’s Westside, Centro Cultural Aztlan has worked with educators, artists, and historians to develop a series of lesson plans and teaching materials to engage K-12 students in learning about Chicano art, cultural traditions, and history. As a product of this project, young artists from across San Antonio have created artwork with inspiration from some of the most notable Chicano artists of San Antonio and beyond. Join us at this project’s culminating art exhibition, featuring shining examples of student artwork that has resulted from this Chicano Arts Curriculum Series.
Join us at the opening reception on Thursday, May 16, 2024 from 6:00-9:00pm in the Galeria Expresion at 1800 Fredericksburg Road #103. Light refreshments will be served.
The exhibit is free and open to the public and will be on view through Thursday, June 6, 2024 Monday-Thursday, 10:00am-4:00pm.
Featured artists: Isabel Allen, Luke Bowley, Anna Buchanan-Klepp, Lam Chu, Lilia Deleon, Aniyah Edmonds, Angie Flores, Serenity Gonzalez-Soto, Annabelle Hansen, Maia Hutcheson, Isabella Jones, Lucy Juarez, Victoria Leal, Ximena Leon, Ciara Magnusson, Mirel Mejia, Jalyssa Moreno, Cece Nguyen, Nika Nochovka, Lilah Norris, Eva Pejic, Mackenzy Ramsey, Madelyn Recame, Dalainee Reyna-Resendez, Hayden Rice, Jackie Roper, Mishal Rosales, Marley Squeo, Sarah Suttle, Dyllan Swisher, Vera Troy, Ruben Antonio Vasquez, Jayden Yuen, and more.
For more information, please call Centro Cultural Aztlan M-Th. 10am to 4pm at 210-432-1896 or come by Centro Cultural Aztlan’s office located in the Deco Building at 1800 Fredericksburg Road, Suite 103. www.centroaztlan.org
Email: centroaztlan@gmail.com
Closing Reception "Influencia" A screening by Anita Becerra
Image provide buy Anita Becerra.
"Femme and Flora"
"Femme and Flora" is a captivating exploration of the intersection between femininity and the enchanting world of flora. This art show serves as a visual symphony, where artists delve into the delicate dance between women and the vibrant, blooming landscapes that surround them.
"SPIRIT OF THE WATER" New works by Jose Sotelo Yamasaki
Image provided by the artist Jose Sotelo Yamasaki.
CAMMIE Awards & Closing Celebration and the Opening Exhibition Fan of a Fan!
Flyer designed and created by Cate Lomeli.
Celia Álvarez Muñoz Artist Talk Exhibition Celebration.
Image provided by Ruiz-Healy Art .
Latitudes at Lake|Flato Architects - Opening Reception
Please join Lake|Flato and the Contemporary at Blue Star for a free ART|LF event showcasing Latitudes, a group exhibition that considers relationships between place and time, language and environment, and work and play through the practice of observing and recording one’s surroundings.
Public Artist Panel with artists of San Pedro Creek Culture Park
Image provided by the San Antonio River Foundation.
Women's History Month Lecture: Less Ochoa, M.D.
For Women's History Month, Lyssa Ochoa, M.D., will lecture about her career as a vascular surgeon. She was born and raised along the Texas-Mexico border.
Centro Cultural Aztlan presents The 16th Annual Vuelo de Mariposas Spring Market
Image provided by Bihl Haus Arts.
“LET US REST” New Embroidery Work by Carly Garza
Image provided by San Antonio River Foundation.
Mercury PROMject an evening of dance, music and more supporting Contemporary Art Month
Image designed and created by Crystal Rocha.
Cochineala - A Creative Confluence Festival of Nature and Art {Bioluminescence}
Join Celebration Circle for an enchanting evening of nature and art at Cochineala, a Creative Confluence Festival. Immerse yourself in the mesmerizing world of bioluminescent organisms and experience the magic they bring to our planet.
Illuminated featuring Patricia Vonne & Michael Martin
Image provided by Angela Martinez.
Colette Copeland's Texas Soundings-Let Your Voice Be Heard
Image provided by Colette Copeland featur herself with artist Sarah Fox along the San Antonio River.
Centro Cultural Aztlan presents The 16th Annual Vuelo de Mariposas Spring Market
Image provided by Bihl Haus Arts.