On an historic campus alongside San Antonio ’s meandering River Walk, the Southwest School of Art & Craft is one of the country’s largest community-based art schools, offering classes to established artists as well as to beginning and intermediate students of all ages.
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While the Southwest School of Art & Craft is a place to discover the rewards of actively creating, it is also the site of significant contemporary art exhibitions, public programs and visiting artist workshops, and a historic landmark of regional and national importance. |
We invite you to read more about the Southwest School, San Antonio's downtown oasis for the visual arts. |
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| August 28th 2008 - October 19th 2008 |
| Veronica Riedel: The Making of a Mestiza |
Riedel, from Guatemala, explores the resilient nature of indigenous women in the Americas. Her collaged monoprints employ photographs, embroidery, and artifacts.
Shown: Cotxij, 2005, mixed media photograph
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| August 28th 2008 - October 19th 2008 |
| Zoe Sheehan Saldana: Caution |
Saldana, from New York, exhibits work that examines social issues such as domestic security and consumer culture. Her sculptural work combines digital photography, tapestry, and cross stitching.
Lecture: Photographic Interventions
Saturday 9/13, 12noon, Navarro Campus
Free and open to the public
Shown: Monalisa, 2001
thread on canvas, 12" x 12"
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| August 28th 2008 - October 18th 2008 |
| Jennifer Khoshbin: Missed or Misunderstood |
Khoshbin, from San Antonio, combines photographs with intricately carved texts in a series of familiar, often iconic, images that address memory and nostalgia.
Shown: Life Grief, 2008
Modifided photograph (original print by Dmitri Baltermants
appearing in Life Magazine April 1985)
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