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KD Dolan

Literary Arts: Author/Writer; Media Arts: Filmmaker; Multi-Disciplinary: Multiple Art Forms; Teaching Artist/Instructor; Visual Arts: Illustrator, Mixed Media Artist, Painter

KD Dolan is a local artist and writer. She began her artistic journey in high school at the North East School of the Arts for Visual Arts and Film. Afterwards, she attended the Maryland Institute College of Art on scholarship and University of Texas at Austin, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art. She has twelve years experience as an art educator of both elementary and middle school-aged children. Additionally, KD Dolan has lead adult art workshops, organized student shows, facilitated student murals in the community, and also has had the opportunity of partnering with University Health System to create a permanent student art display in the Children's Health Heart Center. She is a member of the Blue Star Arts Collective, and is currently working on several children's books and illustrations that she hopes to have published in the near future.

Joan Fabian

Visual Arts: Mixed Media Artist, Painter

Joan Fabian is an abstract painter and mixed media artist who received her BFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and her MFA at UTSA. She has had a Fulbright to Pakistan and two artist residencies in the Netherlands. She received a Pollock/Krasner Artist Award and a Puffin Foundation Grant. Her work has been shown throughout the world in such places as Parsons School of Design in Paris and the Smithsonian International in Washington, D.C. Joan's work will be in the new San Antonio City Tower entitled "The Vibrant Village".

MARGARITA MALDONADO

Other; Chalk artist/Street painter

Bio Margarita Maldonado has been drawing for as long as she can remember. While she dabbled in oil painting and watercolor, she started street painting about fifteen years ago and quickly fell in love with the medium. Community interaction and being able to share the art process with others is the joy. Margarita lives in San Antonio, Texas. Artist Statement I love color, I love working outside, I love sharing art and the art process with other people. When I first started doing my street paintings, I had no idea that the art of street painting could be traced back to the sixteenth century and the Italian Madonnari , itinerant artists who reproduced church paintings onto the pavement for the public. Suddenly, my chosen form of art made sense. It was as if I had found my people. On the street, on the sidewalk, I can share beauty.

Tessa Matiella

Literary Arts: Poet

I studied modern dance, theater, and choir in college. I am a certified San Antonio Museum of Art docent. I attended Northwest Vista College and graduated honors with an Associate in Arts. I am a current choir member of a Catholic church in Boerne, Texas. Between preparing for choir rehearsal, and jogging and biking for charity at times, I craft poetry and essays most often on nature, spirituality, and experiences that I am affected by deeply. I mostly write in poetic and essay type formats, and mostly photograph nature and scenery.

Jonathan Treviño

Media Arts: Filmmaker, Media/Visual Communications, New Media/Technology, Producer; Multi-Disciplinary: Multiple Art Forms; Teaching Artist/Instructor; Visual Arts: Illustrator, Jeweler, Maker, Mixed Media Artist, Painter, Photographer, Sculptor, Textiles; Contemporary Artist, Creative Consultant, Art Director, Graphic Artist

Jonathan Treviño (b.1989) earned a BFA with Honors in Photography from Parsons The New School for Design's Art, Media & Technology program in 2013 while concurrently studying Jewelry Design at the Fashion Institute of Technology, working as a fashion photography assistant for clients ranging from VOGUE, Dazed Magazine, CLASH, and Sephora before working as Studio Manager, Producer, and Photographer for clients such as NIKE, Victory Journal, Highsnobiety, and Juxtapoz for Art Basel Miami. Trevino's multi-disciplinary artworks function as spiritual investigations into the construction of American identity and the absurdity of the quest for self-perfection represented in glamour and luxury as extensions of colonial religious values and notions of The New in art. Through works ranging from video installation, performance, found object sculptures, illustration, and portrait photography, Treviño uses contemporary iconography and art history to analyze the generational effects of Western religion, philosophy, and law upon spiritual family relationships, particularly between parents, children, and LGBT individuals in the city of San Antonio, while meditating on Earth matter as memetic sensory pathways toward understanding the numinous reveries and longings of proletariat life and toward accessing ancestral memories about the worlds we used to live in; spiritual experiences which may reveal themselves to us in solitude, in sleep, through the screen, and in the city after dark.

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