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The Department of Arts and Culture’s San Antonio Artist Registry is provided as a community service to San Antonio artists to post information and events related to the work they do - and to promote the creative economy. If you are interested in hiring one of these artists, note that the City of San Antonio expects that you will pay them for their work. Though the registry is moderated for posting applicable and relevant profiles, the City of San Antonio does not endorse nor verify the information included, does not guarantee the quality, authenticity, accuracy, appropriateness nor security of the included links or content, which are posted by the artists themselves, and is not responsible for any misrepresentation of the artist. Note that the works posted by some artists may cover sensitive subject matter of a graphically violent and/or sexually explicit nature and may contain coarse language, therefore viewer discretion should be exercised.

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Oscar Alvarado

Visual Arts: Artisan, Constructions/Collage, Craftsperson, Mosaics Artist, Sculptor; Steel and concrete artist

I am a tile mosaic artist based in San Antonio, Texas and I create small and large scale sculptures, murals and other tile mosaic pieces. I build steel armatures for my sculptures and then fill and sculpt them with specialty concrete. Then I intricately cover the work in thousands of pieces of tile, glass and found objects. I am a 9th generation Texan and live in San Antonio, Texas. After graduating from UTSA in 1985 , I moved to Los Angeles and succeeded in the computer business. Since 1989 I have been self employed and involved in the arts. I am one of the founders of First Friday Art Walk in San Antonio in 1994 and have continued to be active in the arts community where I own my own home and studio, both in the Southtown area of San Antonio. With over 25 public art pieces in San Antonio, I also have created other public art in Texas including: Fort Worth, Corpus Christi, and Plano. In addition, my work has been installed in homes in Washington DC, San Francisco, Billings, Reno, Colorado Springs, Austin, Maplewood, and throughout San Antonio. I am creating installations and sculptures that communicate to all people. I want my public work not only bring a sense of place and joy to those who view them, but also to help build a sense of community and communal ownership of the artwork and the space it occupies.

Gilbert E Barrera

Lady Justice bronze sculpture, Main Plaza, Courthouse steps. The Letter, Gorrel Police Memorial, Limestone. Gorrel City Park. Many years figurative clay, marble, woodcarving: training and workshops; Italy and Austria.

Alan Calvo

Visual Arts: Artisan, Conservation/Restoration, Muralist, Painter, Visual Arts, Voiceover

I’m on a mission to preserve and showcase the roots of our indigenous culture with vibrant colors and historical references to educate the community for empowerment and awareness. I’m working on my architectural masters degree and plan to help build the evolving San Antonio into a futuristic city that is sustainable in infrastructure along with skyscrapers that would be eco friendly and a great representation of our city.

Steven Cromwell

Visual Arts: Architectural Illustrator, Artisan, Craftsperson, Illustrator, Jeweler, Maker, Mixed Media Artist, Muralist, Painter, Photographer, Sculptor, Visual Arts, Woodworker; Diorama Miniature Artist

My name is Steven Cromwell, I am a San Antonio Native but also grew up on the King Ranch in Kingsville, Texas. My adolescence allowed me to experience both the inner city and rural influences at the same time. I believe that is what not only makes my work as an artist diverse but also my work as an art teacher. As an artist, Steven Cromwell has always been consumed by the thoughts of what lived up to that classic automobile to its final resting place in a pasture or to be left to collect dust in a barn. What lived up to the gas station where someone worked so hard to sustain as a business, their livelihood, but is now just an empty brick tomb. The barn that the Farmer or Rancher built to house the tools that allowed him to work the land but is now just structurally failing due to rotting support beams and natural elements. The purpose of Cromwell's work is to express a sentiment to the life of these objects and structures, in which time cradles them. His structures are frozen time capsules that are slowly decomposing due to the exposure of natural elements or neglectful abandonment. As an artist I have been creating drawings, paintings, and diorama miniatures that reflect places I feel are important to San Antonio history on a sentimental level. I hold an Associates of Fine Art from San Antonio College and a BA with Honors from the University of Texas at San Antonio. I am EC-12 Art and EC-5 Certified Teacher currently with Northside ISD teaching Middle School Art.

sergio ecenarro

Fiberglass sculptor

Bill FITZGIBBONS

Visual Arts: Conservation/Restoration, Mixed Media Artist, Sculptor, Visual Arts

Artist Bill FitzGibbons is a sculptor from San Antonio, Texas an; during his career he has completed over twenty five public art projects and performances in five countries including Reykjavik (Iceland), Helsinki (Finland), Braunschweig (Germany), Stockholm (Sweden), and Yorkshire (UK). FitzGibbons embraces an environmentally conscious approach to public art through his work with computerized LED lighting systems. FitzGibbons honors include being a Fulbright Scholar for the Hungarian Art Academy in Budapest and the Texas State Legislature appointing FitzGibbons as an Official State Artist in 2012. In 2014 he was a CODAaward winner in the Transportation category.

James Huizar

Visual Arts: Architectural Illustrator, Artisan, Craftsperson, Graphic Artist, Illustrator, Maker, Multiple Art Forms, Muralist, Painter, Printmaker, Sculptor, Visual Arts, Woodworker; Designer art toys

James Huizar studied art at University of Texas at Austin, before he continued his arts education at UT working towards his BFA in Studio art concentration on illustration and printmaking. Before moving to UT at Austin, he studied 2 years at Palo Alto college. James grew up south of San Antonio in Pleasanton, TX and frequented the Southside, Military Drive, Goliad. His family lineage dates back to the establishment of San Antonio from the Alamo defender Gregorio Esparza and Adolfo Huizar of the San Jose Mission Rose window. After completing his bachelor of fine arts in studio art, Huizar interned at Landfall press, a fine art print publishing company. Then moving back to Austin, he then began his career in museum exhibit production at the Mexic Arte Museum as their production manager for 6 years. James moved to San Antonio from Austin, to help establish the exhibits department of the Doseum. James Huizar has been the Exhibits Technical Manager at the DoSeum for 6 years where he leads the fabrication, installation, maintenance and project management of over 300 interactive and traveling exhibits. As a visual artist he applies his fabrication, automation, project management and diverse, skilled knowledge base to his art practice of screen printing, 3d printing, art toy design, murals and illustration.

Bridge Projects

Visual Arts: Architectural Illustrator, Conservation/Restoration, Craftsperson, Illustrator, Maker, Mixed Media Artist, Photographer, Sculptor, Textiles, Visual Arts, Woodworker

Bridge Projects is a collaboration between artists Stuart Allen and Cade Bradshaw. We have completed public art installations in playgrounds, along trails, in corporate lobbies, government buildings, underneath bridges, on the beach, in parks, and once, in a leaky, dark, derelict industrial shell of a former newspaper press room. Our work focuses the viewer's attention on sublime perceptual experiences, dealing with elemental forces of light, time, gravity and space.

Simon Saleh

Multi-Disciplinary: Multiple Art Forms; Visual Arts: Artisan, Conservation/Restoration, Constructions/Collage, Craftsperson, Maker, Mixed Media Artist, Multi-Disciplinary, Multiple Art Forms, Sculptor, Textiles, Visual Arts, Woodworker

My first love is metal sculpting. I love all things that are interesting and beautiful in nature and try to mimic shapes colors and forms that grab my attention. I also find beauty in human evidence of worn and abused machinery and mechanical objects where they overlap with new growth in nature. My interest in the inventive nature of people and the resilience of nature how it is unimaginably more powerful than our greatest efforts. When I am not working on my own sculptures I fabricate and design for other 2D and 3D artists. I build public art projects for artists and deliver and install to any extent needed. I also do commissioned pieces. I love this city and all of its glorious foods arts and cultures and different flavored neighborhoods throughout. It always surprises me at how a little bit of San Antonio sneaks into each piece of work more as the years go by. I also offer Statue and sculpture restoration and conservation services including patina work, welding bronze, stainless steel, brass, steel, copper. I can help with pretty much any art related need or service.

Autumn Saleh

Multi-Disciplinary: Artisan, Conservation/Restoration, Constructions/Collage, Craftsperson, Maker, Mixed Media Artist, Multi-Disciplinary, Multiple Art Forms, Painter, Photographer, Sculptor, Textiles, Visual Arts, Vocalist/Singer, Woodworker; Visual Arts: Artisan, Conservation/Restoration, Constructions/Collage, Craftsperson, Maker, Mixed Media Artist, Multi-Disciplinary, Multiple Art Forms, Painter, Photographer, Sculptor, Textiles, Visual Arts, Vocalist/Singer, Woodworker

Autumn Saleh is a sculptor who lives and works in San Antonio. Saleh’s work touches on themes of contradictions, control, and freedom. The different roles she has executed in life has influenced these themes. Traveling to the middle east and working as an aircraft mechanic in the Air Force, her relationship with tools and craft came at a young age, with a father that is a welder and a mother that is a painter. Her artistic focus has become primarily about the contradictions of life as a woman between control and freedom and the phases of life that swing between the two. Sometimes in life it felt natural and other times were rigid. This important truth has been evolving throughout her life as she has many times been told opposing truths. From a strict childhood about rule following, to her art education that pushed the “out of the box” way of thinking. Much like the rigid life following orders in the military to artist colleagues pushing her to buck the system whatever that may be at the time. Through her current works she shows these themes with the rigidity of metals juxtaposed with delicate surface treatment of the final pieces with burnished gold and floated evaporating inks leaving a soft beautiful finish in the cold steel. Some of her work is weighted towards the heavy and rigid by sometimes using industrial refuse and giving destroyed objects new life. Crushed sheet steel and cracking paint she will sometimes pair with a smooth glossy copper element like a brush stroke of paint. She often meditates on the differences between the average American woman’s life and the one she is leading which is comprised of only 1.5% of the work she did in the military.

Sabine Senft

Multi-Disciplinary: Graphic Artist, Mixed Media Artist, Multi-Disciplinary, Painter, Sculptor, Visual Arts; Visual Arts: Graphic Artist, Mixed Media Artist, Multi-Disciplinary, Painter, Sculptor, Visual Arts; Public artist

Sabine Senft is a Bexar County artist whose interdisciplinary practice bridges sculpture, mixed media, public art, painting, video and photography, often bringing together unlikely elements in a single piece, creating balanced, poignant works. She earned her Bachelors degree at the University of Regensburg (1994) and graduated with a Masters Degree in Fine Art and Education in Munich (1995). After living and working in Germany, England, Japan and Brazil she settled in San Antonio, Texas. Sabine Senft has won recognition with the Rick Liberto Award for Visual Arts and the Artist Foundation of San Antonio Grant. Her work has been exhibited at ArtPace San Antonio, The McNay Museum, the Blue Star Contemporary Museum, the Lawndale Museum in Houston and the Museum of Biblical Art in Dallas. Sabine’s latest public art commissions have been installed at the County offices in Dallas and in the Medical Center in San Antonio, TX. At present she is working on more public art for Dallas and preparing for an artist residency in Berlin, Germany. Since 2018 Senft has served as the president of the Texas Sculpture Group, a statewide 501(c) (3) non-profit organization and official chapter of the International Sculpture Center (ISC). She also works as an art program manager for corporate art projects.

Austin Thompson

Media Arts: Filmmaker, Radio/Television Talent, Voiceover; Multi-Disciplinary: Actor, Director, Filmmaker, Media Arts, Multi-Disciplinary, Multiple Art Forms, Other, Painter, Performance Art, Performing Arts, Playwright, Radio/Television Talent, Sculptor, Storyteller, Teaching Artist/Instructor, Visual Arts, Voiceover; Other; Performing Arts: Actor, Director, Performance Art, Storyteller; Teaching Artist/Instructor; Visual Arts: Actor, Director, Filmmaker, Media Arts, Multi-Disciplinary, Multiple Art Forms, Other, Painter, Performance Art, Performing Arts, Playwright, Radio/Television Talent, Sculptor, Storyteller, Teaching Artist/Instructor, Visual Arts, Voiceover; Puppetry

The first puppet show I remember was at FSU by a touring puppet troupe. The puppets featured were giant blacklight dinosaurs and I loved it. I became fascinated with puppetry and creature effects. I first started dabbling with puppets in my local church. I started attending workshops and classes on puppetry, to hone my skills. I attended college in Orlando at VCC where I pursued digital media. The school required a heavy load of theatre and film classes for the degree so it was nice to get a rounding of the subjects. While attending school I was delighted to work The City of Orlando Puppet Troupe. The troupe taught me a wide range puppetry forms and techniques. The puppet troupe would also bring puppeteers from the area and around the country to perform at schools. I was able to meet and learn from them as well as work in schools and HeadStart centers teaching puppetry and performing. The troupe also had me create theatrical performances and do voiceovers and perform for local tv productions. The knowledge I gained there has been invaluable. I learned how to start building puppets from Stan Winston School of Character Arts and The Puppet Project and developed a love for cable puppets. Since then, I have started a "Crosstitch Productions" in an effort to create puppet shows that teach educate and inspire. I am currently trying to set up workshops in an effort to pass on what I have learned and to encourage others in their pursuit of puppetry and the arts.

Cindy Tower

Media Arts: Constructions/Collage, Filmmaker, Maker, Media Arts, Media/Visual Communications, Mixed Media Artist, Multi-Disciplinary, Multiple Art Forms, Muralist, Painter, Performance Art, Performer and Writer, Radio/Television Talent, Sculptor, Teaching Artist/Instructor, Textiles, Visual Arts; Multi-Disciplinary: Constructions/Collage, Filmmaker, Maker, Media Arts, Media/Visual Communications, Mixed Media Artist, Multi-Disciplinary, Multiple Art Forms, Muralist, Painter, Performance Art, Performer and Writer, Radio/Television Talent, Sculptor, Teaching Artist/Instructor, Textiles, Visual Arts; Teaching Artist/Instructor; Visual Arts: Constructions/Collage, Filmmaker, Maker, Media Arts, Media/Visual Communications, Mixed Media Artist, Multi-Disciplinary, Multiple Art Forms, Muralist, Painter, Performance Art, Performer and Writer, Radio/Television Talent, Sculptor, Teaching Artist/Instructor, Textiles, Visual Arts

Throughout my career I have used recycled materials--from found video footage to dismantling and using every single part of a broken-down truck, including the gas. ("Pirate" Cindy, 1998). During Covid isolation I revisited a series of paintings I had begun in the mid nineties shown in New York galleries. This recent "Good Will Combine Series" is on repurposed clothing. "Combine Painting", is a term coined in the 1950s by Robert Rauschenberg consisting of three-dimensional objects integrated into his paintings. I was born in Alamogordo, New Mexico, received my BFA from Cornell University and was a forerunner of the Williamsburg art scene in the early eighties. I obtained an MFA degree from the University of California, San Diego, where I studied under Eleanor Antin and Allan Kaprow. I taught at Washington University in Saint Louis, Hamilton College, The New York Studio School in New York and was a visiting artist at the Savannah College of Art and Design. I currently split my time between maintaining a studio in Branford, CT and in San Antonio, TX. I have exhibited nationally and have had numerous one-person exhibitions including the New Museum Of Contemporary Art in New York, and the Mykonos Biennale in Greece. I also am a social activist and use my artistic skill in support of racial, gender, housing equality, animal rights and awareness of climate issues. I have created many protest installations and happenings in community throughout the country.

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