John Phillip Santos, a writer, journalist and documentary filmmaker, will discuss the work of artist Andy Villarreal’s exhibition, “Galactic Mayan Gods,” during a gallery talk at 2 p.m. Saturday, November 12 at Bihl Haus Arts, 2803 Fredericksburg Road.
Villarreal’s fascination with Mayan culture and heritage is depicted in “Galactic Mayan Gods,” which features numerous 8-foot and 10-foot-tall works on wood along with some smaller silk screen prints.
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John Phillip Santos, a writer, journalist and documentary filmmaker, will discuss the work of artist Andy Villarreal’s exhibition, “Galactic Mayan Gods,” during a gallery talk at 2 p.m. Saturday, November 12 at Bihl Haus Arts, 2803 Fredericksburg Road.
Villarreal’s fascination with Mayan culture and heritage is depicted in “Galactic Mayan Gods,” which features numerous 8-foot and 10-foot-tall works on wood along with some smaller silk screen prints.
As an Emmy-nominated television producer, Santos has produced more than 40 broadcast documentaries and news programs on cultural themes in 16 countries for CBS and PBS. Since 2010, he has been University Distinguished Scholar in Mestizo Cultural Studies, teaching in the Honors College at the University of Texas San Antonio.
His two memoirs, Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation (a National Book Award Finalist) and The Farthest Home is in an Empire of Fire, together tell the ancestral stories of his mother and father’s families, an American origin story of the centuries-long migrations that emerged out of Spain, Mexico, and the lands that became South Texas.
His journalism and commentary has appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the San Antonio Express-News, the Manchester Guardian, Texas Monthly and other publications in the U.S., Mexico and Europe.
A proud graduate of Texas public schools, Santos was the first Latino to be selected as a Rhodes Scholar and holds degrees in English Literature and Language from Oxford University, and Philosophy and Literature from the University of Notre Dame.
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