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Literary Arts ; Performing Arts ; Visual Arts

The San Antonio Artist Foundation provides grants directly to active, working San Antonio artists across multiple disciplines including but not limited to: performing arts, visual arts, and literary arts. The Foundation fosters individual artistic achievement that strengthens the careers of these artists and makes them eligible for notable nationally-recognized opportunities while simultaneously elevating the artistic impact of our city.

Artpace San Antonio

Visual Arts

Artpace is a contemporary art space located in downtown San Antonio, Texas with residences, exhibitions, and education programs that nurture the freedom to dream. Artpace supports the creative process and engages audiences with the most innovative art and artists from around the world. Since 1995, Artpace has welcomed more than 200 artists through its renowned International Artist-in-Residence program. Annually, Artpace hosts three residencies, which each feature one Texas-based artist, one national artist, and one international artist, who are selected by a notable guest curator. Each eight-week residency culminates in a two-month exhibition on site. The mission of this program is to provide artists with unparalleled resources that allow them to experiment with new ideas and take provocative risks. Through admission-free public programming, Artpace actively engages youth and adult audiences in San Antonio with global art practices and experiences. Artpace’s core program is its International Artist-in-Residence Program, and it also features Hudson Showroom and Main Space exhibitions, artist and curator talks, arts education workshops, tours, and the Artpace Teen Council. The Teen Council is a nine-month, paid program designed for San Antonio area high school students (15-18 years old) to become advocates for contemporary art and young leaders in their community. Teen Council members work with Artpace staff and artists to develop teen programs, support Artpace events, and create a community-based project at the end of the school year.

Bihl Haus Arts

Visual Arts

“Creating Community through the Arts.” Since its founding in 2005, Bihl Haus Arts has made good in many ways on the promise of its location as one of only a few art galleries in the U.S. on the premises of senior affordable housing—the Primrose at Monticello Park on Fredericksburg Road. Housed in the historic George Bihl house, Bihl Haus presents six art exhibitions each year. More than 700 artists—about 65% women and/or members of a minority demographic group—have showcased work in over 100 exhibitions. Each show is accompanied by related gallery talks and performances. Primrose residents (who are primarily women) serve as volunteer docents at the gallery. The Head Docent sits on the Bihl Haus Board. During the week, classes are offered in the gallery to senior residents. This program, GO! Arts, begun in 2007, is now offered at 17 senior centers across San Antonio serving 400/week through almost 40 classes in multiple disciplines. Bihl Haus also organizes the annual On & Off Fredericksburg Road Studio Tour, which features 80+ artists who live and work on and off Fred Rd. This has helped strengthen local neighborhoods and build the Fredericksburg Rd corridor’s identity as a cultural district. Including visitors who see exhibits at various senior centers, our audience is about 30,000/year.

Blue Star Contemporary Art

Visual Arts

Contemporary Art for San Antonio (Blue Star Contemporary) is San Antonio’s first and longest-running space for contemporary art. They offer exhibition and educational programming designed to reflect a progressive and enhanced approach to exhibiting contemporary art while building on a rich heritage and increased community partnerships. The organization offers 20 onsite and offsite exhibitions with complementary public programs each year, creative youth development programs, and international exchange initiatives.

Centro Cultural Aztlan

Culture ; Literary Arts ; Performing Arts ; Visual Arts

Centro Cultural Aztlan is a community based organization founded in 1977 with a mission to preserve, develop, and promote Chicano/Latino art and culture. The organization presents an array of cultural activities for writers, performing artists, musicians, and visual artists that encourages and supports artistic creativity, preserves local heritage, and makes the arts more widely available to residents of all backgrounds, ages, and interests.

Esperanza Peace and Justice Center

Culture ; Visual Arts

The Esperanza Peace and Justice Center is a multi-disciplinary arts and cultural organization, built around a vision of cultural grounding, social justice, and cross-cultural understanding. The organization works to preserve San Antonio’s unique cultural heritage, nurturing local and emerging artists by offering opportunities such as the MujerArtes Clay Cooperative, year-round exhibits, film festivals, and oral history projects.

Fiber Artists of San Antonio

Visual Arts

Furthering the Fiber Arts in San Antonio

Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center

Culture ; Literary Arts ; Performing Arts : Dance , Music , Theatre ; Visual Arts

The Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center cultivates, preserves, and promotes traditional and contemporary Latino, Chicano, and Native American art and culture through multidisciplinary programming to include Dance, Theatre, Film, Music, Literature, and Visual Arts. The center also offers year-round educational programming through its Arts Academy and produces several free community events.

Inspire Community Fine Art Center

Visual Arts

Inspire creates and celebrates the arts as a force for education and healing across San Antonio’s diverse cultural communities. We are a non-profit 501(c) 3, and specialize in serving those with special needs, those who are hospitalized, or those who are recovering from alcohol and drug abuse. Since 2005, Inspire has provided workshops at our location in the Westfort/Fort Sam neighborhood and throughout San Antonio. Inspire is home to all. When you participate in our classes, you’ll harness the power of art to connect to your strengths, to your peers, and to your world.

Luminaria

Visual Arts

Luminaria is the only multidisciplinary contemporary arts festival of its kind in the United States. This annual arts showcase is open to the public and highlights the work of San Antonio-based, regional and international artists in a nighttime festival format. Luminaria offers a Texas-friendly immersive and inspiring arts experience in the heart of downtown.

National Association of Latino Arts and Culture (N...

Culture ; Literary Arts ; Performing Arts ; Visual Arts

The National Association of Latino Arts and Culture (NALAC) is the nation’s leading nonprofit organization exclusively dedicated to the promotion, advancement, development, and cultivation of the Latino arts field. Founded and based in San Antonio by prominent Latino artists, NALAC plays an important leadership role in building the professional capacity of Latino artists and organizations as well as promoting policies for cultural equity in partnership with other organizations.

Puerto Rican Heritage Society / Sociedad Herencia ...

Culture ; Performing Arts : Dance , Music ; Visual Arts

The Sociedad Herencia Puertorriqueña (Puerto Rican Heritage Society) promotes and maintains the Puerto Rican culture and traditions alive in San Antonio through cultural celebrations such as art exhibits, piano concerts, folkloric dance troupes and musical ensembles.

San Anto Cultural Arts

Culture ; Literary Arts ; Visual Arts

San Anto Cultural Arts is a San Antonio, Texas nonprofit founded in 1993 with the mission to foster human and community development through community-based arts. A focus on art through community engagement led to the creation of our community-based arts programs: the Community Mural Program, the El Placazo Community Newspaper, and the After School Arts Program. These dynamic programs engage residents and foster the talents of youth by educating them on the history and techniques of public art while documenting and preserving the rich history and heritage of San Antonio’s Westside.

San Antonio Art League and Museum

Visual Arts

The founders of the San Antonio Art League sought to achieve a three-fold goal; to provide artists with a place to exhibit their works, to acquire paintings for the public’s enjoyment, and to establish an art school. The mission of the San Antonio Art League is to maintain an art museum in order to preserve and exhibit their collection of local and regional art, and to promote art by means of exhibitions, lectures, and other related activities. The museum is free and open to the public.

San Antonio Children's Museum/ The DoSeum

Literary Arts ; Visual Arts

The DoSeum serves as a “charging station” to power up kids’ minds! One of the country’s top children’s museums, The DoSeum is equipped with engaging Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) based exhibits that inspire active learning through inquiry and play. Through six permanent galleries and one special exhibit gallery, we reach approximately 400,000 children, their caregivers, and their educators each year. Children are immersed in a hands-on environment that connects emotive experiences with STEM, arts, and literacy learning. By intimately connecting learning by doing to the artistic process, we are uniquely positioned to create learning experiences combining the arts with other curricular and social learning objectives.

San Antonio Museum of Art

Culture ; Visual Arts

The San Antonio Museum of Art serves as a forum to explore and connect with art that spans the world’s geographies, artistic periods, genres, and cultures. Its collection contains 30,000 works representing 5,000 years of history. Housed in the historic Lone Star Brewery on the Museum Reach of San Antonio’s River Walk, the San Antonio Museum of Art is committed to promoting the rich cultural heritage and life of the city. The Museum hosts hundreds of events and public programs each year, including concerts, performances, tours, lectures, symposia, and interactive experiences. As an active civic leader, the Museum is dedicated to enriching the cultural life of the city and the region, and to supporting its creative community.

SAY Sí

Performing Arts : Theatre ; Visual Arts

SAY Sí provides tuition-free creative youth development programming to San Antonio students in our national award-winning programs that include comprehensive visual arts, media arts, theatre arts and new media programs to youth in our community, a majority of which are economically disadvantaged and culturally diverse. Long-term programming runs year-round and takes place weekday afternoons to early evenings and Saturdays with extended hours during the summer months. SAY Sí provides a foundation for these youth to grow and develop real-world skills that will set them on the path to college and careers, offering a footing for navigating a continuously developing world and allowing them the ability to make a difference in their community.

Southwest School of Art

Visual Arts

Southwest School of Art (SSA) is a nationally-recognized leader in arts education and the only independent college of art in Texas. In addition to a growing college program, SSA offers studio programs that serve more than 4,000 adults, children and teens each year. SSA hosts contemporary art exhibitions and produces educational programming for the benefit of the greater San Antonio community, all of which is provided free and is open to the public.

The URBAN-15 Group

Culture ; Performing Arts : Dance , Music ; Visual Arts

URBAN-15 creates art that merges traditional Latino Culture, modern artistic aesthetics, and creative technologies. URBAN-15 provides instruction and dance troupe ensemble performances for participants to develop the skills and creativity to ensure life-long participation in the arts. The organization blends traditional and modern art-forms in music, movement, and media.

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