SAN ANTONIO COLLEGE . Visual Arts Department

Facilities

We aim to provide you with the fullest visual arts education by nurturing your aesthetic sensibility; to provide you with a tailored blend of intellectual and technical skills; to maintain a safe and healthy working environment so that you and your fellow students may reach your fullest potential.

Student Access: Visual Arts studio classes are limited to twenty students and Arts lecture classes such as Art History and Art Appreciation average 30 students per class.

Everything needed is within your reach! At the heart of the Visual Arts Center is a two story gallery which displays changing exhibitions of work by professional artists of local, national and international prominence, in addition to the annual Juried Student Exhibition. Wireless Internet access is available for enrolled students for research, course work, and college communications throughout the Visual Arts Center building. A digital image resource system provides art history resources in each studio and classroom. The San Antonio College Library, with a permanent collection of over 400,000 volumes, is one block away, and San Antonio's modern Main Library is a fifteen minute walk from the campus.

The Visual Arts Instructional Gallery. Changing displays of student art works are installed in the wide corridors that access the studios and workstations. The displayed works include hand produced ceramics, drawings, etchings, paintings, sculpture, jewelry, lithography, and photography. Guest artists, critics, art historians, architects and designers are invited to lecture on aesthetic and technical issues in the Artist Lecture Series. Students are encouraged to compete for a place in the annual student exhibition; attend conventions; participate in local, state, and national competitions and become active members of a visual arts student organization known as the Art Students' Art Guild. The Art Students' Guild and the Clay Club are student groups that sponsor activities in support of the art program.

The Koehler Cultural Center, a Texas Historic Landmark which houses the ceramics studios, is adjacent to the Visual Arts Center. The expansive, pastoral grounds of the Koehler Center serve as a gateway to the newly remodeled inner campus mall and joins the main entrance of the Visual Arts Center. The Koehler Cultural Center was originally the start of the Visual Arts Exhibitions Program and the Visual Arts Film and Lecture Series. In the early 1990s, the Visual Arts Center began housing these programs. Student parking is available adjacent to both buildings.