SAN ANTONIO ART LECTURE & EXHIBITION  
SCHEDULE FOR FALL 2009
(revised 8/09)

Below is a list of art exhibitions and lectures in town that you may write reviews on to earn 5% extra credit in this course.  Attend the exhibit or lecture and write an approximately two-page summary of the event (see “Writing an Art Review” handout).    Summaries must be turned in to me one week after attending the exhibit or lecture.  During the course of the semester students are allowed only one extra credit assignment, and no extra credit papers will be accepted after Dec. 4,  2009.  (Check back later in the semester for more events .  ** Indicates recently added event.)  Click here for information on how to write a review of an art exhibit.

EXHIBITIONS

Artpace
445 N. Main Ave.

Nov. 3-January
    New Works: 09.3: Mario Ybarra, Jr. (LA), Adriana Lara (Mexico City) & Adrian Esparza (El Paso)

Sept. 24-Jan. 3
    Jeffrey Wisniewski: The Battle of the Buddha
    Hudson (Show) Room

Blue Star Art Space
1420 S. Alamo
 Sept. 3
    Ron Binks: “Black Sites I” (photography)

 Sept. 3
    The History of the Future (photography )
   
 Sept. 3
    Jason Willome: “Extensions”

Carver Community Cultural Center
226 N. Hackberry Street
Through Sept. 30
     *So Much Art, So Little Time, a 30-year retrospective of the work of Joan Frederick


Gallery Nord
2009 N.W. Military Hwy.
*Through Sept. 23
   Photographs by Kemp Davis and Jaroslav Poncar
   Paintings  by Sylvia Benitez

McNay Art Museum
6000 N. New Braunfels
Through Sept. 13
    Tom Slick: International Art Collector

Through Sept. 13
    Elegant Enigmas: The Art of Edward Gorey

Oct. 7-Jan. 10
   * Reclaimed: Paintings from the Collection of Jacques Goudstikker

Sept. 23-Jan. 3
   *The Harmon & Harriet Kelley Collection of African American Art (works on paper)

San Antonio College
Visual Arts Center Gallery

October 13-December 19
   Air into Breath: a site-specific installation by David Meyer

San Antonio Museum of Art
200 West Jones Avenue

Through Oct. 18
    Music in Medieval China

Sept. 5 – Feb. 21
    Culinary Delights, a Fotoseptiembre exhibition
   
Oct. 17-Jan. 3
    The Art of the Missions of Northern New Spain

Through 2010
   * Seasons of Beauty: Yoshitoshi's Thirty-two Aspects of Daily Life

Southwest School for Arts and Crafts
300 Augusta & 1201 Navarro
 
Through Sept. 6
    Texas Draws 1
    Navarro Campus

Through Sept. 6
    Gregory Alan Johnson (drawing, mixed media)
    Ursuline Campus

Sept. 17-Nov. 8
   Abelardo Morell: The Universe Next Door (photographs)
   Navarro Campus

    Cynthia Jones Miller (prints)
    Ursuline Campus

Nov. 19-Jan. 24
    Engaged and Fragmented (works on paper)
    Navarro Campus

    Peter Sowiski Stealth Service (paper pulp & screen print)
    Navarro Campus

    Art of Pulp Painting
    Navarro Campus
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UTSA
Art Gallery
Main (1604) Campus
**Oct. 21 - Nov. 25
  Broken Brushes: German Art from the Kaiser to Hitler
  Works on paper from the Kopriva Collection
  Hours: M-F: 10-4; SS: 1-4

LECTURES & FILMS

McNay Art Museum
6000 N. New Braunfels

Lectures are $5 with student id, and are held in the Chiego Lecture Hall

Thursday, Oct. 1, 6:30 PM
     *South in the City: The Legacy of the Harlem Renaissance, Jody Blake, Curator, Tobin Collection of Theater Arts

Sunday, Oct. 4, 2:00 PM
     *Collecting African American Art, Harmon and Harriet Kelley w/Gary Houston, Sr. Lecturer, UTSA

Thursday, Oct. 22, 6:30 PM
     *Gallery Talk: The Kelley Collection of African American Art: Works on Paper, Lyle Williams, Curator of Prints and Drawings
      In the Lawson Print Gallery

Sunday, Nov. 15, 2:00 PM
    *Restituting the Goudstikker Collection, Lawrence M. Kaye
         New York law firm Herrick, Feinstein, LLP.
           (on reclaiming the Goudstikker art collection confiscated by the Nazis during WWII)

San Antonio College, VATC 120

Tuesday, Oct. 13, 9:30-10:40 AM
        Artist Lecture: David Meyer
        (reception to follow)

 Thursday, Nov. 12, 11:00-12:00
        Artist Lecture: Adrian Esparza
        (reception to follow)
 


Southwest School for Arts and Crafts
300 Augusta
Sat., Sept. 19, 2:00 PM & Sat., Nov. 7 at 2:00 PM
    Ellison Lecture Hall, Navarro Campus
    Film Screening: Shadow of the House
    (portrait of photographer Abelardo Morell)   

 

Trinity University
1 Trinity Place
Oct. 8, 7 PM
     *From Spectacle to Database: On Bricolage in Contemporary Art,
     Lane Relyea, Northwestern University
     Chapman Auditorium

**Recently added event
San Antonio Museum of Art
200 West Jones Ave.
(210-978-8100
Hours: Tues.  10 AM-9 PM
Wed.-Satu.  10 AM - 5 PM; Sun.  12 noon - 6 PM
*note that the museum is closed on Mondays


McNay Art Museum
6000 N. New Braunfels
San Antonio, TX
(210) 824-5368
Hours:  T, W, F – 10 AM – 4 PM
Thurs. – 10 AM – 9 PM; Sat. – 10 AM -5 PM; Sun. – noon – 5 PM