Tuesday, November 9 · 5:30pm – 8:30pm

Saturday at 8:00pm – October 31 at 12:00am

115 Maridel

San Antonio, TX

Tuesday, November 2 at 8:00pm – November 3 at 2:00am

Sunday, October 31 at 9:00pm – November 1 at 1:00am

118 Lone Star Blvd.

San Antonio, TX

Tuesday, November 2 · 6:00pm – 9:00pm

Tuesday, October 26 at 8:30pm – October 27 at 1:30am

618 NW Loop 410

San Antonio, TX

Friday, October 22 · 5:30pm – 8:30pm

2803 Fredericksburg Rd. (inside the gates of Primrose at Monticello Park Apartments)

San Antonio, TX

Sacred ritual, space and time, ancestor worship, consecrated rites of passage . . . Explore these themes and more at the opening reception for sculptor DANVILLE CHADBOURNE at Bihl Haus Arts, this Friday, October 22, 5:30-8:30 pm.

Danville’s fetishized, ritualized objects stir a collective memory and connect us as human beings to a primordial past. At once universal truth and private fiction, his sculptures are the constructs …of an erudite artist with broad experience in and of the world. They spring from deep within the artist’s fecund imagination and are inspired by his appreciation for the material culture and ancient traditions of indigenous peoples, about which our knowledge is only fragmentary. The artist deconstructs archetypes and reassembles their parts into paradoxical and enigmatic imagery open to individual interpretation. “It is my intention,” says Chadbourne, “to provoke questions, suggest possibilities, and ultimately elicit responses that are more than just intellectual. I want the viewer to feel something.”

In this selection of the sculptor’s work, muted warm sepia tones of worn woods bathed in brown paints predominate. They contrast with passages of subdued complimentary colors: red and green, blue and orange, black and white. Decoration is restricted to incised channels and grooves, shallow pecked recesses, and natural nodes and knots accentuated by hand carving. Typical shapes include long narrow flat planks and shallow rectangular boxes constructed from recovered wood, sometimes joined by staples and brads made of recycled copper wire. Danville deliberately weathers and unites the surfaces of these disparate recovered materials, often already weather beaten, with paint applied in layers and scrubbed by hand between coats with rough sandpaper, a process that visually ages the work. “All things are in constant flux, acted upon by the process of aging and deterioration,” Danville avers, “a process that is observable and that dictates the passage of time”; the artist’s work not only suggests but becomes part of a continuum.

Danville Chadbourne was born in Bryan, Texas in 1949. He received a BFA in 1971 from Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas, and an MFA in 1973 from Texas Tech University in Lubbock. After teaching studio art and art history at the college level for 17 years at various institutions, Danville left teaching in 1989 to devote himself full-time to his art. He has exhibited extensively at both state and national levels, including more than 60 one-person exhibitions. His work is found in numerous private and public collections. He has lived in San Antonio since 1979.

This exhibit which is free and open to the public, is funded in part by the Texas Commission for the Arts through the San Antonio Office of Cultural Affairs. Bihl Haus Arts is a not-for-profit contemporary art gallery located at 2803 Fredericksburg Rd., on the premises of Primrose at Monticello Park Senior Apartments. Bihl Haus Arts is the only professional nonprofit art gallery on the premises of 100% senior affordable housing in the U.S. The gallery, open Fridays and Saturdays, 1-4 pm, is made possible with the generous support of The Potashnik Family Foundation and Primrose. For more information, (210) 383-9723, or information@bihlhausarts.org

Wednesday, October 27 · 8:00pm – 10:00pm

1916 S. Flores Street, San Antonio, Tejatzlan

Bring the children! Please join the SA Arts Community in support of Michael Soto, an uncompromising voice committed to preserving nuestros cuentos e historias, who is running for a seat on the Texas State Board of Education (SBOE).

Emma Tenayuca. Willie Velasquez. Lydia Mendoza. Americo Paredes. Gloria Anzaldua…presente!

With Readings, Watos, and Laberintos by Selected Artists
…
David Zamora Casas and Barbara Renaud Gonzalez, sponsors

$5.00 Contribution and mas if you can

‘Stoy ganando!
Willie Velásquez loved the rain.
It made the bluejays sing with gusto, like the fire and honey of his mother’s Spanish words.
The rain made the frogs jump for gold medals, and the weeping willow tree in front of his house cried
happy tears with so much green.

But the rain also made Willie sad.

—from The boy made of lightning/Willie Velasquez, American Hero, to be published 2011
Written by Barbara Renaud Gonzalez, illustrated by a San Antonio artist TBA

The Texas State Board of Education has denied our stories in the public schools for the next ten years. Our children are growing up without knowing who their heroes and heroines are. It is up to the artists to tell the story. And we will, won’t we?

Please help Michael Soto, an English Professor at Trinity University, by voting for him on November 2nd, and come
to our Fundraiser/Cuentazo and show el support for our stories. Bring the children too!

9:00pm poetry reading by Barbara Renaud Gonzalez, author of “Golondrina, why did you leave me?” and David Zamora Casas, el alquimista del arte en San Antonio.

Saturday at 7:00pm – October 24 at 12:00am

1907 S. St. Mary’s St.

San Antonio, TX

Saturday, November 6 · 6:00pm – 9:00pm

Thursday, December 9 at 5:00pm – Sunday, February 27, 2011 at 4:00pm

300 Augusta

San Antonio, TX

Friday, October 15 · 7:00pm – 9:00pm

List Wall:Kansas City | Feb 3- Mar22, 2010
List Wall:Atlanta | June 25 – July 31, 2010
List Wall:San Antonio | October 15 – 31, 2010
ListWall:NY/Brooklyn | November 12-25, 2010
List Wall:LA/Laguna Beach | February 3 – 26, 2011
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THE LIST WALL PROJECT (of Lisa La La)

Artist Lisa Lala asks, “What is on your list?”. The answer lies in the List Wall Project, a traveling installation of anonymous lists. Hundreds and hundreds of lists cover the walls at installation locations. To participate in the project is to lay down your goals, whether for your day, your week, or your life. To view the project, is to peer though handwritten lists into others lives.

The List Wall was met with an overwhelming response at it’s original location, Blue Gallery in the Kansas City Crossroads Arts District. Hundreds of lists were sent in anonymously from individuals and groups, from business owners and employees, news reporters and government officials, from students to scientists.

Statistics repeatedly show that by just writing something down we are more likely to accomplish it. So what do people want to do? Everything from “pay off parking tickets” to “start a family charitable foundation”. From “stop biting my nails” to “live in the inner city”. From “download better music” to “die on my own terms”.

As the List Wall moves from city to city, each new venue has the opportunity to add its own lists by tacking them to the wall.
Growing like a snowball, it links community to community. What do we have in common? How are we different?
As it travels through place, it also travels through time (each list is stamped with a code for location and date).
What do people want in 2010? What do people want in 2013?

The List Wall will come to San Antonio on FRIDAY – October 15, 2010.

What is on your list?

www.thelistwall.com

“What is on your list? The List Wall is on mine.” – Tom Ryan, KC Star Midwest Voices 02/05/10

“Sure to be a crowd favorite” – Robert J. Bingaman, KC Freepress 02/04/10

“One of Kansas Cities most celebrated artists” – KC Magazine 02/10

“bold, thought provoking… and invited the rest of us to join her on the journey from “I want to..” to “I did it.” – Steve Brisendine, Review Magazine,