SSAC annually exhibits "Art for Giving" in the Ursuline Hall Gallery during the holiday season. Including a variety of media -- paintings, ceramic wall pieces, dramatic fiber pieces, mixed media, and more -- Art for Giving encourages the gift-giver to make a holiday purchase that will be memorable and lifelong. Proceeds benefit the school's many not-for-profit programs.

Shown: Chris Roberts Antieau, Oh Christmas Tree, textile applique, handpainted frame, 32" x 40"

Contemporary design work by prominent textile and apparel artists, designers, educators and students from around the world, exhibited in conjunction with the ITAA San Antonio conference.

The Design Exhibition includes a live gallery (runway) and a mounted exhibit -- the latter to be shown at Southwest School of Art & Craft. Graduate, undergraduate and professional designers are 'blind-reviewed' juried in separate categories. J.R. Campbell of the Centre for Advanced Textiles at the Glasgow School of Art is curating the 2006 exhibition.

Shown: Sherry Haar, Kansas State University, "Shaped Cloth" (detail from sleeve)

Re:Marks, the title of this exhibition by UTSA Art Faculty member Dennis Olsen, looks to iconography for its inspiration. Olsen works with fragmented text and letterforms which he has found, often on the internet, that once were part of ancient languages. These letterforms, along with more recognizable modern ones, are then used as images on prints or porcelains, invoking the magical power of the written word even when it’s abstracted.

Shown: Sotto sopra (detail), 2005, porcelain, 10" x 13"

Meredith Dean’s exhibition, SPAN: Constructed Paintings, consists of new works which playfully cross the boundaries between painting and sculpture. Her 2-D and 3-D works explore ideas of light, color, and surface. Dean is a member of the Art Faculty at UTSA.

Shown: Streak, 2006, mixed media on wood, 56" x 24"

Regional artists Jill Skupin Burkholder, Karen Hogensen, Ralph Howell, Robb Kendrick and Martin Rodriguez exhibit works that expand photographic possibilities.

Shown: Rob Kendrick. Gus, 2003, tintype,  5"x7"

Contemporary works that use historic photographic processes, curated by Alyssa C. Salomon and Jerry Spagnoli as part of Fotoseptiembre USA. Works by US artists Jayne Hinds Bidaut, Ellen Carey, Sean Culver, Dan Estabrook, Deborah Luster, Dana Moore, France Scully Osterman, Mark Osterman, Irving Pobboravsky and Roland Wirtz. This exhibition was made possible by a grant from the Russell Hill Rogers Fund for the Arts.

Shown: Irving Pobborravsky, Two Trees, East River Road, 1994, 7"x5", daguerreotype

Catalog available: $10

Photographs created by teens and children from our Young Artist Programs, created from a variety of alternative photographic processes, will be exhibited as part of FotoseptiembreUSA.

Fifty-four paintings by Arizona artist Teresa Villegas of the game of chance, La Loteria, exploring Mexican traditions, images, historical figures, gastronomy and popular culture. Artist funding received from the Arizona Commission on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Shown: No. 8: La Golondrina, 2001, oil on wood panel. 14.25" x 9.5"

An invitational exhibition of regional artists interpreting the Lotería deck, but with their own distinctive Tex-Mex twist: Chris Ake, Ricky Armendariz, Bernice Appelin-Williams, Kimberly Aubuchon, Jane Bishop, Sabra Booth, Dan Borris, Molly Branton, David Zamora Casas, Paula Cox, Joan Fabian, Joey Fauerso, Karl Frey, Patricia Jane Fugitt, Ovidio Giberga, José Guadalupe Guadiana, Daniel Guerrero, Barbel Helmert, Leticia Huerta, David Isenhour, Mimi Kato, Luis Lopez, Salvador Lopez, Scott Martin, Maria Elena Mogas, Cristina Sosa Noriega, Katie Pell, Rainey, Juan Miguel Ramos, Omar Rodriguez, Ramin Samandari, Ansen Seale, Regis Shephard, Gary Sweeney, Georgia Tambasis, Robert Tatum, Kate Terrell, Luis Valderas, Bettie Ward, Terry Ybanez

Shown: Christina Sosa Noriega, No. 3, La Dama, 2005 25" x 36"

Work by regional papercutters Jad Fair, Jorge Rosano and Kathleen Trenchard, in conjunction with The Guild of American Papercutters’ annual meeting.

Shown: Kathleen Trenchard, "Forklift Operator in Turquoise"

The annual exhibition of student and faculty works in media taught at SSAC - ceramics, metals/jewelry, photography, fibers, painting. printmaking and paper/bookarts.  This year, pieces were juried by René Barilleaux, Curator, the McNay Art Museum, San Antonio.

Shown: Dennis Smith, Hand Puppet 2, ceramic

An international print trade portfolio exploring the non-objective voice. Organized by Margaret Craig, Chair, SSAC's Painting/Drawing/Printmaking Department.

Shown: Jurgen Strunck, Cokoc, 2006, viscosity, rainbow roll, stencil, 15" x 15"

Works by artists studying, teaching and working at the SSAC Flohr Family Printmaking Studio, in a variety of print media.

Shown: Glenn Puckett, Esperanza Dorado, 2006, etching with chine colle and hand coloring, 12" x 12"

A print trade portfolio, organized by Todd Christensen (NM) and Melanie Yazzie (AZ) on the effects of technology and genetics.

Shown: Wes Ulfig, Tight Fit, 2005, etching, screen print, 14" x 11"

Annual juried exhibition of more than 500 student works from school districts across the South Texas region.

This year, 100 of the pieces will be selected for permanent display at the Mission Road Ministries, an organization serving children and adults with mental retardation and other developmental disabilities. For more information, visit www.share-sa.org.

Shown: Untitled, Maggie (4th grade)

Scratching the Surface, a juried exhibition of works by Texas-based fiber artists, was organized by the Texas Federation of Fiber Artists. The exhibition featured pieces by 53 artists working in a wide variety of techniques, from felting and collage, to weaving, braiding and appliqué. Materials ranged widely as well, from wire and silk to horse hair and organza.

This biennial exhibition was juried by fiber artists, Jane Sauer.

Shown: Oscar Silva, Aguazul, handmade and formed paper, cotton thread, horse hair and acrylic, 36" x 51"

Northway, Ceramics Studio Manager at the SSAC, exhibits drawings relating to his experiences during two recent international residencies.

Shown: Munich Landing, 2005,  graphite, ink, oil stick, colored pencil

San Antonio artist Lucia LaVilla-Havelin exhibits detailed, large-scale embroidered works in a grouping entitled The Three R’s, A Re-Learning.

Shown: LaVilla-Havelin, Reckoning (detail), 2005, silk, cotton thread, glass beads, 98" x 54"

Tactile and evocative weavings by Virginian artist, Iverson, are alive with a personal vocabulary of fragmentary symbols and have a three-dimensional, sculptural quality. Rebecca A.T. Stevens of The Textile Museum in Washington DC writes of the works in this exhibition, “They combine technical virtuosity with interesting, challenging ideas, rewarding any viewer who spends time with them.”


Shown: Useless Dreams VI (Ladder), 2004, silk, linen and wool, 26" x 29" x 2"

Catalog available: free