Blue Star Contemporary Art Center

Along with our exhibition season, we offer a year-round program of events designed to enhance and expand our public’s experience of it.  These events include lectures, gallery talks by artists, writers and curators, and artist-led workshops, which take place at both Blue Star Contemporary Art Center and the Semmes Library. 

Past presenters include:

• Artutro Almieda - San Antonio, Curator
• Tinka Tarver - San Antonio, Visual Artist
• Jade Townsend - New York, Visual Artist
• Julia Barbosa Landois - San Antonio, Visual and Performance Artist
• Frank Cantor - New York, Filmmaker
• Joan Hall - St. Louis, Visual Artist
• Ivano Vitali - Florence, Italy, Visual Artist
• Ed Saavedra - San Antonio, Visual Artist and Curator
• Justin Parr - San Antonio, Visual Artist and Curator
• Wayne Gilbert - Houston, Visual Artist and Curator
• Sally Weber - Austin, Light Artist
• John Philip Santos - San Antonio, Author
• Julian Cardona - Mexico, Photographer
• Kim Bishop – San Antonio, Visual Artist and Art Educator
• Chiaka Booker – New York, Sculptor
• Rolando Briseno – San Antonio, Visual Artist
• Milton Esterow – New York, Editor, ARTNews
• Glen Harper – Editor, Sculpture Magazine
• Oliver Herring – New York, Photographer/Sculptor
• Larry Leissner – San Antonio, Photographer and Educator
• McKay Otto – Texas, Visual Artist
• Steinunn Thorarinsdottir – Reykjavik, Iceland, Sculptor
• Vincent Valdez – Los Angeles, California, Visual Artist
• Patrice Villastrigo – San Antonio, Photographer
• Bettie Ward – San Antonio, Artist

By engaging art professionals and art devotees in these experiential, interactive exchanges, we are working to foster a more fruitful ground for the promotion of art at a local level and a productive dialog between our sponsored artists and our public.