What brought the sisters to San Antonio is one of those circumstantial chain of events that seems unlikely until it happens.
Children’s Ballet of San Antonio founder Vanessa Bessler
“These young artists and I share a dream. They want to dance, and I am helping them to dance and learn. We work together to make this happen.”
A Poet and a Leader: Sheila Black
Writing is a discipline, she believes: “You set the table and inspiration will come. You have to train yourself to be receptive, to see the world around you, to be in the moment.”
Music for the Soul
“I love tangos, rancheras — the traditional ones that are different from the mariachi rancheras — and other old folkloric ballads,” she says.
Artbeat: Betsy Dudley
Artist Betsy Dudley works out of what is probably the most inviting studio that I have ever seen, and I have seen many art studios. Though there is inevitably some clutter, there is also a sense of space and peace, with abundant natural light pouring in over...
Artbeat: Embroidering
HISTORY AND CULTURE Show will pay tribute to Old Spanish Trail highway By JASMINA WELLINGHOFF PHOTOGRAPHY BY JANET ROGERS Years ago, artist Laurel Gibson stopped to look at some merchandise sold from a roadside stand along Highway 16. Large perforated paper rolls...
Artbeat: Music for the Soul
Deborah Marshall MUSIC THANATOLOGIST PLAYS HARP FOR THE DYING The Abode Home is a unique place where terminally ill patients are embraced and taken care of. It’s not a hospice, says the brochure, “but rather a home with a simple, welcoming, peaceful ambience for...
Art Beat: Art is What Makes Us Human
Katie Luber guides the San Antonio Museum of Art in the right direction The roof was damaged by hail and the Cowden Gallery Pop Art exhibit had to be closed earlier than planned, but on this sunny day in May when I arrive to interview director Katherine “Katie” Luber,...
Dancing On Air
Visitors to SeaWorld San Antonio may remember Julia Langenberg as the girl who danced on and around a hoop suspended above a whale pool. Or maybe they saw her with parrots flying around her while she engaged in an aerial ballet, supported only by silk panels hanging...
A Musical & Resplendent Voice
Poet Carol Coffee Reposa Has a Way with Words Carol Coffee Reposa wrote her first poem when she was only 8 years old. Her mom entered it in a radio contest in Houston, and to young Carol’s surprise, it won a prize and a $5 award. “I felt I had hit the big time,” says...
Artbeat: Abbi Walker
Abbi Walker: A Rising Country Star BY JASMINA WELLINGHOFF PHOTOGRAPHY BY JANET ROGERS Abbi Walker grew up singing in church choirs, but when she decided to make singing her career, she chose a very different music genre — her own brand of country tinged with Southern...
A Joy and a Responsibility
Ruiz-Healy Art Helps San Antonio Connect to the International Art Scene Patricia Ruiz-Healy did not develop an interest in art until she traveled to England at 18 to spend a year studying English. “My first significant aesthetic experience happened in London,” says...
Art Beat: Artistic Expression through Photography
Fotoseptiembre has helped to shape Lauri Garcia Jones as an artist One bit of advice that art photographer Lauri Garcia Jones has received from other artists is to never describe her work as “play.” The implication is that talking about “play” diminishes artists’...
Art Beat: Art speaks to the human experience
Joey Fauerso's work is part of hemisfair's new garden Children visiting HemisFair Park this summer will have a whole new playground to explore and enjoy. Created by six San Antonio artists and appropriately named PLAY, this playground will consist of six separate...
A Woman of Many Talents: Christie Beckham loves the theater
Actress/director Christie Beckham believes in the power of the Tsar Bell. That 20-foot-high bronze bell sits on a pedestal inside the Kremlin for tourists to admire and touch if they want to return to Russia. “I touched the bell,” says Beckham, who first visited...
Art Beat: San Antonio Style Bookfest
Director Katy Flato takes the reins Back in 2013, during the first San Antonio Book Festival (SABF), Katy Flato served as moderator for a panel discussion between authors Stephen Harrigan and Bob Thompson, who had both written books about hunting elusive legends. It...
Art that heals
Art consultant Allison Hays Lane helps transform medical facilities Hospitals are rarely inviting places to visit let alone to see original art. But the new Sky Tower of the University Hospital in the Medical Center is definitely an exception. As you step into the...
The McNay is 60 years old: Impressionist exhibit marks the anniversary
Marion Koogler McNay was 59 when she made the decision to turn her home and her art collection into the first modern art museum in Texas. Though she had always been interested in art — and was, in fact, an artist herself — until 1942 she mostly bought art to enjoy in...
