Community Calendar

The Governor's Community Achievement Awards (GCAA) recognize Texas communities that are turning ideas into measurable impact through environmental stewardship, beautification, and collaboration. From small towns to larger cities, past winners have used this program to strengthen partnerships, elevate local projects, and tell a compelling story about their community's work.

Applications are now open and close on March 12. Visit the GCAA webpage to explore past winners, see what makes a strong application, and learn how your community can get involved.

Keep Texas Beautiful is a Texan by Nature conservation partner.

Are you an artist ready to make your mark? This is your moment!

Join San Antonio's BIGGEST and most exhilarating contemporary art festival—Luminaria Contemporary Art Festival 2026. Our Art Call is officially OPEN!

Head to Anyartist.org now and submit your application to showcase your talent.

Don’t miss out—be part of something extraordinary!
Application Deadline: March 6, 2026 (ends at 11:59pm CT)

"Abundant Nature" is an Art Exhibit by Stefani Job Spears in the Molly Shafer Gallery at the King William Association. Stefani Job Spears holds a Master of Fine Arts in Printmaking from Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas. She has been teaching Visual Arts throughout the state for thirty years. As an artist-in-residence for the Texas Commission on the Arts, Spears developed curriculum and fine art standards for public schools. In addition, Spears has taught Art, developed events and programs for the Southwest School of Art and Saint Mary's Hall. Her innovative art works frequently cross media boundaries, combining handmade paper, printmaking, oils and watercolors that reflect her love of nature and landscapes. Free and open to the public of all ages.

The Schools Our Students Deserve Coalition is excited to invite you to our bi-annual community summit! Join us on February 28, for a day of speakers, workshops, resources, along with free books and lego sets for our SAISD families!

RSVP at bit.ly/Thrive-2026

Opening Reception: January 28, 6 - 8 pm
Artist Talks & Exhibition Preview: 1/27: 6:30-8:00 pm

Fronterizx: Art by M. Jenea Sanchez and Gabriela Muñoz with Jenelle Esparza focuses on twenty-first century shared and socially-engaged art practices. This exhibition features work created by the Fronterizx Collective founded by Sanchez and Muñoz during their first collaboration in 2009 on the Arizona/Mexico borderline in a project titled La Tapiz Fronteriza de La Virgen de Guadalupe and includes contemporary artworks such as the video Caldo de Pollo and the photographic series Living Altar. In addition, this exhibition features a new collaborative project between Esparza and Fronterizx. This is the first exhibition in Texas of the Fronterizx Collective, as well as the artists’ first collaboration with San Antonio-based artist Jenelle Esparza.

Fronterizx Collective is driven by the artists’ lived experiences as women of color working in the interstitial space of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. Fronterizx is committed to the representation and implication of brown female bodies from their own lived experiences situated within the Sonora and Chihuahua desert ecologies. Their projects, installations, and exhibitions have appeared on the U.S.-Mexico borderline and museums including the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Wheelwright Museum, and Museo de Arte de Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. In 2023 they were awarded the Arlene and Morton Scult Artist Award by the Phoenix Art Museum and a 2024 USA Artist Fellowship. 

Sanchez was born and raised in the Arizona and Sonora frontera and Muñoz migrated through the U.S.-Mexico borderlands to Phoenix. Esparza is a Corpus Christi and South Texas native. Esparza, Sanchez, and Muñoz were introduced as recipients of the 2024 US Latinx Fellowship.

LibraryPalooza is a festival where middle and high school students can meet seven popular Young Adult authors who write for teens. Books to be autographed can be brought from home or purchased at the event from the Nowhere Bookshop pop-up store.
This year's featured authors are:

• L.M. Elliott
• Huda Fahmy
• Chloe Gong
• E. Lockhart
• Amber McBride
• Scott Reintgen
• Samantha van Leer

This event is free and open to the public, and no advanced registration is required.

Join us every Saturday morning for Story Hour where are very own Ms Leslie will read to your little ones, followed by a craft activity.

Ages 3-8. Parents must stay with kiddos during Story Hour.

Join us every Saturday morning for Story Hour where are very own Ms Leslie will read to your little ones, followed by a craft activity.

Ages 3-8. Parents must stay with kiddos during Story Hour.

Pullman Market, the expansive award-winning market and culinary hub at Pearl in San Antonio from Emmer & Rye Hospitality Group, is hosting its Charity Chili Cook-Off, a bold celebration of San Antonio’s vibrant food scene. The outdoor event brings together local restaurants, chefs and chili aficionados competing for top honors while guests enjoy unlimited chili samples, live music and more. Live music will be provided by the Mark Odom Band, and the full list of Pullman Market Charity Chili Cook-Off participants will be announced early next month.

A portion of proceeds from the event will benefit the San Antonio Hospitality Foundation, supporting scholarships and resources for the next generation of hospitality, tourism and culinary professionals in the community.

Opening Reception: January 23, 6 - 8 pm
Artist Talks: February 28, 1 - 3 pm

Curated by Dr. Scott A. Sherer and Lizzy Hayman

This exhibition brings together works from the individual creative careers of Jayne Lawrence and Leigh Anne Lester and a variety of materials that reference their collaborative endeavors in cactusBRA and cactusBARN, the influential galleries they founded in San Antonio. While pursuing unique themes and perspectives, Lawrence and Lester bring critical attention to the possibilities of imagination to transform expectations that structure standard knowledge systems. Lester’s works often have a foundation in considerations of the natural world whereas Lawrence’s works often develop in consideration of challenges to narratives that influence subjectivity and social engagement. The exhibition features mixed-media two- and three-dimensional works and installation.