Community Calendar

The San Antonio Botanical Garden is proud to announce the world debut of their newest exhibition, Frida Kahlo Oasis. This unique exhibition will bring to life a captivating rendition of the famous Mexican artist’s iconic blue home and lush green sanctuary, ‘Casa Azul,’ that profoundly influenced her timeless art. Visitors will be able to explore famous Casa Azul landmark replicas such as Kahlo’s desk and easel, frog-themed fountain, Diego Rivera’s Pyramid, as well as six monumental animals sighted throughout the garden grounds which often appeared in her portraits. Learn more about Frida Kahlo Oasis at www.sabot.org

RELEASE YOUR INNER AQUANAUT! Based on French author Jules Verne’s 1870 classic 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, the exhibition brings to life the deep-sea adventures of Captain Nemo, his fantastical Nautilus submarine, and the mythical world he inhabited. At the center of this fantasy world is the giant Nautilus where kids can climb aboard and discover the inner workings of a deep-sea submersible... they can take up the controls at the helm, peer through the periscopes, crank the propeller, test out the bunks and explore Captain Nemo’s Cabinet of Curiosities full of wonderful marine specimens. There’s even a bubbly pipe organ to play and a galley full of strange foods to discover! Kids can then slip on a deep-sea dive suit and venture through the world below the waves including the octopus’ garden with its giant clamshell, a giant squid to slide down, and then wander through the maze of seaweed in the kelp forest. They can also explore the lost world of Atlantis.

In celebration of the San Antonio Museum of Art’s 40th Birthday, the Museum is pleased to announce the opening of "Movie Metal," a one-of-a-kind pop culture attraction that brings film to life through the display of several fan favorite characters as well as iconic vehicles from popular film and television shows. From 13.5-ft statues of ‘Bumblebee’ and ‘Optimus Prime’ from “Transformers,” The Delorean Time Machine from “Back to the Future,” and the actual F-1 race car 'Tony Stark' drove in “Iron Man 2,” there is something for the whole family to enjoy. Learn more at samuseum.org

As American artists—often having trained in France—returned home in the late nineteenth century, they put a distinctly American twist on the Impressionist style of painting, creating a new genre and teaching it to subsequent generations of artists. "America’s Impressionism: Echoes of a Revolution" explores this history, bringing together more than sixty works to show this important evolution in American painting.

A solo exhibition of ledger drawings, a form which rose to prominence amongst Native artists, in the mid-1800’s and continues today. About the artist’s work “My artwork is a visual interpretation of nature, the cosmos, cultural narratives, and recollections in reduced geometric aesthetics and vibrant energetic color harmonies. Often referencing Piikani painted lodges and visual iconographic vocabulary, my work explores the varying relationships between color, shape, nature, and sky. Piikani or Blackfoot painted lodges are visual masterpieces of the Great Plains and are pre-European invasion classic art. Painted lodges depict the world in which we live, through geometric geological landmarks, figurative animals, and the above world that connects us to Natosi (Sun). In my varied approaches to making art—printmaking, painting, photography, and ledger drawing—my work connects the ancient to the contemporary, and reaches beyond, all while creating visual color stimulation. In my work I am revealing fragments of time, history, and Indigenous Abstraction that has been in North America for tens of thousands of years. I am working with an Indigenous aesthetic, which has been overlooked, appropriated, and shadowed since the Great Invasion, and that I am in the process of reclaiming, restoring, and reinvigorating. I am creating a New American and Piikani art form that is equally inspired by painted lodges, ancient art, and nature as it is about geometric abstraction, minimalism, pop art, and op art. My current body of work explores and visually dissects the three visual tiers of most Piikani painted lodges with a focus on the top and bottom zones, and the various narratives that accompany them and connect us to the land and sky. My work is bold, vivid, even humorous at times, and has minimalism qualities that are potent in meaning, content, and place.” -Terran Last Gun

About the Artist Doerte Weber is a self taught weaver born in Germany and currently living and working in San Antonio, Texas. Her work has been exhibited internationally and is a part of numerous private and public collections. She is inspired by the history and work of Bauhaus women weavers. As fellow autodidacts they embraced free experimentation, learning by trial and error and were unhampered by previous knowledge. Weber weaves with diverse modern, quotidian materials. In this process, she searches to push the boundaries of the materials and use the to tell broader stories and give the work specificity and context. Inspiration for her work comes from current events as well as everyday experience, creating something which seizes the moment and transforms it through medium and connection.

A solo exhibition of newly commissioned adobe sculptural work. Joanna Keane Lopez (b. Albuquerque, NM) is a multidisciplinary artist whose work blurs the boundaries between contemporary sculpture and architecture through the medium of adobe mud. By working with materials of adobe architecture, earthen plaster and alíz (a clay slip paint) her work acts to address conceptions of sculpture in engagement with land. Through the passing down of knowledge of the vernacular architecture techniques of the greater Southwest, Joanna creates work that seeks healing and reparation of fragmentation towards land, home, family and community that is connected to her own multi-generational roots in New Mexico. Joanna is a grant recipient of the Fulcrum Fund of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and was included in Americans for the Arts – Public Art Year in Review Award. Her work has been exhibited at spaces including the National Hispanic Cultural Center Art Museum and The Momentary of the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. She has completed residencies at Ucross Foundation, Herekeke Arts Center and A-Z West.

On the talkSTEM YouTube channel, there are 9 unique playlists that connect science, technology, engineering and math to real world examples. Each video are a palatable 2 minutes in average and are appropriate for all ages. You can virtually explore over 20 different destinations in Texas from the safety of your home. Simply pick a theme and start watching the videos. Some videos prompt for a DIY experiment or challenge you can try in your household. You can even create your own virtual field trip - the options are endless!

The San Antonio Botanical Garden is proud to announce the world debut of their newest exhibition, Frida Kahlo Oasis. This unique exhibition will bring to life a captivating rendition of the famous Mexican artist’s iconic blue home and lush green sanctuary, ‘Casa Azul,’ that profoundly influenced her timeless art. Visitors will be able to explore famous Casa Azul landmark replicas such as Kahlo’s desk and easel, frog-themed fountain, Diego Rivera’s Pyramid, as well as six monumental animals sighted throughout the garden grounds which often appeared in her portraits. Learn more about Frida Kahlo Oasis at www.sabot.org

RELEASE YOUR INNER AQUANAUT! Based on French author Jules Verne’s 1870 classic 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, the exhibition brings to life the deep-sea adventures of Captain Nemo, his fantastical Nautilus submarine, and the mythical world he inhabited. At the center of this fantasy world is the giant Nautilus where kids can climb aboard and discover the inner workings of a deep-sea submersible... they can take up the controls at the helm, peer through the periscopes, crank the propeller, test out the bunks and explore Captain Nemo’s Cabinet of Curiosities full of wonderful marine specimens. There’s even a bubbly pipe organ to play and a galley full of strange foods to discover! Kids can then slip on a deep-sea dive suit and venture through the world below the waves including the octopus’ garden with its giant clamshell, a giant squid to slide down, and then wander through the maze of seaweed in the kelp forest. They can also explore the lost world of Atlantis.