Community Calendar

SAMSAT’s seven weeks of T.J. Natarajan STEM summer camps begin June 9th, with schedules offered through August 1st. Full and half-day options are available on a variety of topics for kids grades 3rd through 12th. Weekly schedules, subject matter, link to registration, and how to become a camp sponsor is online at SAMSAT.org.

Emotions at Play with Pixar's Inside Out, the first interactive exhibit based on the award-winning Disney and Pixar film, helps visitors - young and old - understand the important role emotions, memory and imagination play in our everyday lives. Focusing on the five core emotions featured in the film - Joy, Sadness, Anger, Disgust and Fear - hands-on and digital experiences in the exhibit offer opportunities to explore some of the ways we express our emotions - and recognize emotions in others, too.

Our first-ever Creative Youth Summit is meant to bring together teen artists, performers, filmmakers, educators, community youth, art organizations, and more for an inspiring exchange of ideas, creativity, and collaboration! The summit starts on July 11th at 6 pm with a welcome reception.

On July 12th, we will have cultural tours, workshops, performances, artist talks, food, and more starting at 9:30 am and lasts until 5:30 pm.

This is a free event, but registration is required. You can register on our website.

Join us for GARDEN RIDGE MARKET DAYS - July 12, 2025 from 9:30am - 2:30pm. Featuring:
🛍🥰 200+ Local Food, Craft & Farm Vendors
🎟👍🏼 FREE Admission & Parking
🍔🌮 50+ Food Trucks/Food Vendors & Sweet Treats
🎪🎢 Free Kids' Activities:
👑🌹 PRINCESS MEET-N-GREET (Jasmine & Tiana!) - Dare to Dream Entertainment
💦🤩 WATER BALLOON TOSS for Prizes! 10am, 11am, 12pm, 1pm and 2pm - in the Kid Zone
- SUMMER PHOTO OPP
- SUMMER CRAFTS
- SCAVENGER HUNT - Visit any station for playing card, prizes for participants!
- OUTDOOR GAMES
- CHALK ART, BUBBLES & SAND PLAY
- FACE PAINTING - For Tips (Angie)
- BALLOON ART - For Tips (K T Rentals)
(Thank you to our amazing sponsors for hosting these FREE activities: Painting with a Twist, Sit Means Sit, Purpose Chiropractic, Zion Outdoors, Main Event, Bath Planet & Handy Squad Home Services,
🎼🎤 Live Music by Joel Guerrero
♥🤝 FEATURED NON- PROFITS: Girl Scouts of Southwest Texas, Guardians of the Children & Pack 828 Cub Scouts
🍅🥒 Support Local Farmers: Local Honey, Farm-Fresh Produce, Grass-Fed Beef, Chicken, Eggs, Goat Cheeses & Soaps, Lavender Farm Products & More
🐶 🐾 Friendly Dogs Welcome, On-Leash (Note: If hot, please leave pets home!)
🎉🌦 WE ARE OPEN, Rain or Shine!
RSVP "Going" & Details:
https://www.facebook.com/events/739683535314548

Free to attend, free activities for kids, free parking

Irrationally Speaking highlights two art forms—collage and assemblage—as artistic techniques and conceptual approaches. With the simple act of placing two or more distinct images or objects together (sometimes jarringly so) artists can create a complex whole to address a multiplicity of meanings. Combined wood fragments, cut-and-pasted paper, seamless digital and photo-based prints comprised of disparate pictures, bronze sculptures created from discarded shoes, and contrasting clothing articles put together —these are some of the ways that contemporary artists harness a myriad of materials and methods to craft the art in this presentation.

Irrationally Speaking will be on view 9.21.24 - 8.31.25

Entry to Ruby City is free and open to the public. Reservations are recommended but not required.

Ruby City proudly presents Synthesis & Subversion Redux, an exhibition celebrating the legacy of Frances Jean Colpitt and the evolving conversation around Latinx art. This new exhibition revisits Colpitt’s groundbreaking 1996 show, Synthesis and Subversion: A Latino Direction in San Antonio Art, and its influence on contemporary art practices today.
In 1996, Colpitt brought together a group of San Antonio-based artists—Jesse Amado, David Padilla Cabrera, Alejandro Diaz, Franco Mondini-Ruiz, Ana de Portela, and Chuck Ramirez—who explored identity, abstraction, and the everyday through conceptual approaches. The exhibition challenged norms and sparked critical debate, becoming a pivotal moment in San Antonio’s art history.

Now, nearly 30 years later, Redux builds on Colpitt’s vision while reflecting the profound changes in the art world since then. Curated by two Latinas in leadership roles at major institutions, Ruby City Director, Elyse A. Gonzales, and Curator of Latinx Art at the McNay Art Museum, Mia Lopez, Redux showcases the work of five contemporary artists: Juan Carlos Escobedo, Jenelle Esparza, Bárbara Miñarro, Angeles Salinas, and José Villalobos. These artists bring fresh perspectives to themes of identity, memory, and culture, often through craft-informed practices that incorporate textiles, personal history, and connections to the U.S.-Mexico border.

The exhibition will be on view from February 15, 2024 through September 28, 2025 at Studio, located inside Chris Park (111 Camp Street).

The late artist and activist Michael Tracy is known for color-saturated paintings, assembled and cast sculptures and mixed-media objects that challenge conventional beauty while addressing issues of faith, ritual, immigration and the environment. In remarkable symmetry, the McNay Art Museum hosted Tracy’s first museum exhibition in 1971 and his works return in the last exhibition he was directly involved with before his recent death at age 80.

The exhibition surveys approximately two decades of his career, and many of the works — paintings, sculptures and mixed media abstract objects — have never been exhibited before. The presentation will feature large-scale paintings spanning floor to ceiling while an original soundscape commissioned from composer Omar Zubair will complete the environment.

'Michael Tracy: The Elegy of Distance' is organized for the McNay Art Museum by René Paul Barilleaux, Head of Curatorial Affairs; and Christopher Rincón, President, Michael Tracy Foundation and Director, River Pierce Foundation.

Major funding is provided by the Arthur and Jane Stieren Fund for Exhibitions and Peter M. Holt. Additional support is provided by the Flora Crichton Visiting Artist Fund; Semmes Foundation, Inc.; Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable Foundation of 1992; Christopher C. Hill; Louis H. and Mary Patricia Stumberg Foundation; and Sara Paschall Dodd-Denton.

'Sport and Spectator' provides a common space for the art lover and sports fanatic. In this banner exhibition, contemporary artists transform sports gear and equipment into works of art. Artworks predominantly include sculptures made from common sports objects, including basketballs, footballs, helmets and jerseys that celebrate and critique sports culture, masculinity and materiality.

'Sport and Spectator' features works by Brandon J. Donahue-Shipp, Jeffrey Gibson, Raul Rene Gonzalez, Sophie Inard, Brian Jungen, Justin Korver, Betsy Odom, Esmaa Mohamoud, Hank Willis Thomas and Tyrrell Winston. Numerous exhibitions in the past have been dedicated to sports culture but this is the first dedicated to sports equipment and the artistic alchemy that changes the everyday into the extraordinary.

Rather than conventional display walls, The Fine ART of Dining features sculptural and visual artworks arranged as full-scale table installations, complete with centerpieces, place settings, serving pieces, utensils, and more. Works from artists across Texas—ceramicists, fiber artists, painters, and sculptors—come together in a whimsical, elegant, and sometimes provocative exploration of what it means to gather and share a meal.

Getting ready for a new school year can be stressful for both parents and kids. To help ease the transition, Family Service is proud to host its 12th Annual Back to School Drive!

This initiative gives our San Antonio community a chance to come together and support local students by providing essential school supplies—helping families start the school year with confidence and excitement.

How You Can Help:

- Donate school supplies
- Host a supply drive at your workplace
- Volunteer to assemble school supply packages for students

To get involved or learn more, please contact Debora Perez in Development at
📧 dperez@family-service.org
📞 210-232-5338

Ensuring that our children are school-ready really takes a village of organizations. Together, we can make a difference!