“Puro Conjunto: Border(less) Sound” celebrates how this uniquely Texan genre continues to thrive in San Antonio, the region, and beyond, connecting past and present through its layered musical heritage. Conjunto is more than music — it is a living record of cultural exchange, community identity, and artistic innovation. The exhibit explores conjunto music as one of Texas’s […]
This training program is designed for young artists ages 18–24 who want to strengthen their leadership skills, develop an entrepreneurial mindset, and learn how to turn their creative work into sustainable opportunities. Participants will have the opportunity to pitch their artistic or business idea, compete for a prize, and be selected to showcase their art […]
Opening Reception: Oct 24 | 1:00 – 4:00pm Artists’ Talks & Panel Discussion: Oct 24 | 2:00pm This year’s Symposium welcomes artists Anna Evans, Coulter Fussell, and Julia Gabriel Weber, whose contemporary & non-traditional quilt making focuses on the landscapes and regions the artists inhabit with elements including natural dyes from the Utah desert, imagery […]
Join soprano Danielle Talamantes, bass-baritone Kerry Wilkerson, and collaborative pianist Tracy Cowden for Liederabend: Songs of Evening, Twilight, and Night, an evocative exploration of the beauty, mystery, and emotional depth of German art song. Featuring exquisite settings of German poetry by 19th-century composers including Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms, Richard Wagner, Fanny Mendelssohn, and […]
We Gather Together is an adaptive arts education program for young adults that brings together storytelling, music, and movement in a welcoming, creative space. Through playful activities and shared artistic experiences, participants will explore the traditions, rituals, and memories that make this time of year meaningful to them. Together, we’ll make new memories, celebrate connection, […]
Maria Reva writes fiction and opera libretti. She is the author of Good Citizens Need Not Fear, set in an apartment block in Ukraine, as well as Endling (longlisted for the Booker Prize, winner of the Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize). In November 2022, she was included on the Russian Foreign Ministry’s list of sanctioned […]
Violette Bule's practice uses social and economic vulnerability as a catalyst for creativity and political agency, engaging memory, data, digital technologies, and social justice to explore structural violence, migration, identity politics, and populism. Bule studied photography at the EAF in Mexico City and earned her MFA from the University of Houston. Her recent exhibitions include […]
Celebrate the release of Between You a River, the latest novel by Kimberly Garza, author and UTSA professor. Garza will give a reading from the novel followed by a conversation with award-winning poet Naomi Shihab Nye, audience Q&A, and book signing. Free and open to the public. Books will be for sale courtesy of Nowhere […]
Join us for our winter performane of Military City USA’s beginning and intermediate concert and jazz band program On-Corps for veterans! Under the co-direction of Retired Army SFC Juan Garcia and Retired Air Force MSgt Donald Marchand.
One UTSA Circle, Main Building 2.306
San Antonio, TX 78249
UTSA Arts envisions San Antonio as the artistic heart and soul of Texas. Together, we’re building a city where the arts make life richer, expand possibility, strengthen connection, and transform our world.
UTSA Arts is the university’s hub for connection, creativity, and imagination. We support public arts programs, community collaborations, and research initiatives that create pathways for San Antonians to participate fully in the cultural and artistic life of our city.
