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Ruby City proudly presents Synthesis & Subversion Redux [https://rubycity.org/exhibitions/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.


n her original exhibition, Colpitt explored how Latinx artists could synthesize personal and cultural experiences with conceptual art practices. The artists featured in Redux honor this foundation while addressing contemporary issues like gender, migration, and bicultural identity. Their works embody hybridity and intersectionality, using materials such as textiles and clothing to weave together stories of resilience, family, and heritage. 


This new iteration also reflects a significant societal shift. In the 1990s, the art world often overlooked artists working outside mainstream contemporary discourse. Today, these historically marginalized practices are embraced as central to the broader narrative of contemporary art, celebrated for their ability to challenge conventions, elevate diverse voices, and offer fresh perspectives on identity and cultural heritage. 


Featured Artists include: Juan Carlos Escobedo, Jenelle Esparza, Bárbara Miñarro, Angeles Salinas, and José Villalobos 


The opening reception [https://rubycity.org/events/], which will feature an exhibition walkthrough with both Gonzalez and co-curator, Lopez, will take place on Saturday, February 14 from 2-3PM with a reception following from 3-5PM. The event is free and open to the public.


The exhibition will be on view from February 15, 2024 through September 28, 2025 at Studio, located inside Chris Park. Studio is open Thursday - Sunday from 10am - 6pm. It is closed Monday -Wednesday. 

San Antonio

United States

Texas

Ruby City

Synthesis & Subversion Redux

We've partnered with local poets and other art institutions to invite you to draw inspiration from artworks. Submit a poem written in response to Man Playing Trumpet from our collection. If you win, your poem will be shared in April to celebrate National Poetry Month.

What is an Ekphrastic Poem? An ekphrastic poem is based on a piece of art. These poems take an existing piece of visual art, and use written words to describe and expand on the theme of that work of art. Many of these poems explore hidden meanings or an underlying story.

San Antonio Museum of Art

2025 National Poetry Month Ekphrastic Poetry Contest

Join the Turtle Rescue Team in this limited-time event at SEA LIFE San Antonio! Discover how to find them, feed them, track them, help them through splash-tastic activities from 2/13/25 to 4/13/2025.


Here at SEA LIFE, we spend lots of our time rescuing and keeping sea turtles safe, but we need your help in this exciting experience included with your admission

SEA LIFE Aquarium San Antonio

Turtle Rescue Team Event

Bubble Planet: An Immersive Experience is a multisensory experience where visitors will travel through fantastical, interactive landscapes and explore imaginary metaverses filled with unique optical illusions and stunning photo opportunities. Moving between ten uniquely themed rooms including the world’s largest bubble bath ball pit, a virtual reality room, an undersea LED room and an endless infinity experience, guests will embark on a journey created to connect with countless emotions and sensations and marvel at breath-taking concepts. The combination of colors, lasers, lights and bubbles, together with 360-degree projection technology and a soaring virtual reality interactive promises to deliver a magical experience for all and encourages guests to release their inner child.

Bubble Planet is co-produced by Exhibition Hub – curator, producer and distributor of large exhibitions and family entertainment globally – in partnership with Merlin Entertainments, a world leader in branded entertainment destinations – and Fever – the leading global live-entertainment discovery platform. This Bubble Planet sits alongside Merlin’s existing attractions of SEA LIFE Aquarium and LEGOLAND® Discovery Center in Arizona Mills.

Phoenix

Arizona

Arizona Mills

Bubble Planet: An Immersive Experience

Dallas

Bruton Theatre

Festival of Black Dance Rhytm and Soul of A People - Student Morning

Stubhub

Montréal

Canada

Québec

Bell Centre

Visites Guidées Centre Bell - Bell Centre

“Chicano/a/x Prints and Graphics: Selections from the Hispanic Research Center’s Collection, 1980–2010” showcases a partnership between ASU’s Hispanic Research Center (HRC) and ASU Art Museum and brings together works from the 1980s into the 2010s drawn from the HRC’s dynamic collection. Featuring over 30 artists who each offer a kaleidoscope of perspectives on the Mexican American experience, this year-long exhibition pays homage to the ideals of the Chicano Movement of the 1960s and 70s and expands upon them through the widely disseminated medium of prints. Presented in two parts, this unique exhibition underscores how Chicano/a/x artists have employed prints and graphics to build community, engage with social concerns, and interrogate shifting notions of political and cultural identity over time.


Artists in the first rotation include: Celia Alvarez Muñoz (United States, b. 1937), Alfredo Arreguín (United States, 1935–2023), Samuel Baray (United States, b. 1938), Candace Briceño (United States, b. 1971), Rolando Briseño (United States, b.1952), Vibiana Chamberlin (United States, b. 1942), Sam Coronado (United States, 1946–2013), Margarita “Mita” Cuarón (United States, b. 1952), Gaspar Enriquez (United States, b. 1942), Dolores Guerrero-Cruz (United States, b. 1948), Ester Hernández (United States, b. 1944), Yolanda Lopez (United States, 1942–2021), César Martinez (United States, b. 1944), Salvador Roberto Torres (United States, b. 1936), D. Rose, Annette Maria Sexton-Ruiz (United States, b. 1958), Patssi Valdez (United States, b. 1951) and Larry Yáñez (United States, b. 1949).


“Chicano/a/x Prints and Graphics: Selections from the Hispanic Research Center’s Collection, 1980–2010” is organized by ASUAM Senior Curator Alana Hernandez and ASUAM Curator Brittany Corrales and is made possible by funding provided by the Evelyn Smith Exhibition Fund. Additional funding is provided by ASU’s Hispanic Research Center and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The exhibition is presented in collaboration with a Community of Practice composed of Carla Chavarria, Community Building Director, Iconico, and Carla León Celaya, PhD candidate in the Spanish Department at the School of International Letters and Cultures, ASU.

51 E. 10th St.

ASU Art Museum

Chicano/a/x Prints and Graphics: Selections from the Hispanic Research Center’s Collection

Enjoy live music, an iced coffee or mimosa flight, or one of our delicious breakfast/brunch items at JOJO Coffeehouse.

Live music every weekend from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

JOJO Coffeehouse

Live Music at JOJO Coffeehouse

Verde Canyon Railroad is proud to be a sponsor of the Phoenix-based wildlife rescue, Liberty Wildlife. All are welcome to visit Verde Canyon Railroad depot for Raptors at the Rails, an educational presentation on the patio on select dates 11:00am-12:45pm. This free event prior to the train’s 1:00 pm departure features close-up glimpses of Arizona raptors such as eagles, hawks, owls, vultures, falcons and kestrels, amazing residents of Liberty Wildlife’s educational program. During the summer months, Liberty shares cold-blooded creatures such as tortoises, lizards and snakes during "Reptiles at the Rails".

300 N. Broadway

Verde Canyon Railroad

Raptors (or Reptiles) at the Rails

August is in the books and we thank you all for a great turn out! Let's do it again in September and this time we will be cutting the ribbon and having a proper grand opening of our new building The Archwood at Eastlake. Don't miss out!

The Archwood at Eastlake

The Buy Black Marketplace by Archwood Exchange

Ukutula: Our Timeless Journeys centres on a display of sixteen extraordinarily diverse traditional West African masks. These masks, part of the Agnes’ Justin and Elisabeth Lang Collection, appear in chorus with the contemporary work of five Canadian artists from the African and Asian diasporas: Anthony Gebrehiwot, Jill Glatt, Jessica Karuhanga, Camille Turner, and Winsom Winsom.

Employing photography, new media and video, textile installation and more, the artists of Ukutula: Our Timeless Journeys reflect on diasporic roots by exploring themes of identity, transformation, the body, belonging, place and regional histories. The exhibition collectively invites us to explore the relationship between the past and present, and how our physical and spiritual journeys shape who we are.

London

Ontario

421 Ridout Street North

Museum London - Ivey Galleries

Ukutula: Our Timeless Journeys

As we move around London, signs are all around us, announcing the names of businesses and alerting us to services offered and goods available. In our everyday lives, signs can become part of the landscape, standing out when needed and fading into the background when not. 

As museum objects, however, signs are the physical traces of a past London that only some may remember well. Many recall with affection, for example, Johnny and Dorothy Downs’ banquet facility, the Latin Quarter Place. As we move further into the past, though, London becomes an unfamiliar place. Where was Balkwill’s Hotel, for instance, and who ran it? This exhibition featuring signs from Museum London’s extensive artifact collection recalls and revives this fascinating forest city of yesteryear. It will also introduce some equally compelling Londoners. The signs in _London Recalling_ are mounted high on one of Museum London’s barrel vault walls.  This not only makes the most of the Museum’s architecture but also displays the signs as they would have been seen when first used.

\-Tuesday to Sunday: 11 AM to 5 PM  
\-Thursdays until 8 PM

421 Ridout St. N.

Museum London - Community Gallery, second level

London Recalling: Traces of Places from the City's Past

Free snowshoeing in the Westminster Ponds, weather permitting, every Saturday (11 AM -1 PM) and Sunday (1 PM - 3 PM). Snowshoes provided and self-guided trails. Please check their [social media](https://www.instagram.com/westminsterldn/) for more updates.

944 Western Counties Rd

Westminster Ponds

Snowshoeing in the Westminster Ponds

The shapes of feathers, wings, flowers and leaves combine in a constellation of ceramic and bronze to comprise Forever (Bird-Botanicals), a site-specific installation by Ecuadorian-Canadian sculptor David Constantino Salazar. The work combines recognizable bird anatomy with plant forms to probe the theme of transformation in contemporary culture.

Often representative of freedom, love, peace, and divinity, the symbol of the bird is ripe with meaning. In South American folklore, for example, birds and other animals are evocative of transformation, often shapeshifting between forms in fables. In Museum London’s Atrium, Salazar’s birds are in a state of transition, too, as if between life and death. Here, botanicals grow around misshapen appendages.

To create each element of the work, the artist meticulously hand crafts birds out of clay and throws them against his studio wall. Radically altering their appearance, this act transforms each sculpture into something new entirely. Each component evokes the natural evolution of all living things, as we journey between one state of being to another.

Museum London - Atrium

David Constantino Salazar: Forever (Bird-Botanicals)

Supersampler is an exhibition featuring a decade’s worth of work by London-based painter, Mark Stebbins. Inspired by the history of image making, digital media and textiles, Stebbins’ paintings explore the potential of the grid form through realism and abstraction alike.

Often containing thousands of tiny squares hand-painted with hundreds of different tones and hues, Stebbins’ paintings translate source imagery to pose what he calls “visual questions.” By building up and breaking down these images, the artist plays with colour, detail, texture, and contrast to impact what the viewer sees. Here, paint strokes act as stitches and pixels, often distorted.

 A new series employs symbols from historic embroideries found in Museum London’s artifact collection, while other pieces feature vibrant, kaleidoscopic effects that nod to key moments in art history—like 19th-century pointillism and the hard-edge abstraction of the 1950s and 60s. Throughout these diverse influences, Stebbins’ work invites us to reflect on themes of originality, labour, and the evolving role of painting in our increasingly virtual world.

Events

Synthesis & Subversion Redux

2025 National Poetry Month Ekphrastic Poetry Contest

Turtle Rescue Team Event

Synthesis & Subversion Redux

Bubble Planet: An Immersive Experience

Bubble Planet: An Immersive Experience

Festival of Black Dance Rhytm and Soul of A People - Student Morning

Visites Guidées Centre Bell - Bell Centre

Chicano/a/x Prints and Graphics: Selections from the Hispanic Research Center’s Collection

Live Music at JOJO Coffeehouse

Live Music at JOJO Coffeehouse

Raptors (or Reptiles) at the Rails

The Buy Black Marketplace by Archwood Exchange

Ukutula: Our Timeless Journeys

Live Music at JOJO Coffeehouse

London Recalling: Traces of Places from the City's Past

Chicano/a/x Prints and Graphics: Selections from the Hispanic Research Center’s Collection

Raptors (or Reptiles) at the Rails

Snowshoeing in the Westminster Ponds

Ukutula: Our Timeless Journeys

David Constantino Salazar: Forever (Bird-Botanicals)

London Recalling: Traces of Places from the City's Past

Mark Stebbins: Supersampler

Chicano/a/x Prints and Graphics: Selections from the Hispanic Research Center’s Collection

Mark Stebbins: Supersampler

Live Music at JOJO Coffeehouse

David Constantino Salazar: Forever (Bird-Botanicals)

Mark Stebbins: Supersampler

David Constantino Salazar: Forever (Bird-Botanicals)

Raptors (or Reptiles) at the Rails