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San Antonio Arts Organizations

Fundraising on the Internet

ArtCo is in the process of setting up credit-card capability on-line. We expect to have this new feature on the ArtCo site soon. We anticipate that fundraising on-line is inevitable. So we are getting ready for the day when the audience will feel comfortable in buying organizational memberships, tickets and making contributions on-line. If your organization would like to participate in ArtCo's on-line donation program, please call us at (210) 736-9272

Alamo Area Square and Round Dance Association

For all those clogging lovers here is the Alamo Square and Round Dance Association. Organized in 1950 the Alamo Area Square and Round Dance Association involves the area West to Del Rio; Northwest to Kerrville & Fredericksburg; Northeast to New Braunfels; South to Pleasanton & Jourdanton. This site includes a complete listing of regional square and round and clogging dances, includes regular dance schedules and special dance schedules by either day of the week or month of the year.

email: walzoo@aol.com

Arts Coalition (ARTCO)

This organization is dedicated to support of all the arts in San Antonio. Non-artist,and artists in all the arts disciplines are invited to join and help with this cause. One of ArtCo's first programs was to create a "Yellow Pages" for the arts. One day, all the arts will be on the same page. This May 27 & 28, 2000 ArtCo will present "Audience Development and the Internet". This workshop is designed to help non-profits and individual artists to use the Internet to sell art, increase visibility and attendance to arts events. Register on the first page of this site, click on the computer graphic with the American Gothic couple.

MAP 1703 W. Kings Highway
San Antonio, TX 78201
(210) 736-9272
email: artco5@concentric.net

ArtPace

ArtPace is one of San Antonio's new arts organizations dedicated to the support of contemporary art. Its programs include an residency program that hosts artists from San Antonio as well as other parts of the world. The residencies then finish with an exhibition of the artists work in the ArtPace galleries.

MAP 445 N. Main Ave.
San Antonio, TX 78205
(210) 212-4900
email: info@artpace.org

Arts San Antonio

This presenting organization brings us Shakespeare in the Park, Alamo City Jazz Festival, and much many other performances. For the best performing artists in the world, attend one of their events. Call their office for a schedule of performances.

MAP 222 E. Houston #630
San Antonio, TX 78205
(210) 226-2891

Carver Community Cultural Center

Like a phoenix rising out of its own ashes, the present Carver rose from its deteriorated state and grew into a facility that has been called "a national model of a multicultural center" by the San Antonio Express-News. the Carver sponsors an annual season of performing and visual arts that features more than 50 performances, 24 art exhibitions, and numerous classes for aspiring artists. Carver facilities are used in support of dance classes for children and adults, ceramics classes taught by the Carver's artist-in-residence, and numerous other arts and cultural activities in the community.

MAP 226 N. Hackberry
San Antonio, TX 78202
(210) 207-7211

Ella Austin Community Center

A multi-social service center which facilitates leadership in communities, and assists individuals and families throughout San Antonio and Bexar County to improve their quality of life. One of its programs, Artists in the Making (AIM) is a studio arts program for middle school students on the Eastside of San Antonio. The goals of the program are to expose children to art, to develop their artistic talent and to boost their self-esteem.
MAP 1023 N. Pine St.
San Antonio, TX 78202
(210) 224-2351 Fax: (210) 229-9126
email: eaustin694@aol.com

Esperanza Peace and Justice Center

The Esperanza Center is a progressive grassroots cultural organization, advocating for and affirming the lives and struggles of people of color, women, lesbians and gay men, the working class and poor. Founded in 1987 by Latina women, both lesbian and straight, the Esperanza has grown into a formidable, visionary, multi-issue institution. We believe in building bridges across divides by creating spaces for the exchange of stories, for honest and critical dialogue, and for expanding people's understandings. We do this through diverse and dynamic programming that includes film festivals, visual art exhibitions, concerts, a hand-made pottery cooperative program, drama & poetry performances, writer's forums, a youth media program, the publication of a grassroots magazine, leadership workshops, technical assistance, marches and rallies, and creation of and collaboration in activist networks.

MAP 922 San Pedro
San Antonio, TX 78212
(210) 228-0201
fax: (210) 228-0000
email: esperanza@esperanzacenter.org

Gemini Ink

Gemini Ink is a nonprofit company that was established by two writer/teachers. The Writing Workshops, a counterpart to the Gemini Ink Reader's Theater and the Gemini Ink Writer-in-the-Community Program, offers classes in the study of psychology, philosophy, theater, and literature, as well as a variety of writing workshops emphasizing craft. Instructors, local and national, are highly credentialed and have a commitment to teaching. Classes are serious educational experiences, presented in a supportive, informal environment, appropriate for both novice and advanced writers, as well as anyone who enjoys books and good conversation. Equally important is the development of the Gemini Ink community, students and teachers who support art in literature.

P.O. Box 461106
San Antonio, TX 78246
(210) 826-6559

Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center

One of the nations largest facilities dedicated to the arts of the Latino/Chicano in the United States. Its programs are made up of Literature Program (Inter-American Bookfair) Dance Program (Various dance performances throughout the year) Media Arts Program (Cine-Festival film festival & annual film series) Xicano Music (Conjunto Festival & Performing Arts Series) Special Events Fundraising (Membership Drives & other special benefit events) Theatre Arts Program (Theatre Productions & Grupo Animo) Visual Arts Program (Exhibits & annual fundraiser)

MAP 1300 Guadalupe St.
San Antonio, TX 78207
(210) 351-7787

International Folk Culture Center

The objectives and purposes of the International Folk Culture Center are to promote international friendship and understanding through participation and sharing -- dance, cuisine, music -- (and related art and culture).

MAP Campus of Our Lady of the Lake University
411 S.W. 24th Street
San Antonio, TX 78207-4689
(210) 436-8888
fax (weekdays): (210) 436-8889
email: IFOLKCULTU@AOL.COM

San Antonio Department of Arts and Cultural Affairs

The City of San Antonio Department of Arts and Cultural Affairs is the local arts agency for San Antonio, and a partner in TCAnet, the statewide Internet network of the Texas Commission on the Arts.

San Antonio Living History Association

Do you love Texas history and the eternal story of the Alamo? Would you like to be a part of interpreting that history to visitors from around the world? Whether you are a re-enactor, a history buff, researcher, or a family descendant of early San Antonio or Texas,….you are invited to join the San Antonio Living History Association. Help support the development of living history interpretation and programs in schools and at historic sites in San Antonio and Texas. Receive the Béjar Dispatch newsletter and special membership offers from the Sutler’s Store. You will have fun while learning about Texas history. Whether you portray a Mexican Soldado, Texian Colonist, Tejano, U. S. Volunteer, or non-combatant, you can still be best friends with your worst historical enemies! Contact us and see!

5310 San Pedro
San Antonio, TX 78212
(210) 273-1730
email: salha8@yahoo.com

San Antonio Romance Authors

Want to write a book? Already written the Great American Romance Novel? Newbie or old pro --or book industry professional -- you're welcome at SARA. As Chapter # 41 of Romance Writers of America, we are dedicated to supporting and encouraging the romance genre.

P.O. Box 160818
San Antonio, TX 78230-3018
(210) 554-5792

San Antonio Watercolor Group

The San Antonio Watercolor Group (S.A.W.G). provides opportunities for all those interested in water media to study with the best instructors; to gather together often to paint, discuss, critique and enjoy; to present our work to nationally acclaimed artist/jurors, and then to San Antonio in a quality annual exhibition, thereby stimulating interest in and appreciation of watercolor. Since our beginning, interest in watercolor has grown nationally at an amazing rate, as has the quality of the work of our members. From a small nucleus of sixteen people, we're now over 400 strong and still growing!
P.O. Box 17383
San Antonio, TX 78218
email: sawg@artscape.com