Through the Looking Glass: Kelly O’Connor’s Invitation to Look
A pool opens in the earth, its blue depths broken into small, fitted pieces. Along the rim, pinks...
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Building a Crossborder Identity: Seme Jatib Breaks Boundaries in Dance
Laredo-born dancer and choreographer Seme Jatib explores crossborder identity through ambitious multidisciplinary performances in San Antonio, including November events honoring Martha Graham and the Luminaria Contemporary Arts Festival.
Texas Studio: Alexa Capareda Keeps Moving
Indefatigable Alexa. That’s the only way to describe Austin’s Alexa Capareda, whose professional artistic engagements include dancing, choreography, teaching, film, drawing, arts administration/organization, and now additionally, acting.
TX Studio: Candace Hicks’s Perfectly Practical Activism
“I'm sort of a frustrated writer, in a sense,” Candace Hicks tells me over Zoom. “And so, making artist books is a way of self-publishing. It’s also a way of making things permanent.”
Texas Studio: Ballet Artist Silas Farley Makes the Joyful Leap to Dallas
Silas Farley likes to joke that he’s the “ultimate ballet nerd.”
Texas Studio: Amanda Reyes is Working through It Onstage
On a warm Texas night, the cicadas buzz in harmony with the actors at Hip Pocket Theatre in Fort Worth.
Imagination and Experience: Nathaniel Donnett Teases Out the Threads
“I think about how a traditional painting is compressed unto itself,” Nathaniel Donnett explained. “The object, ground, surface, texture, subject or non-subject, and the process of applying a substance that could be considered as paint.”
Texas Studio: Listening Intently with Yvonne Chen
Houston-based pianist Yvonne Chen seems to be doing everything everywhere all at once.
TX Studio: Emotions and Meaning Surface in Jessica Halonen’s Artworks
When Jessica Halonen answers my phone call from her studio in San Antonio, I’m dying to ask her about one thing: poison.
Farima Fooladi Paints as an Act of Preservation
Swimming pools, tennis courts, a bridge, an arch, her daughter’s toy blocks are all recurring images in Iranian-born artist Farima Faloodi’s paintings and installations.
Finding His Niche: Actor/Playwright Parker Davis Gray Carves Out His Place
Parker Davis Gray is not afraid to be weird. The SMU theater grad has played silly, sinister, sympathetic, and sometimes just plain psychotic on basically every professional stage in Dallas-Fort Worth since 2016; if he’s not taking a risk, he’s not satisfied.
TX Studio: Héctor Guzmán Conducts a Life
There are certain moments in life that we look back upon and realize how pivotal they were. For Héctor Guzmán, it happened one evening in his early 20s after giving a performance of an organ concerto.