Artpace invites you to join us for the opening of our Spring 2025 Resident Artist exhibitions on Thursday, March 20, 2025, from 6–9 PM, featuring an artist talk at 6:30PM. Selected by Guest Curator Jami Powell, artists Laura Veles Drey, Anita Fields, and Lorena Molina will debut new works created during their Artpace residency. The evening will also include a live Cumbia performance.
If you can’t attend in person, join us via livestream on our Facebook page starting at 6:30 PM.
We’re thrilled for the public to experience the incredible work these artists have created during their time in San Antonio, and we hope to see you there!
Special thanks to Künstler Brewing for providing refreshments.
This event is free and open to the public. Complimentary wine and beer will be available for guests 21+.
Location: Artpace San Antonio | 445 N Main Ave | Free parking at 513 N Flores
Residency: January 27, 2025 – March 27, 2025
Opening Reception: March 20, 2025 | 6–9 PM
Exhibitions on View: March 20 – July 13, 2025
Artpace San Antonio announces the selection for our Spring 2025 International Artists-in-Residence. Our Spring 2025 Guest Curator, Jami Powell, the Associate Director for Curatorial Affairs and Curator of Indigenous Art at the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College, has selected: Laura Veles Drey (Houston, Texas), Anita Fields( Stillwater, Oklahoma), and Lorena Molina (San Francisco, California).
The Spring 2025 Resident Artists will begin their residency on January 27, 2024, with a Welcome Dinner on Thursday, January 30, from 6–8PM. Their exhibitions will open to the public on Thursday, March 20, 2025 and will be on view until July 13, 2025.
Laura Veles Drey is a visual artist born, raised, and based in Houston, Texas. Her artwork, writing, and performances are rooted in experiences with identity, histories, and generational storytelling of home and belonging. She explores the complexities of race, class, labor, geography, government, and economics. Drey holds an M.F.A. in Studio Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a B.A. (Honors) from the University of St. Thomas, Houston, TX. She has exhibited and performed her art nationally and internationally. In 2019, her project “Unsettled Space—by Way of Crops” received support from the Warhol Foundation’s Idea Fund Grant. She has also participated in residencies at the Arquetopia Foundation and International Residency in Oaxaca, Mexico, in 2019, was nominated as the Artist on Site at the Asia Society Texas Center in 2020/21, and held an artist residency at Poor Farm Experiment Research Residency: Living In The Play, Manawa, Wisconsin in 2024. https://www.lauradreyart.com
Anita Fields (Born in Oklahoma) is a contemporary multi-disciplinary artist and citizen of the Osage Nation. Her sculptures of clay ,textile, and installation explore the intricacies of cultural influences at the intersections of balance and chaos.
Her sculptures have been featured in many solo and group exhibitions, including the Counterpublic 2023 St. Louis Triennial, St. Louis, Missouri, Form and Relation: Contemporary Native Ceramics, Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, the 2018-2020 Hearts of Our People, Minneapolis Institute of Art, and the 2018 Art for A New Understanding: Native Voices, 1950’s to Now at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.
Her work can be found in several collections, such as the Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian, the Museum of Art and Design, New York City, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, and the Heard Museum, Arizona.
Fields is 2017-2023 Tulsa Artist Fellowship alumni. She was named a 2021 National Endowment of the Arts Heritage Fellow and received a 2021 Anonymous Was a Woman award. In 2022 she received a Francis J Greenburger award. https://www.anitafieldsart.com
Lorena Molina is a Salvadoran multidisciplinary artist, educator and curator. She is an Assistant Professor of Studio Art Practice at San Francisco State University. She’s also the founder and the director of Third Space Gallery, a community space and gallery that supports and highlights BIPOC artists.
Through the use of photography, video, performance and installation, she explores identity, intimacy, pain, and how we witness the suffering of others. The work interrogates relationships and the formation of relationships as political acts that are guided by negotiations of power and privilege.
At the core of her work is an exploration of spatial inequalities and the challenges that oppressed groups face in constructing place and establishing a sense of belonging. The work is driven by a deep sense of displacement experienced after a 12-year-old civil war forced her and her family to migrate to the United States. Most of her work stems from a need to find and build community in a way that it’s both tender, accountable, challenging through difficult conversations that makes everybody involved actively question their position and privileges in society.
Her current work looks at identity in the margins. She views the margins both as a place where extreme violence and pain happens, but also as a place for resisting, dreaming, healing, and thriving.
She received her Master of Fine Art degree from the University of Minnesota in 2015 and her Bachelor of Fine Art from California State University, Fullerton, in 2012. Molina has been a recipient of the Diversity of Views and Experiences fellowship, The Christopher Cardozo Fellowship, (Two) Truth and Reconciliation grant from Artswave, The Idea Fund, and The Kala Art Institute fellowship. She has exhibited and performed both nationally and internationally, such as the Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, The Kemper Museum, Southeast Museum of Photography, The Rubin Center,, The Carnegie, Covington, KY, Vox Populi, FSU Museum of Fine Arts, EXPO Chicago, The Armory, The Delaplaine Art Center, The Beijing Film Academy and all over the piazzas of Florence, Italy. https://www.lorenamolina.com
