Justin Boyd is a Landscape artist living in San Antonio. He received his BFA from the University of Texas at San Antonio, and his MFA from the California Institute of Arts. He is currently the Chair of the Sculpture and Integrated Media at the Southwest School of Art has received an Artist Foundation Grant, Artpace Travel Grant, was a finalist for the Arthouse Texas Prize, and has had the privilege of participating in numerous solo and group exhibitions.

Andréa Caillouet’s understated videos and installations dwell upon commonplace subjects that reveal the equilibrium of the human condition. Acting as a catalyst for meditation, her site-specific interventions employ the minutiae of everyday life, guiding viewers toward introspective interaction with her works. In Fortune, 2004, the artist inserted 1,000 folded cards, each printed with the words “longing” and “belonging,” into randomly selected library books. This emotive intervention disrupted the otherwise contemplative setting of a library, making those who discovered the cards oddly self-aware. The project thus transcends the conventional artist/viewer exchange to make evident the universal language of associative memory.
Andréa Caillouet received her MFA in Painting from the University of Texas at San Antonio in 1999. She has presented projects at Sala Diaz (2004) and artWHERE? (2002), in San Antonio, TX. Her work has been included in Projections: Contemporary Video and Film, Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX (2003); Tech Talk: Mediated Images, The Dallas Center for Contemporary Art, TX (2003); and 2001 New Orleans Triennial, New Orleans Museum of Art, LA (2001).

Born in 1970 in Somerville, NJ, Nate Cassie lives and works in San Antonio, TX. Cassie holds a BA from Hope College in Holland, Michigan, and an M.F.A. in Sculpture from the University of Texas at San Antonio. Cassie has exhibited one-person shows at the Satellite Space, San Antonio; and Carrington Gallagher Fine Art, San Antonio. He has also participated in group exhibitions in a number of San Antonio art spaces including Sala Diaz, Cactus Bra, Blue Star Art Space and 1203 Art Space.

Alex de Leon was a long-time resident of San Antonio who was born in Edinburg, Texas in 1959 and died in 2012.  After receiving a B.F.A. in Printmaking from the Kansas City Art Institute in 1983, he turned his attention to ceramics for which he is best known. La Luz Jesus Gallery in Los Angeles, Fergus Fernandez Gallery in Houston, and Milagros Contemporary Art, San Angel Gallery, and the Southwest School of Art (then the Southwest Crafts Center) in San Antonio have mounted solo exhibitions of de León’s work. His designs have been featured on The Bob Newhart Show and The Tracy Ullman Show, as well as in the motion pictures Six Degrees of Separation, Reversal of Fortune, and Madonna’s Truth or Dare.

Ken Little was born in 1947 in Canyon Texas. He was a graduate in the first Bachelor of Fine Arts class at Texas Tech University in 1970. He went on to earn a Masters of Fine Arts at the University of Utah in 1972. Since 1972 he has held tenured positions at major universities, including The University of Montana at Missoula, The University of Oklahoma in Norman. Since 1988 he has been a professor of Art in Sculpture at The University of Texas at San Antonio.
Ken Little is a nationally recognized artist who has been granted two Visual Arts Fellowships by the National Endowment for the Arts in1982 and 1989. Since 1993, he has maintained a working studio and Rrose Amarillo, an alternative exhibition space in downtown San Antonio. His work in various media has been shown extensively both nationally and internationally. In south Texas he has exhibited at such venues as Finesilver Gallery, The Southwest School of Art and Craft, and the Blue Star Contemporary where he was a board member from 1989 to 1995.
Over the years, Little’s work has been featured in over 40 one person exhibitions in national and international venues such as: The Washington Project for the Arts, Washington DC; The John Michael Kohler arts Center in Sheboygan Wisconsin; The Forum for Contemporary Art, St. Louis; Diverse Works in Houston; and The Honolulu Academy of the Arts. His work has also been featured in over 200 group exhibitions at institutions like: The Contemporary Art Museum in Houston; The Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, DC; and The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
Little also happens to be a songwriter and a performer. He plays guitar and sings in two bands, Rodeo Ho Ho and the Swingbillies. He has one CD out titled, “Simple America” which contains his original material. Look for band dates on the website soon.

Whether making a mark on paper, a sculpture for the gallery wall, or an intervention in the public realm, San Antonio-based Ethel Shipton challenges context and draws on the power of the unexpected. In one series, she upholsters basketball hoops, skateboards, baseballs, and axes with colorful vinyl, boldly feminizing traditionally masculine objects. For a public commission at a newly built San Antonio bus transfer, Shipton tinted the station’s windows blue, yellow, red, and green, and applied the words “GRACE,” “LISTEN,” “TALK,” and “FORWARD.” These evocative gestures both softened and activated the otherwise stagnant waiting room, encouraging interaction between the waiting strangers.
Shipton’s work has been featured in solo exhibitions at venues throughout San Antonio, TX, including RC Gallery (2001); Cactus Bra Gallery (2000); and Sala Diaz (2000). Her recent group projects include Stitch in Time, Women and Their Work, Austin, TX (2005); Piecework, Dallas Center for Contemporary Art, TX (2004); and Analia Segal and Ethel Shipton: Feminizing forms?, Finesilver Gallery, San Antonio, TX (2003). In 1999-2000 the artist was director of The Project Room Space, San Antonio, Texas.

Karen Mahaffy’s digital videos, cut paper works, and installations deconstruct the differences between movement and stillness, interior and exterior, past and present. Her work “serve[s] as a reminder of the exquisite contained within the ordinary … [and seeks] to capture that which exposes otherwise passed-over moments.”
Mahaffy received her MFA from The University of Texas at San Antonio in 1996. She currently teaches at Palo Alto College, San Antonio, TX. Her one and two-person exhibitions in San Antonio include Unit B Gallery (2007), McNay Art Museum (2005), and Sala Diaz 2005). Mahaffy’s work has been featured in exhibitions such as Impossible Exchange, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, Texas (2006); The Stray Show Art Fair, Chicago, Illinois (2004); and Beyond the Academy, ArtHouse Jones Center for Contemporary Art, Austin, Texas (2003). In 2006, she participated in the Red Gate Gallery Residency Program, Beijing, China. In 2004, she was the recipient of a Fulbright Group Travel Grant to China.

Juan Miguel Ramos holds an MFA from the University of Texas at San Antonio and teaches photography and drawing at Northwest Vista Community College, San Antonio, TX. Truly a product of San Antonio’s art education, Ramos began his training at the age of eight, when he attended the Southwest School of Arts and Crafts. Subsequently, he studied at the San Antonio Art Institute, the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center and earned his BFA from the University of Texas at San Antonio.
Ramos’ work has exhibited nationally and has been featured in individual exhibitions at Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin, TX; Sala Diaz, Cactus Bra Art Space, and the UTSA Satellite Space, San Antonio, TX.

Randy Wallace’s conceptually driven performances and interactive sculptures utilize play to discomforting ends. Like carnival events gone awry, his installations involve viewers in games of give-and-take that cultivate the awkward. For Tosser (2005) the artist constructed a booth that instructed perplexed participants to “offer” the attendant a personal item, story, or secret. In exchange they could try their hand at a ring toss, throw darts at a balloon, or soak the artist. For Flat Mac (2005) Wallace painted a plywood casket with festive red and white stripes and printed on its lid: Carry Me Out Flat, Bury Me Standing. Heightening the sense of macabre spectacle, the contraption was theatrically lit and threatened to spill its contents while rolling down the incline upon which it was propped.
Randy Wallace received his MFA from The University of Texas at San Antonio, TX, in 2000. He has had solo projects at Blue Star Contemporary Art Center (2005); McNay Art Museum (2005); and Sala Diaz (2004), all in San Antonio, TX. His work has been included in exhibitions such as Southern Space Project, Southern Music Building (2005); New Stars/CAM 19 (2004); and CAM Billboard Project (2005), all in San Antonio, TX.