Sound and visual artist, Luz María Sánchez, was born in Guadalajara, Mexico where she studied both music and literature. Through her doctoral studies at the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, she focused on the role of sound in art since its mechanical inception in the 19th century.
Working with both sound and moving images, Sánchez’s pieces are arranged to envelop the subject in a sensorial experience while preserving a feeling of physical immediacy. Her work operates in the political sphere, working with themes like the Mexican diaspora, violence in the Americas and the failure of the nation-state. Luz María Sánchez is a San Antonio resident who splits her time between San Antonio and Mexico City.
Her work has been included in major sound and music festivals such as Zéppellin Sound Art Festival, Spain; Bourges International Festival of Electronic Music and Sonic Art, France; Festival Internacional de Arte Sonoro, Mexico; and Tsonami International Sound Art Festival, Valparaiso; as well as exhibitions at the McNay Art Museum, San Antonio; the Dallas Contemporary; Galería de la Raza, San Francisco; Mexic-arte Museum, Austin, TX; John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI; Illinois State Museum, Chicago and Springfield; Centro de Cultura Contemporánea, Barcelona; Palacio de Cultura Banamex, Mexico City; X-Teresa Arte Actual, Mexico City; Museo de Ciencias y Artes, Mexico City; and Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca.
In 2014 she received the first prize award for the inaugural Biennial de las Fronteras, and “Riverbank” and “2487” entered the collection of the Linda Pace Foundation. In 2015 she was awarded the prestigious national grant Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte by the National Institute of Arts and Culture in Mexico.
*Arts Member of the National System of Art Creators

Cruz Ortiz uses print, performance, and video to embrace issues relating to his experience growing up in the bicultural landscape of South Texas. Replacing classical icons with symbols of contemporary pop culture such as taco trucks, canned beans, and an alter ego named Spaztek, Ortiz’s work maintains a tense relationship with consumerism and his heritage. One is never sure whether he is selling an idea, a product, or a revolution.
While much of Ortiz’s work has focused on the idea and efficacy of protests in the post-Civil Rights era, a related strain explores the type of melancholic love sung about in Conjunto, Tejano, and Country music. Through videos and prints Spaztek futilely chases amor just as protestors long to create change. With a methodological approach that often forsakes institutional space for guerilla tactics and public outreach, Ortiz’s work is multi-layered, cross-cultural, and unconventionally charged.Born in Houston, TX in 1972, Cruz Ortiz lives in San Antonio, TX, where he received his BFA from The University of Texas at San Antonio in 2000. Solo shows include Dallas Center for Contemporary Art, TX (2003) and the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, San Antonio, TX (2001). Group exhibitions include ev+a, Limerick, Ireland (2005); San Juan Triennial, Puerto Rico (2004); and San Antonio Museum of Art, TX (2001).
Cruz Ortiz also participated in the Winter 2005 Hudson (Show)Room Exhibition Spanglish.

Born in England and based in San Antonio, Rae Culbert examines world history and politics in installations crafted from found objects. Constructing inhospitable environments that exude the dank aura of crime scenes, Culbert turns viewers into detectives who seek clues among the scattered detritus, aided only by the works’ allusive titles. In interpreting installations like Son of Star Wars: An Homage to Ronald Reagan (2000), visitors find themselves caught in a web of nonsensical, fragmentary narratives that evoke the senselessness of terrorism and violence and American politicians’ complicity in them.

Gary Sweeney appropriates commercial signage and found objects to create paintings, sculptures, and installations that humorously confront controversial topics. In his text-based compositions, he often uses linguistic puzzles and famous quotations to question the progress of society. The artist mocks the patterns of social Darwinism and exposes the discrepancies and contradictions in current governmental, economic, and social milieux.
Sweeney received an MFA from the University of California at Irvine in 1975. Solo exhibitions of his work have been held at Lawndale Art Center, Houston, Texas (2003); Robischon Gallery, Denver, Colorado (2002); and Tokyo Project, Japan (2002). He has participated in numerous group exhibitions, including New American Talent, ArtHouse, Austin, Texas (2004); Word, University of Dallas, Irving, Texas (2003); and Texas Biennial, The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas (2001).

Ann-Michéle Morales’ drawings and sculptures comically delineate societal patterns, fixations, and customs. The artist employs a methodical approach, beginning with the careful study of a contemporary topic, next demarcating its many facets, and ultimately presenting the issue using humor and metaphor.
Morales received her MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois in 1997. Her work has been included in exhibitions such as The Dream of a Red Chamber Masquerade Ball, White Box Gallery, New York, NY (2008); La Sala de Arte Latina, Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin, TX (2008); Spanglish, Artpace, San Antonio, TX (2005); and CAM 19: New Stars, Finesilver Gallery, San Antonio, TX (2004). She has participated in numerous residencies including, Serie Print Project, Coronado Studios, Austin, TX (2004); Chinati Foundation, Marfa, TX (1999); and Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Maine (1997).

Ricky Armendariz (b. 1969, El Paso, Texas) was raised on the U.S.-Mexico border, a region that heavily influenced his artistic, aesthetic, and conceptual ideas. Images that have cultural, biographical and art historical references are carved and burned into the surface of the paintings, drawings, and woodblocks. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from The University of Texas at San Antonio (1995), and his Master of Fine Arts from the University of Colorado at Boulder (1999). Armendariz is currently a Professor of Art at The University of Texas at San Antonio. In 2008, he received the Artpace Supplemental Travel Grant for travel to Mexico City, Mexico and in 2013 was an artist in residence at Kunstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin Germany. In 2017 he was the first artist in residence at the DoSeum in San Antonio, TX; and in 2018 at the Anderson Ranch Residency in Snowmass Village, CO. He has exhibited at the Denver Art Museum, The Dallas Contemporary, The Blue Star Art Center in San Antonio, and Mexic-Arte Museum in Austin. International exhibitions include: Liminal Space, DMZ Museum, South Korea (2018), Common Wounds, Bethlehem and Tel Aviv (2005), and SINAPSIS at the Galeria Corriente Alterna in Lima, Peru, sponsored by the United States Embassy in Lima (2002) and “New Prints” Kunstlerhaus Bethanien , Berlin Germany (2013), Texas Contemporary Art”, Lalit Kala Academy, National Academy of Art, New Delhi, India(2015). He is in the permanent collections of San Antonio Museum of Art, McNay Art Museum, Denver Art Museum, Davis Museum, Wellesley College, Massachusetts and the Bush International Airport Houston Art Collection, and the Cheech Marin Collection

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I’ve been the lead graphic artist at a history and science museum, an architecture firm and numerous cultural organizations.
My clients in private practice have included the Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, CAM Contemporary Art Month, Luminaria, the Museo Alameda and numerous music festivals and special events.
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