Friday, April 27, 12:45 pm
Downtown San Antonio
Miles and Miles of Texas – Deep in the Art of Texas - Antique Car Entry
Saturday, May 5, 1 pm to 4 pm
Landa Library
In conjunction with the Landa Garden Conservancy’s Landa Month.
Thursday, May 17, 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm
San Antonio Central Library
Beauty in Art: 21st Century Interpretations
Curated by Patricia Ruiz-Healy. Runs through June 23.
Wednesday, May 23, 7:00 pm to Midnight
San Antonio Public Library Foundation fundraiser (dinner, dancing/dance lessons) in celebration of The Baroque World of Fernando Botero exhibitions and related community activities – in conjunction with the Botero: Beloved Artist of the Americas project. Proceeds support the Library Foundation’s work to add books, materials and technology to the Library system. Table Levels: (1) $10,000; (2) $5,000 and (3) $2,500 (sold out). Tables seat 10 individuals. Individual tickets: $250 per person. Call 210.225-4728, ext. 11.
Saturday, May 26, 10 am to 4 pm
Southwest School of Art & Craft and San Antonio Museum of Art
The city welcomes the art and energy of Fernando Botero with a festival between the Southwest School of Art & Craft and the San Antonio Museum of Art. Festival-goers can park at either the Southwest School Augusta Street location or near the Museum. The exhibition is divided between the two institutions, with 60 of the sculptures and paintings at the Museum and 40 drawings, paintings and smaller sculptures at the Southwest School. On opening day, admission is free at both.
Saturday, May 26, 10 am
The highlight of the morning will be the official opening of the exhibition, The Baroque World of Fernando Botero. Come dance to Colombian music and taste the treats of the artists homeland.
Southwest School of Art & Craft
Saturday, May 26, 1 pm to 4 pm
Paint, draw and sculpt as you are inspired by the works of Fernando Botero. Families can join in the fun! Working with artists Susie Monday, Zet Baer, Laurel Bodinus and Eric Reyna, you can make a Guiro, the traditional instrument and play along with Colombian Vallenato music; paint like the Masters -- Botero and the Old Masters; draw your own version of a big, bountiful, beautiful tropical fruit bowl; design a Botero-esque puppet and put it on the puppet stage; create a small model of a Botero-styled sculpture; make a Sombrero Vueltiao, the traditional Colombian hat and paint your face to look like a Botero portrait ; plus learn about the culture of Botero's country as you visit with members of the Asociación Amigos de Colombia.
Saturday, May 26, 11 am to 4 pm
Museum free all day in honor of grand opening of the exhibition
The Rotund World of Fernando Botero
11 am to 3 pm
Children and families will have the opportunity to explore drawing techniques similar to Botero’s style. Join artists Cruz Ortiz, Jennifer Agricola and Terry Ibanez to learn more about Botero’s style and influences while celebrating Colombian culture.
Family Activity
The Rotund World of Fernando Botero
11 am to 3 pm
Children and families will have the opportunity to explore drawing techniques similar to Botero’s style. Join artists Cruz Ortiz, Jennifer Agricola and Terry Ibanez to learn more about Botero’s style and influences while celebrating Colombian culture.
Gallery Talk
From Grotesque to Rotund: The Allure of Botero’s Style
Noon to 1 pm
Gina McDaniel Tarver will present a gallery talk on the early works of Fernando Botero. Beginning with his early drawings, Tarver will discuss Botero’s work while placing him in the context of Colombian art and examining how he settled on his characteristic style. The recipient of a Fulbright grant, Gina McDaniel Tarver has lived and worked in Bogotá, Colombia and has taught art history at the University of Texas at Austin and Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas. In addition, she has worked at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and the Blanton Museum of Art of the University of Texas at Austin.
Concert
Vallenatos de Mi Tierra
Noon to 3 pm
Traveling from Austin, this musical group will play traditional Colombian vallenato and cumbia music in the Great Hall.
Public Tour
Docent-led tour of Fernando Botero: Beloved Artist of the Americas
2 pm to 3 pm
Gallery Talk
Ruben Cordova will present a gallery talk on the work of Fernando Botero.
3 pm to 4pm
Thursday, June 28, 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm
San Antonio Central Library
Featuring works by San Antonio artist, Gilbert Duran. Runs through July 28.
The Baroque World of Fernando Botero
Sundays—May 27, June 10, June 24, July 22, August 5; All tours start at 2 pm
Free with exhibition admission
Sunday, August 19 (Last day of exhibition)
Tours at 2 pm and 3 pm
Free with exhibition admission
June 9 – July 21, see times and locations below
In collaboration with exhibits at the San Antonio Museum of Art and the Southwest School of Art & Craft, free events for families will be held at local branch libraries. The day includes informational fun, educational activities and hands-on projects, including painting, sculpture, ideas about art in social protest, Colombian art and culture, style and stylization, studio practice and Botero’s life as an artist.
Saturday, June 9, July 14, August 11
2 pm to 4 pm
Free with museum and exhibit admission.
Children and families will have the opportunity to explore drawing techniques similar to Botero's style. Join local artist Jorge Garza and create your own corpulent figures every second Saturday in June, July, and August. Attendance is limited to 15, so arrive early to ensure your participation. Participants are encouraged to bring their own sketchpads and pencils. Meet at the front desk.
June 19 - 22, 10 am to 3 pm
San Antonio Museum of Art
$40 fee, 20 hours credit, call to register: 210.978.8138
This 20 hour Educator Workshop will provide multi-disciplinary educational resources that K-12 educators will be able to use in their classrooms. Compare and contrast the use of scale and volume in Botero’s massive, rotund figures with the work of other sculptors such as Giacometti, Brancusi, and Segal. Sculptural techniques for the Pre-K through 12 classroom such as clay and plaster gauze will be introduced in hands-on sessions, as well as the link between two and three-dimensional works, and the use of space in writing poetry and prose.
Southwest School of Art & Craft, see dates below
Stylized Figurative Drawing
July 21 - 22, Adults and Teens
This 2-day workshop will explore exaggerated proportions of the human figure, interpret line in voluminous, curvy forms, and draw situational compositions with humor, wit or social commentary. Led by Karl Frey, an editorial cartoonist, whose work is currently published in LA and Boston newspapers. Tuition, $140. Call 224-1848 to register.
Botero Chess Set
July 23 - July 27, Ages 8-12
Students will select characters to create life-size (or close) sculptural chess pieces concentrating on Botero’s stylized curved forms. Part of Summer Art Camp, tuition is required. Call 224-1848 for details or to register.
Botero Style
August 1 - August 10, Ages 7-10
Students will explore, draw, paint and sculpt as they learn about Botero and create stylized works which exaggerate, simplify, or symbolize. Part of Summer Art Camp, tuition is required. Call 224-1848 for details or to register.
Sunday, July 15, 3pm
San Antonio Museum of Art, Auditorium. Free with Museum admission.
Fernando Botero's international appeal rests largely with his immediately recognized style. He has applied his "inflated" stylization to subjects ranging from art historical precedents to scenes of political turmoil in contemporary life. Dr. Bacigalupi explores the ways in which Botero's stylizations borrow from and resonate with other artists' uniquely exaggerated styles, from Old Masters to cutting-edge contemporary artists.
Don Bacigalupi, Ph.D.
President, Director, and CEO
Toledo Museum of Art
Dr. Don Bacigalupi joined the Toledo Museum of Art in November 2003. Previously he was Executive Director at the San Diego Museum of Art, and Director and Chief Curator at the Blaffer Gallery, the Art Museum of the University of Houston. He was also Curator of Contemporary Art at the San Antonio Museum of Art, and taught Art History at the University of Texas and the University of Houston.
Dr. Bacigalupi received his Ph.D. in Art History from the University of Texas at Austin, with concentrations in post-War American art, popular culture and critical theory. He has a great passion for education through the arts and has produced exhibitions addressing aesthetic, social, political, and historical issues. In the several communities he has worked, he has championed award-winning educational outreach programs, serving inner-city youth, with remarkable results.
Don considers himself foremost an educator and places high value on the opportunity that museums have to provide meaningful and inspirational interactions between artworks and individuals. He is a firm believer in the “life-changing” powers of art.
Tuesday, June 19, 6:30 pm
Auditorium. Free.
Best known for his bright, ebullient images of people, places and things, Fernando Botero has also produced an extensive body of works addressing darker themes, particularly the hot-button political issues of street crime, violence, war, oppression and terror. In this talk, David Ebony, Associate Managing Editor and News Editor of Art in America and the author of the recent book Botero: Abu Ghraib (Prestel 2006) examines these controversial and rarely shown works, which are a key part of Botero’s extensive oeuvre. Ebony will explore the provocative images of the artist’s stunning “Abu Ghraib” series as well as earlier pieces in which Botero addressed the violence in his native Colombia. Botero’s endeavor will also be considered here as an important contribution to a long and noble tradition of artistic treatment of the themes of violence and oppression in works by artists ranging from Goya, Picasso and the Mexican Muralists, to work by Botero’s contemporaries.
Botero on Botero: Form and Content in His Own Words
Tuesday, June 26, 6:30pm
San Antonio Museum of Art, Cowden Gallery
Free
Gemini Ink will present a one-person dramatic reader's performance using Botero's own words about the making of art and life--his own and others. The performance will be in English and Spanish.
Airs on Thursday, April 12 at 9 pm and Saturday, May 26 at 8 pm on KLRN-TV
Fernando Botero: The Rebel is an insightful and engaging film that invites the viewer into the world of Latin America’s most celebrated artist. Learn about his childhood in Medellín, his first drawings, his journeys to Europe, his triumphs in New York, and his thoughts on life, art, and being Fernando Botero.
Airs on Friday, April 27 at 10 pm; Saturday, May 26 at 9 pm; Sunday, May 27 at 3:30 am; and Thursday, May 31 at 5 am on KLRN-TV
A lively discussion about the artist and the exhibition coming to San Antonio. Hosted by Teresa Niño, with guest Marion Oettinger, Jr., the Betty and Bob Kelso Director of the San Antonio Museum of Art.
SPONSORS:
In San Antonio, the exhibition is made possible through the generous sponsorship of the AT&T Foundation. Additional significant support has also been provided by the Robert J. and Helen C. Kleberg Foundation and the Kronkosky Charitable Foundation. The partners also recognize and appreciate the services of Bromley Communications, the El Tropicano Ricerwalk Holiday Inn and the support of the Edouard Foundation.
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