San Antonio s ‘The Last Parade’ mural honors indigenous cultures, underground artists click to enlarge San Antonio Heron / Ben Olivo “The Last Parade” is on display on the side of the Kress building.
“The Last Parade” by muralist Rudy Herrera is the latest downtown public art project to be completed as part of Centro San Antonio’s “Art Everywhere” initiative. Standing 70 feet wide and roughly 100 feet tall, Herrera portrays integral aspects of his life in vibrant colors, honoring his wife, son and his heritage in the abstract work on the side of the Kress building on East Houston Street. Symbolism flows through the eclectic colors chosen by Herrera. The mural portrays a Native American woman, her heart as a guiding light, riding a blue deer, w
Huge mural completed by San Antonio artist who is afraid of heights
“The Last Parade,” by Rudy Herrera, is part of Centro’s Art Everywhere. Muralists Ana Hernandez, Ashley Alvarez and Crystal Tamez helped Herrera overcome his fear. Author: Erin Rodriguez (KENS 5) Published: 10:51 AM CDT May 9, 2021 Updated: 11:34 AM CDT May 10, 2021
SAN ANTONIO If you stand too close, you may strain your neck looking at Rudy Herrera s latest downtown art work which spans the nine-story historic Kress building. But just imagine if you were Herrera, who is afraid of heights, and had to push through to get the job done.
Herrera spent about five weeks, from 9 a.m. to midnight, seven days a week on his labor of love, also known as The Last Parade for Centro San Antonio. He had help of course, but the emotional support of fellow muralists Ana Hernandez, Ashley Alvarez and Crystal Tamez, was just as important as the physical support of a fou
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“Keep Calm Et Macar-On” seemed like such a simple, fun sentiment when artist Kathy Sosa painted it in five pastel colors on the side of the downtown building that houses French bakery, La Boulangerie, as part of the Art Everywhere initiative. After photos of it began to blanket social media feeds and attract locals to visit the bakery and linger below the mural in the parking lot, Centro San Antonio’s Andi Rodriguez knew they were onto something. The organization’s vice president of cultural placemaking, Rodriguez had recently launched the Art Everywhere initiative meant to bring more public art to downtown. “There was a joyous response,” she says. So despite the pandemic and social unrest of the year, “we decided to push forward with the arts.” By the close of last year, 10 projects had been installed throughout downtown from “SA is Amor” by Martha Martinez Flores to a poem written on the street around Travis Park by Andrea “Vocab” Sanderson to a student mura
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