Published: June 30, 2021
Artist and fashion designer Agosto Cuellar recalls growing up on San Antonio’s West Side in a home that was often packed with family eating and playing together, noise and vibrant conversation a constant. Out-side, the vivid sights and sounds of the historic neighborhood shaped his view of the world and have continued to influence his work, including his latest collection, Barrio Folk Baroque, which showed in New York and Paris.
“I lived in the projects and remember it as my formative years,” Agosto says. “As a kid, I was enthralled by the vatos with their tattoos and wife beaters and the girls, all chola, with their heavy makeup, sitting on the hoods of cars playing `70s music. It was a village of all people of color. Don’t get me wrong, there was a lot of gang violence and families fighting with each other, but it was a much simpler time… Sometimes it’s very subtle, but (the West Side) is always present in the work I create.”
Texmaniacs With Santiago Jimenez Will Perform at The Guadalupe Theater This Thursday
The performance is part of the 39th Annual Tejano Conjunto Festival.by BWW News Desk
A segment of the virtual 39th Annual Tejano Conjunto Festival concert featuring Los Texmaniacs and Santiago Jimenez will be pre-recorded this Thursday, May 20, 2021 at 7:00pm at the Guadalupe Theater, 1301 Guadalupe St, San Antonio, TX 78207. Parking is located on Brazos St. in the back of the theater.
The rest of the concert will be streamed live on Saturday, May 22, 2021 from 7pm to 12am from the historic Guadalupe Theater in San Antonio. This annual festival is the first and longest-running Conjunto Festival in the country and is widely recognized as the most influential event for this critical Texas musical tradition. Reflecting the demands of social distancing because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the 39th Annual Tejano Conjunto Festival in 2021 will be a live-streamed music event accessible around the world.
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The citywide nighttime contemporary Arts Festival called Luminaria now has a new director, Yadhira Lozano. Her participation in the arts goes way back.
“My brother and I were in the Harlandale Mariachi in the ’80s. Art and culture has always been part of my life. That s been part of my career, and it s just something that I ve always loved to do,” she said.
Lozano graduated college in Los Angeles at the University of Southern California, then worked at a series of different arts organizations, capped by her time as Public Relations Director at LA’s Autry Museum of the American West.