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June 19, 2018

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Anjali Gupta to be Spare Parts MINI ART MUSEUM’s 2018 – 2019 Featured Curator!

Anjali Gupta, Age 3. Photo Courtesy of Ms. Gupta, a.k.a. Mom.

We are excited to announce that Anjali Gupta, who many of you know as the Director of Sala Diaz and residency program Casa Chuck, will be the Spare Parts MINI ART MUSEUM’s 2018 – 2019 Featured Curator!

Anjali Gupta is a critic, curator, editor and video producer based in San Antonio. Gupta became Director/Curator of Sala Diaz in January 2015, and continues to run the organization’s residency program Casa Chuck (2011- ). Prior to this, she was Executive Director (2008-2010) and Editor-in-Chief (2003-2010) of Art Lies, a contemporary art quarterly published in Houston. Her writing has appeared in numerous print periodicals such as Art Asia Pacific, Art Papers, artUS, Punk Planet and tema celeste, in online publications Glasstire, …might be good and uber.com, as well as in catalogues including Blanton Museum of Art: American Art Since 1900 (2007), Beers, Steers & Queers: The Texas Biennial (2007), Chuck Ramirez: Minimally Baroque (2011), America’s Finest: Recent Works by Vincent Valdez (David Shelton Gallery, 2013) and Sara Frantz: In Search of the Vernacular (Women & Their Work, 2015). Book editing projects include the AMA award-winning monograph Thomas Glassford: CADÁVER EXQUISITO (UNAM, 2007), Silvia Gruner: Un Chant d’Amour (Sala de Arte Publico Siqueiros, 2008), Colin de Land/American Fine Arts Co. (co-edited with Dennis Balk, powerHouse Books, 2008), Unpacking the Collection (Museum of Contemporary Craft, 2008), Chuck Ramirez: Minimally Baroque and Manuel Espinosa (Colección Espinosa, 2013).  

Gupta’s video credits include producing and/or editing projects for Edgar Arceneaux, Candice Breitz, Kendell Geers, Henrik Plenge Jakobsen, Christian Jankowski, Jorge Macchi, Susan Philipsz, Paul Pfeiffer, Shahzia Sikander, Yutaka Sone, Andre Stitt, Survival Research Labs and Jeremy Deller’s Turner Prize-winning Memory Bucket (2004). She has curated many exhibitions and interdisciplinary events in her own art spaces (The Wong Spot 1 & 2, Ellis Bean, 811 Lounge, The Honey Factory and the Wiggle Room) as well as in other venues including Jason Singleton (test site, Austin, TX, 2004), Roy Stanfield: Armacell (The Lab, NYC, 2004), Critics Select (The Shore Institute of Contemporary Art (Long Branch, NJ, 2005), Michele Monseau: Gone Again (Blue Star Contemporary, San Antonio, TX, 2007) and Ballad of the Non-specific Object (David Shelton Gallery, San Antonio, TX, 2011).

In 2004 & 2005, she was Assistant Director of Contemporary Art Month San Antonio, an annual, month-long, citywide celebration of contemporary art. Additionally, she has worked as a Lecturer in the Graduate Studio Art Department at the University of Texas at Austin, was a panelist and final round juror for the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts/Creative Capital Arts Writers Program (2008/2010) and served on the planning committee for the 2011 Warhol/Creative Capital Arts Writers Convening. She has also served on multiple panels at College Art Association, public art panels in Houston and San Antonio and nominee committees for Artpace San Antonio, Art in General, Blue Star Contemporary’s Berlin Residency and the Herb Alpert Award in the Arts.

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December 4, 2017

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MINI ART MUSEUM to have Borderland Collective Co-Founder & Director, Jason Reed, as guest curator for Contemporary Art Month 2018

https://news.illinois.edu/blog/view/6367/403791

Photo by L. Brian Stauffer

For official press release –

PRESS RELEASE_2018 CAM Curator Announcement

March is a big month for the MINI ART MUSEUM. The mobile museum based in San Antonio, Texas routinely interrupts their regular programming with a special exhibition in celebration of Contemporary Art Month (CAM).

Coincidentally, March is also National Youth Art Month, an awareness campaign organized by The Council of Art Education of the National Art Education Association (NAEA). Youth Art Month promotes art education and encourages the support of quality art programs at schools nationwide.

This year will be the MAM’S five year anniversary participating in CAM & Youth Art Month. To commemorate the milestone they invite Jason Reed, of Borderland Collective to guest curate the exhibition. Reed is an Associate Professor of Photography at Texas State University, home to Borderland Collective, an art and education project that cultivates collaborations between artists, educators, youth, and community members to look at complex issues and share diverse perspectives through meaningful dialogue and different modes of creation and reflection. As guest curator, Reed will invite artist to participate who are similarly focused on using photography and community engagement to investigate issues of polarization, the cause and effect it has on the contemporary landscape.

Artist Jason Reed facilitating activity with youth.

Following tradition, MAM will kicked off the month-long exhibition by granting two free school visits on Big Art Day (March 1) followed by a public event for the community. The grant will open for application January 19, 2018, the deadline February 9, 2018. Winning schools will be announced Febuary 13, 2018.

If you are interested in having the MINI ART MUSEUM installed at your location, email museum@sparepartssa.org and/or visit www.miniartmuseum.org/visit .

 

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Spare Parts MINI ART MUSEUM presents the exhibition “Call & Response” curated by Gabriela Santiago

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October 26, 2017

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Call & Response: a retrospective exhibition

[above photo by joey lopez phd]

The MINI ART MUSEUM (MAM) is proud to present “Call & Response” a retrospective exhibition featuring the work of 24 artists that will be available for view throughout the 2017 -2018 academic year.

Amy Jones, Whale to Sunset, Felted Wool, 2015, MINI ART MUSEUM, a gift from the artist

Amy Jones
Whale to Sunset
Felted Wool
2015
MINI ART MUSEUM, a gift from the artist

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“Call & Response” exhibiting artists –
Rebekah Veliz, Jennifer Ling Datchuk, Julius Lopez,Richard Veliz, Anika Blanco, Hunter,Claudia Zapata, Christopher Castillo,Delilah Knuckley, Janet Neuwalder, Paloma Mayorga, Daniel Rios Rodriguez, Amy Jones, Mira Hnatyshyn, Alejandro Diaz, Danielle Cunningham, Monica A. Martinez, Fernando Andrade, Laurel Gibson, Marit West, Karen Keese, Jose, Amador, Ana Hernandez Burwell

All works have been selected from the MINI ART MUSEUM’s (MAM) permanent collection. The exhibition, curated by Gabriela Santiago and the MAM advisory committee, tell the story of the MAM by featuring at least one work from each of the past 11 exhibition.

The Spare Parts MAM, founded by Cantú and Gabriela Santiago in San Antonio, Texas, was created to bring the fine art experience to schools and the community. It is a non-traditional visual art venue and serves as a non-site specific institution that generates accessible fine art experiences. Artwork exhibited at the MAM is by professional artists and is curated to express different, individual themes. Since its inception in 2013 until June 2017, the MAM has traveled to over 70 places across the world and has had over 13,000 visitors.

PRESS RELEASE

Call & Response: a retrospective exhibition

Curatorial Statement

In music, Call and Response is the succession of two distinct phrases played by different people, where the second phrase is heard as a direct commentary or response to the first. In the same way, a curator may formulate a “call for artist” and artists respond by creating work to be exhibited.

In this retrospective exhibition are selected works from the MINI ART MUSEUM’s permanent collection. After four years, eleven exhibitions, and thousands of visitors worldwide, the MINI ART MUSEUM continues to serves as a platform for artists and curators to activate dialogue about topics they value. By visiting the museum, you are called to join the conversation. What will be your response?

Curator

Gabriela Santiago is the co-founder and director of the MINI ART MUSEUM and a member of the Spare Parts Advisory Committee. Santiago has been developing and facilitating education opportunities with community organizations, arts organizations and museums and in the classroom across Texas for over seven years. She has collaborated with Mexic-Arte Museum, The Children’s Shelter, McNay Art Museum, Artpace San Antonio, Blue Star Contemporary and founded a residency program for emerging artists, TRANSIT. Outside the wee museum walls, she can be found exploring the cool Texas rivers with her beloved pup, Turkey.