by Dr. Ricardo Romo | Jan 19, 2019 | La Prensa Texas
Armando Sanchez, a native of South San Antonio, grew up drawing and sketching and recalls that as a child in elementary school his teach- ers would ask him to use his artistic skills to help deco- rate the classroom for holi- day events such as Thanks- giving and...
by Dr. Ricardo Romo | Jan 11, 2019 | La Prensa Texas
The heavy rainfall over the fall months of 2018 delayed conservation work on Miraflores, one of San Antonio’s most fabled gardens. The rain showers flooded the water table under the garden’s grounds and as a consequence water overflows and fills the low spots of the...
by Dr. Ricardo Romo | Jan 11, 2019 | La Prensa Texas
Arriving in San Antonio, Texas in 1914, Dr. Aureliano Urrutia rapidly established himself as one of finest medical physicians in the city. His legacy, however, is not limited to the medical profession. By all accounts, Dr. Urrutia was San Antonio’s first major...
by Dr. Ricardo Romo | Jan 4, 2019 | La Prensa Texas
Throughout my life I have enjoyed two passions: art and running. At an early age when I started going to Brackenridge Park it never occured to me that the park offered me the opportunity to enjoy both running and art at the same time. Later in my adult years I...
by Dr. Ricardo Romo | Dec 30, 2018 | La Prensa Texas
San Antonians love art, and mural art is especially popular in the city’s Westside. Mural art made a dramatic appearance in the mid 1960s when Mexican artist and famed architect Juan O’Gorman created the “Confluence of Civilizations” mosaic mural for the 1968...
by Dr. Ricardo Romo | Dec 25, 2018 | La Prensa Texas
Michael Menchaca’s exhi- bition, “100 Years of Print- making in San Antonio: Mi- chael Menchaca,” closes on January 6th and you won’t want to miss it. While Menchaca is known as an exceptional artist in print design, his studies at the prestigious Rhode Island School...
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