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E. Gordon West is a signature member of the American Watercolor Society, the National Watercolor Society, and others. He is a past recipient of the San Antonio Art League’s Artist of the Year recognition and the Julian Onderdonk Award. He has received over 60 awards in national exhibitions, has had work published in national magazines,  and has works in the permanent collections of the McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX,  the Texas A&M University, and the University of Louisville where recently was honored with an exhibition of his paintings as a Hite Scholar. A long member of the "San Antonio Watercolor Gang", he and his wife Joan, live in San Antonio.     

Insightful and filled with love, singer-songwriter Will Riley shares the ways pursuing his art form gives him life.

Austin studied at San Antonio College, completing his Associate of Arts in Music in 2014 and took lessons from talented mentors including Ron Jarzombek,  Teemu Mäntysaari, and Rusty Cooley. Austin's accomplishments include winning Sam Ash's Best in Shred Competition in 2013 and in 2015 he was awarded a Dean Signature Mustaine V guitar by Robb's Metalworks and Dean Guitars as part of the Artist Recognition Series. Austin has opened for Symphony X, Powerglove, Blackguard, Sepultura, Sabaton, Havok, Mayhem, Finntroll, Metsatöll, and Steve Vai.  Austin's discography: The Feared Candiru - "Fist of the Candiru" (EP) (2010) Imminent Descent -   "Imminent Descent" (2012) Æternal Requiem -     "Dreamer's Sorrow" (demo) (2013)                                 "Invictus" (Single)  (2015)                                                                "Into Forever" (2017) Since 2012, Austin has also been sharing his passion and experience through teaching guitar!

Ever since the tender age of 14, singer/songwriter Matt Adler has had a knack for writing songs with catchy melodies, lush instrumental arrangements and memorable harmonies. With influences ranging from brit pop and indie/acoustic artists to classical and eastern sounds, his music always remains interesting and energetic while staying firmly rooted in the indie/rock genre. Best friends came together to arrange the new Stages EP and to define a brand new sound, infusing indie rock and organic elements with electronic drums and soundscapes. Fans of Gungor, Imagine Dragons, Future of Forestry, The Afters, and Muse will enjoy this album. And best of all – it’s 100% free! Matt has shared the stage with such artists as – Casting Crowns Newsboys Switchfoot The Afters Chris August Brandon Heath Sanctus Real Manafest Rapture Ruckus Seventh Time Down Ryan Stevenson Abandon Jimmy Needham Robbie Seay Band The Digital Age The Rocket Summer Unspoken Kerrie Roberts Bellarive The Neverclaim Sean McConnell Randy Rogers The New Frontiers Mikeschair Deas Vail Seabird JJ Weeks Band Jonny Diaz Citizen Way House of Heroes The Museum JJ Heller 33 Miles Trent Monk  

Albert Gonzales is a post-contemporary artist based in San Antonio, TX. He is heavily influenced by post- WWII artists like Jackson Pollock, Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat, but also draws inspiration from the masters like Henri Matisse and Van Gogh.  With this broad range of inspirations, Gonzales’s fine art approaches are visual experiments within composition, style, and technique.  From abstraction to still life to portraits, his art can span multiple genres.  With bold color palettes, his often “outrageous” paintings are fun and unpredictable. As a great commentator on his own art style, his showmanship brings forth the passion for his art and his need to create. His audience is able to see and feel his dearest dedication to craft.  With his paintings, he hopes to reflect a feeling of liveliness and compassion for the love he has for the visual arts.  Gonzales wants the audience to feel this feeling if only for a second; but touched and moved for a lifetime.  Albert Gonzales’s accolades include the “Step Inside My Mind” solo exhibition; “Hecho A Mano” group exhibition at the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center;  participating artist in the highly anticipated On and Off Fredericksburg Road Studio Tours with the Bihl Haus Gallery; operating an artist studio in the coveted Hausmann Millworks collective run by Gene and Renee Hausmann and managed by Rex Hausmann; artist participant in a city- wide art project for a non-profit organization titled,  Clarity in the Pin Wheels for Change campaign where he painted alongside 16 other internationally and nationally renowned artists.  Having sold over a hundred paintings in one year, Gonzales’s list of prominent collectors and collections include the acquisition of seven paintings into the UTSA Art Collection by the invitation of President, Dr. Ricardo Romo. Gonzales has also donated artwork to the UTSA Alumni Gala and the Susan G. Komen Foundation.  Best known for his simplistically minimal abstract flower paintings, Gonzales gives voice to the new and upcoming generation of artists of San Antonio. 

Connor Walden is a conceptual artist that primarily works in sculpture, installation, performance, and social practice. He is a Texas-based artist, but will be moving to Seattle to begin graduate studies to receive a MFA in sculpture at the University of Washington. You can check out his artwork at his website: www.connorwaldenart.com

Some of Darian's favorite quotes "I remember wondering whether I was frightened, and deciding that I was not." - George Orwell "A concert is not a sermon. It is a performance - a reincarnation of a series of ideas implicit in the work of art." - Aaron Copland "Be very sensitive to where you are, in what times and in what parts of the world, and how that constitutes the artistic practice." - Olafur Eliasson "An inward singing, and not an inward feeling, prompts a gifted person to compose a musical piece." - Eduard Hanslick "I'm not sure what to do, so I'll just write some love to you."  -David Bowie "You see, if you don't take money: they can't tell you what to do, kid. That's the key to the whole thing: Don't. Touch. Money." -Bill Cunningham "If you're writing music for other composers, I think there's something a little bit sad about that..."  - Nico Muhly "Bubble/Air: No, see that's what's so great: Now, we can be together: forever, BMO. Every minute of Every Day. No more Privacy. No more Quiet, no more alone. Every room you ever go in, I'll already be there. Waiting. Forever: and ever. Until the End of Time. B-MO: YAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!!!" Air and B-MO season 5 ep. 17 of Adventure Time...  "Our differences ARE settled. He's dead, and I ain't."  - Eustace Bagge "Parentheses in literature and dentistry are in bad taste."  - Mark Twain "To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist."  - Robert Schumann "You can never be overdressed or over educated."  - Oscar Wilde "Dude, sucking at something is the first step to being sortof good at something." - Jake, the Shapeshifting Dog "Ice King: 'Marriage is a thing that allows me to capture a princess forever and let her live inside of me! ... Marriage is the most Beautiful thing in the world!' Finn: 'Uuuuh.... Yeah I- I never- uhh...Ye- I... Guess it is! O_o' " "You just kissed a Boom Boom baby. So don't expect any more sugar from me Sweetheart until we wash your dirty, dirty face."  - Jake the Shapeshifting Dog's Dad "Darian Thomas: violinist, composer, conductor, professor, critic, and consummate troll. "  - Aaron Schwarz Today is the tomorrow that you were worried about Yesterday, was it worth it? "[Time] is the mosoleum of all hope and despair."  - Faulkner "Give me success or take this desire away from me. One of the two."  - Mike Tetreault "The preliminary differentiation of musical categories by means of this reasonable and usable criterion of "degree of determinacy" offends those who take it to be a definition of qualitative categories, which-of course-it need not always be. Curiously, their demurrers usually take the familiar form of some such "democratic" counter definition as: "There is no such thing as 'serious' and 'popular' music." There is only 'good' and 'bad' music." As a public service, let me offer those who still patiently await the revelation of the criteria of Absolute Good an alternative criterion which possesses, at least, the virtue of immediate and irrefutable applicability: "There is no such thing as 'serious' and 'popular' music. There is only music whose title begins with the letter 'X,' and music whose title does not." " - Milton Babbitt

This year, Carver and I spent a whole week together volunteering at a Summer camp. I have come to know Carver by his easy laughter, gentle presence and magnificent singing voice. In this episode he shares how music moves him and how he connects with empathy for others through exploring song characters. Also, velvet tacos. 

A man who makes waves in the ever-growing San Antonio improv community shares how art gives him life. Jeremy has helped me gain traction as an actor, and he always seeks to share the tools (not rules) that make him such a dynamic performer. 

Tamara Adira is a dancer, choreographer, and producer. She is the founder and Artistic Director of Arte y Pasión, a company comprised of Independent Artists accomplished in their own right. It is known for being among the most contemporary of Spanish dance companies in the United States, whose mission is to share and promote the authentic art of flamenco, while exploring evolution and specific subject matter.  Adira has produced and directed such productions as Angel of Gravity, Ventanas, Dibujos, Generaciones, Arte y Pasión, and Flamencos. Her productions have gained international attention and as a result her company has garnered the participation of artists from such places as Madrid, Sevilla, Marseilles, San Francisco and New Mexico. Her past performances include America's Next Top Model, a performance for the Vice President of Nicaragua, and a US National Presidential Convention. She is 2010 winner of the Artist Foundation of San Antonio Bernard Lifshutz Award for “Original Theatrical Production” and single finalist for “Original Choreography.”  She has choreographed for such companies as the Fine Arts Ballet Theater of Temecula, California, the City of San Antonio’s pre-professional Groups Fandango and Alamotion and the Alas Theater Troupe of the San Antonio based Say Sí Theater.  She has shared the stage with such artists as the late greats maestros of flamenco, Teo Morca and Timo Lozano.

Dynamite hip-hop artist/rapper who writes articles on local Texas music for the SA Current. 

Slam poet Tasha green shares her views on how art gives us life. 

Artist and actor attending the Alamo Colleges.

An effervescent creative, Carolyn Taylor is a proficient musician and crafter. She owns and operates the "Orthopedic Massage Treatment Center" in San Antonio, Texas. She encourages budding creativity and plants seeds of life in those she works with. 

An actor and comedian with a penchant for exploring the world and discovering connections with fellow humans. 

Annette Flores was born in San Antonio, Texas, where she began her first lessons in dance with her grandmother Teresa Champion. She was blessed to be born into a family of Flamenco Artists and is third generation artist in her family. Annette’s dance studies include Flamenco, Mexican Folklorico, Ballet, Tap, Jazz, and Modern dance. She has studied with many instructors who include Vladmir Marek, Miguel Ponce, Sergio Martinez, Tracie Stanfield, Teo Morca, and Pilar Riojas and most recently Alonzo King. She is a graduate of Texas State University’s Dance Department and received her MFA in Choreography from Jacksonville University Currently, she is an instructor at Teresa Champion Dance Academy, where she is the Director of Viva Dance Troupe and an adjunct faculty member at San Antonio College in the Kinesiology and Dance Department. She has been fortunate enough to teach Workshop and Master Classes across San Antonio and at Texas State University. Annette was the Guest Artist in 2008 at Northwest Vista College where she recreated and set her piece “Fusion de Vida” to show at the American College Dance Festival. She was recently asked to create a new piece in collaboration with City of San Antonio Parks and Recreation Dance Department for a Tribute to 9/11. Annette continues to live in San Antonio with her husband Jason, and her two children Janette and Jay Anthony.

Set list jockey at Imagine Books and Records in San Antonio, TX. Also a great saxaphone player. 

A busy mother and student who always finds time to create art. Zig Ziglar — 'Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly--until you can learn to do it well.'