Exhibitions & Events
The Contemporary at Blue Star excels in its ability to flex and respond to current conversations and the needs of its surrounding community, always with an eye to its mission of inspiring the creative genius in us all by nurturing artists through innovative contemporary art.
Exhibitions

Sizhu Li: Moonment: Finding A Way

Detail Anthony Rundblade, Star Eyes (Guantes), 2023. Concrete, hauling chain, track spikes, magnets, steel plate, found image. 23”T x 16”W x 5”D
Mosh Now, Cry Later: San Antonio’s love of sad rock and its impacts on visual culture

Alyssa Danna, Tantalizing Middle Part, 2025. Photo by Jorge Villarreal.
Alyssa Danna: Tantalizing Middle Part

Installation view, Paloma Rosenzweig
Between 1 (Ente 1) and Between 3 (Ente 3), 2023-2024
Hand-felted wool, ceramics, brass, and natural pigments; Laguna, Mexico City, Mexico
En Las Sombras, Nuestros Fantasmas Acechan (Within the shadows lurk ghosts of our own In the shadows, our ghosts lurk)
Events

2025 Novel Ideas Art Book Fair Open Call

2025 Red Dot Open Call
12am–11:59pm

Progressive Dinner 2025
6–10pm

Feral Editions at the 2024 Novel Ideas Art Book Fair. Photo by Francisco Cortes.
2025 Novel Ideas Art Book Fair

Sensory Tour | Sizhu Li: Moonment: Finding A Way
2–3pm

Speak Freely | Poetry Writing with Amalia Ortiz
1–2:30pm

Harmonic Gutter performance. Photo by Cleopatra Diwata.
Justo Cisneros | Harmonic Gutter
6:30pm–7:30pm

A Garland of Tang Dynasty Poems | Poetry Reading
6–7:30pm

Alyssa Danna, Tantalizing Middle Part, 2025. Photo by Jorge Villarreal.
Asymmetrical Balance | Make a Mobile with Alyssa Danna
2–5pm

Stitch and ‘Wich Series | Knitting Basics with Ebony Coleman
12–3pm