Join us on First Friday for a pop up studio sale with our 2026-2027 Berlin Resident Artists! Participating artists Cassie Gnehm, Doerte Weber, and Gary Sweeney will have select artwork for sale to raise additional funds to support their residency stay in Berlin. All of the proceeds will directly benefit the artists.
The studio sale will take place in our Education Space, located directly between our main gallery entrance and Slab Cinema.
Artwork by Doerte Weber.
Join us at the Contemporary for a Taco Talk, an artist and curator-led walkthrough of our upcoming exhibitions! This edition features exhibiting artist Roman Franc, Mini Art Museum co-founder Gabriela Santiago, and Mini Art Museum artist Chris Castillo. Enjoy complimentary tacos and coffee as Roman guides visitors through his exhibition of group portraits celebrating unique communities across San Antonio, and Gabriela shares the story behind co-founding the Mini Art Museum, and Chris speaks about being a part of the Mini Art Museum.
Free and open to the public with registration (link below).
Join the Contemporary at Blue Star and Contemporary Art Month for the annual CAM Kick-off on Friday, March 6, 2026!
The Contemporary will be premiering two exhibitions: Roman Franc‘s Groups Collective and the Mini Art Museum honoring Mary Cantú.
Join the Contemporary for the opening of Mark Menjívar’s solo exhibition. Murmurations is an expansive, mid-career survey exhibition highlighting more than 10 multifaceted projects from Menjívar’s body of work from the past 20 years. Broadly, Menjívar works through social practice and participatory education models to focus on community building. In his projects Menjívar creates frameworks for students, community groups, and leaders to come together and have critical dialogues about the issues impacting their lives.
The opening is free and open to all. The Blue Star Arts Complex parking lot fee is $15 on First Fridays. Click here to view our neighborhood parking map for other parking options.
Join the Contemporary as artist Mark Menjívar walks us through his mid-career survey exhibition, Murmurations. Participants can enjoy complimentary breakfast tacos and coffee as we explore Mark’s unique body of work that focuses on social practice, community building, and participatory education. This event is open to all ages and is free to the public with registration.
Join the Contemporary for breakfast tacos and a gallery walk-through with our Red Dot Artist Honoree, Meredith Dean. The walk-through will focus on Dean’s multifaceted artistic practice spanning the last 40 years and will dive into her work and process. This event is free with registration and open to everyone.
About the Exhibition
The Red Dot Show is an annual survey exhibition of San Antonio-based artists contributing their work to Red Dot in support of the Contemporary. It features more than 100 artworks exhibited throughout all four of the Contemporary’s galleries. As Above, So Below is a small survey of work by 2025 Red Dot Honorary Artist Meredith Dean, which highlights her multifaceted practice of the past 40 years. It foregrounds her approaches to observation and mark making as vehicles to connect to deep time and place. Meredith often references various types of maps in the structure of her compositions while building her own language of record keeping. The formal relationship to star charts, topographic and geologic maps, aerial and microscopic imagery are ever present, yet shifted into gestural and abstracted impressions, reliant on color, repetition, and the presence of the hand.
Thank You, H-E-B!
This event is made possible with the generous support of H-E-B, celebrating 10 years of South Flores Market! The South Flores Market is home to multiple artworks by the late, great, local artist Chuck Ramirez. Before the artworks debuted at the South Flores Market for its grand opening, they were presented right here at the Contemporary for a special preview. We are so grateful for their support of this and upcoming programs in celebration of the South Flores Market!
Join the Contemporary for a new installment of “Taco Talk” an exhibition program and curator walk-through with coffee and breakfast tacos. Learn more about the artworks in In the Shadows, Our Ghosts Lurk from guest curator Fabiola Iza. Visitors will have the opportunity to ask questions and engage with the curator of the exhibition.
+ Registration is required for this free program (link below).
+ Would you like to support exhibition programs like these? Consider donating $5 with your registration!
Fabiola Iza
Join us on First Friday for a pop up studio sale with our 2025–2026 Berlin Resident Artists! Participating artists Brandy González, Anthony Rundblade, and Andrea Willems will have select artwork for sale to raise additional funds to support their residency stay in Berlin. All of the proceeds will directly benefit the artists.
+ The studio sale will take place in our Education Space, located directly between our main gallery entrance and Slab Cinema.
Fair dates and times
Friday, April 4, 2025, 6pm-9pm
Saturday, April 5, 2025, 12pm-4pm
Free Admission
Contemporary at Blue Star is pleased to announce the return of the Novel Ideas Art Book Fair. Established in 2020 Novel Ideas is aimed at highlighting and connecting the amazing artists in our region and beyond who utilize books and print based materials as their medium and share their work. Also included are publishers and presses producing artists’ books, monographs and related publications. Novel Ideas features artists’ books, monographs, zines, printed ephemera, and more.
The fair will happen in the Contemporary’s Education Space, right next-door to our exhibition galleries.
Join the Contemporary for a new installment of “Taco Talk” an exhibition program and curator walk-through with coffee and breakfast tacos. Learn more about the work in Mosh Now, Cry Later and Alyssa Danna’s Tantalizing Middle Part. Visitors will have the opportunity to ask questions and engage with the artists in the exhibitions.
Registration is required for this free program (link below).
Would you like to support exhibition programs like these? Consider donating $5 with your registration!
Alyssa Danna, Tantalizing Middle Part, 2023. Detail.
