Cody Vance, Appreciating A Cultures Traditions -A multidisciplinarian observation of the Charro and Folklorico Culture - April 26th - May31st, 2025
MOCKINGBIRD HANDPRINTS IN OLMOS PARK PRESENTS
Opening reception Saturday, April 26, 4-6pm.
Art will be on display April 26 – May 31st, 2025
Mockingbird Handprints
4303 McCullough Ave, San Antonio, TX 78212
"SEVILLE TO MARRAKESH - Stitched, Painted, and Savored" Mixed Media by Darlene Marwitz - March 15th - April 19th 2025
MOCKINGBIRD HANDPRINTS IN OLMOS PARK PRESENTS
March 15th – April 19th
Join us on Saturday, March 15th
for Reception & Artist Talk
Reception 2:00 – 5:00pm
Artist Talk 4:00
Darlene’s Artist Statement:
Mixed media, for me, represents the intersection of textiles and painting. For my landscapes, I find a muse in the mountains and open expanses surrounding where I live in Marfa, TX. There’s a spareness and bristle to the raw beauty of the high desert plateau.
My travel-inspired collages incorporate food and architectural elements—from tabletop compositions to zellige (geometric) tile interpretations.
My studio techniques are layered across many mediums and developed through trial and error. I enjoy the complexity and back-and-forth innovation possible with unexpected materials: cloth, thread, acrylic, and board. I loosely identify my work as mixed-media fabric collage.
My design process is organic and intuitive. I begin pulling from a color-and-pattern palette of fabrics, my stash of woven and printed goods I’ve collected for decades: new, vintage, and from around the world. I audition diverse fabric combinations to establish desired results and use acrylic paint to modulate color or details. My pieces integrate hand-stitching with assorted thread weights to embroider additional texture before being attached to wood panels.
I’ve always worked with my hands and enjoy the progression of building, layering, and exploring new boundaries. I appreciate how a design builds over time and value the tactility of textiles. My work stems from a diverse background in art, architecture, painting, fiber arts, sewing, and textile production through historic preservation projects.
Cloth is malleable and versatile, so piecing fragments and strips together with thread makes sense to me. I grew up sleeping under a hand-made quilt pieced together using scraps from my mother’s childhood dresses—that quilt told a story. My art tells stories, too.
Darlene’s Bio:
Marwitz enrolled in weaving and textile courses as a part of her studio arts curriculum at the University of Houston. Two graduate degrees followed from the School of Architecture at The University of Texas in Austin.
Darlene has worked on major historic preservation projects and has overseen the research, design, and reproduction of numerous period textiles: woven matelasse and brocatelle drapery fabrics, hand-crafted passementerie, plus Wilton and Brussels carpets loomed in England. Her travel-inspired artwork takes root in Italy, France, Spain, and Morocco.
Bachelor of Fine Arts
The University of Houston
Master of Science in Architectural Studies
The University of Texas at Austin
Master of Architecture
The University of Texas at Austin
Teaching Assistant
UT Architectural Study Abroad Program
Oxford, England
Instructor
Art Workshops in Italy and France
Summer Art Retreat
Spain and Morocco
IG @darlenemarwitz
"Encantada" - Feb 1st. - Mar 11th. 2025
MOCKINGBIRD HANDPRINTS IN OLMOS PARK PRESENTS
Feb 1st. – Mar 11th. 2025
Join us on Sat, Feb 1st.
for Reception & Artist Talk
Reception 3:00 – 5:00pm
Artist Talk 4:00pm
We are thrilled to start 2025 with a show by homegrown San Antonio native, creative genius, multi talented Blanquita Sullivan! “Encantada” is the title of the show and it expressively radiates delight, enchantment,satisfeito, playful, bewitched it is mucho gusto! Come join us for a wonderful afternoon of catching up with one another, meeting new interesting peeps, and being wowed by Blanquita Sullivan!
Blanquita’s Artist Statement:
I have always been interested in people. What their stories are, their motivations, and how they express themselves through their body language, style, movements, and interactions. I see myself as a contemporary storyteller and with each portrait I paint, I attempt to capture the spirit of the individual and tell the story of that distinctive moment.
Accompanying deep respect for the subject, I explore the memories that linger in our possessions, the importance of home, the ghosts who stay with us, and our relationships. In recent portraits, I tell layered stories of families, groups, and individuals and how they exist in their homes or favorite spaces surrounded by objects or garments that carry meaning for them.
My professional background is in costume design, fashion design, merchandising, and retail. I’ve spent over 20 years at sewing machines, cutting tables, and in fitting rooms. My mission has been to help women find their confidence and to help them recognize their own beauty.
Throughout that time, and while raising my 3 daughters, I have simultaneously worked to develop as a painter, focusing mainly in portraiture. I studied at the NYC Art Students League, The NYC Studio School, and Virginia Commonwealth University. This year, I am entering my 3rd year of a low residency MFA studio art program at MICA in Baltimore.
My goal is to continue to grow as an artist and to develop a meaningful, honest, and well-crafted body of work that tells the stories of the remarkable people and places in my life so that they may be remembered, acknowledged, and celebrated. As my work develops and grows, what stays with me throughout and remains at the forefront is memory, magic, environment, loss, and love.
Blanquita Sullivan’s bio:
Blanquita is a painter, designer, and business leader in San Antonio. She holds a BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University, studied painting at The NYC Art Students League, and is pursuing a MFA in Studio Art from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). Previously, Blanquita worked for designers Betsey Johnson and Anna Sui in New York before developing her own clothing line, Bonjour Biqui. She is currently Retail Operations Director for Niche Clothing Co. and lives in San Antonio with her husband Michael and their 3 daughters.
POP UP: BRIEBLUE creativeThursday, December 19th, 4-8pm
MOCKINGBIRD HANDPRINTS IN OLMOS PARK PRESENTS
THIS COMING THURSDAY!!!
Dont miss this once a year event held at Olmos Mockingbird Handprints
Crystal of BRIEBLUE works with these artisans to create one of a kind clothes!
Lite refreshments and fun served up!!
"SMALL WONDERS" - November 29th thru Dec 24th
MOCKINGBIRD HANDPRINTS IN OLMOS PARK PRESENTS
November 29th thru Dec 24th | hours 11am-5pm
“SMALL WONDERS” is an artist small scale work showing and selling off the walls for holiday gift giving at both locations. These artists have regularly shown at Mockingbird Handprints through the years. We can give beautiful things made by hand that are meaningful and sustainable.
Show Dates September 3rd – October 13th 2024
Show Dates: Opening- November 29th 11am-5pm
Olmos Park- show up thru January 11th 2025.
Olmos Park Mockingbird Handprints holiday hours starting Dec 2nd open Monday 12-4pm, Tues-Saturday 10-5, Dec 24th 10-3pm
Blue Star Mockingbird Handprints hours
Thurs-Sun 11-5 & Dec. 23rd & 24th 11-3.
We will be closing our Blue Star location, last day open is Dec. 24th.
Our Olmos Park location will remain open servicing
the community with local & regional art, plus fine handmade items from around the world.
SENDING A BIG HUG TO PAULA COX CO-FOUNDER AS I WOULD HAVE NOT STARTED THIS ENDEAVER ON MY OWN. THE ARTISTS WHO FILLED MOCKINGBIRD HANDPRINTS WITH BEAUTIFUL ART, ALL SHOPPERS AND SUPPORTERS OF MOCKINGBIRD HANDPRINTS FOR THE PAST 12 YEARS,
THANK YOU!
FOTOSEPTIEMBRE 2024 - Ed Malcik, New Seamless Triptychs from the Street
MOCKINGBIRD HANDPRINTS IN OLMOS PARK PRESENTS
Ed Malcik
New Seamless Triptychs from the Street
Show Dates September 3rd – October 13th 2024
Reception, Saturday September 7th, 3:00 – 5:00 pm & Artist talk/questions 4:00
at Mockingbird Handprints Olmos Park
Ed Malcik’s Seamless Triptychs challenge how an individual image works with two adjacent images placed edge to edge to become supplementary or complimentary abstractions, yet still retaining their individual identity. The Triptychs combine the artist’s street photos into another way of seeing, playing with the differences between documentary and conceptual photography. Please join us during the month of September to see his show and meet Ed at artist reception September 7th, 3:00-5:00 pm.
Another exhibition of Ed’s work, “Recent Street Photos, New York and Austin”, can be seen at the Mockingbird Handprints in Blue Star Arts Complex, Sept 3 – Oct 13 reception/artist talk Sept 8th 3-5 pm. Please come by and see the twenty plus other San Antonio Artist work shown.
Ed Malcik studied photojournalism at the University of Texas and then worked as a staff photographer for newspapers, including the Austin American-Statesman. He also freelanced for the wire services and publications such as Cosmopolitan, Us, and The New York Times. He served in the Peace Corps and as a Foreign Service Officer before returning to photography and working on projects in Paris and Chennai, India. His work has been selected for group exhibitions by Sarah Greenough, Keith Carter, and Charlotte Cotton. He has been in group exhibitions at the International Center of Photography and Houston Center for Photography, and he is collected in the Wittliff Collections. He is represented by Mockingbird Handprints in San Antonio, Texas, where he has had seven solo shows. He now lives in Austin, Texas, and is working on photo projects including a long-term project on New York City. His work can be seen on Instagram @edmalcikphotography where he posts regularly.
FOTOSEPTIEMBRE 2024 - ED MALCIK Recent Street Photos, New York and Austin
September 5th - October 13th, 2024
Mockingbird Handprints at Blue Star Arts Complex presents
ED MALCIK
Recent Street Photos, New York and Austin
Show Sept 5th – October 13th
Reception September 8th, 3:00 – 5:00 pm
at Mockingbird Handprints Blue Star
Recent Street Photos, New York and Austin is Ed Malcik’s eighth exhibition at Mockingbird Handprints, Blue Star. His work shows moments odd, humorous, and unexpected, and can be pretty much anything, profound or banal. As he likes to say, “In the theatre of urban life I give equal emphasis to the stage, the props, and the actors.”
Another exhibition of Ed’s work, “Seamless Triptchs”, can be seen at the Mockingbird Handprints in Olmos Park, 4303 McCullough S.A, TX. Please join us during the month of September to see both his shows and meet Ed at First Friday Sept 6th 6:00-9:00 pm and either of his artist receptions Sept 7th, 3:00-5:00 pm Olmos Park, & Sept 8th 3:00-5:00 pm Blue Star.
Ed Malcik studied photojournalism at the University of Texas and then worked as a staff photographer for newspapers, including the The Austin American-Statesman.
He also freelanced for the wire services and publications such as Cosmopolitan, Us, and The New York Times. He served in the Peace Corps and as a Foreign Service Officer before returning to photography and working on projects in Paris and Chennai, India. His work has been selected for group exhibitions by Sarah Greenough, Keith Carter, and Charlotte Cotton. He has been in group exhibitions at the International Center of Photography and Houston Center for Photography, and he is collected in the Wittliff Collections. He is represented by Mockingbird Handprints in San Antonio, Texas, where he has had seven solo shows. He now lives in Austin, Texas, and is working on photo projects including a long-term project on New York City. His work can be seen on Instagram @edmalcikphotography where he posts regularly.
"Big Sky Land" by TERI MUSE
April 4-28, 2024
Mockingbird Handprints at Blue Star Arts Complex presents
“Big Sky Land” by TERI MUSE
“BIG SKY LAND”
Encaustic paintings
by Teri Muse
APRIL 4th – 28th
APRIL 13TH, Saturday, 1:00-2:00pm
Meet Teri Muse, she will demostrate encaustic painting, give a talk and answer questions, please join us.
Encaustic Demonstration April 13th 1:00 – 2:00 pm
Encaustic is an ancient art.In this technique, beeswax and damar resin(a natural fir-tree resin) are mixed together to create a wax medium. These qualities, plus the translucent quality of the wax, create unique possibilities for the artist.
Muse embeds papers, fabrics and miscellaneous items within the wax layers. Color is also added to the medium in different degrees of opacity, allowing for a unique glow to the colors. Within the encaustic technique, Muse is able to explore images that have personal meaning for her and satisfy her efforts to create color and texture that compel one to pause and look.
Mark Hiebert"All that you need to know about tomorrow may be found on the surface of today"
MOCKINGBIRD HANDPRINTS IN OLMOS PARK PRESENTS
Join us this Saturday, March 9th, 3:00-5:00 pm for artist reception. We will have refreshments, live music, & Artist Talk at 4:30
Event is at Mockingbird’s Handprints
Olmos Park location
4303 McCullough, SA,TX 78212, more parking in back
Mark H. W. Hiebert is a multi-talented artist who works across mediums and disciplines.
Mark views painting as a medium for expression of what cannot be communicated in words or music and for which the factual reality of photography proves insufficient. In all things, it is an effort at articulating something authentic that speaks to the ineffable thread binding our humane selves to the existence we experience in our shared present moment.
"Meet the Cowgirls" by Charlotte Wyatt
February 15, 2024
Mockingbird Handprints at Blue Star Arts Complex presents
“Meet the Cowgirls” by Charlotte Wyatt
Feb 15, 2024, 11:00 AM – 8:00 PM
Stop by Mockingbird Handprints for “Meet the Cowgirls” by Charlotte Wyatt.
Short Bio:
I grew up in Corpus Christi, Texas, going to the beach and loving the big vastness of the skies. Paper was my main art supply, especially the backs of school papers. I still use the backs of papers. Today, I paint in watercolors, oils acrylics and pastels.
Exhibit
The Cowgirls Series which are portraits of women that are named alphabetically. Each painting tells a visual story that embodies the strength and personality of life in today’s wild west. The women have may have jobs besides their ranches, but their roots and their hearts belongs to the land. They are painted in oil with a flat graphic style.