Pre-College Art
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Humberto Saenz is a Mexican-American artist residing in San Antonio, Texas, USA. Humberto’s artwork is exhibited throughout the United States and internationally in solo, juried, and invitational exhibitions. Recent exhibitions include exhibitions at the Janet Turner Print Museum, Catapult Press and Gallery, Coronado Print Studio, 42nd National Print Exhibition, Artlink Contemporary Art Gallery, The Fierce Urgency of Now: Socially Engaged Printmaking, Janet Turner Print Museum, and Third International Academic Printmaking Alliance Exhibition, Biennial Exhibition Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China.

Humberto Saenz’s artwork is held in numerous collections across the U.S.A. and internationally including: The Museum of Texas Tech, Hamaguchi Study Print Collection, Workshop of Casa Hogar el Refugio at Monterrey, Mexico, Dishman Art Museum, La Salle University Art Museum, and the Janet Turner Print Museum. Humberto Saenz has been interviewed by the Houston Chronicle, the Clandestino radio program, and the Dallas Morning News. His work has been featured in Art in Print magazine, In the Middle of America, Printmaking & Print Exhibitions, C.A. Seward and Friends and in the Journal of the Print World."

• M.F.A., Printmaking, University of Dallas, 2008
• M.A., Art, University of Dallas, 2006
• B.A., Studio Art, Baylor University, 2004

“Laura Blair Bodden” (b. 1982, Pleasanton, TX USA) is a contemporary artist who works primarily in photography. Her work investigates the idea of an in-between space, a space of transition. This is done by inventing a setting for liminal space by creating shadows from constructed landscapes to capture them within the camera. Process is an intricate and detailed part of her practice, building and constructing the subject matter for her photographs.

With her work, Bodden thinks in narratives and speaks with imagery that is both beautiful and awkward in the same moment. She creates images that speak to time and space, using imagery that plays on the border where imagination meets the real.

• Master of Fine Arts, Studio Arts Photography, Maine College of Art and Design, Portland, ME, 2015
• Bachelor of Fine Arts, Studio Arts Photography, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio TX, 2012

Angeles Salinas was born in Mexico City in 1972. She was trained at an early age by various artists, including the famous Mexican aquarellist Alfredo Güati Rojo. These teachings served as a foundation for what has become a passion and a professional path. Angeles is an MFA candidate from UTSA for Spring 2024. She holds two bachelor’s degrees; she graduated Summa Cum Laude in Fine Arts at UTSA in 2020. Previously she graduated with honors as a Graphic Designer from the Universidad Iberoamericana in 1996.

In 2015, Angeles moved to San Antonio to pursue a BFA at UTSA. Her dual roles as an artist and single parent have been quite a challenge. She has been awarded several times for educational excellence with the James C. Elmore II Memorial Scholarship (2016), the President’s List (2017-2020), The Academy of Undergraduate Research Associates (2019), and the Wai Ching Lam Art Prize (2019). She has also participated in multiple group exhibits in Texas, including the 10th Annual Texas Juried Exhibition 2023 at Artspace111, Fort Worth, TX, where she was awarded with an Honorable Mention, the Emerging Latin artists 26: Histories of Transformation / Historias de Transformación, at the Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin, TX., and the 35th Annual Juried Student Exhibition, juried by Bill Fitz Gibbons, from the Department of Art and Art History at UTSA, where she earned the Best in Show award, among multiple other exhibitions.

Angeles’s long-term goal is to become part of an artists’ collective that bridges the respective art communities of Texas and Mexico. She would like to help women of all ages feel empowered with her work. She considers that there are still not enough women artists in the art world, and she would like to contribute to their number with her work.

Isaac Grigar is a multi-medium artist focusing on drawing and painting infused installation based in San Antonio, TX. Isaac received his B.F.A from the University of the Incarnate Word in 2022 and is currently studying for his M.F.A at the University of Texas at San Antonio. He has shown work in exhibitions around San Antonio as well as in statewide juried and group exhibitions. He strives to advance his career as a working artist post-graduation as well as give back to the communities who built him through continuing as an art educator.

Alán Serna is a mixed media artist from Huanusco, Zacatecas, MX, now living and working in San Antonio, TX. In 2018, Serna earned his Master of Fine Arts degree in Intermedia from the University of Kentucky and a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Printmaking in 2015 from the University of Texas at San Antonio, where he is currently an Assistant Professor of Printmaking and Drawing. Serna is the co-founder and Master Printer of Feral Editions, an independent publisher of fine art prints, artist books, and ephemera.

Mary Wuest is a ceramicist and educator whose work focuses on power dynamics within interpersonal and societal relationships. She credits the opportunity to live in Japan for several years as a defining experience, both personally and in her artistic practice. There she gained an appreciation for the multivalent nature of ceramics; from its ritual and domestic use to that of an expressive art form. Further research instilled a greater respect for the technical rigor associated with the process of creating ceramic artworks. Mary Wuest graduated with a MFA from the University of Texas at San Antonio in 2019. Her work has been shown in group exhibitions and is included in private collections. Wuest lives and works in San Antonio, Texas.

Braulio Ivan Gutierrez Gonzalez is an interactive installation artist that focuses on the movement of the viewer in space through the work. Gonzalez received his Bachelor of Fine Arts with a concentration in New Media at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA). During his time in the program, he has exhibited and curated student shows such as FOMO in an effort to create a more vibrant campus life in the School of Art.

Lecturing an Intro to Arts class, his focus is creating interactions withing the space that is provided or created so that the movement of the viewer creates a deeper understanding of the work by being a part of it. He typically works with ideas dealing with mental health such as of anxiety and depression and how he uses those ideas as a tool in the art making process, creating a different positive outlook on mental instability. Today, Braulio continues to work on his installations as he pursues a Master of Fine Arts.

Marcus Clarke attended Pratt Institute in Brooklyn followed by a transfer to the Savannah College of Art and Design where he earned his BA in Visual Communication. He is currently pursuing an MFA in Sculpture at University of Texas at San Antonio where he specialized in light-based sculptures and installations. Clarke has shown his work throughout Texas and in Mexico City.