Are We Just Phantoms?, featuring Sarah Fox, Jonesy, and Megan Solis, explores horror as an examination of safety and vulnerability in the face of unstoppable forces. While traditional villains can be reasoned with, monsters—whether they manifest as vengeful spirits, human perpetrators, or oppressive societal forces—remain beyond negotiation or comprehension. Through their installations, the artists investigate how horror manifests in both psychological and physical forms.

Gallery hours are free and open to the public. Parking is located along Stieren St. and in the surrounding neighborhood.

Join us for the closing reception of Theresa Newsome’s solo exhibition, Teaching Myself Manners.

This event is free and open to the public. Parking is located along Stieren St.

Recently returned from Berlin, Germany where she was a Resident Artist for the Contemporary at Blue Star’s Berlin Residency Program at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Newsome has created a body of work that explores diaspora, girlhood, and femininity through photographs, installation, soft sculpture, and more.

Gallery hours are free and open to the public. Parking is available along Stieren St.

Recently returned from Berlin, Germany where she was a Resident Artist for the Contemporary at Blue Star’s Berlin Residency Program at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Newsome has created a body of work that explores diaspora, girlhood, and femininity through photographs, installation, soft sculpture, and more.

Gallery hours are free and open to the public. Parking is available along Stieren St.

Recently returned from Berlin, Germany where she was a Resident Artist for the Contemporary at Blue Star’s Berlin Residency Program at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Newsome has created a body of work that explores diaspora, girlhood, and femininity through photographs, installation, soft sculpture, and more.

Gallery hours are free and open to the public. Parking is available along Stieren St.

Recently returned from Berlin, Germany where she was a Resident Artist for the Contemporary at Blue Star’s Berlin Residency Program at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Newsome has created a body of work that explores diaspora, girlhood, and femininity through photographs, installation, soft sculpture, and more.

Gallery hours are free and open to the public. Parking is available along Stieren St.

Recently returned from Berlin, Germany where she was a Resident Artist for the Contemporary at Blue Star’s Berlin Residency Program at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Newsome has created a body of work that explores diaspora, girlhood, and femininity through photographs, installation, soft sculpture, and more.

Gallery hours are free and open to the public. Parking is available along Stieren St.

Recently returned from Berlin, Germany where she was a Resident Artist for the Contemporary at Blue Star’s Berlin Residency Program at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Newsome has created a body of work that explores diaspora, girlhood, and femininity through photographs, installation, soft sculpture, and more.

Gallery hours are free and open to the public. Parking is available along Stieren St.

The Project:MASA mission continues with the activation of the “MASA-Port Authority Naturalization Station —the Sala Diaz Outpost.”

Join us on the evening of April 6th 2024 the “MASAporte Naturalization Station—Sala Diaz Outpost”  will be activated for a naturalization event for applicants to gain Cosmic Citizenship at the internationally known Sala Diaz Gallery in San Antonio.

We invite the public to prepare their Cosmic Couture! Cosmic Citizenship requires the wearing of Cosmic Couture by the applicant to the naturalization event. Naturalization applications will also be accepted during March-April, hours TBA.

Project:MASA’s mission continues with the activation of the “MASA-Port Authority Naturalization Station —the Sala Diaz Outpost”  which includes an exhibit of the “Portal Arrival Team” and previous cosmic citizens portraits at Sala Diaz! Opening this Friday, March 15, at Sala Diaz!

Additionally, on the evening of April 6th 2024, the “MASAporte Naturalization Station—Sala Diaz Outpost”  will be activated for a naturalization event for applicants to gain Cosmic Citizenship at the internationally known Sala Diaz Gallery in San Antonio. We invite the public to prepare their Cosmic Couture for the April 6th MASA:Porte Naturalization Station Event—Cosmic Citizenship requires the wearing of Cosmic Couture by the applicant to the naturalization event. Naturalization applications will also be accepted during March-April, hours TBA.

Learn more about the exhibition here.

This event is free and open to the public. Parking can be found along Stieren St.

Join Sala Diaz for the closing reception of Audrya Flores’s solo exhibition, Rattling. Rattling examines the roles of ritual, creativity, and play in the healing process. Like the segments of a serpent’s rattle, this body of work serves as a record of growth and evidence of transformation. It makes the inner work of healing visible.

 The closing reception will take place during the Eve of the Full Snow Moon (specifically, Friday is a Waxing Gibbous Moon). Once the moon has re-emerged with new energy, it is the perfect time to set new intentions for the month ahead. With this in mind, and in conversation with the exhibition, guests will be able to make their own ritual kits during the closing reception. Guests are invited to individualize their kits based on what their mind, body, and/or spirit is calling for: cleansing, release, charging, or grounding.

This event is free and open to the public. Parking can be found along Stieren St.

Sala Diaz will host open gallery hours to view our current exhibition, Rattling, featuring Audrya Flores.

Sala Diaz is free and open to the public. Parking is available along Stieren Street.

Sala Diaz will host open gallery hours to view our current exhibition, Rattling, featuring Audrya Flores.

Sala Diaz is free and open to the public. Parking is available along Stieren Street.

Sala Diaz will host open gallery hours to view our current exhibition, Rattling, featuring Audrya Flores.

Sala Diaz is free and open to the public. Parking is available along Stieren Street.

Sala Diaz will host open gallery hours to view our current exhibition, Rattling, featuring Audrya Flores.

Sala Diaz is free and open to the public. Parking is available along Stieren Street.

Please join us for the opening of Audrya Flores's solo exhibition, Rattling, at Sala Diaz. The opening is free and open to the public. Rattling will be on view, by appointment, from January 13–February 23, 2024.

Rattling examines the roles of ritual, creativity, and play in the healing process. Like the segments of a serpent’s rattle, this body of work serves as a record of growth and evidence of transformation. It makes the inner work of healing visible.

A Rattling Invitation-
Beyond the threshold of this tiny house,
this witch’s cottage,
another world awaits.
Come in.

My spells hang in the air,
my shape shifts,
I move from material to immaterial, and back again.
Come in.

I travel on the serpent’s back, the healing path.
She showed me how to rattle.
Let me show you.
Come in.

Sala Diaz will host open gallery hours to view our current exhibition, ancestors weep through me, featuring Kat Cadena.

Sala Diaz is free and open to the public. Parking is available along Stieren Street.

Sala Diaz will host open gallery hours to view our current exhibition, ancestors weep through me, featuring Kat Cadena.

Sala Diaz is free and open to the public. Parking is available along Stieren Street.

Sala Diaz will host open gallery hours to view our current exhibition, ancestors weep through me, featuring Kat Cadena.

Sala Diaz is free and open to the public. Parking is available along Stieren Street.

Sala Diaz announces our final exhibition of 2023, ancestors weep through me, featuring Kat Cadena. The exhibition will open with a public reception on Saturday, November 11, from 6–9pm at Sala Diaz. This event is free and open to the public.

In her solo exhibition, ancestors weep through me, Kat Cadena embarks on a powerful journey to understand how oppressors perpetuate harm to indigenous communities and the persistent patterns of complicity that enable its continuation. A woman of color nurtured by generations of resilient, proud, and fierce mestiza women in San Antonio, Texas, Cadena invokes the support of her ancestors to guide her through the depths of her grief over the genocide of Palestinians happening right now, and over the last 70 plus years.

The artist invites visitors to engage with this exhibition by bringing flowers or herbs to add to an alter made inside the gallery. Additionally, a letter-writing station will be available, allowing participants to write to politicians, to the Palestinian people and journalists covering the attacks, or use the opportunity as an outlet for grief, anger, or confusion by writing anonymous letters.

All of the proceeds of the sales of select artworks will be donated to the Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund (PCRF).

Join us for a last look at our current exhibition, My body is a temple, my body is a ruin, a solo exhibition featuring the work of local artist Jacqueline Saragoza McGilvray.

The body of work in this exhibition poses a binary comprised of the temple and the ruin. The temple represents sacred space– a place one can engage the spiritual, acts of worship, experience catharsis, experience the divine, and community. In contrast, the ruin represents isolation, disintegration, and collapse–something forgotten or abandoned. A ruin is both a place (noun) and a verb–a choice or action made towards something.

Sala Diaz is free and open to the public. Parking is available along Stieren Street.

Sala Diaz will host open gallery hours to view our current exhibition, My body is a temple, my body is a ruin, featuring Jacqueline Saragoza McGilvray.

Sala Diaz is free and open to the public. Parking is available along Stieren Street.

Join us for First Friday at Sala Diaz to view Jacqueline Saragoza McGilvray’s solo exhibition, My body is a temple, my body is a ruin. The evening will also include live music by the artist’s partner, Shea. The set will include temple and ruin inspired compositions to accompany the exhibition for the evening.

My body is a temple, my body is a ruin explores themes of transformation, loss, love, devotion, support, and grief. It considers out of body experiences and finding paths to be present again with oneself following destabilization.

Sala Diaz is free and open to the public. Parking is available along Stieren Street.

Sala Diaz will host open gallery hours to view our current exhibition, My body is a temple, my body is a ruin, featuring Jacqueline Saragoza McGilvray.

Sala Diaz is free and open to the public. Parking is available along Stieren Street.

Join us on Saturday, September 16, from 6–9pm, for a gathering at Casa Chuck to view the product of Hills Snyder’s Twenty-Four Balls and The Truth.

The first iteration of this project occurred in 2019 at Sweet Pass Sculpture Park, Dallas, TX, as part of a show called Bush League, which celebrated the American institution of Baseball. Baseballs were mime-signed from a list of names selected by artist Hills Snyder and mailed to the curators (Lindsay Starr & Daedalus Hoffmann) to be scattered in the park and left for random attendees and passers-by.

Twenty-Four Balls and The Truth, for San Antonio, will be enacted during a one-week pop-up residency at Casa Chuck by Snyder, September 12 through 18.

Beginning Wednesday, September 13, six balls per day will be pitched, with daily social media updates on the project. The photos will be collected in a notebook that may be perused at a public gathering at Casa Chuck on Saturday, September 16, 6 to 9pm.

Join us for the opening of our first exhibition of the Fall, My body is a temple, my body is a ruin, a solo exhibition featuring the artwork Jacqueline Saragoza McGilvray. The opening is free and open to the public. Parking is located along Stieren Street.

The exhibition will be on view at Sala Diaz September 1–October 13, 2023, by appointment.

My body is a temple, my body is a ruin explores themes of transformation, loss, love, devotion, support, and grief. It considers out of body experiences and finding paths to be present again in the body following destabilizing or life changing events.

The temple represents sacred space. Architecture for engaging the spiritual, worshipful practice, catharsis, care, and community. The need for fellowship and support for others to be something extraordinary and healthy. In contrast the ruin represents isolation, disintegration, and collapse–something forgotten or abandoned. It is both a place (noun) and a verb–a choice or action made towards something. Flora motifs occur in the work for their metaphoric representations and as reflection on the practice of surrounding oneself in nature– and in interior spaces, with representations of nature. These natural elements represent growth, transformation, restoration, and being re-rooted in place and time.

Join us for the opening of Alethia Jones’s solo exhibition, Floating Between Chaos and Peace, opening Friday, June 2, 2023, from 6–9pm at Sala Diaz. This event is free and open to the public. Complimentary beverages and snacks will be provided.

In Floating between Chaos and Peace, Alethia Jones explores her personal mental health through painting. Utilizing vibrant, neon colors, Jones creates fantastical landscapes, or dreamscapes, sprinkled with hints of recognizable objects. Though made with paint on canvas, the works have a collage-like quality to them, furthering ideas of sampling different experiences and emotions. 

Alethia told Sala Diaz,” Like so many people on the planet, I have spent the majority of my life living with mental illness. After years of anger, sadness, and uncertainty, I was finally diagnosed with ADHD and Schizophrenia. The number of humans with mental illnesses on the planet has been increasing each year, with no end in sight. This body of work exposes the helplessness of one grappling with negative current events, but also suggests that hope does exist, and there is still much beauty to behold in this world.

Join us for the opening reception of When the Stones Speak, curated by 2023 Casa Chuck Resident Adonay Bermúdez. This event is free and open to the public. Beverages and snacks will be provided. Come hang out!

Featured artists: Hayfer Brea, Rigoberto Camacho, Teresa Correa, Joey Fauerso, Megan Harrison, Gil Rocha, Avelino Sala

When the Stones Speak addresses the construction/destruction binomial, along with concepts of time and space. Through installation practice, video performance, painting, collage and sculpture, When the Stones Speak captivates us with an amalgam of artistic proposals that seek to raise citizen awareness, helping us understand how the power to rethink the model of the territory we wish to inhabit is in our hands. Through the polyhedric nature of stone, a series of artists proclaims that another world is possible, one that is kinder and fairer, more inclusive and more feminist.

Join Sala Diaz for The Compound House Series #1 featuring live music from singer-songwriter Gus Kelley. This fundraiser will take place in the bones of our Compound House, and all proceeds will directly benefit the growth of Sala Diaz. Snacks and refreshments will be provided.

This summer, an anonymous donor purchased and gifted Sala Diaz the property and house next to our gallery. The building came to us with a new roof, new foundation, and has working wiring and plumbing, along with an AHAC system. The building, what we are calling the Compound House, is gutted down to the studs and there is still a long way to go, but once finished we will be able to use the space for short-term rentals. The income we receive from rentals will support the exhibitions at Sala Diaz and residency at Casa Chuck, enabling us to continue to support contemporary artists and writers.

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About Gus Kelley

Gus Kelley is a singer-songwriter and performance artist based in San Antonio, Texas. Kelley has worked in a range of environmental fields, including water conservation, fossil fuel divestment, climate/energy policy, forestry, and agricultural research. He is a classically trained pianist and has recently studied voice, movement, and performance with Meredith Monk and the Marina Abramović Institute. His work explores psychoterratic states and what it takes to remain hopeful and loving in the face of ecological destruction and heartbreak.