Resources and Programs for Adults

There’s always something new and exciting happening at SAMA! Follow our blog for deep dives into our collection, programs, and new developments.

Have you ever wanted to own a work of art from SAMA’s collection? See it hanging in your house, or displayed on a canvas the way the artist might have seen it? Now you can... virtually! All on Animal Crossing: New Horizons.

The Lone Star Brewery was the first large, mechanized brewery in Texas, having opened in 1884. During its heyday, the brewery produced some 65,000 barrels but ceased operation with the advent of Prohibition. In 1981, SAMA opened in the renovated complex with the slogan “We’re Brewing Art,” and today, we’re "Still Brewing Art."

In 2023, Carlos Rosales-Silva completed “Pase Usted,” a large-scale, site-specific mural as part of the launch of the Gateway series, an ongoing project that will enlist contemporary artists to activate SAMA’s Great Hall.

Join Emily Sano, Coates-Cowden-Brown Senior Advisor for Asian Art, Emerita, and Matthew P. McKelway, Takeo & Itsuko Atsumi Professor of Japanese Art History at Columbia University, as they take a closer look at the seventeenth-century Japanese screen from our permanent collection "Scenes in and Around Kyoto (Rakuchu Rakugai-zu)."

In this video, Lana Meador, Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at SAMA, discusses Lyon's photographic style and the significance of "The Bikeriders" photo book in the context of American photography and cultural history and shares some of her favorite photos from the series.

Commissioned by the San Antonio Museum of Art (SAMA), the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center’s dance company created an original production inspired by the exhibition Traitor, Survivor, Icon: The Legacy of La Malinche.

Filmed and produced by Walley Films.

In this talk Dr. Fellah discusses how Red Star’s art can be viewed through the lens of borders, whether they are the borders of the Crow Reservation where Red Star was born and raised, or the borders that divide nations, like Mexico and the United States. Covering nearly twenty years of Red Star’s artwork, this talk ties the physical spaces of borders to Indigenous history and contemporary culture within the shifting and complex borders of American identity. 

Superheroes are modern mythologies, or supermythologies, offering moral and social instruction and instilling a sense of awe in their target demographic. Through story, artistry, and imagination, comic books, and superhero films bring to life alternative visions of our past, present, and future. Moving between his research in Papua New Guinea and the multiverse worlds of superheroes, Professor Halvaksz will explore what comic myths can tell us about our own sense of place.