Exploring Creativity, Inspiring Community
When you support the Community Arts Programs of UTSA Arts, you are helping students of all ages and backgrounds develop their creative abilities!
Your gift will support:
- High-quality exhibitions and guest artist performances that are free for all to attend;
- Professionally taught community studio visual art classes for students of all ages; and
- Accessible summer camps and workshops in music, dance, and the visual arts.
Fuel Creativity
Classes are offered in printmaking, painting, drawing, ceramics, metals and jewelry, book arts, fiber arts, and weaving, darkroom photography, digital art, and sculpture.
Community Art programs include Fall, Spring and Summer sessions for adults ages 18 and older. The classes are also open to high school students, with written permission.
Grow Artists
Arts education is a key to ensuring student success in school, work, and life. Community Art classes offer multiple avenues for access to the visual arts for young artists across San Antonio.
Enriching San Antonio
UTSA Community Art serves over 5,000 youth in schools and social service agencies through its community outreach programs including the Mobile Arts Program and Youth Studios.
Thank you for joining with those donors to add your support of our Community Arts Programs, positively impacting more than 4,000 diverse students each year!
In 2024, UTSA Special Assistant for Development Initiatives Ed Conroy will match the first $500 in gifts to the UTSA Community Arts Programs in honor of Dr. Melissa Mahan and her team.
A message from Ed Conroy, Special Assistant for Development Initiatives:
“You are warmly invited to join me in honoring the special people who administer and teach in the Young Artist Programs and the Adult Community Program at UTSA!
Under the leadership of Dr. Melissa Mahan of the Department of Professional and Continuing Education (PaCE), these talented professionals have revived the community arts programs to continue providing enriching educational experiences to thousands of students from all backgrounds.
I am the father of a daughter who grew up in the Young Artist Programs and who served as an artist-teacher in the schools of New Orleans after graduating from college. These visual arts programs make a positive difference in the social, emotional and academic development of young people. Additionally, I have seen friends find new outlets for their creativity and made countless new friends when they join the adult community classes.
For these reasons and more, I am moved to honor Dr. Mahan and her staff who have devoted much time and attention to advancing the mission of the Community Arts Programs so that they continue to be a positive force for creative expression among the people of San Antonio and our surrounding area.”
