Current Art Exhibits in San Marcos, TX

The Walkers' Gallery

Youth Art Month
March 1- 30, 2024 
Celebrate Youth Art Month by viewing artwork by San Marcos children aged preschool - high school.

Jo's Cafe

Taste the Tour
March 1 - 31, 2024 

‘Taste of the Tour’ highlights 12 local artists who will be featured on the upcoming San Marcos Studio Tour. The show will be on view the whole month of March with a closing reception Saturday, March 30 from 2-5 p.m.

The San Marcos Studio Tour runs the first weekend of April, with a kick off party Friday, April 5 as 7 p.m. at Mothership Studios. Over 60 tour stops will be open to explore Saturday and Sunday, April 6-7 from noon-6 p.m. 

 

The Price Center

The Female Gaze: How We View the World
March 2 - April 27, 2024 

The Price Center's 6th annual all-women’s art show in honor of International Women’s Day features area female artists and those who identify as female. 

 

From the Inside Out: The Art of Incarcerated Women
March 30 and April 6, 2024 

A pop-up art exhibit by Rough Draft features the work of incarcerated women in Hays County who process trauma through art and creative writing. The project helps foster self-worth and positive community connections. In this collection of art, the women have explored various concepts of self and emotion surrounding their incarceration. Program founder Brooke Pillifant will be present to talk with attendees. The program is sponsored by a grant from the San Marcos Arts Commission. 

 

Tiny Garden Gallery
Ongoing
The Price Center’s outdoor permanent art gallery has expanded with the addition of the Tiny Garden Gallery installed just inside the main archway entrance of the front Garden. This gallery space features tiny art submitted from the San Marcos community. More information, and instructions for submitting art, can be found online here.

San Marcos Art Center

Opulent Bonds: Texas State Student and Alumni Exhibition
Through March 31, 2024 

The San Marcos Art League hopes to create and nurture rich connections within the artist community in San Marcos. For the second year in a row, the league has called for Texas State artists to show their work at the San Marcos Art Center. The goal is that this annual exhibition continues to cultivate an opulent bond between the two seemingly disconnected groups, Texas State University artists and the local San Marcos artist community.

To view a list of showing artists at the San Marcos Art Center, go to https://www.sanmarcosartcenter.com/showing-artists-1

Wake the Dead Coffee House

Artwork of Fen Labyrinth 
Through Feb. 29
View artworks by Fen Labyrinth in the Main Room of Wake the Dead Coffee House.

Artwork by Sophia DesJardins
Through Feb. 29
View artwork by Sophia DesJardins in the Study Room until Feb. 29.

Artwork by Nancy Wilson
Through Feb. 29
View artwork by Nancy Wilson in the Stage Room until Feb. 29.

The Wittliff Collections

Featured Rotating Current Exhibits

  • Behind the Lines: the Art of Texas Monthly
  • Ghostlight: Photographs by Keith Carter 
  • Edward Curtis: Treasures of the North American Indian
  • Writer at Large: The Creative Journeys of William Broyles

For the full list of exhibits, visit The Wittliff Collections website.

Texas State Galleries 

Magava by Khari Turner

Through March 8

Khari Turner presents Magava, a self-created mythology chronicling the life of an embodied drop of water. The story follows an oceanic tribe of beings made of water. A boy from this tribe named Magava (the Ghanaian word for "I shall return") ventures to the surface where he unintentionally evaporates into a cloud. When Magava cries out to return home from above the water, the cloud responds that for him to return home, he must find his way to the lakes and rivers that flow back to the ocean. This exhibition is the first glimpse into Magava’s life as he reckons with himself on the long journey home. The artist’s mixed media paintings combine ink with water collected from oceans, lakes, and rivers of personal or historical significance.

There will be an opening reception on Jan. 24 from 5 – 7 p.m.

Past exhibits listed at https://txstgalleries.org/