AT&T contributes $100,000 to Museo Alameda - San Antonio
Museo Alameda is assembling collection of Mexican art in San Antonio
The Museo Alameda is planning to launch a collection of three exhibitions highlighting the contributions Mexico has made to the art world over the last 500 years.
The museum will display collections of Mexican and Mexican-American arts from the 16th Century to modern times. “Mexico at the Museo” will open June 25 and run in phases through Feb. 22, 2009. This collection will be the first of its kind to be staged in San Antonio.”*
San Antonio museum inspires N.Y. designer’s commissioned pieces - Marisol Deluna
New York fashion designer Marisol Deluna isn’t fond of bitterly cold weather. In fact, the 40-year-old San Antonio native admits she’s kind of like a bird, migrating to warm areas as often as possible.
“It’s cold outside and warm in here. I’m just hibernating right now,” Deluna said during a phone call earlier this week from her design studio in midtown Manhattan. “Of course, I do have to leave at some point.”
Indeed. She’s in San Antonio today to unveil the scarf and tie she was commissioned to design for the Museo Alameda.”*
“John Trasviña became president and general counsel of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund in November 2006. He had an official introduction to the San Antonio community at a luncheon at Museo Alameda on Thursday, the same day a federal judge ruled an anti-immigration ordinance in Hazelton, Pa., unconstitutional. Similar to an ordinance in the Dallas suburb of Farmers Branch, Hazelton’s local law would have fined landlords who rented to undocumented immigrants and denied business permits to owners who hired them.
Trasviña talked with Express-News reporter Michelle De La Rosa about the ruling, his background and the organization’s impact in the Alamo City and Texas.”
Museo Alameda director moves on - San Antonio
“A little more than a month after its grand opening, the Museo Alameda del Smithsonian is without a director.
Laura Esparza has ended her second go-round in the position to accept the job of Cultural Affairs Division manager for the Austin Parks and Recreation Department, according to a statement released by the Smithsonian-affiliated institution.
Initially hired as director of the museum in October 2000, Esparza resigned after 14 months. She became director for the second time in November 2005. Esparza could not be reached for comment.”
The museum U.S. Latinos had pictured - Museo Alameda in San Antonio
“With hot pink carpet on the sidewalk and a 600-piece mariachi band, the city swung into fiesta mode this month to welcome the nation’s largest Hispanic museum, a collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution.
Few American cities are more tied to life south of the border than San Antonio, where tourists flock to shop its Mexican markets, meander its River Walk and sip margaritas. But despite residents’ efforts, no museum here showcased Hispanic arts. The new museum, the Museo Alameda Smithsonian, or MAS – “more,” in Spanish – changes that.”
Largest Latino Museum Opens in San Antonio, Texas
“A hot-pink building with colored lights in this city of Hispanic immigrants will house the nations largest museum devoted to Latino culture and arts.
As the debate over the growing number of Hispanic immigrants intensified, organizers decided it was important to showcase the blend of Latino culture with American culture, including that of other immigrant groups, said Ruth Medellin, executive director of the Museo Alameda, a partnership between the Alameda National Center for Latino Arts and Culture and the Smithsonian Institution.
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