Price Center Celebrating Women Through Art with Annual IWD Events
For the 7th year in a row, the Price Center Arts Committee is joining forces with female artists, musicians, dancers, poets, and other performers throughout the area to celebrate International Women's Day with an art show and a two-month calendar of events designed to celebrate and unite women through the arts. Here's a summary of what is planned.
Telling Your Story
C A L E N D A R O F E V E N T S
March 1 – April 26 View daily Wed. -- Fri. noon-5 and Sat 10-3
Annual All-Women’s Gallery Show Telling Your Story hangs throughout our galleries and includes work by women and those who identify as women. Many of the works are for sale and a portion of any proceeds benefits the Price Center’s ongoing arts efforts.
March 4 – 6-9 p.m.
First Tuesday SMTX Film series Join us this month for Healer: The Dr. Jocelyne Elders Story The film tells the story of the journey from a sharecropper’s daughter to the becoming First African American Surgeon General of the United States. (2023, 50min)
POST-FILM Q&A • Director Candace Bellamy & Glynis Christine, Professor of Sociology, Psychology and Student Development at ACC
Brought to you in partnership with African American Studies at TXST
$10 -- Doors 6:15pm, Complimentary Food & Drink 6:30pm, Film Start 7pm
These monthly films often sell out! Seating is limited to 120. Best to purchase your tickets in advance online:
March 9 – 3-5 p.m.
Telling Your Story Art Show Opening Reception & Program Join us for our public reception celebrating women and their art through this beautiful new exhibit, live music, dance, poetry, and brief remarks. Refreshments served. Free, open to all.
March 8 – 6-8 p.m.
A Donde Vas Reading and Book launch featuring Carmen Tafolla
The book A Donde Vas, Dreamer? is an anthology of essays and poetry, all centering on first-generation Texan immigrants knocking out stereotypes by creating art that tells their stories! Free, open to all. Refreshments will be served.
March 20 – 3 – 5 p.m.
A Live Reading of a One-Act Play
Trifles, a one-act play by Susan Gaspell first performed in 1916, highlights how men mock women’s concerns over “trifles.” Yet it is women who discover the crucial clue to John Wright’s murder. Free.
March 21 – 6-8 p.m.
2025-26 Hays Youth Poet Laureate Celebration and Chapbook Launch Infrarrealista Review presents their celebration of 2025-26 Hays Youth Poet Laureate Adelie Donovan’s book launch and a special virtual message from poet Naomi Shihab Nye. Free, open to all. Refreshments will be served.
March 22 – 1-2 p.m.
Joydance Everyone is welcome to join in the fun as hosts Vicki Hartin and Molly Hayes curate a one-hour dance set that includes a wide variety of genres and styles of music to inspire a variety of movements. You can move as much or as little as you want. Assorted tutus, capes, wings, and headgear are provided. Free, open to all.
April 5 – 10-6 p.m.; April 6, Noon – 6:00
Mothership Studio San Marcos Studio Tour We are pleased to be part of year three of this area-wide Studio Tour through area artists' work and sales spaces. Visitors of the Center will be able to take in the Telling Our Story art show as well as our Pop-Up From the Inside Out: The Art of Jailed Women an art exhibit by Rough Draft featuring the work of women jailed in Hays County who process trauma through art and creative writing. The project helps foster self-worth and positive community connections. The program is sponsored by a grant from the San Marcos Arts Commission.
Free, open to all. Light refreshments will be served, and our inspiring Shop 1893 will be open when you visit!
April 16 – 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
Who Lives in My House – a Collage Workshop
Join local artists Margaret Adie and Karen Cross as they help you transform little wooden houses into expressions of yourself through collage. Wooden houses, glue, and tissue paper provided. Bring scissors and extra collage materials to make it yours. Free. RSVP required. Donations accepted.
Additional details about the March 8 and April 9 Monthly Open Studio Nights, the April 1 First Tuesday Film Showing, and the April 11 San Marcos Arts Festival activities at the Price Center is still in development. This Calander will be updated as information become available.
Comentários