Thu, May 02
|The Guadalupe Latino Bookstore
A Passion for Places: Art, Lecture, and Book Signing with Roy Pachecano
Join us for a lecture and art on the landmarks and buildings of Texas featured in the illustrated sketchbook A PASSION FOR PLACES by Roy Pachecano!
Time & Location
May 02, 2024, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM CDT
The Guadalupe Latino Bookstore, 1300 Guadalupe St, San Antonio, TX 78207, USA
Guests
About the event
The Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center and MACRI present a lecture, art, and a book signing with Roy Pachecano, author and illustrator of A Passion for Places. Pachecano’s inspiring illustrated sketchbook shows how Texas landmarks and buildings are connected to other places around the world. 🖼️
This event will take place at the Guadalupe Latino Bookstore (1300 Guadalupe St., SATX 78207) on Thursday, May 2, 2024, at 6 pm. Light refreshments will be served. The book will be available for purchase and signing by the author.
🌟MACRI's programs are funded in part by the City of San Antonio Department of Arts & Culture, Bexar County, the Mellon Foundation, the John L. Santikos Charitable Foundation Fund of the San Antonio Area Foundation, Wells Fargo, and individual donors like you! To learn more about future MACRI events and how to make a donation, please visit www.somosMACRI.org. Gracias!🌟
Views and ideas shared by presenters do not necessarily reflect those of the MACRI, its staff, or funders.
About the book
A Passion for Places showcases places in Texas from a unique perspective: how our landmarks and buildings are connected to other places around the world. This book is a collection of places drawn on site, in all weather conditions, along with all of the distractions that come with sitting in place for an hour or two. The images presented are inspired by the Renaissance tradition of producing ‘vedute’--or picturesque scenes. Traveling abroad provided fertile grounds to draw, and this activity spawned a fecundity of sketches. The sumptuous architectural antecedents of Texas are connected to other places found in Austria, Cuba, the Czech Republic, the Dominican Republic, England, France, Germany, Guatemala, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Spain, and the Vatican. This publication has taken a global effort to produce: from independent travels to sourcing sketch pads, watercolors, pencils, and artistic resources, this book embodies our world of interconnectivity. From The Alamo to SpaceX’s Star Base, A Passion for Places captures that special Texas spirit and shares it with all who love art, architecture, history, and travel.