Rent the Art Gallery for Your Exhibit
The Roosevelt Library Gallery located on the lower floor may be rented for ten days at a cost of $3,200. When the Gallery is rented, the walls are bare and fixtures are removed. The rental includes 9AM to 6PM access for ten days, access from 6PM to 11PM on one day for an opening reception for as many as 100 people, security and insurance for the opening reception, bar service with a cash bar for the opening reception, AS hanging system supplies to hang artwork from the AS gallery rails, lighting reconfiguration to appropriately illuminate artwork. The person renting the Gallery is responsible for hanging their art with the AS hanging system.
Past Exhibits
Benjamin McVey
Born in Houston, TX. Benjamin received his BFA from Texas State University in 1995 and his MFA from The University of Texas at San Antonio in 2012. Previously, he studied painting and drawing in New York City at the Art Students League and National Academy of Design. He lives in San Antonio, TX where he maintains a vigorous studio practice. Currently, he teaches 2D Foundations and lectures for the Austin Community College system. He has taught painting, drawing, and sculpture at The University of Texas at San Antonio, drawing at Northwest Vista College, which is part of the Alamo College system, and painting and drawing at the Southwest School of Art. He has exhibited in New York, Kentucky, Florida, and Texas, and has numerous works in private collections nationally and internationally (New York, California, Texas, Denmark, and UK), along with public collections (Eastfield College, Mesquite, TX and The City of Bastrop, TX). In 2017, he was chosen as the inaugural artist for Artpace’s Main Space gallery with his proposed Open project, moving his entire studio practice into Artpace’s front windows where he worked for three months, January 26th to April 30th. That June he was awarded an artist residency at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) in North Adams, MA. Past residencies include the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, VT, receiving an Artist/Writer Grant, and at The League Residency at Vytlacil in Sparkill, NY, receiving the Ruth Katzman Scholarship. Also, in 2016, he was one of eighteen artists selected throughout Texas to be featured in the Texas Draws IV biennial at the Southwest School of Art.