![A dirt road near San Benito, Freddy Fender's hometown. There's a water tower there with a portrait of him. Hidalgo County.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/glasstire/20130118155509im_/http://glasstire.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/san-benito3-150x150.jpg)
Show and Tell: Chupacabrona (semi-) undocumented
There’s been a grave interruption in my tour reporting, I realize. Rigoberto Gonzalez Facebooked me thusly the other day: WTF? (I’m paraphrasing). Here’s what happened: from January through May, I amassed more than eight hours of video footage, about that many hours of audio field recordings, including interviews and some highly trippy bits of RGV AM [...]
![Their fundraising deadline is January 9. Highly recommended.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/glasstire/20130118155509im_/http://glasstire.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Juanitos-Lab-image-for-web-150x150.jpg)
Gisha, Emileigh, Juanito
This is Guillermina “Gisha” Zabala, an artist and filmmaker from Argentina who makes her home in San Antonio with her Uruguayan husband Enrique Lopetegui, music editor of the San Antonio Current, and their daughter Shanti. You can watch an excerpt of her San Antonio Artist Foundation Award-winning film, F-Watch, here. “I, Me, Light,” Zabala’s [...]
![Dresses made from Alyce Santoro's Sonic Fabric](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/glasstire/20130118155509im_/http://glasstire.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/sonic-fabric-150x150.jpg)
Alyce Santoro weaves old cassette tape into arts dollars for Spain
From now until August 30th West Texas-based “multimedia conceptual/sound artist and environmental/social activist” Alyce Santoro is accepting commissions from musicians, designers, architects, collectors to produce personalized, custom-recorded editions of Sonic Fabric, a textile woven from audio cassette tape. Through a new crowdsourcing platform called United States Artists, Alyce is offering to weave 20-yard editions of [...]