Collaborations
As part of our mission, “Creating Community through the Arts,” Bihl Haus Arts builds collaborations with other cultural and social service organizations to maximize access to collective resources. Organizations with which Bihl Haus Arts has collaborated include: American Indians in Texas at the Spanish Colonial Missions; Askew, a design center for urban youth (now Blue Star Mosaic); Bexar Land Trust (now Green Spaces Alliance); Blue Star Center for Contemporary Arts; Centro Cultural Aztlán; Dolph Briscoe Library; Fiber Artists of San Antonio; Fuerza Unida; Gemini Ink; Health and Healing Consortium; International Academy of Music and Art; Jefferson and Marshall High Schools; Jazz Poets Society; Keystone School; Martinez St. Women’s Center; Kaveri Natya Yoga; Our Lady of the Lake Art Dept.; San Antonio Museum of Art; San Antonio Community College Art Department; Southwest School of Art and Craft; University of the Incarnate Word Religious Studies Dept.; UT Health Science Center; UTSA Art and Anthropology Depts.; Voices de la Luna; and Writers Blk. Also area neighborhood associations, including Monticello Park, Jefferson, Woodlawn Lake, Los Angeles Heights, Keystone, Beacon Hill, and Alta Vista.
Bihl Haus Arts was a key organizer and co-founder of “El Gran Dia de los Artistas” in the Deco District (2006); founded and organizes the annual “On and Off Fredericksburg Road Studio Tour (2008 to present); co-founded and organizes the biannual "Rx Art: Take your medicine; and co-founded with Jim LaVilla Havelin National Poetry Month San Antonio (2008 to present). Bihl Haus Arts also regularly participates in City-wide festivals, including Fotoseptiembre (2006, 2007, 2010), CAM (2006 to present); Deco Days (2005); Print Month (2007); Women’s History Month (2006, 2007, 2008); Black History Month (2008); Luminaria (2008 to present); Monticello Park Home Tour (2006); Fiesta Home Tour (2008, 2009); and Seeing Art San Antonio (2006-2008).
Bihl Haus Arts also offers its facilities for meetings to various local organizations, including the SA Chapter of Americans United for the Separation of Church and State; the Non-Profit Resource Center; the Office of Cultural Affairs; the Neighborhood Resource Center; the Martinez Creek Sub-Committee; and other neighborhood and area civic and arts groups.
Bihl Haus Arts participated in the 18-month Incubation Program sponsored by the Office of Cultural Affairs. In addition, Director Kellen Kee McIntyre served as the secretary for the Cultural Alliance of San Antonio, 2007-2008, serves on the Martinez Creek Sub-Committee (2009-2010), serves on the Northwest Vista College Arts Committee (2010), and has been a grant reviewer for OCA.
