Paper Trail SA

Paper Trail is a Two Day Event open to San Antonio makers and creators of printed goods.

Paper Trail SA is an Annual Event that began in 2015 and is dedicated to contemporary works of art and design on paper. Our continued goal is to provide a one-of-a-kind experience aimed at connecting artists to collectors in a forum that celebrates the artistic process and the culture of design and printmaking. This art fair and exhibition is truly the first of its kind in San Antonio and has been

unique addition to the local art scene. The One-Day Event on July 18th at The Rock Box will host over 40+ Artists and Vendors working in a variety of artistic styles, from High Brow to Low Brow. The Art Market will feature affordable artwork and paper goods including hand-lettered typography, relief prints, lithographs, etchings, digital prints, stickers, zines and screen prints.

06/30/2025

🧠✨ Featured Artist Spotlight: ✨🧠

Morgan Thomas is a freelance art director by weekday and a risograph-loving, comic-making chaos machine by weekend. Based in Austin, Morgan’s work celebrates the joy of being a weird, disgusting, tender, hotter-than-you-realize human, warts, sweat, and all.

She’s bringing a glorious pile of zines and risograph prints to Paper Trail 2025, all lovingly powered by the same risograph you may have printed on too 👀

🩸 Get messy. Get weird. Get over yourself.
📍 The Rock Box • San Antonio
🗓️ July 20 • Free • All Ages

06/30/2025

🧵 Featured Artist Spotlight: 🎨

Shelby Criswell is an award-winning illustrator and comic artist from San Antonio whose work blends plein air painting, quilt patterns, and quiet rebellion. With each piece, Shelby creates a space for mindfulness and calm, even when the world outside is anything but.

Their thoughtful, layered work will be on display at Paper Trail 2025, where you’ll find

🖼️ Zines
📚 Comics
🎨 Stickers, prints, and original art

It’s bold. It’s soft. It’s stitched with meaning. Come explore Shelby’s work and reconnect with your quiet side.

🧘‍♂️✨ Find some peace between the pages.
📍 The Rock Box • San Antonio
🗓️ July 20 • Free • All Ages

06/30/2025

🧛‍♀️🖤 Featured Artist Spotlight: 🖤🧛‍♀️

Ghouls just wanna have fun, and Captain Toosh is proof. San Antonio’s own Cassandra Dunn blends vintage pinup glam with B-movie monster madness to create artwork that’s equal parts creepy and curvy.

Her table at Paper Trail 2025 will be crawling with stickers, prints, acrylic art, and monster-ready shirts. all featuring her signature blend of pulp horror, bad girls, and bold lines.

🕷️ Think 1950s calendar girls… if they had fangs.
📍 The Rock Box • San Antonio
🗓️ July 20 • Free • All Ages

06/30/2025

🎨🌺 Featured Artist Spotlight: 🌺🎨

Say hello to Flynn Craft House, the vibrant small biz from Laredo, TX, led by artist Erika Lamar. Her work bursts with the color, joy, and spirit of modern Mexican and border culture, blending tradition with bold, contemporary flair.

From stickers and prints to original paintings, notepads, totes, and more, each piece celebrates the icons and imagery that make the borderland so rich in personality and pride.

🌞 Come grab something handmade, heartfelt, and full of border magic at Paper Trail 2025
📍 The Rock Box • San Antonio
🗓️ July 20 • Free • One Day Only

06/30/2025

🌙 Featured Artist Spotlight: 🌙

Myra Sanchez is a Dallas-based artist who paints from the heart and hopes you feel it too. Under the name tmoonrw, she creates abstract art rooted in emotional vulnerability, inviting deeper connection through color, form, and feeling.

Her work doesn’t just decorate; it resonates.

At Paper Trail 2025, she’ll be sharing prints, stickers, and keychains featuring her original art, soft, raw, and ready to be carried with you.

💫 Come connect through art that speaks without saying a word.
📍 The Rock Box • San Antonio
🗓️ July 20 • Free & All Ages

06/30/2025

🖤 Featured Artist Spotlight: 🖤

Christopher Payne, illustrator, designer, and printmaker behind Salted Teeth, has been quietly (and loudly) shaping the underground art scene since the early 2000s. From founding the DIY-heavy Folktale Records to co-launching Fine Print Press, Christopher’s creative journey runs deep in music, print, and independent publishing.

His work drips with texture, narrative, and a DIY ethos born from years of hand-packaged releases and gritty print culture.

At Paper Trail 2025, Salted Teeth is bringing prints, original drawings, zines, cards, stickers, pins, patches, and all manner of darkly detailed goods.

🦷 Come dig through the beautifully strange and see what the underground looks like in ink.
📍 The Rock Box • San Antonio
🗓️ July 20 • Free • One Day Only

06/30/2025

📚🎨 Featured Artist Spotlight: 🎨📚

Hailing from Laredo, TX, Ricardo Guerrero, aka Riggy Artwork, is a professional illustrator repped by Shannon Associates and known for creating vibrant, imaginative work that lives at the heart of Kidlit and YA storytelling.

With a style that leaps off the page and into your imagination, Ricardo has contributed to creative events like LightBox Expo and worked across a range of story-driven projects since 2014.

At Paper Trail 2025, he’s bringing a table full of magic: prints (various sizes), stickers, bookmarkers, and original pieces, each one ready to inspire your inner kid (or your actual kid).

✨ Catch the color, charm, and storytelling spirit on July 20!
📍 The Rock Box • San Antonio
🗓️ Free & All Ages

06/30/2025

🛹🎨 Featured Artist Spotlight: 🎨🛹

Straight outta San Antonio, John Johnson is the mind behind Johnson 4Art, an illustrator and visual mischief-maker crafting a world of skate culture grit, cartoon absurdity, comic chaos, and vintage TV freakiness.

John’s work is weird in the best way. Funny, nostalgic, and dripping with lowbrow love for everything that never quite fit in.

Expect a table full of stickers, digital prints, screen-printed posters, and original artwork that’ll make you laugh, wince, or both at once.

🌀 If it’s offbeat, oddball, and oddly sincere—it’s Johnson 4Art.
📍 The Rock Box • San Antonio
🗓️ July 20 • Free • One Day Only

06/30/2025

👽✨ Featured Artist Spotlight: ✨👽

Meet Cynta Camilia, a visionary comic artist and illustrator from Oakland whose work dives deep into identity, memory, and the cosmic unknown. Through zines, comics, risograph prints, stickers, and art books, Cynta weaves powerful narratives rooted in their Malaysian heritage, nonbinary Muslim identity, and alien immigrant experience in the U.S.

From interdimensional memoirs to observations on small-space survival in San Francisco, their work pulses with emotion, humor, and otherworldly perspective, equal parts deeply personal and deeply cosmic.

🚀 Don’t miss this genre-bending, identity-exploring, risograph-ripping talent at Paper Trail 2025
📍 The Rock Box • San Antonio
🗓️ July 20 • Free • One Day Only

06/30/2025

🎃 Featured Artist Spotlight: 👻

All the way from the misty forests of Washington, Defectivepudding (aka Christa Dippel) brings a delightfully creepy-cute world to Paper Trail 2025! A self-taught illustrator with a soft spot for vintage toys and Halloween, Christa's work blends melancholy, mischief, and retro charm in equal parts.

Expect zines, prints, stickers, tote bags, and all kinds of spooky-sweet oddities to haunt your heart (and your tote).

🕯️ Come add a little trick and treat to your print collection.
📍 The Rock Box • San Antonio
🗓️ July 20 • Free • One Day Only

06/30/2025

🖤 Featured Artist Spotlight: 🖤

San Antonio’s own Vanessa Macias, aka DAMEOFPAIN, is a self-taught artist and tattooer slinging bold lines, big color, and serious style. When she’s not working her magic at Golden Rose Tattoo, she’s creating watercolor and acrylic paintings that channel the spirit of American traditional art, with a personal twist.

At Paper Trail 2025, catch Vanessa with a table full of paintings, prints, tote bags, and stickers, all packed with attitude, heart, and hand-crafted punch.

💀 Bold lines. Big hearts. No apologies.
📍 The Rock Box • San Antonio
🗓️ July 20 • Free & All Ages

06/30/2025

🌈 Featured Artist Spotlight: 🌈

Jack and Bec is a proudly Latina, Deaf, and queer-owned art brand based in San Antonio, and they’re here to turn heads and spark joy, one bold print at a time. From sassy stickers to size-inclusive fashion, their work is all about radical self-love, visibility, and good vibes for every body.

Their Paper Trail spread will be stacked with prints, stickers, buttons, totes, comfy tees, hats, pride flags, quirky shoe charms, and more—basically, your new favorite look, head to toe.

🫶 Come feel the love, find your fit, and support unapologetic art at Paper Trail 2025
📍 The Rock Box • San Antonio
🗓️ July 20 • Free • All Ages

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