05/15/2026
This Saturday, join us for a lively conversation with Kim Bishop, Raul Rene Gonzalez, Angela Weddle, and Gary Sweeney, moderated by Anne Gonzales. Free and open to the public!
Join us at The Beacon@Midtown Gallery on Sunday, May 17th from 2pm-5pm for the Illustrated Voices Artist Panel Talk. The conversation features four prolific artists in the exhibition, all from the San Antonio art community: Kim Bishop, Raul Rene Gonzalez, Angela Weddle and Gary Sweeney. Learn about their diverse approaches to visual storytelling and what drives their passion to create. The exhibition is curated by artist, Cody Vance.
ABOUT THE MODERATOR
Ann Gonzales has an MFA in Financial Leadership and Management and is a lifelong mixed media artist and sculptor based in Universal City, Texas.
ABOUT THE PANELISTS
Raul Rene Gonzalez, born 1981 creates artwork intersecting themes of fatherhood, labor, gender roles, identity, pop culture, and abstraction. Through a practice that is at once intimate and expansive, Gonzalez invites viewers to reconsider the boundaries of art-making—where it happens, who it includes, and how it speaks to the complexities of contemporary life.
Angela N. Weddle is a multidisciplinary autistic and disabled visual artist working in pen and ink, mixed media drawing, watermedia, and digital art. Weddle’s work explores perception, identity, disability, relationships, and place, both natural and urban through intricate line, symbolism, and layering.
Gary Sweeney is a multi-discipline artist whose work can best be described as, “text-based, humor-driven conceptualism.” He has shown extensively both nationally and internationally in his fifty-year career, and is best known for his humorous and often irreverent public artworks in parks, airports, and city buildings throughout the United States.
Kim Bishop, MFA/MA is a San Antonio–A Texas-based artist with over 20 years of nationally exhibited work, her practice spans drawing, painting, and large-scale public art that engages communities across the state. She is co-founder of A3 Street Press and 3rd Space Art Gallery, and a longtime arts educator and program leader at UTSA.
