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Featured Artists
Shelby Criswell
@shelbycriswell
Artist Bio
Local artist who grew up a stone’s throw away from Highway 87 in Adkins, Texas, and graduated from East Central High School. Shelby went on to study studio art at the Santa Fe University of Art and Design in New Mexico.
They have worked as a freelance graphic designer and illustrator for ten years, working with clients like Asleep At The Wheel and Universal Music. Shelby has also worked in the comic book industry, winning the Ignatz and Ringo awards for comic anthology, Be Gay, Do Comics, and wrote their debut graphic novel, Queer As All Get Out, in 2021.
Shelby has done art residencies with Southtown Art Gallery in San Antonio, Willow House in Terlingua, and is currently an artist in residence with UTSA at Mark Twain Dual Language Academy. Their work has been shown all over the great state of Texas, including Contemporary at Blue Star in San Antonio and the Bob Bullock Museum in Austin.
Artist Statement
Shelby Criswell began their artistic practice through comics and illustration work, developing an interest in image-making as a way to process and observe. While Shelby’s work has shifted toward mixed media, their work retains a strong narrative presence, often suggesting fragments of stories rather than fixed conclusions.
The compositions are layered with bold color, symbols, text, and quilting patterns that echo Shelby’s meditation practice, where focus drifts and returns, and central images coexist with passing marks and gentle interruptions.
Jazciel Nepzaly
@nepzaly
Artist Bio
Jazciel Nepzaly is a textile artist, whose work explores the complexity of feelings and perspectives of growing up in a Mexican-American household. She uses different patterns, vivid colors, and various sewing techniques to show glimpses of her life experiences and processing of emotions. Born and raised in San Antonio, surrounded by culture, she gains inspiration and hope from her community and family.
Artist Statement
Every piece that I create is a reflection understanding myself and comforting my past self. Emotions were something that I never learned how to sit comfortably with. Exploring a new feeling with the needle and thread in my hand makes it easier to process. I enjoy using textures, shapes, and colors to convey my feelings in navigating though life .
Ursula Zavala
@acidwinzip
Artist Bio
Ursula Zavala (b. 1987, San Antonio, TX) is a multidisciplinary full-time artist whose practice spans painting, textiles, digital design, and mixed media. Working under the moniker Acidwinzip, Zavala explores nostalgia, internet culture, and the realities of capitalism through a lens that balances humor, critique, and working-class aesthetics.
Zavala has exhibited widely in San Antonio, beginning with digital works presented at Provenance Gallery in 2017. They have since completed multiple artist residencies and developed a broad collector base through both local exhibitions and online platforms. From 2021–2024, Zavala served as Co-Owner, Gallery Director, and Curator of Not For You Gallery in the Blue Star Arts Complex, where they coordinated exhibitions, produced public programs, and cultivated community engagement.
A 2025 City of San Antonio Artist Grant recipient, Zavala maintains an active relationship with the city's cultural institutions, with exhibition history including Plaza de Armas and Centro de Artes. Their work has been shown extensively across San Antonio's local gallery landscape, reflecting a deep and ongoing commitment to the city's contemporary art community.
Their professional experience encompasses exhibition design, art handling, promotional design, and collaborative projects, positioning them as both a working artist and arts administrator at the heart of San Antonio's vibrant art scene.
Artist Statement
I am a multidisciplinary artist from San Antonio, Texas, working under the name Acidwinzip, a name chosen for me by an internet subculture name generator in 2016. As a woman of Mexican descent raised in poverty, my work is shaped by a perspective built outside of abundance and early access to the digital world.
My practice spans digital media, painting, collage, drawing, and textiles, and is rooted in nostalgia, internet culture, and a critical examination of capitalism. Though my themes carry weight, my work leans into levity, critique that wears a grin.
Central to my work is the concept of comfort: something once out of reach, and now something I examine in all its forms, from the bliss of ignorance to the indulgence of excess. Through this lens, I invite viewers to look inward, to question the personas we perform online and in public, and to reckon with what lives beneath the surface of contentment.
At its core, my art is a playful but pointed journey through memory, culture, and society, guided by curiosity, compassion, and humor.