Family goes to the facility of Components & & Labor, San Antonio’s most recent art residency.
Found in Southtown, the not-for-profit’s residency program is developed around sustaining musicians that are caretakers.
” When we began Components & & Labor we were devoted to offering musicians that are caretakers, whether it’s musicians with youngsters or musicians with reliant moms and dads or reliant companions,” stated Meaghan Mitts on the current episode of the “bigcitysmalltown” podcast.
She and founder Liz Stehl Kleberg signed up with host Robert Rivard on the podcast to go over the beginnings of Components & & Labor and its duty in San Antonio’s art neighborhood.
Gloves and Kleberg orginally came to be good friends while operating in the art scene in New york city for several years. In 2020, the pandemic inspired Kleberg and her household to relocate to San Antonio to be better for her spouse’s household.
Kleberg stated that she and her spouse intended to “locate an area that we might make right into a live/work room,” which they located in a workshop home in Lavaca. When a cottage following door appeared, that stimulated the concept of organizing musicians and family members– and bringing imaginative links and relationships to San Antonio.
Kleberg welcomed Gloves– that had actually moved to San Antonio in 2022– to a mug of coffee. “[Meaghan is] amazing at the nuts and screws of exactly how these stunning imaginative visions revive and exactly how to develop encouraging networks,” Kleberg stated.
The discussion over that mug of coffee birthed the concept for Components & & Labor.
San Antonio is home to various other arts residencies– Artpace San Antonio’s International Artist-in-Residence program, Contemporary at Blue Celebrity’s Berlin residency, and The Casa Chuck Residency at Sala Diaz– and Kleberg and Mitts connected to the art neighborhood in order to supply a special experience and protect against redundancies.
What makes Components & & Labor attract attention is its versatility and concentrate on holiday accommodation. The not-for-profit welcomes musicians from beyond San Antonio to remain for 2 weeks as much as 6 or 8 months, collaborating with musicians’ routines around their partners, kids or reliant moms and dads and aiding with needs such as safeguarding child care.
Musicians are asked to engage with the neighborhood by supplying public programs, such as workshops, musician talks or regional college check outs.
” We seem like that is just one of the actually distinct aspects of the San Antonio arts neighborhood is that it’s so friendly, approving, cozy and thoughtful,” Mitts stated. “And it would certainly be an embarassment for our musicians to find below and not have great deals of factors of direct exposure to that.”
From currently up until July, Components & & Labor is aligned to host 8 musicians, which is more busy than they anticipated. Throughout the last fifty percent of 2025, Kleberg and Mitts aspire to host Los Angeles-based musicians and their family members that have actually been influenced by the California wildfires.
Such chances aid the duo to fine-tune the residency program for the advantage of the musicians and the art neighborhood in San Antonio.
Pay attention the to complete episode of the “bigcitysmalltown” podcast listed below.
Disclosure: Robert Rivard is the founder of the San Antonio Record.
