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Alamo City Artists is a visually engaging blog space dedicated to highlighting the local artists of San Antonio, Texas.
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Yolanda Rios Wurgler
Yolanda's Studio
Dancer, painter, and jewelry maker, Yolanda Rios Wurgler is a native San Antonian and one of our community's longest standing artisans. Yolanda's artistic endeavors here in our Alamo City have been quite the adventure. From Flambeau parades to Market Square, this artist is no stranger to the vibrant and cultural pulses of the city.
As a dancer, Yolanda used to perform and celebrate our beautiful Alamo City as a dancer and performer in the Fiesta Flambeau parades and would dance the night away adorned in bright costumes, jewelry, and larger than life head dresses. As a San Antonio tradition since 1948, the Fiesta Flambeau Parade is America's largest (and best) illuminated parade designed to enhance the city's Fiesta celebrations and help bring our community together to celebrate it's rich history.
As a painter, Yolanda's pallet has a wide and eclectic reach. She draws inspiration from real life experiences and has created hundreds of paintings which she has showcased and sold at various artisan markets around San Antonio. Yolanda's biggest inspiration is Frida Kahlo and you will find paintings as well as jewelry with the artist's likeness in several of Yolanda's pieces.
Yolanda is also a friend to the environment and will often repurpose various materials and take a mundane and forgotten piece and turn it into a functional and beautiful work of art. She creates all of her jewelry by hand and has been selling her work for decades at various artisan markets around town.
More recently, Yolanda has been able to participate again in artisan markets at both Crossroads Mall and Rolling Oaks Mall for their Fiesta in April Artwalk and we can expect to see more of Yolanda's work at local artisan markets now that Texas has reopened our state and local businesses.
You can follow Yolanda and stay up to date on what she is creating and where you can find her at @yolandas_studio on Instagram.
