About Us

Over the past fifteen years we have worked with a number of artists, communities, institutions, municipalities, corporations and arts organizations on a multiple range of social engagement arts projects that focused primarily on building bridges and healing in the community through the arts. We have collaborated with a network of community artists that we fostered through an arts incubator we co-founded in 2012—3rd Space Art Gallery/Research Incubator. A recent example of this type of collaboration is the Pearl Brewery large scale print suite "The River Print Suite" and permanent sculpture installation project at the Oxbow Tower on Broadway

Our Team

Kim Bishop

CEO

Kim Bishop is a nationally exhibited artist who has been working from her San Antonio, Texas, based studio for the past fifteen years. Bishop holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a Master of Arts in Education from Texas State University. Her work is part of many private collections as well as the collections of the University of Texas San Antonio, Texas A&M Kingsville, the San Antonio Public Library and the Pearl Brewery. Her work can also be seen on the streets of San Antonio at several bus stops, as murals in the neighborhoods and across Texas in the 2020 U.S. Census Bureau billboards. Bishop is a co-founder of A3, a pop-up industrial street press, 3rd Space Art Gallery and is a mentor for the New York Foundation for the Arts Immigrant Artist program. She works closely with local arts organizations Spare Parts, Blue Star Contemporary and public school arts programs.

Luis Valderas

COO

Luis Valderas is a multi-disciplinary artist from the South Texas frontera, his artistic process is deeply influenced by his upbringing and experience working in a family-owned flower and ceramic shop. This background provided hands-on exposure to all aspects of fabrication, production, and distribution, fostering a flexible approach to utilizing various mediums to meet creative needs. His work draws inspiration from Mesoamerican mythology intertwined with science fiction, outer space, and ancestral stories. By transforming icons, he explores connections across the past, present, and future—sometimes obvious, sometimes ambiguous. His creations are designed to inhabit a "third space" of reality, where anything is possible.