Madeline Ramos
SAN ANTONIO, 2022 - 2023
Madeline Ramos (she/her) is a queer artist and native San Antonian. Being from an immigrant family, and raised in a multicultural background (Filipinx-Chicanx), the concept of identity and labels has always been interesting to her. Drawing inspiration from growing up on the Westside of San Antonio, she is driven by a strong sense of community and is committed to fostering it where she can. Ramos She aspires to create collaborative spaces where art isn’t just encouraged, but inevitable. Her mediums include devised theater, scriptwriting, poetry/spoken word, performance art, ephemeral installation, photography, and digital mixed media, and she combines them in work that is playful and nuanced. She will explore violence against womxn and their bodily autonomy, immigration, and environmental racism.
Partnering with Corazon, a local day center and resource for unhoused people in San Antonio, Madeline is promoting community and civic engagement through art expression as a form of harm reduction. She has been working closely with the harm-reduction segment of Corazon while conducting regular arts workshops for unhoused youth. Having experienced housing instability and challenging social circumstances in her youth, her goal is to help support peer-leadership and empowerment in the community, as well as reduce stigma and reframe thoughts on homelessness and drug-use in a way that is supportive and humanizing. In the fall of 2023, Maddie will collect and display the art made in her workshops in order to uplift and empower this community.
CULTURE HUB
The Public Theater of San Antonio produces live professional theater that inspires, educates, and connects communities. The Public Theater works to produce high quality theatrical productions year-round in multiple venues contributing to its reputation as the city's center for professional locally-produced theater as well as contributing to the city’s economic and cultural growth. Theater for all serves as our vision as an arts center for South Texas. The Public Theater of San Antonio is the longest running theater in South Texas, producing shows in one of the country's oldest municipally run playhouses. It was established in 1912 as the San Antonio Dramatic Club and incorporated on April 6, 1927 as the San Antonio Little Theatre. The Public Theater has seen many company and leadership changes over the last century, operating as a community theater and transitioning in 2017 to the only AEA union theater of professional productions produced here in San Antonio. Under new leadership as of Fall of 2021, The Public Theater of San Antonio is transforming and growing, focusing programming and outreach efforts on developing new audiences, better reflecting the diverse people of San Antonio, and working to contribute to San Antono's vibrant cultural economy and quality of life.
SOCIAL IMPACT INITIATIVE
Corazon San Antonio, founded in 1999, operates in the heart of downtown San Antonio serving our homeless and marginalized neighbors by providing a day center and resource hub, medical clinic, harm reduction outreach, housing case management, hot meals, clothing, warm showers, hygiene items, access to recovery groups and spiritual services. We serve over 30,000 hot, nutritious meals per year and rely on over 75 enthusiastic volunteers and 22 staff each week to provide unconditional love and life-giving support to our neighbors.