About
Kathy Sosa
In 2007 Sosa began to explore the artistic expression of mestisaje, the blending of peoples, races, ethnicities, languages, ideas, habits and cultures that characterizes the Texas-Mexico border region that has been her home since childhood. She received national recognition for the result of that passion, the traveling exhibition “Huipiles: a Celebration,” which debuted at the Mexican Cultural Institute in Washington, D.C. as part of the Smithsonian Latino Center’s 2007 summer season “Mexico at the Smithsonian” before traveling to the Museo Alameda in San Antonio in 2008. 2009 saw Sosa’s one woman show at San Antonio’s Blue Star Contemporary Art Space. Her work has been featured on CNN, in FiberArts, Skirt!, San Antonio Woman, Country Lifestyle, Destinations, and is available in San Antonio through AnArte Gallery.
About Kathy Sosa
Katherine Sosa is an independent marketing, political design consultant and artist. She was the only woman on George W. Bush’s gubernatorial race in 1998, his presidential campaign in 2000 and re-election bid in 2004. Her creative work has earned national awards for advertising excellence in both television & print. Current clients include Texas Dow Employees Credit Union, Public Service Credit Union, and Sul Ross University.
Prior to forming Sosa Consultation & Design with her husband, Lionel, Kathy served as president of Garcia•LKS, the Southwest’s largest independent Hispanic ad agency, which she founded as KJN in 1987.
In her over twenty years in marketing, most of them as an ad agency principal and entrepreneur, Kathy has worn a number of hats, among them strategist, planner, creative director and copywriter. In addition to commercial advertising experience on accounts from Dr Pepper and Mexicana Airlines to Sî TV and Budweiser, she is experienced in both education-related marketing, public service communications, and is a veteran of over 25 political media campaigns.
Kathy holds bachelors and masters degrees in political science, both from St. Mary’s university in San Antonio. With education an important focus for Kathy, she currently serves on the Generation Texas Board of Directors. She was appointed by former Governor George W. Bush to the Children’s Trust Fund of Texas Council, and by Governor Rick Perry to the Founding Board of The Texas Conference for Women. Kathy was named by Inc. magazine as an Entrepreneur of the Year.
A renowned artist, Kathy was commissioned by the Texas Women’s Conference to do a portrait of keynote speaker Martha Stewart, to whom the artist personally presented the work. She received national recognition for her traveling exhibition “Huipiles: a Celebration”, which debuted at the Mexican Cultural Institute in Washington, D.C. as part of the Smithsonian Latino Center’s 2007 summer season before traveling to the Museo Alameda in San Antonio in 2008. 2009. Currently, she mounts shows in New York City and Tulsa. Her work has been featured on CNN, in FiberArts Magazine, in Skirt! San Antonio Woman, Country Lifestyle, Destinations, and is available in San Antonio through AnArte Gallery and the Regalo Gift Gallery at the Museo Alameda. She is also represented by galleries in Boerne, Texas and Charlotte, North Carolina.
Most recently, Kathy, and her husband Lionel Sosa, created and produced the critically-acclaimed documentary titled “Children of the Revolución – How the Mexican Revolution Changed America’s Destiny,” a 20-part storytelling series which chronicles never-before-told American history of the Texas/Mexico borderland.
About
Kathy Sosa
In 2007 Sosa began to explore the artistic expression of mestisaje, the blending of peoples, races, ethnicities, languages, ideas, habits and cultures that characterizes the Texas-Mexico border region that has been her home since childhood. She received national recognition for the result of that passion, the traveling exhibition “Huipiles: a Celebration,” which debuted at the Mexican Cultural Institute in Washington, D.C. as part of the Smithsonian Latino Center’s 2007 summer season “Mexico at the Smithsonian” before traveling to the Museo Alameda in San Antonio in 2008. 2009 saw Sosa’s one woman show at San Antonio’s Blue Star Contemporary Art Space. Her work has been featured on CNN, in FiberArts, Skirt!, San Antonio Woman, Country Lifestyle, Destinations, and is available in San Antonio through AnArte Gallery.
Career Highlights
Career Highlights
2006
Commission: Portrait of Martha Stewart: Texas Conference for Women, San Antonio, Texas
2007
Mexico at the Smithsonian/Mexican Cultural Institute: “Huipiles: a Celebration” (Artist and Curator), Washington DC
2007-2008
The Museo Alameda: “Huipiles: a Celebration”, San Antonio, Texas
2008
Galeria Ortiz Contemporary: Two Woman Show: “Sosa/Prida Otra Vez”, San Antonio, Texas
2008
Shain Gallery: One Woman Show: Santa Fe, New Mexico
2008
Blue Star Contemporary Art Space: Dia de los Muertos, “Pan de Anillo”, Altars Exhibition, San Antonio, Texas
2008
Girl Scouts South Texas Commission for New Headquarters Building: “Retrato de Sally Cheever”, San Antonio, Texas
2009
KChisos Gallery: One Woman Show: Santa Fe, New Mexico
2009
Blue Star Contemporary Art Space: One Woman Show: “Trees of Life”, San Antonio, Texas
2009
Present Paintings featured on set of WOAI San Antonio Living, San Antonio, Texas
2009
Blue Star Contemporary Art Space: “Blue Star Red Dot”, San Antonio, Texas
2010
Say Si: “Dia de los Muertos” Festival Exhibition, San Antonio, Texas
2010
AnArte Gallery: Kathy Sosa: “Trees of Life”, San Antonio, Texas
2010
Centro Cultural Atzlan: Mariachi Vargas Extravaganza Art Exhibition, San Antonio, Texas
2011
Blue Star Contemporary Art Space: “Models and Mannequins”, San Antonio, Texas
2011
Palo Alto College Gallery: Two Person Show: “Sosa y Sosa”, San Antonio, Texas
2011
Avance San Antonio TX: Commission for Headquarters Board Room: “Los Niños On My Mind”, San Antonio, Texas
2011
ArtPace: Showcase Artist: Outdoor Arts Festival, “Chalk it Up”, San Antonio, Texas
2011
KLRU (PBS): Featured Artist: Dia de los Muertos documentary by Ed Fuentes, Austin, Texas
2012
Museum of Art, Midwestern State University: Kathy Sosa: “Prints and Paintings”, Wichita Falls, Texas
2012-2013
Fullerton Museum at Cal State San Bernardino: Kathy Sosa: “Adornment and Identity”, San Bernardino, California
2012
University of Texas at San Antonio: Public Collection, San Antonio, Texas
2012
VIDA (Voice for International Development and Adoption) Fundraiser, Hudson, New York
2013
Texas A&M University College Station: James R. Reynolds Art Gallery: “One Woman Show” Bryan College Station, Texas
2013
McNay Gala: “Tree of Life and Death: Rite of Spring On My Mind”, San Antonio, Texas
2013
Northwest Vista: Kathy Sosa: “Women’s History Month”, San Antonio, Texas
2013
Taylor West: One Woman Show: “Art Mixer Featuring Kathy Sosa”, San Antonio, Texas
2013
Water Works Visual Arts Center: “Adornment and Identity”, Salisbury, North Carolina
2013
Semmes Library: “Kathy Sosa”, San Antonio, Texas
2013
NAO: Oaxacan Festival: “One Woman Show”, San Antonio, Texas
2014
Cappy’s: “One Woman Show”, San Antonio, Texas
2014
Museum of the Southwest: “Identidad”, Midland, Texas
2014
Charles H. MacNider Art Museum: “Adornment and Identity”, Mason City, Iowa
2014
The Anderson Center for the Arts: “Solo Show”, Anderson, Indiana
2015
Polk Museum of Art: “Her Ethereal Self”, Lakeland, Florida
2015
Paul and Lulu Hilliard Museum of Art: “Her Self”, Lafayette, Louisiana
2015
Georgetown Art Center: “Women Painting Women”, Georgetown, Texas
2015
Centro de Artes: “Sosa+Castillo: Trees of Life: Cultura, Tradicion y Inovacion”, San Antonio, Texas
2015
The Goddard Center: “Solo Show”, Ardmore, Oklahoma
2016
Dock Space Gallery: “Sosa+Sosa”, San Antonio, Texas
2016
Large Scale Art Commission, “La Contessa de San Antonio”, for lobby of Hotel Contessa, San Antonio, Texas
2016
“La Entrada Del Espejo” (Entrance to the Mirror), Carver Cultural Center San Antonio, Texas
2018
The Plaza Club: “Kathy & Lionel Sosa Show”, San Antonio, Texas
2019
AnArte Gallery : “Kathy Sosa:52”, San Antonio, Texas
2019
Galleria Eva: “Kathy Sosa Arboles 2.0”, San Antonio, Texas
2020
Large Scale Art Commission, New Texas Public Radio HQ on San Pedro Creek, San Antonio, Texas (work in Progress)
2020
Anarte Gallery, “Keep Calm y Dream On – Artivism”, San Antonio, texas
2020
Book release of “Revolutionary Women of Texas and Mexico: Portraits of Soldaderas, Saints, and Subversives”
2021
Public Art – Selected Artist: Art Everywhere Project. “Keep Calm et Macar-On”, for Centro San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas
2021
Public Art – Selected Artist (with Lionel Sosa). San Pedro Creek Culture Park: 5 Panel Tile Mural, “La Gloriosa Historia de San Pedro Creek”, for County of Bexar and San Antonio River Authority, San Antonio, Texas
2021
Selected Artist. Maverick Plaza Mural at La Villita, “La Santa Gastronomía de San Antonio”, for City of San Antonio Department of Arts and Cultural Affairs, San Antonio, Texas