MARCH 14, 2026 Centro San Antonio ‘Art Everywhere Project’ presents The Glorious Diary of Herstory -Woods/Rosario/Felix Panel Talk. Moderated by Kathy Armstrong.
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Sponsored by Centro San Antonio 'Art Everywhere Project' and Planned Parenthood South Texas. These events are free and open to the public.
THE GLORIOUS DIARY OF HERSTORY PANEL TALK
2PM: The Glorious Diary of Herstory Panel Talk brings together artists Bria Woods, Sonya Rosario, and Barbara Felix for a conversation about parallel practices in documenting women’s voices. Moderated by Kathy Armstrong, the discussion will explore how movement, portraiture, video, and interview function as acts of listening and testimony. Together, the artists will reflect on collaboration, process, and the responsibility of witnessing women’s lived experiences through contemporary visual storytelling.
4PM: Barbara Felix presents A Glorious Movement — Bodies in Joy, Voices Rising, a multidisciplinary collaboration that brings together the reflections of Felix’s muses embodied by Jennifer Jones, Tanesha Payne and Erika Casasola in a four-part journey of vulnerability, empowerment, and collective joy. The interactive performance weaves movement, voice, framed by the evocative poetry of Andrea “Vocab” Sanderson, and undertones of music composed by Shelly Lares with the ethereal vocals of Aralyn Solei. The experience unfolds as a ritual of hope and unity at a time when women need it most.
ABOUT THE MODERATOR:
Kathy Armstrong is a leader in the arts and women’s health nonprofit sectors, contributing to the cultural and civic life of San Antonio. She served more than five years as Executive Director of Luminaria, producing the Contemporary Arts Festival and overseeing its artist grant program, significantly expanding the organization’s capacity. Previously, she was Director of Exhibitions at the Southwest School of Art for 17 years, curating programs with national and regional artists. Armstrong has also held leadership roles with SAY Sí, Artpace San Antonio, and University Health, and remains active in feminist advocacy and community engagement.
ABOUT THE PERFORMERS
Andrea 'Vocab' Sanderson is the fifth Poet Laureate Emeritus of the City of San Antonio (2020–2023). Blending spoken word, hip hop, and R&B, she delivers dynamic performances locally and internationally, including Abu Dhabi. She serves as Arts Education Coordinator at the Carver Community Cultural Center, leading creative writing and performance workshops. Her honors include the 2024 Literary Excellence Award from Gemini Ink, Best Local Poet (2024, 2023, 2021) by the San Antonio Current, and Best Literary Advocate (2020) by San Antonio Magazine. She has opened for Nikki Giovanni, Dr. Cornel West, and Phylicia Rashad. Her books include She Lives In Music (FlowerSong Press, 2020) and The Seasoned Woman.
Tanesha Payne (she/they) is a movement artist who performs, creates, educates, and passionately advocates for dance. She holds an MFA in Choreography from Jacksonville University and a BFA in Dance Studies from Texas State University. Founder of sumRset Movement, a contemporary dance company in San Antonio, TX, Tanesha merges academic insight with personal experience to make dance accessible while upholding its integrity. She fosters inclusive spaces and connections within her community that transcend boundaries. Her commitment to arts integration sparks curiosity and understanding across all walks of life. IG: @tanesha_payne1
Jennifer Edmonds-Jones extensive career in the arts can be attributed to her tireless quest for knowledge and self-discovery. Her consummate passion and reverence for the arts coupled with a fervent commitment to the San Antonio community led her to the founding of Bridges: Creating Artistic Community in 2016. Bridges is an arts service organization that partners with artists, organizations, and community leaders on new and developing projects to artistically serve the community. Performer, choreographer, director, educator, administrator, film, video, theater, outreach, and advocate are a few hashtags that describe Jennifer’s career. Her greatest career highlight is her life role as a wife and mother of her 2 daughters.IG: @j1squests
Erika Casasola has served as a curandera and energy shifter for over two decades, guiding spiritual journeys of healing and transformation. Her artistic practice emerged as self-taught expression of her connection to ethereal realms. Through intuitive brushwork, dancing and deep understanding of energy dynamics, she crafts artwork transcending physical boundaries. Each movement and art piece serves as visual manifestation of her healing work, inviting viewers to explore their inner landscapes and embrace self-discovery. Erika's art bridges ancient wisdom with contemporary expression, creating portals for transformation and spiritual awakening. IG: @erikacasasola
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
The Glorious Diary of Herstory brings together three artists—Bria Woods, Sonya Rosario, and Barbara Felix—whose practices intersect through listening, witnessing, and honoring women’s lived experiences. Through movement, conversation, and presence, this exhibition documents stories often shared in intimate spaces and embodied gestures rather than written pages.
Across video, interview, and painting, the artists create forms of visual testimony—capturing women as they speak, sit, remember, and move. Rosario’s mother’s sofa becomes a site of revelation, where conversation unfolds across shifting locations and contexts. Through photographic portraiture shaped by storytelling, Woods brings visibility to women whose everyday lives shape the community. Felix weaves women’s voices gathered through individual interviews into painted movement, allowing dance to carry memory, joy, and lived experience. For all three artists, recorded voices preserve personal histories that ripple outward into collective memory.
Rather than offering a singular narrative, the exhibition unfolds as a living diary—one shaped by many voices, many bodies, and many ways of telling. Together, these works affirm storytelling as an act of care, resistance, and celebration, honoring the dignity, complexity, and glory of women’s herstory.