Hill Country Visitor Magazine
Hill Country Stories
Discover the people, places, food, art, history, and outdoor adventures of the Texas Hill Country.
Tribute to the Heroes of the Hill Country
October 2025 (archive attribution) · When the Guadalupe River surged with unimaginable force, it wasn’t just homes and landscapes that…
Spend Where Your Heart Lives — How Shopping Local Keeps Our Hill…
October 2025 (archive attribution) · It starts small
Spotlight: San Antonio’s K-12 Artists Embrace Jennifer Steinkamp
August 2025 (archive attribution) · This exhibition showcases the creative responses of over 1,300 San Antonio-area students who crafted works…
Sandy Skoglund: Enchanting Nature
August 2025 (archive attribution) · This fall, step into Sandy Skoglund’s staged environments—tableaux of magically charged colors, sculpted animals, and…
Readymade Remix: New Approaches to Familiar Objects
August 2025 (archive attribution) · Curated by Lana Meador, this show explores how contemporary artists reframe everyday materials—found objects, household…
Maya Blue: Ancient Color, New Visions
August 2025 (archive attribution) · This exhibition examines the prized Maya pigment—used in ritual ceramics and murals of the first…
Eye on Houston: High School Documentary Photography
August 2025 (archive attribution) · The annual Eye on Houston exhibition documents and celebrates Houston’s diverse neighborhoods through a collaboration…
Floating World: A.A.Murakami
August 2025 (archive attribution) · An immersive fusion of the technical and the natural by artist duo A.A.Murakami, Floating World…
From India to the World: Textiles from the Parpia Collection
August 2025 (archive attribution) · Showcasing the Museum’s recent acquisition of Indian textiles from the holdings of Banoo and Jeevak…
Anicka Yi
August 2025 (archive attribution) · In this transcendent exhibition, two distinct components probe the divide between biological and technological: illuminated…
David-Jeremiah: The Fire This Time
August 2025 (archive attribution) · Featuring towering assemblages of polychromatic paintings on shaped wood, this installation envelops visitors in fire-infused…
Feeling Color: Aubrey Williams and Frank Bowling
August 2025 (archive attribution) · Celebrating two tour-de-force artists in dialogue, this dual exhibition highlights Williams’s abstraction alongside Bowling’s lyrical…
Alex Da Corte: The Whale
August 2025 (archive attribution) · This exhibition surveys the interdisciplinary artist’s long relationship with painting through immersive installations and vibrant…
Myth and Marble: Ancient Roman Sculpture from the Torlonia…
August 2025 (archive attribution) · This North American premiere brings 58 highlights from Rome’s storied Torlonia Collection—busts, sarcophagi, and reliefs,…
The Cut Melon by Jean Simeon Chardin
August 2025 (archive attribution) · One of Chardin’s rare oval-format still lifes, The Cut Melon (1760) features a halved cantaloupe…
Viral Cottage Cheese Ice Cream
August 2025 (archive attribution) · I’ll admit, I was skeptical the first time I heard about cottage cheese ice cream—ice…
Why I Started Shop Local First and Why Your Business Belongs in It
August 2025 (archive attribution) · A customer walks down Water Street in Kerrville, pokes their head into a boutique they’ve…
July Gardening in the Hill Country
August 2025 (archive attribution) · Have you ever tiptoed into your garden just as the first blush of light softens…