Holiday Artisan Markets

A Season of Art, Culture and Community Cheer

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This holiday season, San Antonio celebrates creativity, heritage and festive spirit. From the long-standing traditions to the lively family-friendly events, each market offers a unique blend of handcrafted gifts, local artistry and joyful experiences.

Zonarte Market

Friday, November 21 | 6:00 to 9:00pm
Saturday, November 22 | 10:00am to 6:00pm
Sunday, November 23 | 10:00am to 6:00pm
Centro Cultural Atzlan

For 29 years, featured artists and artisans have been bringing their handmade gifts, original prints, paintings, sculptures, furniture, jewelry, textiles and artesania.

36th Annual Mercado de Paz/Peace Market

Friday & Saturday, November 28-29 | 10:00am to 6:00pm
Sunday, November 30 | Noon to 6:00pm
Esperanza Peace & Justice Center

For three days, Peace Market provides a direct interaction with artists and artesanos. There’s music, food and, of course, a lot of shopping!

Holidays on Jones: Family Day & Holiday Market 

Saturday, November 29 | 10:00am to 5:00pm
San Antonio Museum of Art

Shop for gifts from more than 50 local artists and makers and, in Family Day tradition, admission to the Museum is free for all! Enjoy artmaking, live performances, storytelling and workshops and demonstrations by community partners.

Holiday Art Market

November 29 | 10:00am to 5:00pm
Tobin Center for the Performing Arts

Bring the family to enjoy live holiday music, a reindeer exhibit, games and shopping! Over 50 vendors are offering unique hand-crafted items, including home decor, gourmet food, accessories, gifts and much more.

The Gathered Market

Sunday, December 7 | 9:00am to 3:00pm
Witte Museum

Shopping from local makers and adopting dogs that need a forever home is what this market is about. A portion of ticket sales goes to support area nonprofits, with Orphan Grain Train, who donates gently used clothing internationally, and Charming Pet Rescue, a pet adoption agency, being the recipients this year.

Hecho A Mano

Sunday, December 7 | 10:00 to 4:00pm
Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center Latino Bookstore

This beloved holiday artisan market will bring local artists and makers for artwork, gifts and handmade goods.

Pearl Holiday Markets

Wednesdays, December 3, 10 & 17 | 5:00 to 9:00pm
Historic Pearl District

Holiday Night Markets feature festive music, unique local vendors and holiday activities. 

Holiday in the Village at La Villita

Friday, December 12 | 3:00 to 10:00pm
Saturday, December 13 | Noon to 10:00pm
Sunday, December 14 | Noon to 7:00pm
La Villita Historic Arts Village-Maverick Plaza

There’s fun for all ages with tamale and chocolate making demonstrations by Chef Johnny Hernandez, cookie decorating, photos with Santa, a gingerbread building competition, an enchanting Alsatian-style village setting and more. 

Holiday Gift Market in Civic Park at Hemisfair
Holiday in the Garden in Yanaguana Garden 

Saturday, December 20 | 10:00am to 4:00pm
Hemisfair

A delightful mix of vendors offers unique treasures for everyone, and for the kids, Yanaguana Garden brings photos with Santa, reindeer, bubble snow and kid’s crafts.

 

Visual Arts

The Brackenridge Park Conservancy Art Walk

Brackenridge Park has long been one of San Antonio’s most beloved public spaces — and one of the most culturally and archaeologically significant landscapes in the United States, weaving together Indigenous heritage, Spanish colonial engineering, industrial development, philanthropy and major public works projects.

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Culture

Remember The Alamo

Today, most people think of the Alamo as a single structure: the limestone church rising from Alamo Plaza, solemn and self-contained. But that familiar image is the product of survival, accident and later choices — not historical reality.

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Visual Arts

Head West

Each spring, the American West comes vividly to life in downtown San Antonio, and this year, the moment carries special significance. The Night of Artists at the Briscoe Western Art Museum marks its 25th anniversary — an important milestone for one of the premier Western art exhibitions and sales in the world, and a must-see experience for locals and visitors alike.

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Fiesta

Petals, Pageantry and the Heart of Fiesta

“Show us your shoes!”
The chant rises from the gleeful crowd as flower-covered floats approach the Alamo. Confetti drifts across downtown streets. Bands strike up familiar marches. Women in sweeping gowns lift their skirts to reveal sneakers, glittering heels, decorated boots, flip-flops and fuzzy house shoes. The moment is playful, joyful and unmistakably San Antonio.

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Performing Arts

A City in Harmony

San Antonio’s cultural roots run deep, but in recent years, something unexpected has been happening in its performing arts ecosystem. Beyond large-scale productions and the familiar rhythms of mariachi and Tejano, a quieter revolution, built on intimacy, virtuosity and the power of small ensembles, has been slowly unfolding. Chamber music, once considered a niche corner of the classical world, is experiencing a full-fledged renaissance in the Alamo City.

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Editor's Letter

Where Color, Culture and Creativity Collide

San Antonio has always been a city that celebrates itself with color, rhythm and a kind of joyful defiance. Fiesta rolls in every spring like a technicolor tornado, and the city becomes a living canvas — part parade, part performance, part communal heartbeat — all while scattering confetti in places you’ll still be finding in October. But beneath the confetti and cascarones lies a deeper story about how art and culture thrive here year-round — shaped by neighborhoods, nurtured by tradition and constantly reinvented by the people who call this place home.

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