Letting The River Spill

[TXST Galleries] San Marcos, TX

August 25 - November 9, 2025

Letting the River Spill is an exhibition of recent work created by alumni from the School of Art and Design at Texas State University. Through an array of mediums and interests, each artist has continued a practice that at one point unfolded within San Marcos. There is a shared point of passage—a time and place that impacts their work as artists and more deeply, their identities reflected in that work. Letting the River Spill explores that point of passage and how it seeps into these personal trajectories.

Featuring
Eric Acuña
Hollie Brown
Shane Cole
Sydney Guzman
Shaun Haugen
Aimee Jones
Alexander Kamelhair
Komie
Chantal Lesley
Eden Lopez
Alexis Mabry
Benjamin H. McVey
Monica Mohnot
Madison Nelson
Jacqueline Overby
Jessamyn Plotts
Cat Rigdon
Ryan Runcie
Michelle Monique Sotolongo Riquer
Michael Villarreal

Erin Carle, Sydney Guzman, Jessamyn Plotts, and Kennedy Swift in collaboration with American Communal Industries

Press
Glasstire, Top Five: October 16, 2025

Events
Artist Discussion Panel featuring Alexander Kamelhair, Chantal Lesley, Jacqueline Overby and Ryan Runcie, moderated by Daniel Benjamin
Wednesday, November 5, 2025
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
TXST Galleries • Joann Cole Mitte Building
233 West Sessom Drive, San Marcos, TX, 78666

Gallery wall displaying the title 'Letting the River Spill,' TXST School of Art and Design Alumni Exhibition, with a list of participating artists and small green sculptural art pieces attached to the wall.Contemporary art gallery with various artworks including a suspended stretched fabric frame, small portraits on a wall, two framed photos, and a zigzag wooden sculpture on a pedestal.Art gallery wall with two framed photographs on the left, an abstract zigzag sculpture on a white pedestal in the center, and a colorful leafy painting on the right.Two framed photographs on a white gallery wall showing layered images with reflections and textures.Terraced salt evaporation ponds on a hillside with pools of varying colors.Sunlight casting striped shadows of a wooden fence onto green grass.Panel discussion setup with five speakers seated in chairs facing an audience in a gallery space.Panel discussion with four speakers seated in chairs facing an audience in a gallery space with white walls.Five people seated in a panel discussion with microphones in a minimalist room with art sculptures on pedestals behind them.Audience seated on folding chairs attentively listening to a panel discussion with four speakers in a gallery space.Audience seated in folding chairs listening to a panel of five speakers with microphones in an art gallery.