Ruby City Opens "Generative Disruption: Feminist Art from the Collection" on September 26

Key facts

• "Generative Disruption: Feminist Art from the Collection" opens September 26 at Ruby City in San Antonio, Texas.
• The exhibition is on view through August 29, 2027, and admission is always free.
• It recognizes the contributions of women artists to contemporary art and explores how feminist artistic practices have expanded the possibilities of what art can be, whose stories it can tell, and whose experiences are represented.
• Beginning particularly in the 1960s and 1970s, feminist artists challenged assumptions about whose experiences were worthy of representation, what subjects could be addressed through art, and what materials, forms, and approaches could constitute artistic practice.
• Ruby City will present related programs spanning film, music, conversations, workshops, and more, exploring themes of feminism, identity, belonging and place, magic and ritual, objects and meaning, and reclaiming narratives.
• Featured artists include Laura Aguilar, Sama Alshaibi, Nao Bustamante, Alex de León, Annette Lawrence, Tala Madani, Tracey Moffatt, and Carrie Mae Weems, among others.
• Ruby City is a free contemporary art center in San Antonio, TX, grounded in founder Linda Pace's belief that contemporary art inspires connection, curiosity, and a deeper understanding of the world.
• Before her death in 2007, Pace envisioned Ruby City as a place where art would be accessible to everyone; today, that vision is realized through a dynamic campus dedicated to exhibitions, programs, and the free experience of contemporary art.
• At the heart of the Linda Pace Foundation's mission is the belief that contemporary art is essential to a dynamic society; "Generative Disruption" reflects that commitment by bringing together artists whose work draws from lived experience to consider the body, identity, space, power, gender, belonging, and personal experience.