Judy and Dennis Shepard, of the Matthew Shepard Foundation, will be in San Antonio on March 20 for an event dubbed “Stay Proud, Be Loud” which will emphasize the importance of reporting hate crimes. In 1998, the Shepard’s 21-year-old gay son, Matthew, was brutally attacked and tied to a fence in a field outside of…
Artpace premieres response to ’98 hate crime
“In other countries, the reference to James Byrd is kind of lost, but the violence is very much there and present.” As an Artpace International Artist-in-Residence in 1999, Christian Marclay produced a 14-minute film titled Guitar Drag depicting an amplified electric guitar being dragged along a Texas road by a pickup truck. As part of…