Say Si
Middle & High School Students • San Antonio Lost – San Antonio Found.

This year’s theme for SAY Sí students is San Antonio Lost, San Antonio Found. Guillermina Zabala, SAY Sí’s Media Arts Director, went on field trips with the middle-and-high school-aged students to find images of recognizable and unrecognizable places and structures.

Media Arts Director Guillermina Zabala: “The idea of finding areas that people usually don’t’ know about San Antonio. Unusual either locations or characters and finding interesting architecture, and also unusual areas, unusual perspectives.”

Some of the students created black and white images of every day people doing every day things. Others looked for patterns and used computer techniques to create stories with color in their black-and-white photos. Once back at the SAY Sí studios, the students are challenged further.

Executive Director Jon Hinojosa: “It’s not only letting them be creative, but it’s pushing process and understanding and design elements and decision making and all those things that are so important to anybody.”

SAY Sí’s mission is to provide a resource for artistic students, especially in an environment where arts programs are being dismantled by public schools. The artists will attend the opening at SAY Sí tonight and answer questions about their processes for the FotoSeptiembre projects.

Yzavel Sanchez, Lady Esther. 11th grade, International School of the Americas.

Joscelyne Ponder, 1884. 12th grade, Incarnate Word High School.

Alysha Rangel, Esther Luminescence. 11th grade, O’Connor High School.

Kyle Drahl, Should Have Gone to College. 12th grade, International School of the Americas.

Hyland O’Brien, Untitled. Incarnate Word High School.

Nina Cortez, The Last Shall Be First. 12th grade, Burbank High School.

Gabino Sanchez, Fun!. 11th grade, Highlands High School.

Madison Johnson, Open. 10th grade, Antonian College.

Miranda Whitus, Rollercade. 9th grade, Communication Arts.

Morgan Mueller, Indian Cloud Factory. 10th grade, Alamo Heights High School.

Nathan Engel, Black Piñata. 10th grade, Keystone School.

Tommy Hopkins, Visual Arts Director and Ashley Sanchez, Visual Arts Instructor, Say Sí.

Opening reception views at Say Sí.

Silvia and Arturo Betancourt, and Luis Delgado Qualtrough.

Display of traditional photography equipment at the San Antonio Lost – San Antonio Found exhibit.