openED SA’s joey lopez was able to catch up with SASTEMIC in Del Rio, Tx. For those who are unaware of SASTEMIC, they are a San Antonio based non-profit who’s goal is to provide a “connectary” of STEM related activities and initiatives. One of their main initiatives is the Geekbus, a bus that is outfitted […]
Well joey lopez, Jeremy Zunker and John Frazee made our way over to UTSA’s New Media program for the second week of class to host some openED SA workshops. What’s cool about piloting workshops is that we get to really test far out ideas. New Media professor Mark McCoin volunteered his beginners new media class, […]
OpenED SA was developed through observations by the Convergent Media Collective. Jeremy Zunker and joey lopez were hanging out and talking about GIS systems and big data in general. We saw a trend in the maps we were generating through the New York Census Mapping Project, a publicly available mapping tool, that intrigue us to […]
I was able to catch up with El Tallercito De Son SATX at one of their community Son Jarocho sessions outside of San Anto Cultural Arts on the evening of March 1st, 2016. Son Jarocho is a form of music that comes from Veracruz, Mexico. One of the popular instruments is the jarana, which looks […]
Having hosted a successful workshop at the Sarah King Elementary Art’s Fair, openED SA contacted activity director Victor Zuniga of Sutton Oaks Apartments to see if he would be interested in doing some pilot workshops as part of his youth outreach program. Victor was enthusiastic to have us come over and do some pilot workshops. […]
We were able to make it out to the Sarah King Elementary Arts Festival with the help of spare parts’, Mary Cantu, GA Media’s, Jonathan Guajardo, Sabor Cocina Mexicana’s, Luis Valdez and joey lopez. We presented a stop motion animation station where children created characters using re-use materials to create their own custom animations. In […]
We were able to catch up with spare parts this March, 2016 and attend their opening of the Mini Art Museums latest series “That Thing On The Side Of The Road” at Period Modern. Curated by Hills Synder, the collection is: “Honoring the overlooked; the cast-off; the abandoned; the peripheral. If the title sounds like […]
Barrio Works Today we are highlighting Barrio Works, an organization founded by Ernesto Cuevas Jr. “Barrio Works is a special effort in San Antonio where community members inform, inspire & empower themselves to affect change in their lives. We want to take art directly into our neighborhoods and we recognize that our neighborhoods […]