Henry Ford Academy: Alameda School for Art & Design

The Alameda National Center for Latino Art and Culture explores the Latino experience in America through a multitude of artistic genres, intended to foster contemplation, deliberation, and understanding of America’s cultural fabric. The Alameda not only brings international recognition to the cultural landscape of San Antonio and South Texas but also serves as a forum for the celebration of Latino stories and histories from around the world. As one of the country’s most ambitious projects for cultural institutions in the United States, The Alameda is an umbrella organization responsible for the development and management of the Casa de Mexico International Building (home of the first Hispanic Chamber of Commerce in the United States in 1946), the Alameda Theater on Houston Street (which is connected to Casa de Mexico) and the Museo Alameda in historic Market Square (El Mercado). Over the last ten years, The Alameda has been successful in revitalizing interest in the zona cultural by anchoring an emerging cultural destination that has attracted increased economic development and secured the future of the surrounding five-block radius.
http://www.thealameda.org/home.asp

Serving San Antonio’s youth, SAY Sí is a year round, long-term, non-profit multidisciplinary arts program that provides students opportunities to develop artistic and social skills in preparation for higher educational advancement and professional careers. SAY Sí is committed to creating a premier, dynamic and nurturing educational environment for San Antonio’s artistic youth. SAY Sí recognizes that the arts reshape how young people learn, communicate and prepare for their work and civic future. SAY Sí’s vision is to meet the current needs of students, to provide quality programs and resources, and to prepare for future growth and development for San Antonio’s economic and cultural community.
http://www.saysi.org/

The Southwest School of Art & Craft is a nationally-recognized leader in arts education, offering studio programs for more than 4000 adults, children and teens annually. Classes and workshops are taught by outstanding local, regional and national artists in state-of-the-art facilities; the school offers a certificate program for professional artists and craftspersons. The school also organizes contemporary art exhibitions, lectures, and concerts, as well as houses a history-based Visitors Center Museum , a Gallery Shop, and a lunch café. During a typical year, more than 225,000 people attend events, view exhibits, take classes or visit historic site. Located on two adjacent campuses, the school’s Ursuline Campus is the former home of the Ursuline Academy & Convent, originally founded in 1851 as the first school for girls in San Antonio. On this campus are the school’s extensive ceramics and weaving studios, its Young Artist Program area, and the tranquil gardens, arching pecan trees, and historic buildings that make the school San Antonio ’s “downtown oasis.”The Navarro Campus is the site of the school’s contemporary exhibition galleries and its high-tech classrooms and studios for photography, metals, printmaking, digital imaging, paper and book arts, as well as drawing and painting. Reflecting our long-standing role as a core San Antonio arts institution, our Mobile Arts Program disperses artist-teachers to more than 60 schools and social service agencies during the year, giving local children hands-on learning in fine art and traditional craft media; attendance in this program exceeds 40,000 annually.
http://www.swschool.org/

Henry Ford Learning Institute is an innovative nonprofit organization that envisions a future where public education becomes a truly public endeavor, engaging a community to create vibrant educational models, leverage underutilized local resources, and remove boundaries between learning and the real world. To this end, HFLI creates innovative small schools that bring national and local community resources into the educational process and help to create thriving communities where education is everyone's responsibility.
http://www.hfli.org.

HFA: SCS is based on the nationally recognized model first implemented at Henry Ford Academy in Dearborn, Michigan. HFA: Dearborn, launched in 1997, has a cumulative graduation rate of more than 90 percent; 100 percent of its graduating classes of 2007 and 2008 were accepted to colleges and universities. Like HFA: Dearborn, HFA: ASAD will also draw on the strength of community partnerships to help all students achieve at high levels. For more information on HFA: Dearborn, visit
http://www.hfacademy.org.

For more than 100 years, San Antonio Independent School District has been educating some of San Antonio’s most notable citizens – those whose contributions have made the world a better place. Today, SAISD serves approximately 54,000 students and is the third largest public school system in the Bexar County area and among the 10th largest in the State of Texas. SAISD provides a comprehensive instructional program and related services for students from pre-kindergarten through 12th grade, including a college preparatory curriculum, Magnet programs and specialized schools as options for middle and high school students, career and technology education, bilingual education, special education, and a variety extracurricular opportunities.