Spotlight: San Antonio’s K-12 Artists Embrace vanessa german’s BLACK GIRL WITH SNAKES

May 21, 2023 

- May 12, 2024

Located in the Patio Gallery

Spotlight: San Antonio’s K-12 Artists Embrace vanessa german’s BLACK GIRL WITH SNAKES

May 21, 2023 

- May 12, 2024

Located in the Patio Gallery

Since 2011, artworks from the McNay’s collection by Diego Rivera, Sue Fuller, and Willie Cole have inspired San Antonio K-12 students. Looking closely together and learning about the artist, our community’s youth make connections with their own experiences and create art with powerful and personal messages.  

Last spring, students responded to Willie Cole’s sculpture, The Sole Sitter, on view in the newly improved Museum grounds. During the 2023–2024 school year, students from across the San Antonio area will showcase their creative responses to vanessa german’s assemblage, BLACK GIRL WITH SNAKES.

Major support for Spotlight is provided by the Semmes Foundation, Inc. Additional support is provided by the Elizabeth Huth Coates Foundation of 1992 and Texas Commission on the Arts.

Image: vanessa german, BLACK GIRL WITH SNAKES, 2020. Assemblage. Museum purchase with funds gifted anonymously in memory of Madeline O’Connor, 2021.13. © vanessa german