Organized by Ashley Mireles and Jennifer Arce, the exhibition of prints presents observations from the students' perspectives, addressing their environment and changes occurring within and around it. The portfolio and exhibition are an outcome of the San Antonio Area Foundation's Youth Leadership Development Artist Fellowship awarded to Guadalupe Community Center and Ashley Mireles. The grant focuses on strategies designed to develop youth as leaders, prepare youth for future success, and build resiliency.

Refreshments by Lanier High School Culinary and music by DJ Despeinada.

Exhibition on view through April 30.

Ashley Mireles is an artist, educator, and nonprofit arts administrator focused on community access and specializing in youth and teen development for arts institutions and community spaces in Central Texas. Her work has been collected by the Walt Disney Company, National Museum of Mexican Art, Mexic-Arte Museum, Zuckerman Museum of Art, Texas Christian University Print Collection, City of San Antonio, and University of Texas Libraries Special Collections. Her work has been published in The American Statesman, Huffington Post, Mitú, and Remezcla. In 2021, Mireles was awarded a San Antonio Area Foundation Youth Leadership Development Artist Fellowship.

Jennifer Arce is a native San Antonian born and raised on the Southside of the city.  Arce is an alumna of the Visual Arts program at SAY Sí, a community-driven creative youth development organization. Arce went on to receive a Bachelors of Fine Arts and a Minor in Social Work from Our Lady of the Lake University in 2015. As an artist, she dabbles in various mediums including acrylics, watercolors, printmaking and ceramics. Her works are heavily influenced by her family ancestry. Arce has a combined 15 years of working with creative youth. She began by teaching healing arts to inner-city children as part of SAY Sí’s Artist Building Communities program through partnerships with other organizations such as The Woman’s Battered Shelter, Guadalupe Cultural Arts,ChildSafe among others. Since 2015, Arce has expanded her teachings by sharing her passion for art as an Arts Teacher for the San Antonio School District and has played a major role as one of the Arts Teachers at Lanier High School for the last 4 years.