Alyssa Michelle Danna was born and raised in LaBelle, a rural area just south of Beaumont Texas, and came west to San Antonio to earn her Masters of Fine Art in sculpture from UTSA. She continues to make and show artwork while cobbling a lifestyle together with experience from interning with the Registrar at the San Antonio Museum of Art, working as Exhibitions Assistant at the Southwest School of Art, and doing freelance contract preparator jobs. The stranger the better! Danna is the Volunteer and Special Events Coordinator for Luminaria this year.
The Luminaria contemporary arts festival, now in its 9th year, presents astonishing new work by dancers, actors, poets, comedians, filmmakers, musicians, composers, and visual artists. From November 9-12, 2016 regional and international artists will honor San Antonio’s historic Eastside, and Luminaria is looking forward
After 12 years of driving progress toward a shared community vision, SA2020, the nonprofit organization, is dissolving. We believe this is the most visionary thing we can do. We made this decision with the greatest care for our organizational values of leadership, community, and accountability, and we hope you’ll read more about it on our blog.
Our website is live with our final data release, showing where San Antonio stands on reaching the shared community vision. The data release is accompanied by our final call to action—a policy agenda for City government based on our unique bird’s-eye view of San Antonio.
While SA2020’s operations ended March 28, these resources, along with the last twelve years of our research and stories, will be available to download from our website through September 2024.
– Team SA2020