Project Creatives 2026
Hebron Chism, Deanna Brown,
I approach each piece with a vague vision, an idea partially formed in my mind. As I work, I often daydream about thousands of years and thousands of cultures that have been woven together to create the collective human existence. Visions of past, present and future mingle in my mind as I imagine the lives, loves, struggles and pain of the human experience. The subject and the feelings I want the piece to convey dictates the medium (wood, stone, metal, mixed-media, etc) I use to create the piece. I sometimes have to learn a whole new medium to create a piece in the way I have conceived it.
Deanna Brown
Through my art, I've discovered a therapeutic outlet that grants voice to my
emotions and fuels my imagination.
Years into my artistic journey, my work graced the frames of four short films, two television sitcoms, and two prestigious group art
exhibitions.
Guided by a deep commitment to local art, I proudly allocate 10% of my sales to the non-profitorganization, FwdProgress A&E Center, Inc.
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Eduardo C. Garza
Eduardo Cavazos Garza, founder of the Jazz Poets of San Antonio and longtime Chicano activist, artist, poet, musician, actor, drum-maker, mask-carver and Native American spiritual practitioner, was born in Kingsville, Texas in 1947 and moved to San Antonio in 1974. He served in Vietnam from August 1969 to August 1970 and returned to make use of the GI Bill by studying Art at the University of Texas-San Antonio. He has acted in more than seven films, including The Newton Boys, The Bookie, Even Hand and several made–for–TV dramas, plus countless television and radio commercials. He has also participated in scores of sweat lodges, is active in many indigenous ceremonies, and is an outstanding performance poet. Garza has created hundreds of poems and paintings and thousands of drawings, in addition to many wooden faces carved from tree trunks. Garza continues to curate and organize art shows and poetry and music events as he has for decades and currently performs with the Jazz Poets of San Antonio for Brick’s Blue Mondays
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DaRell Pittman aka “Da Green Lantern” is a performance poet who resides in San Antonio, Texas.
He has won competitions that named him the “City of San Antonio PuroSlam Champion,”
“San Antonio Erotic Slam Champion” and “Haiku Death Slam Champion (twice).”
69 of his literary works have found their way into publications and awards.
This husband, father and grandfather believes in the power of words to change the world.
“They can calm and soothe. Arouse and stimulate. Devastate and demolish …
OR … inspire and elevate.
Words are the vehicles that move civilizations and directs humanity.
The written word is the closest thing we have to making ourselves immortal.
And that,” says DaRell Pittman, “is a powerful concept.”
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