Proposed Historical Interpretive Arts Program Initiative for The San José, “Queen of the Missions”

A most powerful way to shed light on the “Queen of the Missions,” or Mission San José, is to look in the most unlikely and/or invisible places. To start with earth -- the ground, soil, clay -- and to hear and see -- oft-time invisible in the larger community -- the unsung woman who is connected to that earth — the indigenous woman, the woman who is descendent of the colonial Spanish, and equally, the woman living in San Antonio whose ancestors lived in or roamed other lands before her, but she is here now.