2024 Digital Program - Flipbook - Page 11
Friday 1PM Double Documentary Feature
We Carry On
In July 2022, Wounded Warrior
Project and Community Building
Art Works brought together
twelve caregivers for severely
wounded veterans through a
six-week virtual poetry workshop
that culminated in an on-stage performance in Washington, D.C.
'We Carry On' follows the caregivers as they prepare to take the
stage, perform their collaborative poem, and reflect on the
shared experience.
Jesse Trevino: The Artist. The Man.
An amazing, true story of a legendary San
Antonio artist, who lost his painting and
drawing hand in combat in Vietnam, but
at the urging of a fellow amputee, taught
himself to paint with his left hand.
Then,
despite
constant
pain,
undiagnosed PTSD, and many personal
problems, he pushed himself to become
San
Antonio’s
best-known
and
most-beloved artist, with works in the
Smithsonian and huge tile murals that are
now city landmarks, one of them nine
stories tall on a downtown hospital overlooking a historic park. He
also overcame poverty and discrimination, born into a family of 12
children in Mexico, then raised on San Antonio’s poor West Side.
But after winning an art contest in grade school at a local
museum, the child prodigy set his sights on getting his work in
museums permanently and won a scholarship to the prestigious
Art Students League of New York.
Drafted a few months later, he could have avoided military
service because he was born in Mexico. But like others in his big
family, he chose to serve his adopted country. But he was
ambushed three months into his tour of duty, a booby trap and a
sniper’s bullet nearly killed him, shattering his right leg and severing
nerves to his right hand, which would lead to amputation.
