Magnolia Park Arts & Community

06/11/2026

Que Onda Magazine came to Magnolia Park Arts & Community and left with something special.

Reporter Blanca Beltran-Robinson walked into La Casita de Colores, sat with our story, and wrote it down.

She wrote about La Escuelita de Magnolia Park. About the students who come through these doors and finally see themselves in their history. About the books. The art. The community that shows up every single Saturday.

She titled it From the Heart of the Barrio to the Future of a Generation.
She got it right.

Magnolia Park Arts has always had a story worth telling. We are grateful that Blanca told it and that Que onda Magazine gave it a home.

None of this happens without the professors and volunteers who show up for our kids every single Saturday. We see you. We are forever grateful.

Read it. Share it.

This is the kind of story that deserves to travel far beyond our neighborhood.

Click the link to read more:
https://queondamagazine.com/from-the-heart-of-the-barrio-to-the-future-of-a-generation/

La Escuelita de Magnolia Park Is Igniting Culture, Courage, and Creativity in Houston Step into Magnolia Park this summer, and you’ll feel it immediately, color dancing across murals, laughter echoing through La Casita de Colores, voices rising in poetry, and stories being reclaimed with pride. Th...

06/10/2026

These sponsors didn't just write a check. They funded art and history.

La Escuelita de Magnolia Park is where Houston high schoolers spend their summer learning what schools won't teach: Mexican American history, Chicano history, Fine Arts, and the stories of their community.

Free. All of it. Books, Art supplies, meals.

Taught by award-winning scholars and artists. At the end of the summer, these kids will exhibit their work and auction their paintings. They keep every dollar.

That's what our sponsors made possible. This is what it looks like when a community invests in itself.

***Your name or your business belongs on this.
Real kids. Real history. Real art. Everything they're not getting in school, we're creating it here, at La Casita de Colores, all summer long. Sponsorships are still open. Be part of this.***

This program is funded in part by the City of Houston through Houston Arts Alliance.

06/09/2026

Meet Dr. Manuel X. Zamarripa

What happens when one of the nation's leading voices in Chicana/o/x Psychology walks into a classroom in Magnolia Park?

Our Escuelita students are about to find out.

Dr. Manuel X. Zamarripa is a nationally recognized psychologist, educator, author, and advocate whose work has helped shape conversations around cultural identity, mental health, healing, and wellness in Chicana/o/x communities for more than three decades.

As Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Institute of Chicana/o/x Psychology, Dr. Zamarripa has dedicated his career to helping people understand the power of culture, identity, and community in creating healthy lives.

His work has been featured by NPR and the Los Angeles Times. He is a former President of the National Latinx Psychological Association and has received some of the highest honors in his field, including an American Psychological Association Presidential Citation.

But perhaps most importantly, Dr. Zamarripa believes that our stories, our history, and our communities matter.

This summer, Escuelita students won't simply read about these ideas in a textbook; they will learn directly from one of the scholars who helped build the field.

At La Escuelita de Magnolia Park, we believe our youth deserve access to the same caliber of educators, scholars, artists, and leaders found at major universities across the country.

And that's exactly why Dr. Zamarripa is joining us.

✨ Because greatness belongs in Magnolia Park, too.

06/05/2026

She drew the truth when the world looked away. 🖤

Marjane Satrapi survived a revolution. Survived exile. Survived the weight of telling the world stories it didn't always want to hear.
But when she lost her husband, Mattias Ripa, the woman who had fought so hard for so long, couldn't fight that.

Her family said she "died of sadness."

She was 56, living in Paris, the city that had become her home after Iran no longer could be. And now she is gone too, leaving behind Persepolis, her art, her fire, and a love story that ended the only way grief sometimes does.

She taught us that the personal is political. That one woman's life, drawn in black and white, could move millions. But she was also just a person who loved someone. And missed him unbearably.

If you've never read her work, now is the time. Some voices are too important to discover too late.

RIP Marjane Satrapi. Thank you for refusing to be invisible.

Her popular graphic novel series, published in the early 2000s, followed an Iranian girl through the Islamic Revolution and the Iran-Iraq War.

06/05/2026

La Escuelita’s Open House was a hit!

New year, same mission, expanded reach!

06/03/2026

✨ Some people study history.

Dr. María C. González helps shape it.

For decades, Dr. González has dedicated her career to amplifying the voices of Mexican Americans, Chicanas, women, LGBTQ+ communities, and those whose stories have too often been pushed to the margins.

As a professor, author, editor, scholar, and national leader in Chicano and Chicana Studies, her work has challenged institutions, expanded curriculums, and helped generations of students see themselves reflected in the classroom.

At a time when many communities are fighting to preserve their histories, Dr. González reminds us that storytelling is not simply about the past.

It is about power.

It is about identity.

It is about who gets remembered.

This summer, La Escuelita de Magnolia Park students will have the extraordinary opportunity to learn from one of the leading voices in Mexican American and Chicana scholarship.

The books she has written, the research she has produced, and the students she has mentored have influenced conversations far beyond Houston.

And now, she is sharing that knowledge with the next generation right here in Magnolia Park.

We are deeply honored to welcome Dr. María C. González to La Escuelita de Magnolia Park.

Because when our youth learn from people who have spent a lifetime defending our stories, they begin to understand that their own stories matter too.

🌹📚✨

06/02/2026

✏️ They’re Not Just School Supplies.

At La Escuelita de Magnolia Park, a notebook becomes a place where a student writes their family story for the first time.

A paintbrush becomes a means for a young artist to see their culture as worthy of display on gallery walls.

A book becomes proof that our history deserves to be remembered, not erased.

This summer, students at La Escuelita will study Chicano history, create original artwork, read powerful literature, and learn from artists, educators, and community leaders who look like them and come from neighborhoods like theirs.

Many of our students come from working-class families right here in Houston’s East End. Every donation of paints, sketchbooks, snacks, books, journals, pencils, directly helps us keep this program free for our youth.

When you purchase from our Amazon Wish List, you are investing in:
🎨 Art
📚 Education
🌹 Cultural preservation
🖤 Pride in identity
✨ The future of Magnolia Park

Help us fill La Casita de Colores with the tools these students deserve. Remember, it takes a Village.

Click the link below:
https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/2MDX4K1O1JQIL?ref_=wl_share

06/02/2026

She dances with history.
She teaches resistance.
She preserves stories too often left out of textbooks.

Dr. Samantha M. Rodriguez is more than a professor; she is part of a generation of Chicana scholars reclaiming memory, culture, and community through education.

A Tejana/Chicana historian, Aztec dancer, researcher, and educator at Houston Community College, her work explores civil rights, activism, oral histories, and the power of Black and Brown resistance movements in Texas.

La Escuelita de Magnolia Park is honored to welcome Dr. Rodriguez into this year’s journey of learning, identity, and cultural remembrance.

12/30/2025

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Honoring fine art, culture, and community.
Your year-end gift sustains fine art, culturally rooted youth education through La Escuelita, and the preservation of La Casita de Colores as a living community art space.

Donor Link: https://conta.cc/3YhjrId

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