A $60,000 budget increase is the amount Fuentes Elementary leaders feel is needed to further the goal of becoming a fine arts focused campus. The request, given to the district Feb. 18, calls for Fuentes to receive $80,000 for its fine arts programs in fiscal year 2020. Hays CISD officials begin cra...

Austin-based artist Wiley Ross, co-creator of the mural honoring the namesake of Fuentes Elementary, visited the campus and put students through the paces of laser-guided painting. The activity, coordinated by Fine Arts Facilitator Staci Perkins with the help of FES Art teacher Jayme Salinas, involv...

eople say a picture is worth a thousand words. A new mural gracing a cafeteria wall at Fuentes Elementary School in Kyle is worth a million. The mural, which includes a likeness of Susie T. Fuentes, the namesake of the campus, was unveiled to the public Aug. 22, a week before the official start of t...

Austin muralist Wiley Ross, a Fuentes Elementary parent, is leading some FES artists in an effort to bring life to the campus stage with a mural highlighting the school’s namesake, Susie T. Fuentes. Stars Art teacher Jayme Salinas and Ross came up with the concept and FES Principal Regina Butcher ga...