The Fiesta San Antonio Commission has unveiled the official Fiesta 2020 poster. Hundreds of members and guests of the Fiesta San Antonio Commission gathered tonight to see the unveiling of the Official 2020 Fiesta San Antonio Poster.
Local artist, Caroline Korbell Carrington's design was unveiled tonight at The Mays Family Center at the Witte Museum. Focusing on what makes San Antonio special, the 2020 Fiesta Poster, titled “Rio De La Vida” or “River of Life,” celebrates the city’s two most famous landmarks – the Alamo and the San Antonio River. Flowing through a gentle valley of rolling hills and cultivated fields, a bright blue river runs past the Alamo and under a rock bridge while the sun sets behind flaming clouds in a pastoral scene bursting with brilliantly colored butterflies and Mexican folk art flowers in vivid hues of pink, blue, green, yellow and orange.
“I decided to stick with what I know,” Caroline Korbell Carrington says. “I’m a landscape painter; not a graphic artist. But I’m thrilled to be selected as the Fiesta poster artist. I’ve been a local artist for a long time so it’s good to have the recognition. I wanted to show the nature of South Texas as well as the happiness and fun of Fiesta. I wanted the design to be inspirational. I see the flowers and butterflies as symbols of hope and a new day. The colors are the bright and happy colors of Fiesta.”
Her poster is framed by pink while the corners resemble blue-and-orange tiles with a geometric Mexican folk-art design. “I see this design used as an architectural element in a lot of places, such as the concrete blocks on overpasses in the city,” she says. “It’s just a part of San Antonio.”
Carrington partly drew on her memories of being the Duchess of Russian Springs in the Court of Imperial Patronage during Fiesta 1992. The elaborately decorated train of her Coronation dress featured a river running through a pine and fir forest. “It was fun to have a landscape on my dress,” Carrington recalls. “Fiesta has been part of my family for generations.”
Photo: Courtesy Fiesta San Antonio Commission