SAN ANTONIO — To understand the intention behind Casa Pink – a new part-coffee shop, part-gallery, part-event space that appears at the end of a quiet south-side block like a flower peeking through a shrub – you must first understand the story of the artists who planted its seeds.
Before they were full-time artists and business owners, Cruz and Olivia Ortiz were teachers at LEE High School in north San Antonio. She taught English; he art.
Or, as Cruz puts it: “I was the grungy art teacher in the basement.”…