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It’s time for a close read. Bookmark Future Front’s big event and open calls dates for 2025.

Last season, we collaborated with artist Lola Budimir (a featured creative within The Front Market) to design a fresh take on the Future Front logo, inspired by vintage I <3 Mom tats—and the goods are finally here.

In response to recent rollbacks and bans on federal diversity and grants programs, Future Front (and many arts organizations like ours) will continue to be discriminately affected without cause. As familiar as the challenges are, nothing has changed at Future Front—and we will let you know if anything does.

Keep reading for an introduction to five Austin-based artists and their thoughts on independent creative work, nurturing community and returning to oneself.

Through annual art shows and pop-ups to our award-winning parties at the hotel’s pool (also known as Swim Sessions), these strategic collaborations have generated $75,000+ in support for local arts and culture over the last seven years.

This Fall, we welcomed back Highlander Center for the second iteration of Future Lands, an all-day teach-in exploring the artistic, cultural and creative impact of southern people’s struggles for justice and democracy.

Learn about our 10-day exhibit, A Path of Impermanence, featuring archival photo prints by Future Front Resident Artist Liz Moskowitz.

For The Front Market’s Fall 2024 Season, we exhibited 175+ creatives and welcomed 4,000+ visitors at our largest location yet—Waterloo Greenway—in the heart of downtown Austin.

In November 2024, we hosted Body Freedom for Every(Body), a cross-country art exhibition tour that takes place inside a 27-foot box truck.

This October, Future Front is proud to announce the launch of a new mural by Austin-based illustrator, designer and small business owner Steffi Lynn Tsai in partnership with Waymo.

This July, we partnered with Red River Cultural District to present The Front Market for Hot Summer Nights, an annual festival celebrating Austin's live music scene.

For our third re-opening anniversary, we hosted an intimate three-night supper club at The Future Front House with one of our favorite South Indian-Texan chefs, Deepa Shridhar.

Featuring 65 women and LGBTQ+ artists, filmmakers, performers and independent creatives across Texas, The Front Festival 2024 welcomed 1,300+ visitors this weekend.

Bring It From The Back features a curated selection of portraits and scenes from Austin-based photographer ScamLikely’s archives. On view at The Future Front House throughout Summer 2024, the exhibit celebrates the profound impact of ballroom and queer nightlife on Central Texas arts and culture.

It was an ecosystem of tie-dye, snow cones, plant swaps, and splash pads. A day of drag fairies, family time, makers’ markets, basketball courts and summer camp queerdom—all strung together by DIY friendship bracelets and shaded park benches.

Over the last month, The Future Front House presented Transcendent Reality, an exhibit curated by Maria Romero and Rewon Shimray of woman-owned fine art collective The Gallery ATX.

In commemoration of Madly Involved and our Spring Season, we interviewed curator Mueni Loko Rudd, as well as artists Sacugar Edwards and Moses Leonardo, on the world-buildling creative rituals that define their practices.

Over the last two years, Future Front has proudly supported Bloodbath Studio’s community fashion shows. As Bloodbath prepares for their third-annual show in 2024, we chatted with the studio's co-founder Hannah Varnell about their origin story, the importance of queer representation in art and cultural gatherings and hopes for a sustainable, vibrant and subversively expressive scene.

Open to makers, artists, designers, creatives or creative-curious types of any kind in Austin, Texas, the fellowship covers 18 free six-week ceramics courses at Broad Studios Club House. Released for the first time this Spring, we received 170+ eligible applications for the fellowship.

As our Spring 2024 Season Finale, we took over distribution hall in Austin, Texas for one weekend only—exhibiting 160+ creatives and welcoming 3,500+ visitors.

While Austin celebrated SXSW during Spring 2024, Highlander Center popped up at The Future Front House for all-day sessions, exploring the intersections of storytelling, movement-building and the artistic, cultural and creative mycelium of southern people’s struggles for justice and democracy.

For one day only during SXSW Spring 2024, we were the official tour Texas stop for Care Machine, Los Angeles-based artist Autumn Breon’s latest installation, a traveling beauty and sexual health vending machine. To celebrate, Future Front became The Care House: a literal and figurative community salon, in collaboration with Plan C.

On February 17, 2024, we hosted our annual WORK Conference with 200 of y’all at Robert B. Rowling Hall on UT Campus.