Every summer—from July to September—Future Front opens their Community Studio as a creative space for monthly gatherings and workshops led by Future Front members. From Clay Club to Quilt Camp, Community Clubs are designed to nurture local creativity in Austin.

This year, 10 clubs will be selected for the program. Club hosts will receive a $500 stipend, access to Future Front’s location at 1900 E 12th for three sessions and professional development in facilitation, community curation and public programming.

This program is a good fit for Austin artists, creative types and community leaders who currently run and/or want to launch a club or gathering series—and would like some support. Pre-existing clubs and series are welcome and encouraged to apply.

Community

Clubs

Poster advertising community clubs in Austin, Texas, featuring a stylized, halftone portrait of a woman with colorful background. Mention of sign-ups available now, with website link for more information.

2026 SEASON — COMMUNITY CLUBS

  • Poster advertising Scent Lab, a slow aromatherapy club in Austin, Texas, with details about sign-ups, location, and website.

    Scent Lab (Starting Aug. 21)

    Led by Carlos Moreno, Scent Lab is a multi-sensory neuro-aesthetic gallery experience created in response to Xochi Solis’ exhibition In the Days of Various Light. Through scent, slow looking, and guided reflection, participants will explore how aromatherapy, memory, and contemporary art can deepen embodied ways of experiencing an exhibition.

  • Event poster for a quilting class titled 'Quit Camp' with Stephanie Granillo, located in Austin, Texas, featuring a pastel-colored background with mountains and water

    Quilt Camp (Starting Aug. 1)

    Hosted by quilt artist Steph Granillo (she/her), Quilt Camp is a four-part series where participants will design and create a hand-sewn mini quilt. All experience levels welcome.

  • Poster advertising 'The Artist's Way - Day by Day,' a group exploration hosted by Jillian Anthony in Austin, Texas, with the website futurefronttexas.org/clubs at the bottom. The background has pastel colors with black text.

    The Artist's Way — Day By Day (Starting Sept. 20)

    The Artist's Way, Day By Day is a free biweekly Sunday hang for anyone walking The Artist's Way — whether you're in the thick of the 12 weeks or years past graduation. We'll gather to discuss creativity and set one small, totally doable goal for the week ahead. Come for the accountability, stay for the artistic, supportive community.

  • Poster for a sewing club offering sewing classes, featuring a pink and purple gradient background with mountains.

    Sewing Club (Starting Aug. 8)

    Led by Cassandra Najera and designed for beginner sewists, Sewing Club is a 3-part workshop series that will guide participants in using a sewing pattern to create one of their first garments (a skort!). This club will nurture and grow participants' sewing skills, so they leave confident to continue their journey in building a sustainable, me-made wardrobe. Join the sewing crash course or skip if it you know how to use a sewing machine!

  • A colorful abstract background with faded pastel hues and the text 'Kintsugi Studio' in bold black letters, along with additional text promoting a restorative artform workshop in Austin, Texas.

    Kintsugi Studio (Starting Aug. 2)

    A collaborative space to bring your ongoing projects and materials and continue your kintsugi practice alongside others practitioners. Connect, create, and learn in community as you contribute to Austin’s growing appreciation of this beautiful, restorative art form.

  • Event poster for a creative wellness club titled 'Circle & Stir' with a pink and purple background, mountains, and ocean, featuring details about sign-ups, location at 1900 E 12th St, Austin, Texas, and a website for more information.

    Circle & Stir: Creative Wellness Club (Starting Aug. 9)

    Circle & Stir is a space where creatives can slow down, build community, and reconnect with their own creative practice. Through ritual, we begin each gathering with somatic movement, journaling, and the preparation of tea or coffee to cultivate intentional time together. Led by Bloom Haus Collective and Emary Alicea of Junebug Coffee, each session explores a different creative discipline, helping participants discover the practices that nourish their spirit and support a more aligned creative life.

  • Event flyer for Tak Tak Boost, a growth club for maker and craft businesses, hosted by Risa Recio of Tak Tak Goods, located in Austin, Texas.

    Tak Tak Boost! (Starting Aug. 22)

    Have you ever wanted some fresh eyes or ideas on your booth or table lay-out for markets? This club is for you! Hosted by Risa Recio of Tak Tak Goods, get together with a collaborative group of artists to look at each others' set-up, merchandising, brand story, address concerns, and target any areas of improvement ahead of holiday season and beyond.

  • Poster advertising a screenwriting meet-up titled "Int. Writers' Room Night" by Brittany Heckard, located in Austin, Texas, with details about sign-ups and a website for more information.

    INT. WRITERS' ROOM — NIGHT (Starting Aug. 5)

    Hosted by Brittany Heckard, a group of procrastinating screenwriters and actors meets biweekly to do table reads, dissect films, and hopefully complete their shorts and proofs of concept ahead of film season.

  • A poster advertising a slow healing craft club called "Good Griet" with Kalle Duncan, located in Austin, Texas, on E 12th Street. The background has soft pastel colors with blurred abstract patterns.

    Good Grief (Starting Aug. 23)

    Good Grief is a donation-based club designed to nurture creative connections and remind us that we don't have to carry life's transitions alone. By grounding each session in a hands-on, tactile art practice—ranging from ceramic hand-building to relief printmaking—we establish a creative sanctuary to chat about the everyday nuances of grief, whether that looks like navigating our changing city, letting go of old opportunities, or exploring shifting identities, all while making friends.

  • Poster for a fantasy figure drawing club called 'Fantasy Figure ATX' in Austin, Texas, hosted by Studiokollisions, with background of pastel-colored landscape and beach scene.

    Fantasy Figure ATX (Starting Aug. 6)

    Join longtime Austin club, Fantasy Figure ATX, we explore the beauty and complexity of the human form with a fantasy-inspired twist. Themed figure/life drawing sessions, safe and respectful art sharing, and creative socials are the community’s favorite highlights! Always designed for diverse and multidisciplinary artists at all skill levels.

  • Poster advertising a club on community-building called "For The Hosts" with Esther Osaheni, located at 1900 E 12th St., Austin, Texas. The poster features a soft pastel-colored background with black text.

    For The Hosts (Starting Aug. 12)

    Hosted by Esther Osaheni, For the Hosts is a quiet evening at Future Front’s Community Studio for those who host recurring gatherings in Austin. It’s a space for you to be hosted for a change, to celebrate the work you do, and to learn from others who help keep Austin connected.

  • Poster advertising a movement series for women focused on body reconnection, titled "House of Overflow" with Lily Shepard, located at 1900 E 12th St., Austin, Texas, and the website futurefronttexas.org/clubs.

    House of Overflow (Starting Aug. 13)

    Led by wellness and movement practitioner Lily Shepard, the House of Overflow Is a movement based community for women seeking deeper connection—to themselves, their bodies, and one another. Together, we gather, move and explore what becomes possible when life is approached with more intention and pleasure is prioritized.

  • Poster advertising 'The Little Gay Cook Book Club', a cookbook reading club by Lex Loro from Austin, Texas, with a pastel background and event details including location and website.

    The Little Gay CookBook Club (Starting Aug. 16)

    For four years, The Little Gay Book Club has brought queer and allied readers together for great stories and even better conversations. Now we're spicing things up (literally) by cooking recipes from the cookbooks we'll select and read together. Nothing builds community like breaking bread together, so join us for a Community Clubs season filled with family dinners and explorations of queerness, food, culture, and belonging.

Community Clubs are hosted at Future Front’s Studio on 1900 E 12th.

Our 1940s building is nestled within Austin’s African-American Cultural Heritage District, and we hope to live up to the legacy of our block.

From soil to cement, our building has a long history that precedes us (from its first owner Vera Barton to the We Rise mural). We acknowledge and honor our neighborhood’s German immigration origins in the 1800s), legacy of Black entrepreneurs following the 1928 City Plan in the 1950s, as well as the diverse Indigenous peoples and all elders—past, present and future—who have shaped and continue to shape this land on which we gather, too.

We invite you to celebrate their active cultural contributions and traditions. Take care now.

Through this creative space in East Austin and our flagship programs, we create:

  • Educational opportunities for creative skill-building and creative wellness

  • Fund community cultural events

  • Develop community-building educational resources

  • Offer subsidized access to arts and culture public space

  • Nurture free, public arts programming

  • Experiment with community-driven and creative place-making and place-keeping models—together.

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Want to host a club next year? Here’s what that looks like:

What does a community club host receive?

  • Up to 12 hours of free use of Future Front’s Community Studio between July 29, 2026 & September 30, 2026

  • Supportive training on hosting community gatherings with Future Front’s team

  • Access to Future Front’s gathering tools, guidelines and frameworks for public programming, community curation and facilitation

  • A $500 stipend for club materials

  • Promotion of the club through Future Front’s newsletter, socials and more

What are this season’s community club requirements?

01. Only Community Clubs on the following topics will be accepted:

  • Creative Growth — Learning a new craft or creative skill

  • Creative Practice — Deepening a creative practice, ritual, habit or interest

  • Creative Connection — Using a creative activity to build connection

02. Clubs must be hosted by Future Front members (sign up anytime!) or artists and creative types who have exhibited work or been accepted into other Future Front programs.

03. Whether you submit a club you already run or start something new, you will only receive up to 12 donated hours within Future Front’s Community Studio (good for 3 to 4 club meetings) between July 1 and September 30. 50% of your sessions must occur at Future Front’s Community Studio.

04. If your club is not yet active, we suggest designing for a maximum of 10 to 20 active members. You can promote your club and recruit members however you please, as long as the club is open to all who are interested to join (18+) for free, by donation or a fee.

What does a Community Club host do?

  • A club host sets the tone and the purpose of their club. A club host selects the intention and overarching goal of the club.

  • A club host runs their club autonomously, with support from Future Front.

    • A club host sets the agenda, location, medium and/or topic for every club meeting using Google Calendar or an alternative calendar tool.

    • They also check in with members of the club at least once a month via email, text or some other communication method, as well as collaborate with Future Front to announce their club to the Future Front newsletter every July.

    • From July to September, all club hosts can use The Future Front House up to four times as a free space and venue.

  • A club host wants to be a good host. If you become a host, you’re interested in community-building as a creative practice, sharpening your facilitation skills and practicing curatorial work! Hosts meet with the Future Front team twice to check in on their club, share resources, learn from growth edges, have fun & hang! Hosts are responsible for:

    • Keeping the club safe by staying curious & asking for feedback

    • Having & starting conversations, as well as facilitating space for others to share

    • Understanding everything that is going on within the club, etc.!

Can’t imagine what makes for a good club? Or what joining one might look like? We got you! Let’s take a look at Hike Club.

Two years ago, Future Front member Stephanie Granillo decided to list her pre-existing Quilt Camp as a Future Front Club. The club met three times, and the goal was simple — learn how to quilt! Stephanie used the additional support from Future Front to charge a low-cost ticket price.