Future Front x The LINE Austin
Annually, Future Front partners with The LINE Hotel to amplify emerging artists and independent creatives living in Central Texas.
Featuring independent artists and local cultural icons, consider these installations a love note to their work—and an introduction to the city we call home.
Here, we let creativity emerge.
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*Artwork by Felipe Gomez featured in image
What’s Here This Year
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As is annual tradition, Future Front programs Swim Sessions—a five-part poolside series in celebration of The Front Festival 2025—at The LINE Hotel Austin pool and Cantero bar.
This year’s sessions featured renowned Austin vinyl and open-format DJs, including: DJ Wyldflower, DJ HoneyPocket, DJ Helios, DJ Beaujolais and DJ Dana Scully of Queer Vinyl Co.
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For the first time in Summer 2025, Future Front partnered with The LINE Hotel Austin to host a two-night creative retreat for Central Texas artists in the heart of downtown Austin.
Known for its legacy of supporting artists and integrating creativity into the guest experience, The LINE Austin provided the perfect backdrop for a community-focused approach to creative visibility.
Together, we created an alternative retreat experience—removed from the everyday rhythm and everyday life to retreat with intention.
Lobby Installations by Austin Artists
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Select Works by Dave McClinton
Based in Austin, Texas, multidisciplinary artist Dave McClinton creates life-size portraits through paper, photography and digital collage. His work has been widely exhibited and collected across Central Texas.
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Select Works by Ryan Thayer Davis
Ryan Thayer Davis is a painter working and living in Lockhart, Texas. As a generational Texan with deep roots in Austin, he studied studio art at The University of Texas at Austin and is currently represented by Ivester Contemporary.
Learn more about each artwork on display here.
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Select Works by Manik Raj Nakra
Manik Raj Nakra is a painter, muralist and watercolorist based in Austin, Texas. His work applies a contemporary lens onto Indian iconography, colonial anachronisms, early civilizations and mythologies of ancient culture. His work is collected widely in the United States, and he has multiple larger-than-life murals in downtown Austin. His work can also be found in 115 rooms of The LINE Austin, as well as the P6 stairwell.
Learn more about each artwork on display here.
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Select Works by Xochi Solis
Xochi Solis is a mixed media artist born and raised in Austin, Texas. Her works include multilayered, collaged paintings and community storytelling. She has co-founded and led The University of Texas at Austin’s Visual Arts Center, MASS Gallery, as well as Future Front Texas. Xochi Solis has 145 works that can be found throughout 100+ hotel rooms at the LINE Austin.
Learn more about each artwork on display here.
Since 2017, The Line Hotel Austin’s Emerge Program has amplified 175+ Austin artists with more than lip service.
Through strategic art installations in the lobby, community swims on the hotel’s pool deck and support for The Front Festival, the program has generated $80,000+ in support for independent creatives and collectives.
Emerge is an official Future Front Public Space Partnership.
Alongside partners, Future Front pioneers unique, community-based models for cultural programming and place-making initiatives in all kinds of spaces—from museums to city streets to public parks—around three core pillars: Creative Community-Building, Creative Wellness and Creative Belonging.
Over the last decade, we have collaborated directly with like-minded companies and organizations to bring expanded versions of our programs and community design frameworks to the public. We regularly co-found, design, curate and manage a range of public place-making programs with partner organizations, like Pride Picnic.