We produce vibrant creative community spaces, shows, opportunities and resources. Current programs include:

โ‘  the FRONT MARKET

As a biannual independent marketplace and fair, The Front Market has welcomed 40,000+ guests & supported more than 2,000 Texas-based women and LGBTQ+ creatives, artists, designers, chefs, makers and craftspeople since 2016.

Learn more here.

โ‘ก THE FRONT FESTIVAL

The Front Festival is an end-of-summer festival, featuring music, film and art showcases curated by Future Front from an annual open call. Over the course of a weekend, alongside thousands of friends, we celebrate independent women and LGBTQ+ artists in Texas and the power of telling our stories.

Learn more here.

 

โ‘ข THE FUTURE FRONT HOUSE

Located in historic East Austin, The Future Front House is a 1200 sq. ft. community space, distinctively designed to offer free/discounted educational opportunities and gathering space for creative community-building, workshops, shows and pop-ups by independent artists and creatives based in Texas.

Stop by during public hours, become a member or book a community rental. Learn more here.

โ‘ฃ OPEN CREATIVE LEARNING PROGRAMS

Our workshops, educational series and professional development programs build public education around creative leadership, community-building, wellness and belonging.

Current series include Community Clubs, the Work Conference, as well as Future Frontโ€™s Artist Residency AND Curators Program.

 

โ‘ค CREATIVE COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS*

We work with community partners and collaborators to design, pioneer and produce cultural programs that nurture the creative future of Texas around three core pillars:

  • We work alongside independent creatives and organizations to nurture a community practice for Future Front, as well as community practices in Texas. This looks like:

    โœฐ Offering fiscal sponsorship & pro-bono partnership to like-minded grassroots initiatives that meet FFTX core values & vision

    โœฐ Operating The Creative Future of Texas Fund

    โœฐ Operating a Community Curators Program

    โœฐ Operating the Community Clubs program

    โœฐ Collaborating on the creation of projects & programs with partners that increase access to paid resources & capacity-building opportunities for creatives & artists outside Future Front programs

    โœฐ Documenting and creating processes, educational opportunities & capacity-building trainings for community-driven curatorial work and program design

  • We collaborate directly with artists and creatives in our programs to bring forward progressive projects that nurture belonging and address inequity in our Texas communities. This looks like:

    โœฐ Producing collaborative community showcases and events like The Texan Feminist Throwdown and Pride Picnic that explore social justice, public health and autonomy

    โœฐ Creative activism projects around reproductive rights advocacy, gender & racial equity, as well as labor advocacy in creative fieldsโ€”from community outreach on grant funding to educational resources on public health

    โœฐ Ongoing partnerships with gender & racial equity groups & groups that create belong for diverse women, femme, queer, trans and nonbinary folks in creative fields and Texas at-largeโ€”from participating in voter advocacy to distributing Census surveys to drag culture advoacy

    โœฐ Ensuring our programs are fair-share, reflecting back the diverse cultures present in Texas, as well as the cultural histories that shape our programs

  • We collaborate on projects & programs that increase access to creative wellness in Texas. To date, we have worked on:

    โœฐ a pro-bono therapy fund with Colors of Austin Counseling distributing more than 150 therapy sessions to creatives of color in need

    โœฐ designing collective-care curriculums for independent creatives centering justice and belonging in their community spaces

    โœฐ ensuring that wellness and mental health themes are incorporated into our creative programmingโ€”from sessions on burnout and creative work to workshops on meditation

*Active projects INCLUDE:

โœฐ Future Front collaborates directly with like-minded partners and organizations to bring expanded versions of its programs and frameworks to the public. This has included designing and co-founding a range of public programs with partner organizations, including Pride Picnic at Pease Park, The Texan Feminist Throwdown, the Downtown Austin Allianceโ€™s first-ever festival and EMERGE at The LINE Austin.

โœฐ Future Front provides ongoing fiscal sponsorship, mentorship, funding and capacity-building support to independent cultural producers and creative community events in Austin, aligned with Future Frontโ€™s values and mission. Current fiscal sponsorees include Black Austin Musicians Collective, Blood Bathโ€™s Community Fashion Show, Equity Through Art, Broad Studiosโ€™ ClubHouse Ceramics Scholarship and more!

 

Attend events, become a member or apply. Everybody and every body are welcome.