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

① the FRONT MARKET

As a biannual independent marketplace and fair, The Front Market has welcomed 30,000+ guests & supported more than 1,800 Texas-based women and LGBTQ+ creatives, artists, designers, chefs, makers and craftspeople since 2016.

Learn more here.

② 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, we celebrate independent women and LGBTQ+ artists in Texas and the power of telling our stories.

Learn more here.

 

③ THE FUTURE FRONT HOUSE

Located at 1900 E 12th St. in Austin, Texas, The Future Front House is community space by and for creative types. The House is open for workshops, pop-ups and art shows on weeknights and weekends, as well as weekday drop-ins.

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

④ OPEN CREATIVE LEARNING WORKSHOPS, CLUBS & GUIDES

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, Future Front’s Artist Residency AND Future Front’s Curators Program.

 

⑤ CREATIVE COMMUNITY RESOURCES & COLLECTIVE-CARE COLLABORATIONS*

We work with community partners and collaborators to design, pioneer and produce cultural programs and projects in Texas that support women and LGBTQ+ creatives around the following 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:

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

    ✰ Operating The Creative Future of Texas Fund

    ✰ Operating a Community Curators Program

    ✰ Operating the Community Clubs program

    ✰ 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

    ✰ 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:

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

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

    ✰ 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-large—from participating in voter advocacy to distributing Census surveys to drag culture advoacy

    ✰ 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:

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

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

    ✰ ensuring that wellness and mental health themes are incorporated into our creative programming—from sessions on burnout and creative work to workshops on meditation

*Active projects & collaborations:

✰ Future Front’s Creative Future of Texas Fund annually awards partnership to cultural and community-based projects by women and LGBTQ+ creatives in Texas. Funds are raised through donations at the door, as well as support from our members.

✰ Future Front has designed and co-founded community programs for partner organizations, including Pride Picnic at Pease Park, The Texan Feminist Throwdown, the Downtown Austin Alliance’s first-ever festival and EMERGE at The LINE Austin.

✰ Future Front provides fiscal sponsorship to multiple Austin community organizations, including Black Austin Musicians Collective, Veneration Fashion Show and Broad Studios’ ClubHouse Ceramics Scholarship and more!

 

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