Our projects model the value of local art and creativity in our everyday lives and dreams for the future.
Since 2015, we have platformed the perspectives of thousands of artists and creatives in Texas. All of our programs are led by artists and creatives themselves, responsively designed to provide more than exhibition opportunity.
① the FRONT MARKET
The Front Market is an independent marketplace and craft fair, hosted biannually in the Spring and Fall. Since 2016, the program has welcomed 40,000+ guests and showcased more than 2,000 creatives, artists, designers, chefs, makers and craftspeople in Texas.
Learn more here.
② THE FRONT FESTIVAL
The Front Festival is an annual end-of-summer community festival and public exhibition, featuring independent music, film and art. Hosted in Austin, the festival platforms the perspectives of women and LGBTQ+ artists in Texas.
Learn more here.
③ 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.
Stop by during public hours, become a member or book a community rental. Learn more here.
④ OPEN CREATIVE LEARNING PROGRAMS
Our workshops, educational series and professional development programs build public education around creative leadership, community-building practices, cultural justice, arts wellness and belonging.
Current series include Community Clubs, the Work Conference, as well as Future Front’s Artist Residency AND Curators Program.
⑤ 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:
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Our programs model the value of local art and creativity in our everyday lives and dreams for the future. Within museums and city streets, public parks and community spaces, we produce public exhibitions that connect you to diverse creatives, artists, musicians, craftspeople performers, designers, filmmakers and cultural producers in Texas—who live and work in your community.
Here, you can support and discover their projects, while nurturing your own creativity. -
All of our programs are informed by artists and creatives themselves, responsively designed to provide more than exhibition opportunity.
Since 2014, we’ve distributed $1M in commissions and developed culturally responsive resources for artist empowerment, creative business and creative leadership. -
We all need third spaces that nurture our imagination, creative growth & relationships to community, connection, healing and culture.
Our programs reflect back the public spaces we want to see in the world—spaces that encourage curiosity, value art and creativity, welcome experimentation and low-tech innovation, center diverse identities and amplify learning.
*Active pARTNERSHIPs INCLUDE:
✰ 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 with Pease Park, the Downtown Austin Alliance Foundation’s VIBE WEEKEND and EMERGE with The LINE Hotel Austin.
✰ Future Front provides ongoing fiscal sponsorship, mentorship and capacity-building support to independent cultural producers’ public creative projects in Austin.
Current fiscal sponsorees include Sunday Sessions ATX, Blood Bath’s Community Fashion Show, Broad Studios’ ClubHouse Ceramics Scholarship, Highways Harm Reduction Artist Coalition and more!
Attend events, become a member or apply. Everybody and every body are welcome.
Austin-based chef Deepa Shridhar and Future Front Executive Director Jane Hervey host their second-annual supper club and community fundraiser.