The 2022 Impact Report: Future Front's First (Full) Year
This was our first full year as Future Front Texas, y’all.
And it was delicious, delightful and dangerously juicy! From welcoming a record-number of vendors at The Front Market to bringing back The Front Festival in its true form, this year was a big one.
Continue reading for some of our 2022 highlights—and set aside a minute to get cozy & celebrate.
Our 3 big wins:
Our TOP 10 growth moments:
No. 1 — We hosted our first full year of programming as Future Front, with more than 46 public markets, festivals, shows and community gatherings, opening up more than 1,250 opportunities for women and LGBTQ+ creatives.
No. 2 — The Front Market hosted its first Spring and Fall Season for the first time since shutdown, welcoming a record number of 406 vendors across both seasons.
No. 3 — After three years scaled down or shut down, The Front Festival came back to its true form as a four-day, end-of-summer meeting of minds. The festival welcomed 800 attendees at The Line Hotel, The Contemporary and Parish ATX, exhibiting 33 artists.
No. 4 — More than 77 volunteers, board members, community curators and collaborators joined us throughout the year to fundraise $16,500+ for our programs and contribute 750 hours of support to the community.
No. 5 — For the first time ever, we worked on collaborative, community-based curatorial projects with The Contemporary Austin, Fusebox Festival, The Museum of Human Achievement, Luck Reunion, Visit.org and OTHR Agency. Through these projects, we connected creatives in our programs to new opportunities and nurtured community resources like free exhibition space and The Texan Feminist Throwdown. We also curated some of our most dynamic performances yet, featuring national names like La Goony Chonga and Juliana Huxtable.
No. 6 — We co-hosted our first-ever Pride Picnic with Pease Park, curating 30+ LGBTQ+ artists and small business owners, as well as two workshops on clay-making and plant-swapping with The Little Gay Shop and Black Trans Leadership Austin.
No. 7 — We turned our headquarters into a mini-residency, welcoming immersive takeovers from designer Lucid Voyage Boutique to community org Good Group ATX to installation artist Molly Sydnor.
No. 8 — We used all of our programs to support Texas community initiatives, from packing 100+ sexual and menstrual health kits with Birds ‘N Bees Box to coordinating 50 lunches between Free Lunch ATX and Austin EMS for vulnerable neighbors in our community.
No. 9 — We curated, co-wrote, co-produced and launched Abortion Pills Are Here To Stay, a series of community art films and resource guide in collaboration with filmmaker LINDSEY L33, Plan C Pills and 20 Future Front community members to share PSAs on abortion pill access. (The films have had more than 325,000 views in this year alone!)
No. 10 — We piloted our first iteration of Community Clubs, which saw 12 different Future Front members host free programming for more than 300 community members in Austin. Glorious!
Editor’s Note: You can read our quarterly impact reports in more detail here.
your attention maDE THIS POSSIBLE!
❤️🔥 We would like to thank our 2022 staff, board, friends and members for their support.
🌪️ We are also grateful to our partners and friends—particularly Tito’s Handmade Vodka, Anis Day & Night, The Line Hotel, OTHR Agency, Pease Park and Fusebox Festival—for their continued collaboration.
🤠 Together, we are nurturing vibrant spaces and opportunities for women and LGBTQ+ creatives in Texas, y’all!
