Meet 6 Of This Year's Fiscally Sponsored Cultural Projects
Future Front provides ongoing fiscal sponsorship, mentorship and capacity-building support to independent cultural producers’ public creative projects in Austin.
On Art, Healing and Cultures of Care: Ceremony
From November 2024 to February 2025, we hosted Ceremony, a collaborative group show celebrating independent visual artists in our 2024/25 Artist Residency.
Women’s History Month x SXSW: A Week of Global Collaboration
Every year during SXSW, Future Front hosts artists, creatives, cultural workers and activists across the U.S. for International Women's Day and Women's History Month.
When A City Changes, What Does Investing In Artists, Creatives And Homegrown Culture Look Like?
In 2024, our leadership team worked with the Downtown Austin Alliance Foundation to publish its first Artists and Creatives Thrive report, exploring cultural relationships to downtown Austin.
Introducing Our 2025 Calendar And Open Calls
It’s time for a close read. Bookmark Future Front’s big event and open calls dates for 2025.
Meet The Artist Behind Future Front's "Mom" Merch
Last season, we collaborated with artist Lola Budimir (a featured creative within The Front Market) to design a fresh take on the Future Front logo, inspired by vintage I <3 Mom tats—and the goods are finally here.
The Collective-Care Guide: Building Self-Care and Sustainability into Creative Community Work
Written by Texas-based licensed therapists, this step-by-step guide explores realigning values, boundaries and frameworks toward both self-care and collective-care within your community work.
A Letter From The Director: On Federal Programs & Funding Freezes
In response to recent rollbacks and bans on federal diversity and grants programs, Future Front (and many arts organizations like ours) will continue to be discriminately affected without cause. As familiar as the challenges are, nothing has changed at Future Front—and we will let you know if anything does.
The 2024 Impact Report: A Year of Ritual
From welcoming 18,000 visitors to hosting more than 200 community events, we reached every milestone on our list. Continue reading for some of 2024’s highlights and takeaways.
On Creativity As Ritual: Five Artists from The Front Festival 2024
Keep reading for an introduction to five Austin-based artists and their thoughts on independent creative work, nurturing community and returning to oneself.