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Submit To Our Annual Open Call for Artists.
ANNUALLY, Future Front offers a range of commissions & EXHIBITION OPPORTUNITIES for women and LGBTQ+ artists, musicians, filmmakers, DJS, cultural producers and creatives living and working in Texas.
submissions are collected for the following programs:
✰ The Front Festival's Music Showcase
✰ The Front Festival's Film Showcase
✰ Future Front's Visual Artist & DJ Residency
✰ Future Front’s General Programming
we accept WORK across many CREATIVE DISCIPLINES:
music
film
visual art
comedy
poetry
performance art
HOW TO APPLY:
Submissions are CURRENTLY CLOSED AND WILL REOPEN IN 2025.
While you wait, learn more about the opportunities that were included in our 2024 Open Call below.
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Every year at The Front Festival, we present a film program featuring 75% submissions from the Future Front community—from feature films and music videos to shorts and experimental works.
If selected for this opportunity, your film will be screened at The Front Festival Film Showcase on the Contemporary Austin’s Laguna Gloria Grounds on August 30, 2024.
Future Front will cover all associated costs with the screening. (There is no submission or screening fee.) We will also provide weekend festival passes for you and your guests.
*You must be a filmmaker based in Texas to be eligible for this opportunity. -
Every year at The Front Festival, we book one musical performance, featuring a submission from our community.
If selected for this opportunity, you will be included as a paid opener at The Front Festival Music Showcase on August 31, 2024. You will also receive weekend festival passes for you and your guests.
*You must be a musician based in Texas to be eligible for this opportunity. -
Annually, we work with 15 visual artist and DJs in residence.
Collaborating within our programs or with our partners—like The Contemporary Austin, Bumble, The Line Hotel, Pease Park, Fusebox Festival, The Museum of Human Achievement—our resident artists work with us to create everything from workshop series to custom playlists to life-size installations.
All opportunities listed above include varying paid commissions, honorariums and stipends throughout the year. For additional details on The Residency, please head to futurefronttexas.org/residency.
*You must be a visual artist or DJ based in Austin, Texas to be eligible for this opportunity. -
As a 501c3 arts and culture no profit, we produce year-round art shows and creative workshops at our creative space in historic East Austin. Through these programs and a diverse network of partnerships, we invite the public to dream of a future where creativity, curiosity and intersectional design thrive in Texas—where we see ourselves and our cultures reflected in our communities.
If you are interested in general opportunities wit Future Front year-round, please select this option. Artists will be contacted with opportunities as they arise on a rolling basis.
Learn More About Future Front.
This October, Future Front is proud to announce the launch of a new mural by Austin-based illustrator, designer and small business owner Steffi Lynn Tsai in partnership with Waymo.