Join us to nurture creativity, curiosity & culture change. Attend events, become a member or apply yourself. Everybody & every body are welcome.

The Front Market!

The Front Festival!

the future front housE!

the Work Conference!

MEET-UPS, COMMUNITY CLUBS & MEMBERSHIPS!

CREATIVE

RESOURCES, WORKSHOPS & GUIDES!

 

We produce vibrant spaces, shows, opportunities & resources for women & LGBTQ+ creatives in Texas. Current programs include:

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.

THE FRONT FESTIVAL

The Front Festival is an end-of-summer festival, featuring music, film and art showcases curated by Future Front. 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.

 

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 event rental. Learn more here.

OPEN CREATIVE LEARNING WORKSHOPS, CLUBS & GUIDES

Our public workshops, educational series & conference explore creative work, community-building, leadership, wellness and belonging.

Every session introduces you to rad Texans building their own creative careers, businesses, communities and workspaces. Our blog is also a living collection of free resources, guides & interviews.

Current series include workshops & meet-ups at The Future Front House, Community Clubs as well as our annual Work Conference.

 

CREATIVE COMMUNITY RESOURCES & COLLECTIVE-CARE COLLABORATIONS*

We work with community partners and collaborators to design 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 micro-grants and 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’s Arts Residency nurtures 15 Texas-based artists per year, connecting them to commissions and exhibitions within our programs, as well as through collaborations with our partners.

Future Front’s Curators Program welcomes 15 community members per year to learn curatorial frameworks and community design principles through Future Front’s programs.

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!