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5th Ward Cultural Arts District

Established in January 2020, the 5th Ward Cultural Arts District located in Houston’s Historic 5th Ward community is one large masterpiece. It is a place where art is a way of living, from its food, music, and sculptures; to its Historic buildings and gathering spaces like the Historic Deluxe Theater or the Iconic live music venue Club Matinee (Cotton Club of the South.) The 5th Ward Cultural Arts District is a living cultural arts destination and the center of Houston’s African American history and culture.

Actors' Equity Association

Arts Council/Alliance ; Association/Club/Group ; Theatre

Founded May 26,1913, Actors’ Equity is the performing arts labor union representing professional actors & stage managers in the US.

Art Consortium of the Texas Gulf Coast

Arts Council/Alliance ; Festivals

OUR MISSION: The Art Consortium brings together artists, organizations and art enthusiasts to advocate, promote and provide opportunities to create and celebrate the arts for all Texas Gulf Coast residents and visitors. VISION STATEMENT: Through leadership and innovation, we are committed to preserving our cultural and creative diversity by building community where the arts are a vital part of everyday life. CORE VALUES: The Art Consortium of the Texas Gulf Coast believes that the arts should be universal, affordable and accessible to everyone regardless of age, capacity, limitations or language. The arts build community, add to the beauty of our environment, record our history, are an economic boon and create opportunities for breaking down barriers, reducing levels of intimidation and building bridges. The ACTGC further believes integrity, consistency, diversity, fiscal responsibility, originality and the power of collaboration are mandates for a successful arts organization.

Arts Fulshear

Arts Council/Alliance ; Nonprofit

Arts Fulshear is a 501(c) (3) non-profit corporation formed in 2011 with the purpose of developing, expanding, and promoting community interest and appreciation of the visual and performing arts.

Cypress Creek Cultural District

Arts Council/Alliance ; Association/Club/Group ; Nonprofit

The Cypress Creek Cultural District is a community-driven concept dedicated to meeting the cultural, recreational, spiritual, and psychological needs of all people within its service area. The Cultural District is the centering point for 1,000,000+ residents of Northwest Houston and Harris County. The centralized, civic complex includes The Pearl Fincher Museum, Barbara Bush County Library, Courthouse & Cypress Creek Christian Community Center & Greenway Hike and Bike Trails.

Czech Cultural and Community Center

Arts Council/Alliance ; Educational ; History/Heritage ; Library ; Museums ; Nonprofit ; Special Events ; Traditional Arts ; Travel

The Czech Center Museum Houston was founded in 1995 under the name of the Czech Cultural & Community Center. Initially conceived as a home for the Czech-American community in Texas, generous donations allowed us to construct our own building in the Houston Museum District. We moved into our current home in 2004. In the intervening years, historical and cultural artifacts’ contributions lead our board to pivot our mission statement towards historical and cultural preservation. We, therefore, changed our operating name to reflect this new mission. Today, the Czech Center Museum Houston seeks to inspire people to learn from those who sought freedom despite oppressive rulers and systems. We use the example of the Czech and Slovak experience in the United States and in the world as a mirror through which individuals of other cultures can recognize all peoples’ shared humanity. Along with Slavic Culture and Art, we also host programs and exhibits about other ethnic groups, such as the Caribbean, Mexican, Vietnamese, Uruguayan, Costa Rican, Haitian, and many more. We value our position in Houston’s diverse community and endeavor to be a forum for cross-cultural dialogue. The Czech Center Museum Houston has a small dedicated staff supported by a corps of more than 200 volunteers, of which 20 to 30 do so weekly. With their assistance, we hosted 45 free or low-cost events in 2019. These events included performances by upcoming local artists, international musicians, guest speakers, a Czech Christmas Market, Easter Egg Festival, and crafting and language classes. We also work with other local nonprofits to provide them a venue for their programs. The Czech Center Museum Houston has been working with UH’s Department of History and assistant professor, Dr. Alexey Golubev, since 2018 on several projects. Our museum provides hands-on research opportunities and introduces University students to the workforce with our collaborative research project for our new exhibit and digital project. We are currently developing with the University of Houston Department of History an educational community project, supporting original research with assistance from local humanities students, led by well-established scholars. These research internships are supported by scholarly grants at UH, allowing students to gain practical experience in a real-world museum setting. The museum strives to be an accessible resource, actively encouraging the study, appreciation, understanding, and enjoyment of art, culture, and history. We offer family-friendly events and special programs for children, focusing on personal development and education, complementing the Texas school curriculum.

Harambee Art Gallery

Arts Council/Alliance ; Educational ; Environmental ; History/Heritage ; Individual Artist ; Kids & Families ; Special Events

The Harambee Art Gallery is a fine art gallery focused on advancing environmental art by promoting the use of recycled materials in art and design. Founded by Environmental Artist, Charles Washington and Master Educator/Artist, Gail Mebane. The gallery hosts individual artists shows, group shows, classes, and special events.

Historic Downtown Rosenberg Cultural Arts District

Arts Council/Alliance

The Historic Downtown Rosenberg Cultural Arts District is a collaboration of business owners, artists, the Central Ft. Bend Chamber and community leaders. Seated in the center of Rosenberg, the cultural arts district is the center of arts activities for Ft. Bend County. Artists, musicians, actors, dancers, classically trained chefs, historians, photographers, and arts enthusiasts of all types call downtown Rosenberg home. With three restaurants, a wine bar, two theaters, a museum, and art of all types on display throughout the district, the richness and depth of offerings cannot be matched in Ft. Bend County or beyond. Historical buildings, fine dining, boutique shopping, and high end services of all types compliment the cultural activities thriving in the district. Visitors and locals alike flock to downtown not to just spend the day, but to make a memory. District visitors are immersed in small town charm, strolling the streets on walking tours or just bouncing from destination to destination, shopping, catching a show, dining in one of three restaurants, and topping off the night at the popular BR Vino Wine Room. The comfort of small town charm awaits all who visit, but the cultural arts found in downtown are anything but yesteryear. Although the classics are found in abundance in downtown, so are the most eclectic of artists, performers, and food offerings. Downtown Rosenberg offers something for everyone.

Humanities Texas

Arts Council/Alliance ; Nonprofit

Humanities Texas advances heritage, culture, and education. As the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, we conduct and support public programs in history, literature, philosophy, and the other humanities disciplines. These programs strengthen Texas communities by cultivating the knowledge and judgment that representative democracy demands of its citizens.

Midtown Cultural Arts and Entertainment District

Arts Council/Alliance ; Government ; Nonprofit ; Special Events

Designated in 2012 by the State of Texas as a Cultural Arts and Entertainment District, Midtown Houston is the first management district to apply and receive this esteemed designation. Home to more than 90 cultural arts organizations this community hosts monthly committee meetings to update guests on the projects and events of the area. You can find meeting details on our event calendar. Some of the annual events in the Midtown Cultural Arts and Entertainment District are: April – Midtown Art in the Park – a juried outdoor fine art festival. May – June – Midtown Children’s Performance Art Festival – an outdoor event for children featuring performances, craft classes and learning about cultural arts. December – Midtown Mistletoe Market – a curated outdoor holiday market. This Cultural District also awards the midtownHOU Arts Micro Grant. Grants of typically less than $5,000 for small to mid sized arts organizations, artists or arts businesses to bring public art and cultural awareness to the Midtown community. To learn more about Midtown’s impact, check out our Cultural Arts Master Plan here. Or watch our video here

Rockaway Artists Alliance (RAA)

Arts Council/Alliance

Rockaway Artists Alliance, Inc. (RAA) is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) arts organization comprised of individuals who view the arts as vital to the health of our community. Formed in 1994, it is our mission to encourage and engage residents of Rockaway, particularly our youth, in the arts and cultural activities.

South Asian Folk Arts Council

Arts Council/Alliance

Our purpose is to showcase folk, devotional, and classical arts of the Indian Subcontinent on stage and popular media outlets. Experience the folk arts of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Nepal via concerts and media productions— the music of love, the dance of devotion, the poetry of longing, and the cultural context of it all. Using the arts to foster a cultural and interfaith dialogue between divergent communities, we strive to educate children and adults on the various art forms of South Asia.

Southern Apache Museum Inc.

Arts Council/Alliance ; Educational ; History/Heritage ; Kids & Families ; Library ; Museums ; Nonprofit ; Poetry & Literature ; Traditional Arts ; Visual Arts/Museum

Locinda Chance Landry is Founder/Curator/President of Southern Apache Museum Inc. a 501 ( c ) non profit organization. Chance is retired and was a member of the MWBE from 2004-2012. Her business Downtown Treats was a ma and pa stand at Hermann Park from 1994-2017. In the eighty Ms. Landry was a geological/geophysical draughtsman, for 15 years. She is also a caricature artist, face painter and has worked with the adobe illustrator in 1984 until current. She decided to open Southern Apache Museum (SAM) when she recognized a need to educate the general public on the invisible Native American Indian population in Houston. Southern Apache Museum was born Jan. 2012 at the Northwest Mall in Houston TX. The mall closed down in 2017 and is now one of three proposed sites for the bullet train that will go from Houston to Dallas in 30 minutes. The Native American Indian community is in the process of looking for another building to house their community center. They are working hard to raise money to have the virtual museum at apache museum.org become a realty and will be a permanent home in Houston for all Indigenous people.

Sugar Land Cultural Arts Foundation (SLCAF)

Arts Council/Alliance ; Nonprofit

Sugar Land Cultural Arts Foundation (SLCAF) is a 501(c) (3) nonprofit arts organization that exists to enhance the quality of life and tourism in the City of Sugar Land and region of Fort Bend County by advocating, supporting and promoting the cultural arts through programs, initiatives and alliances; and to preserve and present historic Sugar Land Auditorium as a center for the cultural arts and resource for the Sugar Land community. Sugar Land Cultural Arts Foundation (SLCAF) is the leading voice for the cultural arts in Sugar Land. We enable artists and arts organizations to thrive by effectively connecting the nonprofit cultural arts to the larger creative industry, the community, government and business; and supports tourism through arts marketing and special initiatives.

Texans for the Arts

Arts Council/Alliance ; Nonprofit

Texans for the arts provides statewide arts advocacy for Texas. Texans for the Arts is a grass-roots 501c4 non-profit organization incorporated in Texas to advocate for the Arts by supporting the programs and services of the Texas Commission on the Arts.

Texans for the Arts

Arts Council/Alliance

Texans for the Arts (TFA) is a highly effective, non-partisan statewide arts advocacy organization that provides coordinated information about legislative activity related to arts issues and organizes advocacy efforts in order to protect and increase public funding for the arts at the state, national and local levels

The Art League of Fort Bend & 5th Street Gallery

Arts Council/Alliance

The Art League of Fort Bend was founded in 1957 by 10 creative artisans. Their objectives were to promote educational programs for the membership and to establish and promote public interest and awareness in the fine arts in their community. They wished to stimulate and enrich interest in the membership and encouraged appreciation of the achievements of local artists. Art League of Fort Bend is a member of Lone Star Art Guild, whose membership is made up of participating art communities within a 200 mile radius of Houston. LSAG holds an annual conference featuring artist demonstrations and concluding with its exhibition awards.

The Center for the Arts & Sciences

Arts Council/Alliance ; Educational ; Environmental ; Nonprofit ; Traditional Arts

The Center for the Arts and Sciences is a unique venue on the Texas Gulf Coast offering arts, science, cultural and educational opportunities for residents and tourists. The Center was founded in 1976, and it is the cultural, educational, and artistic home for an entire community of approximately 320,000 people. The Center has become a shining example of what is extraordinary about living and working in this unique location on the upper Texas Gulf Coast. Owned and operated by the Brazosport Fine Arts Council, a 501(C)3 non-profit organization, The Center is a venue that has the responsibility of providing performance and exhibit space, as well as marketing and ticket sales, for its permanent residents and partner groups, including the Freeport LNG Museum of Natural Science, BASF Planetarium, Brazosport Center Stages, Brazosport Art League, and Brazosport Symphony Orchestra. All activities are volunteer-driven with only a modest-size staff to manage the daily challenges of running a multi-use cultural facility. Every actor, director, painter, teacher, naturalist, astronomer, and archeologist is a volunteer. The Center is an authentic community collaboration where new ideas are encouraged, teamwork is essential and budgets are carefully managed.

The Greater Conroe Arts Alliance

Arts Council/Alliance ; Nonprofit

The Greater Conroe Arts Alliance is a collaborative nonprofit organization, 501(c)(3), whose mission is to actively promote and support the arts and cultural organizations throughout the Greater Conroe Area.

The Idea Fund

Arts Council/Alliance ; Nonprofit ; Special Events

The Idea Fund is a re-granting program administered by DiverseWorks in partnership with Aurora Picture Show and Project Row Houses and funded by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The Idea Fund provides grants for artist-generated or artist-centered projects that exemplify unconventional, interventionist, conceptual, entrepreneurial, participatory, or guerrilla artistic practices. In response to the COVID-19 crisis in spring 2020, The Idea Fund shifted it’s Round 13 awards from project grants to emergency relief grants, awarding 65 $1,000 grants to artists in need across the Greater Houston Area. The Idea Fund is one of sixteen re-granting programs developed and facilitated by organizations in Albuquerque, Baltimore, Chicago, Cleveland, Denver, Houston, Kansas City, Miami, Minneapolis, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Portland (OR), Portland (ME), and San Francisco, that provide grants for the creation and public presentation of new work. The Warhol Foundation’s Regional Regranting Program, launched in 2007, by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, aims to support vibrant, under-the-radar, and self-organized artistic activity by partnering with leading cultural institutions in communities across the country. The program reaches a sizable population of informal, non-incorporated artist collectives, and supports their alternative gathering spaces, publications, websites, events, and other projects. Together, this network of programs has funded more than 800 artists projects.

The Mosaic Hub

Arts Council/Alliance

The Mosaic Hub brings Houston’s mosaic of art and entertainment under one umbrella, acting as a hub for creative expression; simultaneously enriching the community. Top-notch, local talent frequent the stage in the monthly variety show, and a portion of show proceeds always goes to charity! Outreach and educations programs/events further emphasize a creative and unified Houston! It’s a professional arts community, for the community!

Washington Avenue Arts District

Arts Council/Alliance ; Association/Club/Group

The Washington Ave. Arts District is an ongoing project focused on creating an identity for our area that highlights our vibrant creative community.

Writers in the Schools

Arts Council/Alliance ; Kids & Families ; Nonprofit ; Poetry & Literature ; Special Events

Storytelling reveals our truest selves. Since 1983, Writers in the Schools (WITS) has worked hand-in-hand with educators and professional writers to teach students the craft of writing. WITS is transforming the hearts and minds of young people all over Houston. Creativity prepares children for the future. Witness the way over 65,000 students and educators in over 400 Houston classrooms plant their own stories each year, and discover the WITS magic that’s cultivated every day when students, writers, WITS staff and community members join together.

Writespace

Arts Council/Alliance ; Educational ; Nonprofit ; Poetry & Literature

Writespace is Houston’s writing center. Founded in April of 2014, we are a grassroots literary arts organization founded by writers, for writers. At Writespace, we support writers of all genres, including writers of literary fiction, poetry, science-fiction, fantasy, mystery, young adult, and other genres. Through our weekly writing workshops led by some of Houston’s finest writing teachers, we seek to give writers who can’t afford to earn an MFA in Creative Writing the same high-quality training and mentorship opportunities available through MFA programs.

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