Sat, Jul 12
|Future Front
Creative Community Talk: Austin Arts & Culture Funding
Time & Location
Jul 12, 2025, 12:00 PM CDT
Future Front, 1900 E 12th St, Austin, TX 78702, USA
About the event
Do you know that the City of Austin offers funding for Central Texas independent artists and arts organizations—and that the future of these grants currently needs your feedback?
Join The Museum of Human Achievement, Torch Literary Arts, and Future Front Texas for this casual info session to learn about the history of CoA funding, proposed changes to existing grants, and how you can get involved and apply for funding!
Free to attend.
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Torch Literary Arts started as a passion project in August of 2006 by Amanda Johnston to foster a supportive community of Black women writers, emerging and experienced. Fueled by wisdom and writings from other poets, novelists, and screenwriters, the award-winning Torch Magazine emerged to amplify Black women’s voices. After the pandemic, Amanda and Torch’s board of directors realized how critical Black women’s stories are for those facing isolation, grief, and creative rebirth. After…