Browse Arts Programs

Discover hidden Texas music legends! Our program introduces kids to Mexican American & African American musicians who exceeded expectations, showcasing their journey to success. A captivating exploration of Texas music history with musicians of color, inspiring dreams without limits.

Take a global journey through drum traditions from Africa, South America, the Caribbean, and beyond plus a recycled object orchestra. Students learn body percussion, traditional rhythms, movement, vocabulary, history, and culture.

The Diversity Band offers workshops for students which culminate in performances with both students and band members. Through these workshops, students will be exposed to world cultures and drumming history, fostering global friendships and enhancing mental health.

We support elementary, middle, and high schools to launch, grow, and enhance their in-school music programs. Our vision is a world without barriers to music education, which starts with ensuring all schools have equitable in-school music programs.

Club Latinitas is a digital media and technology after-school program where girls and non-binary students are mentored and guided by trained program leaders teaching design, photography, video and audio production, web and graphic design, podcasting.

Tapestry’s vision, presentations and preservation of contemporary rhythm and percussive dance, educates audiences from around the country on tap dancing’s unique heritage and value.

Art for the Sky is an awe-inspiring, whole-school artist residency devoted to developing children’s knowledge about our planet, our history, and our responsibility for the future through the creation of giant-scale work of art!

Film Kids uses hands-on filmmaking projects that are selected from previous projects or custom designed to support the core-curriculum or SEL needs of a particular campus. Students have creative input on content, and instructors guide the students on filmmaking technique to bring it to life!

Impact Arts provides robust and diverse programs, including new digital musical theatre curriculum for students in grades 3-12. We offer a diverse selection of workshops for students! From college audition prep to Shakespeare to voice and movement technique (and more!) we can come to you!

UnboxEd offers a fun, game-based approach to building new skills and exploring new ideas. Our 90-minute classes range from Entrepreneurship and SEL to STEM and History. Using board games and role-playing games, we present an alternate ​lens to what education can look and feel like.

Texas Performing Arts offers educators free daytime performances for youth and free tickets to evening shows.

Mad Science & Crayola Imagine Arts Academy provide hands-on STEAM experiences. Shows, workshops, field trips, centers and parent nights are just some of the programs that can be brought to your organization or provided at an off-site location.

UTeach Fine Arts faculty and students learning to become fine arts teachers are ready to engage PK-12 students and teachers! We provide lessons and activities in art, music, dance and theatre education in your classroom, at UT, online, and in the community.

For the past 20 years, Ryah has fabricated small and large scale mosaic works for private and public audiences. More recently, Ryah has specialized in collaborating with communities, in schools and neighborhoods, helping them create vibrant, durable works of art that tell their stories.

Artistic Education Company presents a wide range of music enrichment programs to advance the musical arts with youth at an early age as essential, important, and relevant to a complete education. We offer assembly style jazz workshops, private lessons, and other services year round.

The Changing Lives Youth Theatre Ensemble (CLYTE) is a group of teen artists and activists from the Austin area who use theatre as a tool to help their community foster healthy relationships, celebrate diversity, and engage in important community issues.

Expect Respect provides dating violence prevention programming to high school students throughout Central Texas. "Where's Your Line?" explores and defines healthy and unhealthy dating behaviors, how to create boundaries, and navigate problems in relationships. This program is free of charge.

ABC partners with local schools and nonprofit organizations to deliver high-quality writing programs and instruction to students ages 6-18. We offer a variety of creative writing programs including fiction & poetry as well as assistance with college and scholarship essays, resume writing, and more.

Leap of Joy is moving to give at-risk youth empowerment and self-acceptance through dance and performance arts. Primarily at Title 1 schools within Austin ISD, now including free virtual classes for all. Everyone deserves a chance to DANCE!

The VORTEX creates and presents new, innovative theatre—world premiere plays, operas, musicals, and devised collaborations. The VORTEX fosters educational programming, including our award-winning Summer Youth Theatre. We offer on-campus as well as virtual performances.

Online production of Yana Wana's Legend of the Bluebonnet. The story of a young girl's discovery of her Indigenous heritage and all the comes with this deeply moving experience. Also, Aztec danza performances for large assemblies, after COVID restrictions are lifted. Speakers on Texas Indians.

Digital Storytelling (DS) is an AFF arts education program that improves students’ reading, writing, communication, media technology, and idea-expression skills through hands-on screenwriting, filmmaking, and podcasting.

We’re a STEAM engine to power kids’ imagination, creativity, and love of learning. It's our mission to create innovative learning experiences that equip and inspire the next generation of creative problem solvers.

Freddy Carnes Productions uses puppets, songs and stories to engage students from PreK-2nd grade. Everyone is invited to "Mr. Freddy's World - The Pink Castle Kingdom" where Queen Fluffy the Cat and King Sammy the Dog invite the students to meet the animals of the Kingdom with story and song.