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.

Grades PK-2, Grades 9-12, Grades 6-8, Grades 3-5MINDPOP MatchmakerFebruary 27, 2024Music, English Language Arts, Social Studies, Cultural Heritage, SEL, Bilingual, Spanish, Off Campus Experience / Field Trip, Single Visit

Tapestry Dance

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.

Grades PK-2, Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12, Professional LearningMINDPOP MatchmakerFebruary 2, 2023Dance, Music, Science / Math, Social Studies, Cultural Heritage, Approved - Holds Current Contract with AISD, Campus Assembly, Off Campus Experience / Field Trip, Group / Private Lessons

Art For The Sky

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!

Grades PK-2, Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12MINDPOP MatchmakerJanuary 27, 2023Visual Art, English Language Arts, Science / Math, Social Studies, Cultural Heritage, SEL, Bilingual, Grant Funded (No CLI Funds Required), Campus Assembly, On Campus Arts Experience, Multi-Visit

Texas Performing Arts

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

Grades PK-2, Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12MINDPOP MatchmakerAugust 19, 2022Dance, Music, Theater, English Language Arts, Social Studies, Cultural Heritage, Grant Funded (No CLI Funds Required), Off Campus Experience / Field Trip, Out of School Time

Imaginative Learning Group, LLC dba Mad Science & Crayola Imagine Arts Academy of Austin & San Antonio

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.

Grades PK-2, Grades 3-5MINDPOP MatchmakerMay 6, 2022Visual Art, Science / Math, Cultural Heritage, Approved - Holds Current Contract with AISD, Campus Assembly, Off Campus Experience / Field Trip, On Campus Arts Experience, Multi-Visit, Single Visit, Group / Private Lessons, Out of School Time, Online Arts Experience

UTeach Fine Arts (College of Fine Arts at UT Austin)

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.

Ryah Christensen

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

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.

Grades PK-2, Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8, Professional LearningMINDPOP MatchmakerDecember 3, 2021Dance, Music, English Language Arts, Social Studies, Cultural Heritage, Approved - Holds Current Contract with AISD, Campus Assembly, On Campus Arts Experience, Multi-Visit, Single Visit, Group / Private Lessons, Online Arts Experience, Off Campus Experience / Field Trip, Out of School Time

Leap of Joy

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

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.

Grades PK-2, Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12MINDPOP MatchmakerSeptember 16, 2021Theater, Digital Media, English Language Arts, Science / Math, Cultural Heritage, Campus Assembly, Off Campus Experience / Field Trip, Multi-Visit, Single Visit, Online Arts Experience

Thinkery

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.

Grades PK-2, Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8, Professional LearningMINDPOP MatchmakerApril 15, 2021Visual Art, Digital Media, Science / Math, Cultural Heritage, SEL, Off Campus Experience / Field Trip, On Campus Arts Experience, Single Visit, Out of School Time

Singing Our World, with Freddy Carnes

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.

Grades PK-2MINDPOP MatchmakerMarch 4, 2021Music, Theater, English Language Arts, Social Studies, SEL, Needs Single-Service Contract, Multi-Visit, Single Visit, Online Arts Experience

Wicked Workshop Youth Architecture Program

Our straightforward hands-on curriculum is based on authentic, reality-based projects that foster independent thinking, self-directed learning, exploration, iteration and creativity. Designs are explored through the interactive process of character creation, storytelling, making and drawing.

Grades PK-2, Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8, Professional LearningMINDPOP MatchmakerMarch 4, 2021On Campus Arts Experience, Multi-Visit, Single Visit, Needs Single-Service Contract, Group / Private Lessons, Out of School Time, Online Arts Experience, English Language Arts, Science / Math, Social Studies, Cultural Heritage, SEL, Visual Art

All Rhythms

All Rhythms' mission is to inspire and establish life-long learning habits through music and arts education and performance for all ages and dispositions, with an emphasis on reaching underserved populations.

A Bibliographia Project

A Bibliographia Project offers custom arts enrichment to scaffold curricular goals. We offer a large variety of hands-on visual art experiences, our speciality is printmaking.

The Contemporary Austin

The Contemporary Austin offers dynamic programming all about the art of our time. Whether on-site, virtual, or during a field trip, all participants will discuss contemporary art through open-ended inquiry and also create works of art using a range of materials and processes. We work with all ages.

Art Spark Texas

At Art Spark Texas we are offering high quality, inclusive arts programs and services in Austin, and is the only organization operating at the intersection of arts, education and disability in Texas.

Grades PK-2, Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12, Professional LearningMINDPOP MatchmakerSeptember 22, 2020Dance, Theater, Visual Art, Digital Media, Special Education, On Campus Arts Experience, Single Visit, Multi-Visit, Group / Private Lessons, Online Arts Experience, Approved - Holds Current Contract with AISD

kidsActing Foundation

KAF is an Austin non-profit giving theater arts classes and performance opportunities for youth and teens; always at no cost to families.

Grades PK-2, Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12MINDPOP MatchmakerJuly 23, 2020Theater

One World Theatre

One World Theatre provides a number of different arts programs for grade levels PK-5 including the Multi-Cultural School Assembly Program and the Storybooks Brought to Life Field Trips.

Grades PK-2, Grades 3-5MINDPOP MatchmakerJuly 23, 2020Theater, Cultural Heritage

ZACH Theatre

ZACH offers professional children's theatre productions performed on ZACH's campus that address state curriculum standards through children's literature and cultural perspectives. ZACH also offers in-school programming in schools that supplement theatre education in classrooms.