Austin Soundwaves

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.

Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12, Professional LearningMINDPOP MatchmakerAugust 31, 2023Music, Bilingual, Approved - Holds Current Contract with AISD, Campus Assembly, On Campus Arts Experience, Multi-Visit, Single Visit, Group / Private Lessons, Out of School Time

Latinitas

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.

Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8MINDPOP MatchmakerAugust 31, 2023Theater, Visual Art, Digital Media, English Language Arts, Science / Math, Cultural Heritage, SEL, Bilingual, Approved - Holds Current Contract with AISD, Campus Assembly, Out of School Time, Multi-Visit, On Campus Arts Experience

UnboxEd

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.

Grades 3-5MINDPOP MatchmakerSeptember 8, 2022Visual Art, Digital Media, English Language Arts, Science / Math, Social Studies, Cultural Heritage, SEL, Needs Single-Service Contract, On Campus Arts Experience, Multi-Visit, Group / Private Lessons, Out of School Time, Approved - Holds Current Contract with AISD

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

Changing Lives Youth Theatre Ensemble

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.

Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12MINDPOP MatchmakerOctober 21, 2021Theater, English Language Arts, Social Studies, Cultural Heritage, SEL, Approved - Holds Current Contract with AISD, Campus Assembly, On Campus Arts Experience, Group / Private Lessons, Out of School Time

Where's Your Line?, a program of SAFE Alliance

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.

Grades 9-12, Professional LearningMINDPOP MatchmakerOctober 5, 2021Theater, Digital Media, Special Education, SEL, Bilingual, Grant Funded (No CLI Funds Required), On Campus Arts Experience, Multi-Visit, Single Visit, Out of School Time, Online Arts Experience

Austin Bat Cave

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.

Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12, Professional LearningMINDPOP MatchmakerSeptember 23, 2021Digital Media, English Language Arts, Cultural Heritage, Bilingual, Approved - Holds Current Contract with AISD, On Campus Arts Experience, Multi-Visit, Group / Private Lessons, Out of School Time, Online Arts Experience

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!

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

Fusebox Festival

Now in it's 18th year, Fusebox Festival is an annual event each April that features theater, dance, film, visual art, music, literature and more, from hundreds of local, national, and international artists at unique locations across the city of Austin. The festival is 100% free to attend.

Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12MINDPOP MatchmakerMarch 4, 2021Dance, Music, Theater, Visual Art, English Language Arts, Science / Math, Social Studies, Cultural Heritage, Off Campus Experience / Field Trip, Multi-Visit, Single Visit, Out of School Time, Grant Funded (No CLI Funds Required)

George Washington Carver Museum, Cultural and Genealogy Center

The George Washington Carver Museum, Cultural and Genealogy Center's education offerings provide quality programming and classes that emphasize African American and African Diaspora contributions to the arts, history, culture, society, and thought across the globe.

Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12MINDPOP MatchmakerMarch 4, 2021Visual Art, English Language Arts, Social Studies, Cultural Heritage, Needs Single-Service Contract, Multi-Visit, Single Visit, Out of School Time, 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.

Graphite Squad

Graphite Squad is a step-by-step learn to draw online curriculum that is great for students ages 9+. Two 10-week-long semesters in an entirely online teaching format include asynchronous videos with accompanying handouts, example drawings, photos of things to draw, with optional rubrics, pdf's, and more!

Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12, Professional LearningMINDPOP MatchmakerNovember 16, 2020Visual Art, Science / Math, SEL, Needs Single-Service Contract, On Campus Arts Experience, Multi-Visit, Out of School Time, Online Arts Experience

Totally Cool Totally Art

Totally Cool Totally Art (TCTA) has been cultivating creative teens since 1996. TCTA is unique in that the classes are completely free to Austin's youth community. We send professional emerging artists to the recreation centers around the city, where teens will learn various techniques by working directly alongside professional artists. Techniques including theater, script writing, and more!

Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12MINDPOP MatchmakerOctober 30, 2020Theater, Visual Art, Bilingual, Off Campus Experience / Field Trip, Group / Private Lessons, Out of School Time, Online Arts Experience, Online Workshop, Grant Funded (No CLI Funds Required)

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.