Dance Waterloo

Dance Waterloo brings dance into everyday spaces through performances and education programs. We expand access to movement for all ages and abilities, fostering creativity, resilience, and community connection.

Beat 4 Beat

Our curriculum is guided and designed around the student’s interests to keep them engaged in the classroom. The delivery is intended to create a lifelong relationship with music, and bring them greater cultural awareness.

Our classes are taught by working musicians, which allow the students to learn important musical lessons used in the real world, as well as gain knowledge of music as a career from a professional.

Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12, Grades PK-2MINDPOP MatchmakerAugust 15, 2025Music, Science / Math, English Language Arts, Social Studies, On AISD Vendor List, Multi-visit, Group / Private Lessons, Out of School Time, Campus Assembly

Elisabet Ney Museum

The Elisabet Ney Museum is excited to offer a brand new STEAM program, Breaking the Mold: Mobile Hands-On Art Crates, for the 2025-2026 school year!

MINDPOP MatchmakerAugust 15, 2025Grant Funded (No CLI Funds Required), English Language Arts, Science / Math, Social Studies, Cultural Heritage, SEL, Visual Art, 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

Groundwork Music Project

Groundwork Music Project teaches and performs music for all ages, with a strong emphasis on the ukulele as a means for having fun and teaching music fundamentals. We use a lot original songs, as well as songs in multiple languages. Engaging and entertaining musical enrichment.

Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12, Grades PK-2, Professional LearningMINDPOP MatchmakerAugust 15, 2025Bilingual, On AISD Vendor List, Cultural Heritage, English Language Arts, Science / Math, SEL, Music, Campus Assembly, Residency, Multi-visit

Austin Creative Reuse

Austin Creative Reuse offers engaging, hands-on field trips for preschool through high school students. Learn the value of reuse through creative projects and exploration of our unique creative reuse center. Affordable and inspiring for all ages.

Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12, Grades PK-2MINDPOP MatchmakerAugust 15, 2025Visual Art, Science / Math, SEL, Off Campus Experience / Field Trip

Artistic Education Company

Artistic Education Company offers an after school licensed day care and innovative Arts education program for youth at participating AISD elementary schools to actively promote music, art, and theater programming through need-based tuition assistance and supporting social & emotional development.

Painting Pandas

Contemporary art-focused year-long curriculum uniquely rooted in SEL learning strategies, Teaching for Artistic Behavior frameworks, and Visual Thinking Strategies. All lessons are based on contemporary art, and classrooms are provided with all art supplies, lesson plans, and a classroom library.

Professional Learning, Grades PK-2, Grades 3-5MINDPOP MatchmakerJune 20, 2024Visual Art, On Campus Arts Experience, Cultural Heritage, Social Studies, Science / Math, English Language Arts

Latinitas

At Club Latinitas, we emPOWER students through STEAM education! Our afterschool program develops students into Power Chicas capable of solving any problem through the use of our TEKS-supportive STEAM curriculum.

Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8MINDPOP MatchmakerAugust 31, 2023Visual Art, Digital Media, Science / Math, Cultural Heritage, Bilingual, Approved - Holds Current Contract with AISD, Out of School Time, Spanish, Group / Private Lessons

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

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, On Campus Arts Experience, Group / Private Lessons, Out of School Time, Approved - Holds Current Contract with AISD

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, Single Visit, Group / Private Lessons, Out of School Time, Online Arts Experience

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.

Grades PK-2, Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12, Professional LearningMINDPOP MatchmakerFebruary 4, 2022Visual Art, English Language Arts, Science / Math, Social Studies, Special Education, Cultural Heritage, SEL, Bilingual, Off Campus Experience / Field Trip, On Campus Arts Experience, Single Visit, Group / Private Lessons, 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!

Grades PK-2, Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12MINDPOP MatchmakerSeptember 23, 2021Dance, Theater, English Language Arts, Science / Math, Social Studies, Cultural Heritage, SEL, Approved - Holds Current Contract with AISD, Campus Assembly, On Campus Arts Experience, Single Visit, Group / Private Lessons, Out of School Time, 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

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, Single Visit, Out of School Time, Grant Funded (No CLI Funds Required)

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, Single Visit, Group / Private Lessons, Out of School Time, Online Arts Experience, English Language Arts, Science / Math, Social Studies, Cultural Heritage, SEL, Visual Art

All Rhythms

Our goal is to provide interactive musical performances and workshops that inspire all through our passion for music from all over the world, especially Cuba. Our band Sofrito y Su Melao brings music and stories rooted in ongoing connections to world-class Cuban musicians.

Graphite Squad

Graphite Squad offers: Whole School Assemblies, Class Workshops, Year-long Drawing Course, smaller Project Based Learning packages, Professional Development for teachers or afterschool Drawing Clubs.

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

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.