Who We Are
Homegrown in Austin, Future Front is an award-winning culture space and exhibition series—with women and LGBTQ+ creatives at the front.
As a 501c3 arts & culture nonprofit, we produce two community-led exhibitions, The Front Market & The Front Festival.
Beyond our flagship exhibitions, we host year-round shows and workshops at our creative space in historic East Austin, welcoming 20,000+ visitors per year. Through these programs and a diverse network of partnerships, we invite the public to dream of a future where creativity, curiosity and intersectional design thrive in Texas—where we see ourselves and our cultures reflected in our communities.
we're growing and changing all of the time!
we're growing and changing all of the time!
✰ OUR BOARD
To contact the Future Front board, please email board@futurefronttexas.org.
✰ OUR TEAM
To contact the Future Front team, please email hello@futurefronttexas.org.
✰ 2023/24 CURATORIAL COHORT
Annually, we work with a group of community members to co-curate our lineups and programs. These friends of the organization lend their time and expertise to ensure that we live up to our mission and vision.
✰ OUR story
Future Front emerged from Boss Babes ATX , a blog started by Jane Hervey in 2014. The idea came from a study Hervey conducted at The University of Texas at Austin, in which she examined the way that a lack of representation in arts and culture festivals influenced women working in creative fields, particularly their concepts of self, professional aptitudes and ability to build community. She became interested in the way that storytelling and gathering might create new pathways for support—so she decided to get all of the creative women from that study together. And that’s where the first Boss Babes ATX meet-up in May 2015 was born. Free and open to the public, run entirely on volunteer labor and donations, the gathering series rapidly escalated from 2015 to 2017, with thousands attending per year. From those series came DIY art fairs, music showcases, film festivals and workshops, each designed and developed collaboratively within the community itself.
By 2018, it was clear the series needed to become a nonprofit arts and culture organization to sincerely pursue sustainable creative work and community-designed programs. So, in response to the messy, lovely friction of that growth, the organization’s core volunteers transformed the organization into a 501c3. From there, they started working toward a refreshed vision (all while collecting even more data on the community’s needs).
From this data, Future Front was born in 2021, with 9 founding team members:
Alex Perez-Puelles (she/her) — Board Culture Officer
Cynthia Muñoz (she/her) — Board Treasurer
Hali Martin (she/they) — Board Secretary
Jane Hervey (she/her) — Executive Director
Jasmine Brooks (she/her) — Messaging Advisor
Jonnyka Bormann (she/her) — Board Vice President of Development
María Rivera-Felizardo (she/they) — Programs Manager
Sydney Greene (she/her) — Board Culture Officer
Xochi Solis (she/her) — Board President
Now, we dream of a Texas where women and LGBTQ+ creatives thrive—where community practices, homegrown spaces and creative projects (like Future Front) can come to life. We are grateful to still driven forward by majority volunteers, as well as four full-time and part-time staff members. Though our bandwidth is tight, our impact is broad, because of the incredibly talented and creative people like them (and you) who bring collaboration, value and actionable purpose to our mission and goals.