Move Your Tale

Improv facilitates learning through an atmosphere of positive purpose, exploring subjects of study in novel & memorable ways. Intentional group activities, turn taking & critical reflection build creative, collaborative experiences & allow learners of all kinds to learn, laugh & explore together.

Mother Falcon Music Lab

The Mother Falcon Music Lab (MFML) is a multimedia education program which highlights creativity as a means of self discovery, community connection, and innovation. Our music, visual arts, and digital media programming has been developed over 10 years of outreach, residencies, and summer workshops.

Glass Half Full Theatre

Glass Half Full Theatre creates original, professional, bilingual (Spanish/ English) performances featuring actors and sophisticated puppets and performs at the theater in the Dougherty Arts Center for Elementary and Middle School audiences. Performances are supported by supplemental educational materials connecting the performance work to TEKs in Science, Social Studies, and Language Arts.

Fidencio Duran

Austin based muralist Fidencio Duran provides Hispanic communities across the state visual access to their rich history.

Grades 9-12MINDPOP MatchmakerMay 28, 2020Dance, Music, Theater, Visual Art, English Language Arts, Science / Math, Social Studies, Cultural Heritage, Bilingual, Special Education, Off Campus Experience / Field Trip, Residency, Group / Private Lessons, Needs Single-Service Contract, On Campus Arts Experience

Elisabet Ney Museum

The Elisabet Ney Museum is housed in “Formosa,” the Victorian‐era home and studio of Elisabet Ney, a German sculptor who emigrated to America with her husband shortly after the Civil War. The evocative castle‐like limestone structure, designed largely by Ney herself, houses the world’s most extensive collection of her work and has been an Austin landmark for well over a century.

Grades PK-2, Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12, Professional LearningMINDPOP MatchmakerMay 28, 2020Theater, Visual Art, English Language Arts, Science / Math, Social Studies, Cultural Heritage, Special Education, Campus Assembly, Off Campus Experience / Field Trip, Group / Private Lessons, Out of School Time, On Campus Arts Experience, Approved - Holds Current Contract with AISD

Creative Action

The Creative Action School-Based Department creates shared arts experiences that build community, connection and capacity for change in schools. Our highly trained teaching artists deliver joyful, multi-disciplinary and multi-session arts experiences.

Creative Action’s School-Based Programs Department has paused in-person classroom visits for the 2020-2021 school year. However, we have virtual/online and socially distant arts programming, as well as virtual professional development to offer your school community!

Bullock Texas State History Museum

Experience interdisciplinary Texas–Explore history, science, language arts, ESL, the arts, and many other stories of Texas through the Bullock Museum’s school field trip program, distance learning programs, and educator professional development.

Grades PK-2, Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12, Professional LearningMINDPOP MatchmakerMay 27, 2020Theater, Visual Art, English Language Arts, Science / Math, Social Studies, Cultural Heritage, SEL, Off Campus Experience / Field Trip, Group / Private Lessons, Grant Funded (No CLI Funds Required), Needs Single-Service Contract

Blanton Museum of Art

Guided visits invite students to be curious, drawing connections between art, their lives, and the world around them so they can become more critically engaged citizens. Students are encouraged to use evidential reasoning to construct interpretations about objects of art and develop social and emotional skills. Lessons are designed to support TEKS and English language learners. They reinforce classroom objectives and promote arts integration across the curriculum. We can customize gallery experiences for PK-12 audiences to meet the goals of your group.

Grades PK-2, Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12, Professional LearningMINDPOP MatchmakerMay 27, 2020Visual Art, English Language Arts, Science / Math, Social Studies, Cultural Heritage, Bilingual, SEL, Off Campus Experience / Field Trip, Approved - Holds Current Contract with AISD

Ballet Austin

Ballet Austin is committed to offering educators resources and opportunities to provide young people with arts experiences, specifically in dance.

Badgerdog

Badgerdog’s Creative Writing Program brings professional writers into classrooms to lead weekly creative writing workshops for students in grades 2-12.

Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12MINDPOP MatchmakerMay 26, 2020Visual Art, Digital Media, Grant Funded (No CLI Funds Required), SEL, English Language Arts, Science / Math, Bilingual, Off Campus Experience / Field Trip, Out of School Time, Social Studies, Cultural Heritage, Group / Private Lessons, Online Arts Experience, Approved - Holds Current Contract with AISD

Awesome Art!

Awesome Art! offers virtual, synchronous, asynchronous, one-off and continuous art activities for children of all ages. Visual multimedia MFA artist and educator Allison Lash provides SEL Development, art to watch and make, virtual field trips, workshops, activities (indoors and outdoors) and family/community wide activities.

Austin Opera

Austin Opera currently offers FREE programing and resources for grades Pk-12. Virtual programming is available.

Asian Mindful Art

Learn about Asia, get inspired, and create original artwork! Surapsari ("Sari") offers Asian-themed art activities to K-8 students. Sari grew up in Japan and studied in India. She has taught at schools, public libraries, and other educational venues for twenty years.

Grades PK-2, Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12, Professional LearningMINDPOP MatchmakerMay 6, 2020Visual Art, Cultural Heritage, Needs Single-Service Contract, Social Studies, On Campus Arts Experience, Multi-Visit, Single Visit, Group / Private Lessons, Out of School Time

Andrea Ariel Dance Theatre

ARTSPLUS offers a unique experience aimed to empower students to explore realities, relationships, and ideas through creative dance and theater while incorporating additional content that relates movement to music and art concepts as well as subjects such as math, science, language, social studies, and nature.