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The Nonprofit Partners of the Art Colony Association include a wide-array of local Houston organizations. We rely on our Nonprofit Partners for the success of the festivals.
Our Nonprofit Partners offer the volunteer support that make the festivals run smoothly; each festival requires over 1000 volunteers assisting with patron relations, artist hospitality, and Creative Zone activities. The success of the Art Colony Association's Bayou City Art Festivals for our Nonprofit Partners is paramount to their continued work and service in the community.
All proceeds from the Bayou City Art Festivals are donated to our Nonprofit Partners for use in our community. To date, the Art Colony Association has donated more than $2.5 million to local Houston organizations.
Listed Below are our Nonprofit Partners and a brief description of their services.
Art League Houston
Art League Houston cultivates awareness, appreciation and accessibility of contemporary visual art within the community for its cultural enrichment.
The mission of Art League Houston is to cultivate awareness, appreciation, and accessibility of contemporary visual art within the community for its cultural enrichment. Art League Houston provides an opportunity for all members of the community to experience the contemporary visual arts. We achieve our mission through exhibitions, education and outreach programs.
Bering Omega Community Services
Bering Omega Community Services exists to nurture the well being, and meet the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of persons affected by HIV/AIDS through compassionate health care and social services.
City ArtWorks
“To color the future of our community through meaningful art experiences.”
City ArtWorks engages children in exciting hands-on art experiences. We provide accessible and affordable art education by trained educators and artists, acting on our governing principle that children flourish when given the opportunity to explore their own creativity. City ArtWorks fosters the development of the creative thinker. Exposure to the visual arts can help children develop a deeper understanding of their world and social environment. Arts education directly and positively impacts a child's higher order thinking skills, problem solving ability, and motivation to learn.
Diverseworks
DiverseWorks is a non-profit art center dedicated to presenting new visual, performing, and literary art. DiverseWorks is a place where the process of creating art is valued and where artists can test new ideas in the public arena. By encouraging the investigation of current artistic, cultural and social issues, DiverseWorks builds, educates, and sustains audiences for contemporary art.
Downtown YMCA
Our mission is to put Judeo-Christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind and body for all.
HCP (Houston Center for Photography)
HCP's mission is to increase society's understanding and appreciation of photography and its evolving role in contemporary culture. HCP strives to encourage artists, build audiences, stimulate dialogue, and promote inquiry about photography and related media through education, exhibitions, publications, fellowship programs, and community collaboration.
Houston Center for Contemporary Craft
Houston Center for Contemporary Craft (HCCC) is a nonprofit visual arts organization founded to advance education about the process, product and history of craft. HCCC provides exhibition, retail and studio spaces to support the work of local and national craft artists and serves as a resource for artists, educators and the community at large.
Lawndale Art Center
Lawndale Art Center develops local contemporary artists and the audience for their art. Unique in it focus on regional artists, Lawndale presents and promotes experimental, alternative contemporary art in all media. All programs further the creative exchange of ideas among Houston’s diverse communities.
MECA (Multicultural Education & Counseling through the Arts)
MECA (Multicultural Education & Counseling through the Arts)
MECA is a community-based, non-profit organization whose mission is to promote the healthy social, cultural, and academic development of at-risk, inner-city youth through education in the arts.
Memorial Park Conservancy
Memorial Park Conservancy is dedicated to the preservation of the native habitat of Memorial Park for future generations; to the public use, enjoyment and education in accordance with conditions of the conveyance to the city by the Hogg family; and to the on-going support of the Houston Parks Department.
MFAH (Museum of Fine Arts, Houston) Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, is one of the largest art museums in America. The collections are presented in six locations that make up the institutional complex, including two house museums: Rienzi and Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens. Proceeds from the Bayou City Arts Festivals benefit the acquisitions fund of the museum's decorative arts department. Each year, objects are acquired for the collections that demonstrate the range of creativity found at the Bayou City Art Festivals.
MOCAH (Museum of Cultural Arts Houston)
MOCAH is a tax-exempt 501(c) (3) cultural arts organization co-founded in 1999 by artists, Reginald and Rhonda Adams. The evolution of the Museum of Cultural Arts, Houston began from the founders’ vision to create an arts institution without walls, an organization that will go to the people who are unable to come to it. MOCAH’s mission is to use public art and creativity as tools for social awareness and community development.
Orange Show Center for Visionary Art
The Center preserves, promotes and documents visionary art environments, provides opportunities for the expression of personal artistic vision and creates a community where that expression is valued.
Several Dancers Core
Several Dancers Core is a professional dance organization that creates, performs, and presents contemporary dance, and is dedicated to opening channels of communication and education between artists and the community. SDC is home to CORE Performance Company- a professional contemporary dance company.
SNAP (Spay & Neuter Assistance Program)
The mission of the Spay-Neuter Assistance Program is to prevent the suffering and death of cats and dogs due to overpopulation, especially in low-income areas.
SPARK
SPARK helps public schools develop their playgrounds into community parks. SPARK works with 10 school districts in the Houston / Harris County area and with 200+ schools.
TALA (Texas Accountants & Lawyers for the Arts)
Texas Accountants and Lawyers for the Arts (TALA), supports the cultural community in Texas by providing volunteer legal and accounting services, educational programs and publications to artists, nonprofit arts organizations and other art constituents.
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