NONPROFIT PARTNERS
For over 50 years, the Art Colony Association, Inc., producer of the Bayou City Art Festival,
has raised over $3.8 million in support of local nonprofit organizations.
Pictured above are representatives from our Memorial Park 2024 nonprofit partners.
From left to right: FreshArts, ArtReach, The Women's Fund, The Health Museum and The Museum of Fine Arts Houston
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NONPROFIT PARTNERS
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ARTreach connects community partners with artists to positively impact the underserved and the community as a whole.
We see art as a healing, restorative, and empowering mechanism to help at-risk populations overcome obstacles and thrive. ARTreach serves the tri-county area of Katy, Texas, including greater Fort Bend County, Harris County, and Waller County. ARTreach connects programs through collaborations with many community partners, including social service agencies, government entities, and other nonprofits. ARTreach artists deliver programs in foster care centers, schools, libraries, hospitals, community centers, senior living homes, and residential treatment centers.
Mission:
ARTreach uses the arts to change lives.Through the power of connection, we deliver quality art programs to the most vulnerable populations in our communities: children and families at risk, special needs groups, and senior citizens. In partnership with professional artists and volunteers, we aspire to create positive impact on the community
Mission: The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, serves as a welcoming and inclusive place for all people, connecting the communities of Houston with diverse histories of art spanning 5,000 years and six continents.
Vincent van Gogh, Hospital at Saint-Remy, 1889, oil on canvas, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, the Armand Hammer Collection, gift of the Armand Hammer Foundation.
Fresh Arts hosts professional development workshops and networking events for the creative community, serves as a Model C fiscal sponsor for art projects throughout Houston, and provides access to hyper-local resources to support artists and collectives in their creative endeavors.
FreshArts Mission:
To empower local artists through programs that build knowledge, amplify local resources, and connect communities through art. Fresh Arts envisions Houston as a place where artists and communities thrive together.
Pink Bow's Mission: To promote crowd safety and prevent tragedies at large events
About Pink Bows:
The Pink Bows Foundation was born from a single pink bow inspired by the hashtag #pinkbowsformadison, which began after Madison’s passing as a tribute to her. Madison Alexis Dubiski was a vibrant, kind-hearted young woman whose life was tragically taken at the age of 23 in the 2021 Astroworld concert crowd crush, a preventable tragedy that claimed nine other lives, and injured hundreds. In honor of her memory and to prevent future tragedies, her family established the Pink Bows Foundation.
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About Brave Little Company:
Brave Little Company is theatre for everyone. We create works about, with, and for kids and their grown-ups, reflecting Houston’s diversity in the stories we tell and the artists who tell them.
Brave Little Company's Mission:
To reflect Houston’s diversity in the stories we tell and the artists who tell them, creating theatre the way kids play.
