Fresh Arts

06/26/2026

Summer is officially in full swing! ✨Wishing you a wonderful season ahead from Team Fresh Arts + Arts District Houston! ☀️🌻🍉

Our office will be closed June 29–July 3 as our team takes a short break to rest and recharge.

Artist resources are still available online 24/7 at www.fresharts.org.

We'll be back in the office on July 6, ready for another exciting season of programming ahead. See you then! 💛
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04/01/2026

Thank you for sharing your voice. The Greater Houston Artist Survey is now closed -

This fall, we’ll release a final report sharing key findings from the survey. We’ll also host a public town hall to come together as a community and explore how we can respond to what we’ve learned through the survey.

03/23/2026

📢 Final Reminder: Only One Week Left to Share Your Voice 📢 -

Thank you to the 700 artists who have already completed the survey. We are so grateful for your time, your honesty, and the critical insight you’ve shared about your lived experience as a working artist in Houston.

03/06/2026

📢 Houston Artists, We Want to Hear From You 📢 -

Thank you to the 600 artists who have already completed the survey. We are so grateful for your time, your honesty, and the critical insight you’ve shared about your lived experience as a working artist in Houston.

03/04/2026

📢 Houston Artists, We Want to Hear From You 📢 -

Thank you to the 500 artists who have already completed the survey. We are so grateful for your time, your honesty, and the critical insight you’ve shared about your lived experience as a working artist in Houston.

02/25/2026

📢 Houston Artists, We Want to Hear From You 📢 - https://mailchi.mp/fresharts.org/2026-artist-survey-reminder

Thank you to the 430+ artists who have already completed the Greater Houston Artist Survey. It is open through March 31 so there’s still time to add your voice.

Open to all artists & creatives across Greater Houston and every discipline. Visual artists, musicians, performers, writers, filmmakers, designers, teaching artists, culture bearers, and more.

From Katy to Conroe to Galveston to Rosenberg to Alief, your experience matters.

Thank you to the 400 artists who have already completed the survey. We are so grateful for your time, your honesty, and the critical insight you’ve shared about your lived experience as a working artist in Houston.

02/02/2026

📢 The Greater Houston Artist Survey is now open! 📢

If you identify as an artist, arts administrator, or creative worker of any kind based in any part of the Greater Houston region, please let us hear your voice!

Your input will help shape programs, resources, policies, and funding decisions that will strengthen Houston’s creative future. What you share in this survey today can help mold what happens tomorrow.

Take the survey today and share it with fellow artists so as many voices as possible are heard.

➡️ https://fresharts.org/greater-houston-artist-survey

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The survey will take approximately 10-15 minutes to complete. All responses are confidential. No personally identifiable information will be shared without your explicit permission, and data will only be reported in aggregate form. Please visit our FAQ page for more information.

The Greater Houston Artist Survey is a collaboration between Fresh Arts and SMU Data Arts, all made possible with support from Houston Endowment.

12/02/2025

Only 4 days left! Apply now to become our next STAR (Space-Taking Artist Resident)! 🤩

LEARN MORE OR APPLY NOW:
🔗https://fresharts.org/space-taking-artist-residency/

Fresh Arts is seeking proposals from Houston-based artists, creatives, collectives, and curators for the 6th iteration of our Space Taking Artist Residency (STAR) program. Apply now to become our next Artist Resident and join an impressive roster of diverse Houston artists kicking traditions and taking space.

DEADLINE TO APPLY: DECEMBER 5, 2025

This residency provides artists of any discipline with the dedicated space to bring their big ideas for creative public programming to life. Artists also receive the mentorship, funding, and resources needed to do so successfully.

This year, two individual artists or artist teams will be selected. Each selected resident will have a nine-week mentor-guided development phase, followed by eight weeks of access to a 2,500 sq. ft. gallery space at Winter Street Studios. Residents are expected to activate the space through exhibitions, performances, community-based programs, or other engaging activations relating to their proposed project theme or concept. Each resident will receive a $3,600 honorarium to offset production costs, along with additional stipends available to help with the creation of promotional assets.

The two available residency periods are April-May and July-August. Applicants may indicate their preferred residency period in their application.

LEARN MORE OR APPLY NOW:
🔗https://fresharts.org/space-taking-artist-residency/

12/01/2025

Hey Houston music education supporters! This November, The Carya String Quartet invites you to help raise $1,600 by Giving Tuesday (December 2) so we can offer subsidized programming for students in the Greater Houston Area. This support helps prepar