Bayou City Art Festival

Bayou City Art Festival

2008-2010 Nonprofit Partners

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.


Buffalo Bayou Partnership

In 1984 Houston Mayor Kathy Whitmire appointed a task force to study Buffalo Bayou and to develop a realistic strategy for its development. The result of the task force’s two-year effort was the Buffalo Bayou Master Plan, published in 1986. In addition to outlining conceptual redevelopment designs for Buffalo Bayou, the task force proposed the establishment of a non-profit authority to implement its recommendations. Created in 1986, the Buffalo Bayou Partnership is a coalition of civic, environmental, governmental and business representatives whose director nominees are confirmed by the Mayor of Houston and Harris County Judge. The 501 (c) (3) non-profit corporation is responsible for developing and facilitating improvements to the Buffalo Bayou greenway system.


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.

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.

Heritage Society Houston

The Heritage Society, a museum complex at Sam Houston Park, collects, preserves, exhibits, and celebrates the diverse history of the Houston region.


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 is a community-based nonprofit organization committed to the healthy development of underserved youth and adults through arts and cultural programming, academic excellence, support services and community building.


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.