About Us
About Rural Texas Arts & Culture Network
The Rural Texas Arts & Culture Network is powered by MINDPOP. With the support of Still Water Foundation, MINDPOP researched the landscape of arts and culture across rural Texas. We heard a desire for rural arts and culture organizations to:
- - connect with their colleagues across the state
- - to increase their visibility to funders
- - to share resources among one another
To support rural arts and cultural organizations in these goals, MINDPOP provides various resources:
We host bi-monthly virtual convenings where we feature speakers to share resources and facilitate conversations to amplify arts and culture work across rural Texas.
This website hosts a directory of arts and culture organizations to increase visibility to funders across the state for organizations in their service/focus areas.
The member site is a space for arts and culture professionals to connect and share resources. Through discussion boards, colleagues across the state can engage in conversation about their work and request support from the network. The resource library features videos of each rural convening, slide decks, and supplementary information.
Access to the member site is free and just requires you to create a member log-in.
About Mindpop
MINDPOP designs and implements creative learning systems nationwide. We use a collective impact model to bring equity and access to quality arts education in schools and communities, and to build the instructional tools of teachers to lead creative classrooms.
We are the backbone organization of Austin’s Creative Learning Initiative. Over a decade later, CLI is embedded in 97 schools, serving more than 5,000 teachers and 60,000 students. Nationally, MINDPOP shares its knowledge and experience with learning systems leaders through various consulting engagements and convenings of national communities of practice. We work with rural, urban, and suburban communities.
