Creative Waco supports new and existing creative businesses and becomes the first community in Texas to launch AIR Institute's art, cultural and economic development program.

Opportunities for young artists: Beauty for our city. ARTPrenticeship brings real-world concept-to-completion mentored work experience for aspiring young creatives, and puts new artistic masterpieces on Waco walls.

Established in the summer of 2018, ARTPrenticeship offers real-world concept-to-completion mentored work experience to aspiring young creatives, and puts new artistic masterpieces on Waco walls. See the collection of past projects here.

Providing matching grants for high impact and/or innovative arts projects that will help grow our community as a vibrant cultural hub. Projects are evaluated based on their abilities to further the Waco Cultural Plan.

Learn how we developed a strategy for growing Waco's cultural and creative sector in a thoughtful, coherent, sustainable way by building on the things our community already does best.

An exhibition in the palm of your hand: 52 artworks from Waco & McLennan County made into a set of playing cards. The original artworks were selected by international judges, exhibited in the rotunda of the Texas State Capitol in Austin, and then at Cultivate 7Twelve in Waco.

A riverside sculpture project running through the heart of Waco, incorporating natural and cultural resources that include Cameron Park and the Downtown Cultural District.

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