Carter in the Community

Community matters at the Carter! Beyond the Museum walls, we collaborate with our community to provide opportunities for people to explore the value of art and creativity in their own lives and spaces. Check the calendar to see where we’ll be next!

Carter Community Artists

The Carter is dedicated to supporting and working with local artists to enhance our events, connecting the North Texas area with practicing artists, and building networks among local artists.

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Community Partners

Beyond the Museum’s walls, we serve our community through experiences and opportunities that foster creativity, learn from or employ local experts, and make art accessible to all people in their own lives and neighborhoods.

Art Bridges

Through our partnership with Art Bridges, the Carter leads a cohort of Texas museums including the Amarillo Museum of Art, Art Museum of South Texas, and Ellen Noël Art Museum. The four institutions share collections, collaborate on exhibitions, and develop interpretive projects with the goal of expanding access to American art.

A group of adults stand on the front steps of the Amon Carter Museum of American Art.

Artes de la Rosa

Artes de la Rosa is dedicated to preserving, promoting, and interpreting the art, culture, lives, and history of the Latino community for all to enjoy by providing a venue for exhibitions, performances, and educational programs. Our partnership began by supporting their Día de los Muertos festival and has grown to include ongoing collaboration with their Artes Academy programs.

A group of teens paint a pinata that is sitting on a table.

City of Fort Worth Community Centers

City of Fort Worth Community Centers offer programs for youth, teens, adults, and seniors that the Carter has participated in since 2018. Each center that the Carter works with offers both after-school and summer camp programs for K-12 students.

Students create art with help from artists and teaching staff.

Cook Children's

Cook Children’s Child Life Zone is a space designed to meet the needs of kids who are dealing with serious, and often long-term, illnesses. It is a fun, treatment-free environment that offers daily activities and performances. The Carter’s team visits, sharing artwork from the collection and leading activities patients can do while using materials that the Carter provides.

Two people sit at a table in a television studio working on an art project.

Dementia Friendly Fort Worth

This organization offers dementia awareness and education for all sectors of the community to enhance the lives of those with dementia and their care partners. This partnership formed during the Museum’s renovation in 2019. DFFW approved the Museum as a dementia-friendly site and points residents to the Carter for dementia-specific programming.

A group of older adults sit in one of the Carter's galleries learning about the artwork.

Fort Worth Independent School District

The Fort Worth Independent School District serves over 80,000 children. This partnership allows every student in the fourth grade to enjoy a visit to the Museum and provides curricular reinforcement in preparation for the STAAR exam in English Language Arts.

A group of students and a gallery teacher sit on the floor in front of an installation at the Carter.

Hurst-Euless-Bedford Independent School District

Hurst-Euless-Bedford Independent School District serves more than 20,000 children in Tarrant County. This partnership provides a fine arts-focused field trip to the Museum for every fifth-grade student in the district.

Schoolchildren sit on the floor of a Carter gallery as a gallery teacher gestures to a sculpture.

LGBTQ Saves

LGBTQ Saves offers a safe and brave space for LGBTQ teens in Tarrant County by hosting meetings and community events for LGBTQ youth and their families and offering online support resources and scholarships. Since 2021, the Carter has hosted one of their weekly meetings each month and participates in their community events.

One teen photographs another who stands in front of a gray studio backdrop.

Lighthouse for the Blind Fort Worth

Lighthouse for the Blind encourages and empowers blind and visually impaired children and adults to achieve their highest level of independence through competitive employment, specialized training, and client services. Since 2015, they’ve helped create low/no vision tools that connect to the Carter collection, shared best practices to make the Museum website more accessible, and pointed clients to the Museum for tours.

Hands move across a raised-line drawing of a Carter artwork.

Rural School Outreach Program

The Carter is proud to partner with Brock, Gordon, Graford, Lipan, Mineral Wells, Millsap, Palo Pinto, Santo, and Strawn Independent School Districts for the Rural School Outreach Program generously funded by the Walton Family Foundation. This program includes field trips to the Museum, classroom resources, virtual tours, and artmaking workshops.

Children sit on the floor in a Carter gallery sketching on paper.

Tarrant County Black Historical and Genealogical Society

The Tarrant County Black Historical and Genealogical Society’s mission is to collect, organize, and preserve African-American historical, cultural, and artistic contributions in Tarrant County. The Carter has participated in their Harambee Festival since 2019, supports their annual juried art show and summer programming for students, and works with education department in a variety of ways.

Children at a table work on an art project.

Tarrant County College, Sign Language Program

The TCC American Sign Language (ASL) program has been partnering with the Carter since 2021. The Museum is a registered clinical site that gives ASL interpretation students a chance to practice their signing at different events while making Museum offerings more accessible to our visitors who are deaf or hard of hearing.

A woman stands on a stage signing to an audience as another woman speaks at a podium.

Texas Christian University Families, Autism, and Child Emotion Studies (TCU FACES)

TCU FACES primarily focuses on researching and investigating the social and emotional development of typically developing children and children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). This partnership, formed in 2019, has helped the Museum develop ASD programming, offer best-practice trainings to staff, provide volunteer opportunities, and welcome new visitors.

A family interacts with a graduate student standing behind a table inside the Carter’s gallery.

University of North Texas, Empowering Personal Interactions in the Community (UNT EPIC)

Based out of UNT, EPIC aims to support neurotypical and neurodivergent young adults, 18 and up, in social, philanthropic, and learning opportunities through community-based events. Since 2021, this partnership has given the Carter tools to create new access programming for adults, offered more staff training, and informed best-practices.

A group adults stand in a Carter gallery holding a green banner that reads, “UNT EPIC.”

University of North Texas, Kristin Farmer Autism Center (KFAC)

The KFAC conducts evidence-based direct services, research, and training to positively impact individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), their families, and the community. Since 2021, they’ve been working with the Carter to ensure best practices are used, offer insight that meets this audience’s needs, and spread the word of our ASD offerings.

A child reaches for colorful paper at a table in the Carter Atrium.