Before the building, the work.
ALMAAHH is already activating Houston — partnerships, festivals, workshops, and community activations that reach artists, families, and neighbors across the city. This is the proof of what becomes possible when a city invests in its cultural home.
The Work
The museum begins long before the doors open.
ALMAAHH’s programs meet Houston where it already lives —
in galleries, community centers, public squares, and neighborhood festivals. Each activation is a working prototype of what the permanent cultural home will hold.
Partnerships that honor American Latino artistry. Workshops that gather generations. Collaborations with institutions that share the vision. The work is already happening.
- Artists Engaged
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200+
Houston-based and visiting American Latino artists platformed since 2022.
- Activations Delivered
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100+
Exhibitions, festivals, workshops, and performances across the city.
- Community Reach
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7,000+
Artists, families, and community members engaged in programming.
- Institutional Partners
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60+
Cultural, educational, and community organizations collaborating citywide.
Figures reflect cumulative programming activity since ALMAAHH’s founding in 2021 and are separate from projected impact at full operation.
What We’ve Built
A working model of what comes next.
Each program is a prototype — a working demonstration of what Houston’s permanent American Latino cultural home will hold, rehearsed in partnership with the institutions and communities already here. For a photographic archive of these activations, visit Events & Gallery.
Latinx Artists for ALMAAHH: We Are Houston
Juried exhibition · 2023
A public declaration that American Latino artists belong at the center of Houston’s cultural story. ALMAAHH’s inaugural juried exhibition at POST Houston brought together the city’s American Latino artistic voice in one of its most prominent civic venues — the kind of public-facing moment that the permanent campus will host permanently.
- Juror: Gilbert Vicario, Chief Curator, Pérez Art Museum Miami
- Juror: María C. Gaztambide, Executive Director, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico
- Citywide Audience Reach
- Press Coverage
More Programming
Mythos & Memory
FotoFest & Ponce Project · 2025
An interdisciplinary performance inside FotoFest’s Flor Garduño: Paths of Life exhibition — weaving live music from L’acalet Dúo with spoken word by Dominican-American poet Jasminne Mendez, offering a Latino-curated lens on legacy, myth, and memory.
- FotoFest Collaboration
- Music + Spoken Word
- Latino-Curated Programming
Colors of Calm
Arts & Mental Health Pilot
A pilot arts education program centered on arts and mental health. Six American Latino artists — selected from fifteen statements of interest — designed lesson plans introducing youth to artistic techniques as tools for emotional expression and coping.
- 6 Selected Artists
- 15 Letters of Interest
- Youth Arts Education Access
Hispanic Heritage Month
Mayor’s Hispanic Advisory Board · 2025
ALMAAHH co-hosted the Hispanic Heritage Month Kick Off at City Hall, where the City issued a Proclamation naming September 15, 2025 as ALMAAHH Day and presented a check in recognition of its ongoing support. Performances across traditions celebrated the range of American Latino creativity.
- ALMAAHH Day Proclamation
- City Hall Venue
- Multi-Artist Program
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Law Firm Affinity Partnership
Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month with the firm’s affinity group through a curator-led conversation — “Art as Investment: Latinx Art Market” — featuring the five ALMAAHH-MFAH Studio Artists and a roster of 100+ local American Latino artists, livestreamed internationally from the firm’s downtown offices.
- 5 ALMAAHH-MFAH Studio Artists
- 100+ Artists in Resource List
- Global Livestream Audience
Current Artist Opportunities · Open Call
The ALMAAHH Artist Census.
The Census is ALMAAHH’s living registry of American Latino artists in Houston and beyond — the source behind the 100+ artist resource list already reaching curators, firms, and institutions through our partnerships.
If you’re an artist: add your name to the registry. It’s free, artist-directed, and open year-round. You can also view the calendar for upcoming open calls, exhibitions, and programming opportunities. If you’re a donor: fund its expansion — so no American Latino artist in this city goes unseen.
Ongoing open enrollment. Your submission helps ALMAAHH build the most comprehensive registry of American Latino artists in the region.
Artist Open Calls — on the way.
A dedicated home for ALMAAHH’s active open calls, residencies, scholarships, and exhibition opportunities is in development — built to make every chance to participate easy to find, in one place.
Check back here frequently for more details. New opportunities will be posted as they open.
Voices from the Work
The proof is in the people.
Numbers tell part of the story. These voices tell the rest — artists and families who experienced ALMAAHH programming firsthand.
I don’t want this day to end.
A Young Attendee
ALMAAHH Fall Festival · MFAH, 2023
As an artist, I am so grateful to connect with other artists from Central America — where we feel welcomed, and seen.
Participating Artist
Slide Jam · Lawndale, 2026
Every program begins with community support.
The partnerships, workshops, festivals, and scholarships you’ve just seen are made possible by donors who believe Houston deserves a cultural home for American Latino arts. Your investment funds the next activation — and the permanent building that will hold them all.
ALMAAHH is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. For major gifts and institutional partnerships, contact development@almaahh.org.