Community Partners
Marfa Live Arts
Julio Baeza and David Beebe perform in the Marfa students’ One Act Plays, 2017.
MEF is proud to support Marfa Live Arts, a performing arts nonprofit with a strong educational component. They collaborate with Marfa ISD, and teach several in-school writing programs that would otherwise not be available to Marfa youth, such as: One Act Plays, Playwriting, Monologues, Vocal/Theater Workshops, and Summer Shakeup Workshops. These workshops, along with other Marfa Live Arts programming throughout the year, provide an opportunity for students to interact with professional musicians, dancers, actors and writers. In addition to allowing for creative expression, other proven outcomes of these programs include increased self-confidence and improved critical thinking skills.
A one-act play performed at the crowley theater in marfa in december of 2019.
Marfa LIve Arts Monologues presented at planet marfa, 2025
Marfa Studio of Arts - SITES
The Marfa Studio of Arts initiated SITES (Studio in the Elementary School) in Fall 2005 in a unique partnership with the Marfa Independent School District, with the purpose of providing high-quality visual arts instruction to all students in the elementary school, 1st through 6th grades. The SITES program brings professional artists and teachers into the Marfa Elementary School to offer an arts curriculum that is TEKS-aligned, imaginative, and responsive to the cultural diversity that exists within the school specifically, and within the community as a whole.
