About Us
At Easyside, art, food, and community are not separate initiatives but interconnected forms of care. We recognize that artists and neighborhoods thrive when creative opportunity, nourishment, and mutual support are cultivated together rather than treated as separate concerns. By connecting artist studios, exhibitions, educational programs, and a community pantry, Easyside creates spaces where creativity, belonging, and collective wellbeing can grow side by side. Through these shared resources and relationships, we work to strengthen the social and cultural fabric of East Fort Worth.
Founders
Easyside is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded in the spring of 2022 by artists Adrianna Touch, Fernando Alvarez, Corrie Thompson, & John Paul Thompson. Adrianna, Fernando, & Corrie met in the MFA program at TCU, and the Thompsons have been East Fort Worth residents since 2018. In the summer of 2023, Easyside opened a multi-purpose facility to support under-served artists and the surrounding neighborhood of East Fort Worth.
What began as a studio quickly grew to include a fresh produce pantry, educational events, and experimental exhibitions at SPUD Gallery and collaborating spaces.
Easyside is 100% volunteer-run; it leans on a generous network of artists, educators, farmers, and organizers. Easyside sees itself as one of many necessary contributors doing the work of direct community support, creating a lasting home for artists that feeds the body and mind of the local neighborhood.