The Athletes’ Atelier is a future-focused counterspace for marginalized student-athletes that uses hands-on learning and mentorship to build skills in cooperation and achievement.
The Athletes’ Atelier is a future-focused counterspace for marginalized student-athletes that uses hands-on learning and mentorship to build skills in cooperation and achievement. Our vision is that sports-minded students realize their greatest potential.
We believe…
If we reimagine the experiences and expectations of student-athletes to create contemporary solutions for mental and physical well-being by prioritizing social emotional learning, creative exploration, and responding to their desires for a future imagined, then we can achieve a greater sense of belonging in education and athletic settings, equal opportunities to gain full benefits of sport participation, and improve possibilities for higher education choices that could expand career opportunities and family outcomes.
A warm welcome from the founder and Principal Atelerista, Dr. Beau Houston
Inspired by art pioneer and community educator Agusta Savage, The Athletes’ Atelier is designed to be free of physical, emotional, and psychological trauma or stress for student-athletes and sports minded students and offers affirming and uplifting environments that invite them to analyze their lives frequently, systematically, and over an extended time.
Our Programs
Our programs are student-designed to accommodate the restricted schedules of student-athletes and their families. We consider typical academic calendars, playing and competition seasons, weekly training loads, and times of day to ensure opportunities to participate in areas most suitable for your growth.
Why Counterspaces?
Inspired by art pioneer and community educator Agusta Savage, The Athletes’ Atelier is a safe space where marginalized students can be intellectually and socially challenged, and an empowering academic and positive racial climate can be established and maintained.
Lectures & Leisure Blog
Information sharing is critical to the atelier's success, and we promote relevant news, research, media, and books through the Lectures & Leisure blog to keep you informed. Check out the latest content.
2023-2024 raison d'être
“Dear Hope, a new structure for you!”
To build and construct means making a new structure that allows us to examine not only the systems and spaces we exist in, but the shelter we create for ourselves as we grow and heal. This year our raison d'être, or reason for being, will define Hope, the characteristics of this new space, and thematically guide pilot programs, research, and service. We expect to:
remain relevant to the needs of the day.
allocate our resources to address relevant social issues.
curate evidence of our willingness to engage intentionally and with flexibility.
“I have created nothing really beautiful, really lasting, but if I can inspire one of these youngsters to develop the talent, I know they possess, then my monument will be in their work.”
