Houston Arts Alliance | 3,604 followers on LinkedIn. Houston Arts Alliance (HAA) is the city’s designated, local arts and culture agency. We invest in Houston as a place to visit, live, work, honor, and create. We do this by: - providing grants to arts, culture, and community organizations and individual artists; - commissioning, conserving and promoting public art and enlivening public spaces; highlighting and celebrating the region’s rich folklife and diverse cultural traditions through programming and documentation; - helping arts and culture organizations develop business acumen; - engaging neighborhoods and civic partners to advance equity in and access to arts and culture; - furthering the arts and culture field through research and convenings; - funding, in part, cultural tourism initiatives; and - endeavoring to expand the overall creative economy.