Teaching Artist Applications Now Open!
P.S. 94 “Wearable Art” residency taught by Salomé Egas, BAC Teaching Artist. Photo courtesy the TA.
Deadline: August 30, 2024
BAC Arts in Education (AIE) is hiring Teaching Artists (TA’s) for the 2024-2025 school year for both our in-school CASA and Global Rhythms programs.
Our in-school CASA program takes place largely from November to June, both during school hours as well as after school. BAC TA’s provide hands-on learning experiences for K-12 students, fostering creativity and artistic expression. We’re hiring TA’s working in a variety of disciplines including dance, digital media, literary arts, music, theater, and visual arts.
Our Global Rhythms program captivates and inspires audiences of all ages, interests, and abilities providing opportunities to experience cultures and traditions through music and dance from across the globe. We’re seeking TA’s currently working with music and dance performing groups. TA’s will be expected to lead student workshops.
We’re Hiring: Head of Development & Institutional Storytelling
Deadline: August 16, 2024
The Head of Fundraising and Institutional Storytelling is a dynamic and visionary individual, capable of enhancing BAC's narrative and securing the financial support essential for our mission. The ideal candidate will possess a deep understanding of the arts, a commitment to social justice, and the ability to integrate these principles into BAC's fundraising and communication strategies.
BAC Grantee & Partner Events
megumi & friends
Megumi Saruhashi, 2024 BAC Grantee. Photo by Hirofumi Tanaka.
August 10 | 5:30-7:30pm | Barzakh Cafe
Megumi & Friends, led by Megumi Saruhashi, will perform her compositions inspired by three places she calls home: Japan, New York and Egypt. This year she focuses on her new compositions of grief, longing and her love affair to her home country, Japan, in order to hold space together for the experiences and emotions that are too vast to carry alone in the midst of global traumas.
12th Annual Aarti Hindu Lamp Ceremony
August 10 | 3-7:30pm | Pebble Beach, Brooklyn Bridge Park
Aarti Hindu Lamp Ceremony led by founder Aeilushi Mistry, 2024 BAC Grantee. Photo by Etienne Frossard.
The Conservancy’s 12th annual Hindu Lamp Ceremony returns to Brooklyn Bridge Park. Dance artist and educator Aeilushi Mistry brings peace and harmony to the community as she performs the traditional Hindu Aarti ceremony at Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Pebble Beach.
The Aarti ceremony is traditionally performed each morning and evening along India’s rivers, in order to convey gratitude to mother river, reflect on community, and remember loved ones. Please join us as we decorate palm leaf lamps and release them along the East River to make prayers and pay our respects to loved ones. Guest artists will also present their work at this event.
This event is a free walk-up event open to all; no advance registration required.
Octavia Project: Summer Institute 2024
Summer Showcase 2023 presented by Octavia Project, 2024 BAC Grantee. Photo by Emmanuel Abreu.
August 15 | 5:30-7:30pm | Center for Art, Research & Alliances
Join Octavia Project on Aug. 15 for their annual Summer Showcase, featuring Octavia Project participants' work spanning across digital media, art, poetry and more. Whether you're a returning guest or joining for the first time, the Summer Showcase promises to leave you encouraged, inspired, and excited for the future. Interact with student projects and hear firsthand stories from program participants about their experiences.
Collective Focus: Synth Road summer camp
Collective Focus is a 2024 BAC Grantee.
Now - August 28 | 1046 Broadway Ave.
Synth Road Summer Camp offers a unique and transformative experience, teaching music production to underprivileged children. We combine the technical skills of music production with the imaginative storytelling of Dungeons and Dragons (D&D) campaigns, creating an innovative and engaging learning environment. Participants will explore their creative potential, learning to compose, record, and produce their own music while crafting and telling epic stories through D&D adventures.
The Hanging Gardens of Brooklyn
Now - October 31 | Herbert Von King Park
“The Hanging Gardens of Brooklyn” is a traveling art installation that serves as a creative commons for artistic expression, public well-being, and collective stewardship. The work features a trellised canopy of edible and native plants, as well as a solar-powered lighting and audio system to support public programming hosted within and around the artwork. Following its previous exhibition in Highland Park, “The Hanging Gardens of Brooklyn” in Herbert Von King Park marks the second public art installation by Bryce Peterson of Brycebot Studio.
Bryce Peterson is a 2022 BAC Grantee. Photo by Arthur Hunking.
Sarah Drury: The Gowanus Augmented Reality Walking Tour
Gowanus AR, Tide Mill by Sarah Drury, 2024 BAC Grantee. Photo courtesy the artist.
Now - 2025 | Gowanus Dredgers Boathouse & Virtual via iOS App
The Gowanus Augmented Reality Walking Tour (Gowanus AR) is an experimental documentary in mixed reality, creating a location-based AR app for the smart phone. The tour shows images, audio and text in the camera view of the phone as you tour the Gowanus Canal, a famously polluted waterway now undergoing Superfund remediation and rapid highrise development. Media images merge visually into the location, showing what has been, present realities, and future possibilities in a realistic visual style, as if part of the scene. Gowanus AR points to promising signs of futurist symbiotic urbanism, hammered out through the activism, advocacy and creativity of concerned participants.
Jeannine Bardo: “The Learning Ring/A Tree's Standing”
Detail of “Dead Tree Scroll” progress midway by Jeannine Bardo, 2024 BAC Grantee. Photo courtesy the artist.
September 2024 - December 2024 | McKinley Park
“The Learning Ring/A Tree’s Standing” will have three components designed to encourage a deeper understanding of the natural world that surrounds us, provide people with an opportunity to discover more about their local park and each other, and participate in collaborative events that will help empower them as a community to care for our public park space and our natural resources. This will include a memorial mural, a series of art workshops/discovery walks with the public, and a community planting of an oak seedling near one of the lost tree sites.
Events, Workshops, & Professional Development
A GREAT DAY IN BROOKLYN Festival
August 11 | 2-7pm | Herbert Von King Park
More than just a fun day in the park, this event brings creatives and thought leaders of color together, united by the premise of building a sustainable future for our community. With a focus on arts, wellness, and programming, we curate the annual AGDIB live arts and cultural programming fest to serve the needs of creatives of color in NYC. This day is designed to be a communal space for healing, education, and future-forward dialogue, evaluating how art can be used for our liberation.
BROOKLYN CITY BLUES: CRAFTING STORIES WITH GLASS MOSAICS
August 13 | 2-5pm | Agnes Varis Art Center
Join UrbanGlass for an afternoon of community and mosaics. This drop-in workshop will cover the basics of mosaics, getting comfortable with the tools used in the process, and general do’s and don’ts that you can apply to future projects. Participants will work together to complete a mosaic inspired by the Brooklyn skyline, which will be proudly displayed within the studio once finished!
The Bushwick Starr’s Summer Arts Festival
August 18 | 2-6pm | 419 Eldert Street
Presented by The Bushwick Starr, in partnership with Oye Group NYC and the Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment (Made in NY), the Summer Arts Festival is a FREE annual event featuring free food, entertainment, arts, games and giveaways, good for all ages. The 2024 Summer Arts Festival marks the 9th year of this Bushwick community event, and will take place at the Starr’s new location at 419 Eldert Street as a block party.
Museum of Arts and Design: Bison Bead Project
August 22 | 6-8pm | Museum of Arts and Design
In this hands-on workshop for all ages, participants will create clay beads, each a symbol of the survival and regeneration of the bison across North America. The beads are an integral part of the Bison Bead Project initiated by the artist Cannupa Hanska Luger. With the goal of crafting 20,000 beads, representing every Plains bison managed as wildlife across the continent, the project stands as a testament to the power of collective action. The resulting clay objects will become part of a new installation in honor of the Buffalo Nation.
South Slope Derby
Image courtesy of Miho Suzuki
August 24 | 12-3pm | 17th St. between 5th & 6th Ave., Brooklyn
Open Source Gallery and KoKo NYC present our annual South Slope Derby, a celebration of creativity and innovation! For 17 years and counting the Annual South Slope Derby has thrilled Brooklyn every August, becoming a beloved celebration of creativity and innovation. The Derby is the culmination of KoKo NYC’s summer programming and features gravity-powered soap box racers made from recycled materials and built by kids. In the South Slope Derby, the kids put their creations to the test in a race down 17th Street in South Slope.
BRIC CELEBRATE BROOKLYN!
Now - August 24 | Lena Horne Bandshell in Prospect Park
BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! is New York City’s longest-running, free, outdoor performing arts festival. This 2024 season, BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! honors all that makes this borough unique with the theme, “Raised By Brooklyn.” The spirit of Brooklyn comes alive in a festival that bridges genres and generations, neighbors and neighborhoods. Through music, dance and laughter, all types of people find their home in community.
AFROPUNK BLKTOPIA
August 23 & 24 | 12-10pm | Lena Horne Bandshell in Prospect Park
AFROPUNK BLKTOPIA, in partnership with BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn!, is a space where we reimagine the future of Black life, creativity, community, and expression. AFROPUNK already knows no bounds, and with BLKTOPIA we’re planting the seeds to the future of us outside of all of the systems and behaviors that have never served our people. The First Lady of Neo Soul Erykah Badu will be headlining!
Art & Language – Jenny Holzer in Context
August 25 | 11am | Virtual
Since the 1970s Jenny Holzer has chosen language as her main medium of art, working with a variety of supports including paper and bronze, stone and LED, addressing issues of power, military conflict, feminism and more, preferably in the public realm. MAS will explore the Guggenheim’s latest Holzer exhibition and look at the artist’s public works in NYC as well as other contemporary artists who explore language and words as their medium.
CBH Talk: “From the West Indies to Eastern Parkway: Caribbean Migration and Diaspora in Brooklyn”
August 28 | 6:30-8pm | Center for Brooklyn History (CBH)
Join three experts and scholars – Fordham University’s Tyesha Maddox, Princeton University’s Joshua Guild, and Center for Brooklyn History Chief Historian Dominique Jean-Louis – as they shine a spotlight on the history of Afro-Caribbean migration to Brooklyn, and the resulting cultural influences on cuisine, music, dance, religion, clothing and more.
LMCC: The Arts Center at Governors Island
Now - September
The Arts Center at Governors Island will be reopening Saturday, July 13 with an exciting summer lineup! Free public programming and exhibitions will run from July through September. Exhibitions at The Arts Center explore a range of ideas and media with an emphasis on site-specific projects that took the Art Center's unique location into consideration. Special events will take place throughout the Summer in conjunction with two exhibitions, including artist talks, workshops, and The Take Care Series.
APAP|NYC conference
January 10-14, 2025 | New York Hilton Midtown
APAP|NYC is the world's premier gathering of the performing arts presenting, booking, and touring industry and the annual members conference of the Association of Performing Arts Professionals—including many dance-focused sessions and showcases. Join their community of more than 3,000 professionals for five days of performance showcases, networking, learning, discovery, community building, and the largest EXPO hall in the performing arts.
Funding Opportunities
Photo Urbanism Call for Fellows
Deadline: August 11
Design Trust for Public Space is looking for photographers to apply for the 2024-2025 Photo Urbanism Fellowship to contribute with their unique lenses about an equitable water future for New York. Water is one of our most important and impactful assets. An Equitable Water Future must recognize that the health of the city’s public life depends on managing the risks of—and benefits of—New York as a water city, including commitment to innovative green infrastructure, well-planned coastal resilience, sustainable buildings, and cultural vibrancy.
Dance/USA Fellowships to Artists
Deadline: August 15
Dance/USA Fellowships to Artists (DFA) supports dance and movement-based artists from across the U.S. and its territories who work at the intersection of social and embodied practices. DFA recognizes the wide variety of ways in which people engage in social transformation through dance, which often do not fit into established models of arts funding. This includes community-building and culture-bearing practices, healing and storytelling practices, activism and representational justice practices, and more.
Bronx Cultural Visions Fund
Deadline: August 19
The Bronx Cultural Visions Fund (BCVF) seeks to support the development of new ideas and the production of new work in the performing arts, including but not limited to dance, music, theater, performance art, and multi-disciplinary performance work. Open to Bronx-based emerging and mid-career individual artists and organizations with budgets up to $250,000, BCVF awards are intended to have a meaningful impact on an artist’s career or an organization’s development.
mTA ARTS & DEISGN: LIRR - Babylon Station Call for Artists
Deadline: August 21
MTA Arts & Design seeks images of artists’ previous work to review in consideration for a new permanent Percent for Art project, in conjunction with improvements at Babylon Station in Suffolk County, Long Island. An approved fabricator will translate the final artwork designs into a durable medium. The artwork is projected to be realized in glass and mosiac.
2024 Public Artists in Residence with the City of New York
Deadline: August 25 | Funding per residency: $40,000
Public Artists in Residence (PAIR) is a municipal residency program that embeds artists in city government to propose and implement creative solutions to pressing civic challenges. PAIR is based on the premise that artists are creative problem-solvers. They are able to create long-term and lasting impact by working collaboratively and in open-ended processes to build community bonds, open channels for two-way dialogue, and reimagine realities to create new possibilities for those who experience and participate in the work.
CPR 2025 Artist-in-Residence Open Call
Deadline: August 28 at 5pm ET
CPR – Center for Performance Research’s year-long Artist-in-Residence (AiR) Program seeks to support NYC-based artists working within various perspectives of contemporary dance, performance, and time-based forms. The residency creates an open environment for experimentation, exploration, embodiment, and exchange, providing ten artists each year with research and presentation opportunities, subsidized rehearsal space, curatorial and project support, and peer dialogue.
Lower East Side Printshop Keyhold Residency
Deadline: September 1
The Keyholder Residency Program offers emerging artists free 24-hour access to printmaking facilities to develop new work and foster their artistic careers. It takes place in the shared Artists’ Studio, including the solvent/etching area and the darkroom. Keyholders work independently, in a productive atmosphere alongside other contemporary artists. Artists from all disciplines are eligible to apply; printmaking skills are not required, but some familiarity with the medium is recommended.
MacDowell Residency
Deadline: September 10
About 300 artists in seven disciplines are awarded Fellowships each year and the sole criterion for acceptance is artistic excellence. This spring and summer residency offers a studio, accommodations, and three meals a day for up to six weeks. There are no residency fees, and financial assistance is offered to reimburse the costs of travel, rent, lost income, and childcare. The residency is open to artists of all backgrounds and all countries in the following disciplines: architecture, film/video arts, interdisciplinary arts, literature, music composition, theater, and visual arts.
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Open Calls
Deadlines: September 10
2025 Manhattan Arts Grants: LMCC awards public and private funding to Manhattan-based individual artists, collectives, and nonprofit organizations for the presentation of arts programming in any discipline in Manhattan. Apply for up to $16,000 for a single project in any discipline in 2025.
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2025 SU-CASA: Embodying healthy aging through the arts, SU-CASA is LMCC’s annual program placing teaching artists at Manhattan senior centers. Through this open call, LMCC selects individual artists and small collectives of two to carry out unique arts participatory projects from January to June 2025.
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PerformVu Artist Submission
Deadline: September 15
PerformVu is creating the digital home for video & performance art; connecting global audiences to incredible video work, while driving a new funding route for artists. If you are an artist working across performance or video art, PerformVu would love to hear from you and consider your portfolio for their next round of curation. Artists on the PerformVu platform benefit from direct tips, a share of subscriptions, and many community opportunities!
Adolf Busch Award
Deadline: September 20 | $10,000
The mission of the Adolf Busch Award is to recognize and honor organizations that use music to address social injustice, inequity and lack of opportunity. The Award grants $10,000 to one organization each year. Smaller awards are often given to additional compelling applicants.
Alterwork Residency
Bethany Fancher, Exhibition of Early Wool Sculptures, January 2018.
Deadline: September 30
This residency allows emerging contemporary artists time and space to create new work exploring their practice. The residency culminates in a solo closing reception that is promoted across an extensive network. Proposals should have a contemporary art focus showing experimentation and career reach for the artist. The program is especially interested in projects that involve conceptual art, practice or theory, or involve the public in their creative process.
Craft Research Fund Grant
Shaker brooms and brushes at Hancock Shaker Village, Pittsfield, MA; Photo courtesy of Cate O'Connell-Richards.
Deadline: October 4 | Up to $15,000
The Craft Research Fund is the Center's first and longest-running grant program dedicated to supporting new and interdisciplinary research about craft in the United States. Since 2005, the program has supported 244 projects in 40 states, Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia by distributing over $1,900,000.
Musicians Foundation
Deadline: Rolling
Application for one-time financial assistance is open to professional musicians across all genres. You must be a professional music performer, composer/arranger, or educator in a specific time of need caused by an unexpected hardship (e.g., medical or dental situation, natural disaster, or certain housing crises).
What We're Reading
“Brooklynites bring sustainability and creativity together at 8th annual Kingsland Wildflowers Festival”
by Jada Camille | Brooklyn Paper
“How the High Line changed NYC: A 'poster child' for gentrification and adaptive reuse”
by Luke Green and Alison Stewart | Gothamist
“A Brooklyn Artist and the Possibilities He Seeks in Work and Life”
by Samantha Maldonado | New York Times
“At a Brooklyn Gallery, Dancers Bring a Sweeping Textile Installation to Life”
by Annikka Olsen | Artnet
“American Museum of Natural History Repatriates Remains of 124 Native People”
by Maya Pontone | Hyperallergic
“A/apartheid”
by Fileve Tlaloc | Blog
Cover Image: Portrait of Yonnette Flemming for “The Community Gardener Portrait Project”. Photo by Zachary Schulman, 2024 BAC Grantee.
Empowering Artists. Empowering Communities.
The arts are a lifeline to sustain wonder, inspiration, healing, and a sense of community in our lives. Please join Brooklyn Arts Council in our mission to empower Brooklyn artists and arts organizations that bring life and joy into our home borough.