Grant Guidelines Coming Soon!
Jackie Braje, at BAC's 2022 Spring Party. Photo by Gregg Richards. The Poetry Society of New York is a 2022 Brooklyn Arts Fund grantee.
Our 2023 Community Arts Grants and Creative Equations Fund guidelines are coming mid-August! Keep your eyes peeled for more information about this year’s Brooklyn Arts Fund, Local Arts Support, Charlene & Ella Fund, and Creative Equations Fund.
Timeline:
Applications Open: August 22, 2022
Applications Close: October 16, 2022 at 11:59 PM EST
Info Sessions, Q&As, and Narrative Reviews: August - September 2022
Funding Decisions and Award Notifications: February 2023
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BAC Wellness Installation at NARS Foundation
August 11 - 12 | 6:15 PM - 8 PM
NARS Foundation
201 46th Street
Brooklyn, NY 11220
Come to NARS Foundation on August 11th & 12th to celebrate wellness with Brooklyn Arts Council. This event includes performances by esteemed Brooklyn artists you won't want to miss!
Performers include: Jasmine Espinal, Angie Sosa, and Emory Moore.
Also on view is BAC’s Sonic Clinic pop-up exhibition and Wellness Studio including digital art by David Gumbs and featured musicians: Martin Vejarano, Vong Pak and Junghee Oh, Zane Rodulfo, Samir Langus, and Aeilushi Mistry.
We’re Hiring! Programs Assistant
Full-Time, Non-exempt
Salary: $54,000
The Program Assistant supports program development and implementation from ideation to production, contributing to research, content curation, facilitation, and moderation of BAC public programs. The Programs Associate will work closely with the Programs and Strategy Director, and collaborate with BAC staff, program interns, and volunteers, as applicable.
Our Grantees' Events
Upcoming in-person & virtual events hosted by our board members, grantees, fiscal sponsees, and partner organizations. Keep scrolling for a full, comprehensive list of what's top-of-mind this August.
QTPOC Sankofa Dreaming
MBDance is a 2022 Local Arts Support grantee.
Kickoff Performance: August 5
Workshops & Community Meal: August 6 & August 7 | 10 AM -5 PM
BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange
421 5th Avenue, Brooklyn
QTPOC Sankofa Dreaming is a weekend mini-festival of four workshops, a performance, and a community meal. The festival grew out of themes from MBDance’s Desire: A Sankofa Dream, a site-responsive performance ritual centering Black queer agency. This weekend aims to help build community within the cohort, celebrate participants own power through performance practice workshops, and invite them to see themselves centered through performance and in curricula that lifts up the histories of queer makers of color.
Celebrating Culture: 2022 Aarti Hindu Lamp Ceremony
Aeilushi Mistry is a 2022 Creative Equations Fund grantee. Photo by Erik Almeida and Joseph Baldwin.
August 6 | 4 PM - 7:30 PM
East River, Pebble Beach
Main Street Park, Brooklyn Bridge Park
Brooklyn, NY 11201
In Hindu tradition and India, the river is revered as the Mother that nurtures and sustains life. A lit lamp holds a great significance in Hindu tradition as it signifies life. We come together at the East River to make prayers and pay our respects to loved ones. The participants connect with the mother river by placing hand decorated palm leaf lamps in the river. All materials are provided are biodegradable. The lamps are decorated with traditional ceremony colors made from dried flowers and roots. The cotton wicks and dipped in ghee butter. The BBP provides us with kayakers to collect back all the lamps from the river in the end. Aarti Team strives to respect mother river, respect community, respect needs of organizations and city authorities.
QT Art Camp: Free Workshops for Queer & Trans Youth
QT Art Camp is a 2022 Brooklyn Arts Fund grantee.
August 17 | 11 AM - 3 PM - Introduction to Analog Photography w/ Carmen DeCristo
August 22 | 11 AM - 3 PM - Portrait Drawing of Marsha P. Johnson Bust w/ Jesse Pallotta
August 25 | 11 AM - 2 PM - Vogue Dancing Basics w/ Jose Lapaz-Rodriguez
August 30 | 11 AM - 3 PM - Abstract Painting & Color Theory w/ Koi King
Brooklyn Pride Community Center
1561 Bedford Ave, Ground A
Brooklyn, NY 11225
Join QT Art Camp for a summer series of free art workshops for queer and trans youth ages 13-19. During the workshops they will work with NYC-based artists to learn new skills, discuss art with their peers and mentors, and leave with a finished art piece.
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EXPEDITIONS: HONORING IMMIGRANT JOURNEYS
Salome Egas is a 2022 Creative Equations Fund grantee.
August 18 | 6 PM - 8 PM
Ecuador Center
25-28 Broadway, Lower Level
Astoria, NY 11106
Ecuadorian Artist and Educator Salome Egas will be hosting a free, in-person two hour workshop, Expeditions: Honoring Immigrant Journeys. Participants will be guided through a series of exercises centering and celebrating their immigrant experiences/ immigrant heritages. Through writing, theatrical and somatic expeditions, participants will be able to create space to process their relationships to immigration and how it’s shaped their identities.
Dar Brooklyn: Chaabi For Her!
Dr. Jihene Serkhane is a 2022 Creative Equations Fund grantee.
Drumming/Clapping Class: Every Saturday | 5:30 PM - 7 PM
Singing Class: Every Tuesday | 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Owl's Head Park
68th St. & Colonial Rd. Entrance
Bayridge, NY 11209
If you are a woman/girl, and don't play a drum, if you sing or not, or were told or told yourself that you lacked the ear, rhythm, focus and/or self-confidence, Dar Brooklyn is For You! This is a class for complete beginners that will walk you from nothing to being able to perform within a few weeks time. We'll learn to sing and drum North-African folk (Chaabi) songs, and we'll perform a show for our loved ones in the fall. We'll offer a repertoire of songs on immigration and love. You can join singing or drumming or both. Class series taught in English, Arabic, Spanish, and French by Dr. Jihene Serkhane.
Events & Programs
Additional happenings hosted by our grantees and other organizations, collectives, and institutions.
The Laundromat Project: Open House
August 6 | 1 PM - 5 PM
1476 Fulton St., Bed-Stuy
Join The Laundromat Project for an afternoon filled with activities, music, food, and tours of The LP’s new home in Bed-Stuy! We’re excited to welcome our neighbors and share with our supporters what we have been up to.
The Arts Center at Governors Island 2022 Public Season
Through October 30
The Arts Center at Governors Island
Building 110 at Soissons Landing
Featuring exhibitions by Amy Khoshbin and Jennifer Khoshbin, Elissa Blount-Moorhead and Bradford Young, and Simon Benjamin. This season's exhibitions center around ideas of healing, offering audiences a range of perspectives related to how we manage our experiences, individual and collective, and how we might find paths of recovery.
Artist Opportunities
Reliable workshops and funding opportunities from outside collectives and institutions. Keep scrolling for a list of what’s top-of-mind this month.
Workshops & Professional Development
KASHIF INCUBATOR: THE BROWNSVILLE INITIATIVE
Week 1: Tuesday, August 2 & Thursday, August 4 | 6 PM - 9 PM
Week 2: Tuesday, August 9 & Thursday, August 11 | 6 PM - 9 PM
Week 3:Tuesday, August 16 & Thursday, August 18 | 6 PM - 9 PM
Kashif Incubator invites you to participate in our inaugural storytelling workshop. The Brownsville Initiative, is a 3 week, place-based community filmmaking program for local, burgeoning artists. We believe everyone has a story to tell, especially you! BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, gender non-conforming, and disabled persons are encouraged to apply. The Brownsville Initiative, a visual storytelling module engaging artists in Brownsville, Brooklyn.
New York State Teaching Artist Mentorship Program
$2,200
Deadline: August 19 at 6 PM EST
This NYC Arts in Education Roundtable regrant opportunity seeks to proactively help mid-career Teaching Artists from across the state develop the networks, skills, and increased capacities necessary to support career advancement and sustainability. The formalized program will pair 14 mid-career Teaching Artists from communities historically underrepresented in the arts education field with a mentor educator or arts leader. Each participating Teaching Artist will be awarded $2,200 to support their participation in the program.
The Dots Between: FINANCIAL COACHING FELLOWSHIP
Deadline: September 15
6-Months | Free | Virtual
The Dots Between is a financial coaching program for artists who are motivated to address their financial practices, nurture their relationship with money, and establish the structures that will support their long term fiscal health. The program meets monthly for workshops on overall financial literacy and managing uneven income, followed by deep dives into home ownership, reducing debt, retirement planning and financial planning for family members.
Common Field’s WHAT NOW? Towards Artist-Led Movements
September 30 – October 2
Washington Hall, Seattle & Online
WHAT NOW? Towards Artist-Led Movements is a regionally-focused, 3-day hybrid gathering in Seattle, Washington, that envisions the transformative possibilities birthed in moments of uncertainty. This gathering, designed by a Seattle team of artists and organizers in partnership with Common Field, is organized to strengthen creative ecosystems by building collective power and mutual awareness towards activating shared visions and strategies to transform structural inequities.
Funding & Open Calls
QUEENS MUSEUM’S In Situ Artist Fellowship
Image: Sound bath organized for La Jornada and Queens Museum Cultural Food Pantry volunteers in Queens Museum atrium, led by artist and Year of Uncertainty Co-Thinker, Guadalupe Maravilla, August 2021. Courtesy of the artist and Queens Museum.
Deadline: Deadline: August 14 at 11:59 PM EST
The Queens Museum (QM) is pleased to announce an open call for its new two-year In Situ Artist Fellowship to be awarded to three artists. Each artist selected for this two-year fellowship (October 2022-September 2024) will receive rent-free studio space at the Museum and an annualized salaried position at $45,000 per year with full benefits. Artists will develop a solo exhibition to open in Spring 2024 that will result from their work with QM communities.
Nars Foundation’s STUDIO RELIEF RESIDENCY
Photo from NARS website.
Deadline: Rolling through August 15
NARS’ mission is geared towards creating community while fostering expansion and exchange of artistic and cultural practices. Since March 2020, we have witnessed the devastating impact that the current health crisis has had on the cultural sector and specifically in artists and in the development of their work. The subsidized studio space is available for 3 months, and is a work-space only. Throughout this time, artists will have 24/7 access to their spaces and will be able to liaise with a diverse artistic community.
The Toni Beauchamp Prize in Critical Art Writing
Toni Beauchamp was the board president of Art Lies from 2002-2004. This prize is dedicated in her honor with the commitment to continuing to write, think, and talk about art.
Deadline: August 31
First Place: $3,000
Second & Third Place: $1,000 each
Surveying the scope of critical art writing today, the board, advisory board, and editors of Gulf Coast recognize the significant lack of venues and support for young and mid-career writers working across the United States. The Toni Beauchamp Prize in Critical Art Writing seeks to address this lacuna by bringing exposure to writers who are dealing with the spirit of the age and unafraid to ask difficult questions. There will be one first place prize of $3,000 dollars, and two runners up, awarded $1,000 each. The winning essay will be featured in GC's printed journal, and the two runners-up will be considered for publication.
Bronx Council on the Arts’ Open Call for Curators: Untold Narratives
Deadline: August 31
The Bronx Council on the Arts (BCA) is seeking applications from NYC curators for its Longwood Art Gallery @ Hostos Winter 2023 group exhibition Untold Narratives (January 18 – February 22, 2023). The selected curator will be responsible for contacting and sourcing all materials from artists, writing exhibition texts, and facilitating a public program. Curatorial proposals should consider BCA’s mission of supporting emerging and mid-career artists from underrepresented groups, such as women, members of the LGBTQIA+ community, and artists of color.
The laundromat project: Bed-Stuy Create & Connect Fund
$1,000
Deadline: September 1
The Bed-Stuy Create and Connect Fund is a community micro-grant fund that the LP launched in 2020. The Fund seeds and supports the creative ideas and civic actions of artists, cultural practitioners, community builders, organizers, and makers in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. We will provide $1,000 grants towards each funded project, for a total of up to 25 proposals. We are looking for creative initiatives and projects that are rooted in community, foster connections, and ignite conversations and/or collaborations.
Center for Performance Research 2023 Artist-in-Residence Program
Deadline: September 6 at 5 PM EST
This year-long residency seeks to support a wide range of artists, from emerging to established, working within various perspectives of contemporary dance, performance, and time-based forms. CPR values experimental approaches to content, form, and aesthetic, and encourages risk-taking and the unexpected. The AiR Program provides ten artists each year with rehearsal space, presentation and performance opportunities, curatorial and project support, professional development, and peer dialogue, all of which are designed to support the individualized creative process and an open environment for research, experimentation, embodiment, exchange, and creation.
LMCC’S Manhattan Arts Grants
Marta Blair, UMEZ Arts Engagement 2022.
Up to $10,000
Deadline: September 13 at 5 PM EST
Since 1983, LMCC’s Manhattan Arts Grants have supported Manhattan-based artists, arts groups and community-focused organizations in sharing rich arts activities with the public. These projects have been integral to the cultural vibrancy and arts-driven resiliency of Manhattan. In this spirit, the 2023 Manhattan Arts Grants are designed to support Manhattan artists and organizations in accessing public funds for presentations that respond to the current needs of our local communities and amplify the cultural breadth and identity of our city.
Teiger Foundation Call for Proposals
Courtesy of Teiger Foundation.
Up to $150,000
Deadline: September 15
Teiger Foundation has launched its first-ever Call for Proposals, a new grantmaking initiative supporting innovative curatorial projects in contemporary art. Successful applicants will receive individual grants of up to $150,000 and the opportunity to be involved in the Foundation’s Climate Action pilot program, which offers tailored support for curators to embed sustainable practices into their work. The Call will award up to a total of $3.5 million USD on an annual basis.
NYC Women’s Fund for Media, Music and Theatre
$20,000 - $50,000
Deadline: November 1
The NYC Women’s Fund for Media, Music and Theatre provides grants to encourage and support the creation of digital, film, music, television, and live or online theatre content that reflects the voices and perspectives of all who identify as women. The Women’s Fund, administered by the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) in partnership with the City of New York Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment (MOME), is part of a groundbreaking series of initiatives that address the underrepresentation of women in film, music, television and theatre.
Eyebeam Center for the Future of Journalism
$500 - $5,000
Deadline: Rolling
ECFJ is an experimental grant-making program that supports artists producing innovative and revelatory journalistic work for major media outlets. With the belief that artists are central in the invention and design of our shared future, and also critical in shifting public debate, ECFJ will support the execution of pieces that focus on reimagining the way stories are told, particularly around technology and society.
Foundation for Contemporary Arts’ Emergency Grants
Ivy Baldwin, performance still from Emergency Grants-supported Quarry, at MANITOGA/The Russel Wright Design Center in Garrison, NY, 2019. Photo by Maria Baranova.
Deadline: Rolling
$500 - $3,000
Created in 1993 to further FCA's mission to encourage, sponsor, and promote work of a contemporary, experimental nature, Emergency Grants provide urgent funding for visual and performing artists who:
Have sudden, unanticipated opportunities to present their work to the public when there is insufficient time to seek other sources of funding
Incur unexpected or unbudgeted expenses for projects close to completion with committed exhibition or performance dates
The Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Emergency Grant
Adolph and Esther Gottlieb at East Hampton studio, 1973.
Up to $15,000
Deadline: Rolling
The Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Emergency Grant program is intended to provide interim financial assistance to qualified painters, printmakers, and sculptors whose needs are the result of an unforeseen, catastrophic incident, and who lack the resources to meet that situation. Each grant is given as one-time assistance for a specific emergency, examples of which are fire, flood, or emergency medical need.
Resources
Dance Industry Census
Closes: October 31
LMCC is excited to partner with Dance/NYC, an organization promoting the knowledge, appreciation, practice, and performance of dance in the greater metropolitan New York City area launch the Dance Industry Census. We’re asking for your help to ensure every member of the dance workforce gets counted. The Dance Industry Census will let our City’s leaders know that dance workers are demanding the recognition and representation we deserve.
US DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Public Service Loan Forgiveness
Deadline: October 31
Because of a COVID-emergency program from the US Department of Education, many federal student loans are being forgiven for government or nonprofit workers in NYC. But the program expires October 31, 2022. 250,000 New Yorkers working in government or nonprofits are now eligible. 5,000 New Yorkers have already been forgiven an average of $63,935.
What We're Reading
Have you encountered an inspiring or engaging read related to the COVID-19 era lately? Tell us about it at webmaster@brooklynartscouncil.org.
Colleen Dilenschneider. “Is Instagram the Top Social Media Channel for All Ages? What About Performing Arts?” Know Your Own Bone, July 2022.
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Kimberlean Donis. “Meet the Micro-Cinema Celebrating Black Art.” BKReader, July 2022.
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Javier C. Hernández. “‘Princes Can Be Asian, Too’: A Dancer Breaks Barriers in Ballet.” New York Times, July 2022.
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Katya Kazakina. “The U.S. Dollar Is the Strongest It’s Been in Two Decades. So What Does Its Growing Power Mean for the Art Market?” Artnet News, July 2022.
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Cover Image: Redhawk Native American Arts Council is a 2022 Creative Equations Fund grantee. Image by Redhawk Staff, 2019.
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