2024 Grants Cycle Opening Soon!
Kevin Batchelor of NYC Ska Orchestra, 2023 Brooklyn Arts Fund Grantee. Photo courtesy the artist.
Deadline: October 8, 2023
BAC's 2024 Grants Cycle opens this month! Keep your eyes peeled for Community Arts Grants and Creative Equations Fund guidelines. Info Sessions, Q&As, and Narrative Reviews will take place August through September.
Let your artist networks know about BAC's grant opportunities and encourage them to sign up for our newsletter. Be sure to follow us on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook for the latest announcements.
Become a BAC Teaching Artist!
Deadline: July 17, 2023
BAC is now accepting applications for school program Teaching Artists (TA) for the 2023-2024 school year! BAC's AIE Department is a creative powerhouse, enriching the Brooklyn community through accessible arts education. Our programs empower individuals by fostering creativity, cultural understanding, and self-expression. Applicants do not need to live in Brooklyn but must have the ability to travel to Brooklyn.
2023 Grantee Celebration Photos
Photos by Will O’Hare.
We had an amazing time celebrating BAC's 2023 Grantees at National Sawdust! Congratulations again to all who received funding this year. You consistently inspire us and remind us what makes Brooklyn the hub of NYC's arts and culture scene.
Click here or the button below to view and download photos from the event. We encourage you to share on social media with the hashtag #BAC2023grantee. Be sure to follow and tag us (@bkartscouncil) as well as our talented photographer Will O'Hare (@willoharephotography).
AIE Digital Banner Contest
Deadline: September 25, 2023 via AirTable
Brooklyn Arts Council invites Brooklyn students grades 1-12 to submit new banner designs for our Global Rhythms program. The digital banner will be used for various marketing and promotional materials including on BAC’s website, social media, letterheads, brochures, posters and flyers, souvenir trinkets and gifts, and/or anywhere else BAC chooses.
The first-place contest winner will receive a $400 gift card. Second and third place will receive a $50 gift card. All winners will also receive a BAC canvas tote bag, pencils, and a sketchbook.
Heal Up! Recordings Now Available
Heal Up! is creativity and wellness professional development series that explores career pathways and training that offer artists an opportunity to integrate their art and wellness skills. Heal Up! offers career options and educational insights that provide the creative community with a framework for combining their artistic and therapeutic abilities. Experts from all fields of the creative economy and therapeutic sectors are featured in these workshops to discuss the convergence of art and wellness.
All 2023 Heal Up! recordings are now available to watch on-demand.
Job Opportunity
Social Media & Marketing Assistant for Real Estate Broker at The Corcoran Group NYC
Part-time | 20 hours/week | $20-$25/hour
Responsibilities:
- Design and distribution of email marketing campaigns
- Design and distribution of monthly newsletters
- Work with Corcoran's Marketing Team to coordinate the design and distribution of mail flyers
- Social media posting on Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, and Facebook
Candidates should be passionate about social media and marketing and interested in learning the ins and outs of the NYC real estate residential market. This is an independent contractor position, paid via 1099.
To apply, send a resume and cover letter to ellen.gottlieb@corcoran.com.
BAC Grantee Events
Six Foot Platform
Saturdays through September 4 | 12pm - 9pm
The intersection of Washington and Water Street becomes the setting for a new project: the Six Foot Platform Experimental Residency Program. Presented in partnership with Brooklyn Arts Council, this project will feature eleven Brooklyn-based artists in full-day residencies.
OSH & Washington Park Medicinal Garden Tour
Iviva Olenick is a 2023 BAC Grantee.
July 6 | 7pm - 9pm
Join local artist, Iviva Olenick and Herbalist, Danielle Moore for a walking tour of OSH & Washington Park. This walk will open your eyes to the abundance of plants around us with health and artistic benefits, inviting you to delight in the beauty of the flora around you with newfound knowledge and awareness.
Exhibition:Gathering
Cecile Chong & Sophia Ma are 2022 BAC Grantees.
Co-curators Cecile Chong and Sophia Ma are proud to present Gathering, an exhibition highlighting the relationships between forty-five Asianish artist members and their works.
Tour with Curator Cecile Chong
July 8 | 2pm - 3pm | Tiger Strikes Asteroid-New York
FiveMyles Opening
July 9 | 5:30pm - 8pm | FiveMyles
FiveMyles Community Tour
July 15 | 2pm - 5:30pm | FiveMyles
“Three Finger Salute” Performance
July 22 | 4:30pm - 5:30pm | Tiger Strikes Asteroid-New York
FiveMyles Panel Discussion
July 29 | 5:30pm - 6:30pm | FiveMyles
Wide Open Works Summer Festival
Connection Works, host of Wide Open Works, is a 2023 BAC Grantee.
July 14 - 16 | 7pm | Ibeam Brooklyn
Friday, July 14
7pm - New Music Trio: Gwen Laster, Melanie Dyer, & Alexis Marcelo
8:15pm - Overkil: Tim Berne, Gregg Belisle-Chi, & Tom Rainey
9:30pm - Tomas Fujiwara, Nick Dunston, & David Leon
Saturday, July 15
7pm - Rob Garcia 4: Noah Preminger, Gary Versace, Kim Cass, & Rob Garcia
8:15pm - Sam Newsome & Dave Liebman
9:30pm - Scott Robinson, Julian Thayer, & Jeff “Tain” Watts
Sunday, July 16
2pm - Adam Nussbaum, Steve Cardenas, & Gene Perla
3:15pm - Michel Gentile Quartet: Michel Gentile, Steve Cardenas, John Hébert, & Tom Rainey
Lampblack Reading Series
Lampblack is a 2023 BAC Grantee.
July 23 | 8:30am - 1pm
Join the Lampblack Reading Series at the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA) featuring Tawanda Mulalu, Tyriek White, and Fred Moten. The reading is free and open to the public.
Edible Tales: Ho'okupu
Photo: Luluku Farm. Dancers Unlimited is a 2023 BAC Grantee.
July 23 | 8:30am - 1pm
Facilitated by Edible Tales' Hawaiian cultural advisor, 'Auli'i Aweau and cultural practitioner Keahi Pi'iohi'a, participants will explore and learn about the cultural significance and uses of ʻawa (or kava), and engage in hands-on activities such as planting.
Theater in Asylum presents: The Nobodies Who Were Everybody
Theater in Asylum is a 2022 BAC Grantee.
August 3 - 20 | Jalopy Theater
The year is 1935 and the Great Depression is roaring. Six theater artists find themselves newly employed by the New Deal's Federal Theatre Project. Playing everybody from Macbeth to Mussolini on stage, these hardworking but unsung artists bond over their work on some of the Project’s great plays. But now in 2023, the Federal Theatre Project no longer exists, and hasn't for 84 years. What happened?
The Nobodies Who Were Everybody gives voice to the thousands of incredible artists, the "nobodies," who powered the Federal Theatre Project, and examines why it is still so difficult to give artists—and audiences—the support we all deserve.
Events, Workshops, & Professional Development
Friends and Lovers in the Park
July 7 | 6pm - 9pm
Every first Friday of the summer, performance and community hub Friends And Lovers activate the Greenway Terrace with a curated presentation of live music and chill vibes. On July 7, enjoy funk and soulful vibes with Brass Queens, Fried Dynamite: Run P. x Nina Vicious and Shake! with Monk One and DJ Prestige.
bric celebrate brooklyn!
July 8, 13-15, 19, 21-22, 27, 29
BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! is a free, summer-long experience allowing New Yorkers to appreciate and discover new genres, acclaimed artists, and world cultures each night of the Festival.
Arts & Democracy Concert with Alsarah & the Nubatones & Sonny Singh
July 9 | 6pm
Avenue C Plaza
Avenue C Plaza celebrates the diverse immigrant communities in Kensington and their important contributions to the neighborhood and NYC. On July 9 at 6pm, Arts & Democracy presents a concert as part of the celebration, with Alsarah & the Nubatones and Sonny Singh!
Brooklyn Exhibition Presents:
Do You See Me? : Stories of Yemeni Children
Old Walled City of Shibam by Aboubaker Balfaqih. Age when war started – 10 years old.
July 17 | 4pm - 10pm
Brooklyn Children’s Museum
Do You See Me? is the first exhibition in the USA that features art works of artists between 7-19 years old who have experienced the scourge of wars in Yemen since 2015.
Artist Opportunities
Illuminations Grant for Black Trans Women
$10,000
Deadline: July 12
The Illuminations Grant for Black Trans Women supports visual artists who are self-identified Black trans women and trans femmes. The grant sheds light on the under-recognized contributions of Black trans women visual artists and provides critical support to their continuing work.
nysca FY24 Funding Opportunities
Deadline: July 13 at 4pm EST
Support for Organizations - provides flexible general operating and programming funding for non-profit organizations.
Support for Artists - funds creative commissions to individual artists across the state.
Support for Targeted Opportunities - provides funding for creative performance residencies, subsidized rehearsal spaces for all performing art forms, and folk arts apprenticeships.
Support for Regrants and Services - supports regrant and partner organizations while identifying new opportunities to ensure the greater reach of NYSCA funding and greater access for new applicants.
Call for Emerging Artists: The Other Art Fair
Deadline: July 31
The Other Art Fair is coming back to Brooklyn this fall to present a new lineup of 120 game-changing artists in one of the most exciting growing markets for collecting contemporary art. Don't miss this chance to showcase your artworks, grow your collector base, and build an audience that includes influential art lovers, curators, and gallerists.
Need some additional support in launching your career as an artist? See if you qualify for the New Futures program, which provides selected recipients with free exhibition space, ongoing guidance, and professional mentorship. All applications are reviewed on a rolling basis by a selection committee of art world experts.
NYC DOT Art Community Commissions
Image: Little World by Samantha Holmes Mundillo in partnership with Bronx River Art Center, 2020.
Deadline: August 1
NYC DOT Art and selected organizations commission artists to design and install temporary public art on NYC DOT infrastructure citywide. Partner organizations are invited to identify sites for artwork in their district and will help select individual artists to propose site-responsive artwork. NYC DOT Art provides up to $20,000 towards direct project costs, engineering and operational support, and the opportunity to beautify sites accessible to a diverse audience.
Resources
Randy Cohen’s TOP 10 REASONS TO SUPPORT THE ARTS IN 2023
Randy Cohen shows why an investment in artists, creative workers, and arts organizations is vital to the nation’s post-pandemic recovery. Americans for the Arts' National Arts Publication Database (NAPD) is a bibliographic tool that gives access current and historical information on topics related to arts administration and policy.
What We're Reading
“What the Supreme Court’s Ruling on Affirmative Action Does and Does Not Do”
by Piper Hudspeth Blackburn | CNN
"The Academy of American Poets Names Its First Latino Head"
by Elizabeth Blair | NPR
"Brooklyn's 50 Most Fascinating People - Rasu Jilani"
by Group SJR | BK Mag
"How This Nonprofit is Transforming Ditmas Park and Beyond Through Eco-Friendly Arts Programming"
by Kimberlean Donis | BK Reader
"Six Foot Platform Returns with Art Residencies in Dumbo"
by Christina Izzo | TimeOut
Cover Image: Daniel Morimoto, Nikki Assanti, Amanda Stambosky, Breena Cocco, Nicoletta Lanese, Tyler Renfroe, Lindsay Jolly, Katie DeGenaro, & Andrew Collins perform at NACHMO, 2022 Brooklyn Arts Fund Grantee. Photo by Jackson Krule.
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.