Brooklyn Arts Awards Photos
Photos by Redens Desrosiers/Réx Camera.
We had a spectacular time celebrating our 2024 Grantees and Awardees at the Brooklyn Arts Awards! Congratulations again to all who received funding. You are the backbone of Brooklyn’s arts and culture scene and constantly amaze us with your talent, energy, and passion.
You can view and download event photos by clicking here. Sharing on social? Use #BrooklynArtsAwards and be sure to tag us (@bkartscouncil) and photographer Redens Desrosiers/Réx Camera (@pharaohrex).
BAC Grantee & Partner Events
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.
“TO BREATHE IS TRIUMPH: IRREVERSIBLE ENTANGLEMENTS / SHARA LUNON”
TO BREATHE IS TRIUMPH is presented in partnership with Brooklyn Arts Council and First Unitarian Congregational Society.
Still from “No Más” by Irreversible Entanglements video (2020)
July 20 | 8pm | First Unitarian Congregational Society
ISSUE Project Room, in partnership with Brooklyn Arts Council and First Unitarian Congregational Society presnet,TO BREATHE IS TRIUMPH. Commemorating 10 years since the murder of Eric Garner in Staten Island, ISSUE participates in a series of community activations happening across NYC sparked by The Ritual of Breath Is the Rite to Resist to contend with an important question: what does it mean to support Black life through embodied ritual? To honor this memorial anniversary, ISSUE welcomes liberation-oriented free-jazz collective Irreversible Entanglements and afrofuturistic vocalist and improviser, Shara Lunon to First Unitarian.
Collective Focus: Synth Road summer camp
Collective Focus is a 2024 BAC Grantee.
July 28 - 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.
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 - December | 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.
Jobs
Brooklyn Arts Exchange
Deadline: July 12 | Start Date: September 2024
Education Associate (part-time): The Education Programs Associate is an exciting, hands-on, position playing a vital role in the planning, day to day logistics, and community building of BAX’s on site Education Programs.
Education Apprentice (part-time): The Education Programs Apprentice is a hands-on position playing a vital role in the execution of our School Pick Up Program as well as assisting teaching artists in dance, tumbling, and drama classes. The Apprentice will also be asked to take on discrete administrative and production tasks, help with day to day logistics, and support in community building of BAX’s on site Education Programs.
Events, Workshops, & Professional Development
park slope fifth ave bid: summer music & movie night
July 11, 18, 25 | 7pm | 4th Street Plaza, Park Slope
August 8 | 8:30pm | 4th Street Plaza, Park Slope
Park Slope FIfth Ave BID presents “Summer Music and Movie Night” taking place on the 4th Street Plaza, between 4th Ave. & 5th Ave. in Park Slope. Dress for the weather and bring a chair or blanket, bug spray, dinner and drinks! This event is FREE and open to all.
LMCC: The Arts Center at Governors Island
July 13 - 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.
Disability Unite Festival
July 14 | Central Park Naumburg Bandshell & Virtual
Celebrate Disability Pride at Disability Unite Festival 2024! Come together with friends and family virtually or in-person at the Central Park Naumburg Bandshell in New York City to celebrate community, and commemorate the 34th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). For virtual participants, the Disability Unite Festival will be livestreamed and continue to be offered on this website with all access accommodations for those unable to travel or not located in NYC.
ADAA Chelsea Gallery Walk
July 17 | 6-8pm
The Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) will host its annual Chelsea Gallery Walk on Wednesday, July 17 from 6-8pm. Join for a special opportunity to visit dozens of concurrent exhibitions at ADAA member galleries after hours on a summer evening—and cool off with ice cream from a Van Leeuwen truck parked at the corner of W 24th St and 10th Ave!
Two river theater: CROSSING BORDERS (CRUZANDO FRONTERAS) FESTIVAL
August 1-4 | Joan and Robert Rechnitz Theater
Crossing Borders (Cruzando Fronteras) is an annual community celebration that offers music and togetherness with a spotlight on new plays by Latine theater artists. This year’s festival is curated by José Zayas and features four new plays to be read in our Joan and Robert Rechnitz Theater. This festival is free and open to the public.
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
2024 Creator Labs Photo Fund
Deadline: July 15
Google’s Creator Labs and Aperture are pleased to launch the 2024 Creator Labs Photo Fund—an initiative providing financial support to encourage artists at formative moments in their careers. Started in 2021, this third season of the Creator Labs Photo Fund will provide grants to thirty artists for new work created in the past three years. Submissions are free and open to any photographer or lens-based artist living in the United States.
NYSCA grant Applications now open
Deadline: July 17 | 4pm ET
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. Applicants must apply through a non-profit fiscal sponsor. Grant awards are $10,000; fiscal sponsors may retain a maximum of $500 for administrative costs.
Support for Targeted Opportunities: The opportunities provide 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 across all 62 counties while identifying new opportunities to ensure the greater reach of NYSCA funding and greater access for new applicants.
2024 Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize
Deadline: July 17
The Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize is an annual non-acquisitive international art prize that celebrates diversity and excellence in the representational visual arts. The Prize seeks to inspire creatives from around the world to pursue a life and career in the arts, and to help careers grow through funding and increased exposure of their work to galleries, collectors and media globally. It accepts work in all static mediums including Traditional Art, Digital Art, and Photography; and all styles from realism and hyperrealism, to pop surrealism and lowbrow.
Hi-ARTS Artist Residency Open Calls
Deadlines: July 20
CRITICAL BREAKS is a residency program for Artists who are in a pivotal phase of developing new theater and/or performance work. The residency aims to provide artists with time and space to concentrate on a specific project and/or element of a project. This is an ideal for works that have already been started, and/or have perhaps received some institutional support, but are still in need of additional concentrated focus, funding, and space.
SKY LAB supports artists who center the community in their artistic process.SKY LAB is for artists who center the community at the root of creative development, research, and consideration. This may include relationship building, deep listening and discussion, experience design, community collaboration, storytelling, and other interdisciplinary methods and practices that take place alongside and in relation to an artist’s identified community.
Arts Gowanus Call for Artists
Deadline: July 22
Arts Gowanus is looking for artists interested in and capable of creating culturally meaningful, sculptural, public artwork in the newly created Waterfront Public Access Areas (WPAA) and other potential locations within the Gowanus neighborhood. The proposed public art should creatively relate to an aspect of the neighborhood’s history, culture, and geography in order to inform and enhance the public’s experience.
Serve as a NYSCA Panelist
Deadline: July 22
Each year, more than 150 artists, nonprofit leaders, and arts and culture administrators from all over New York State serve as NYSCA panelists, making our grantmaking possible. With their individual experiences and perspectives, they are responsible for reviewing each grant application and are essential to the evaluation process. Are you ready to serve? If selected, you can serve for up to three years, meeting virtually in late summer/early fall to review applications. Your service is essential for a fair and unbiased evaluation process to support the arts.
Wine Label Art Contest
Deadline: July 22
The American LGBTQ+ Museum is partnering with Direct Wines, Inc. to launch the Museum’s first branded bottle of wine. A portion of proceeds from the sale of each bottle will support the Museum’s educational programs and exhibitions. The first wine is produced by Bergevin Lane Vineyards, a queer woman-owned vineyard in Washington state.
We are inviting artists, illustrators, and graphic designers to submit original artwork for use on the bottle’s label and in our promotional materials. The contest winner will receive a $5,000 prize and up to four runners-up will receive $1,000 prizes.
urbanworld film festival: submit your work
Deadline: July 26, 2024 | Festival Dates: November 6-10
The Urbanworld Film Festival is the largest internationally competitive festival of its kind, hosted in New York City. The five-day festival celebrates and honors films/filmmakers who compete across the following categories: Best Narrative Feature (US Cinema), Best Narrative Feature (World Cinema), Best Documentary Feature & Short, Best Narrative Short, Best Young Creators (Ages 18 - 25), Best Web Original, Best Experimental Film, Best Environmental/Social Impact Film, Best Branded Content, and Best Screenplay, as well as Special Jury Awards. A category-specific jury selects the winner in each category.
To waive the submission fee, use our code: UFFBACZERO24
SHIFT: A Residency for Arts Workers 2025
2024 SHIFT Resident, Sonja John working in her studio. Photography by Clarissa Passarinho.
Deadline: July 31
This residency, taking place through Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts (EFA), supports artists who work in arts organizations in NY (as administrators, educators, accessibility consultants, etc.) and provides shared studio space, artist honoraria and production fee, career development opportunities, group catalog production, monthly peer critiques, guest studio visits, and an exhibition opportunity.
AXS Film Fund
Deadline: July 31 | Up to $10,000
AXS Film fund strives to support independent documentary filmmakers and nonfiction new media creators of color living with disabilities in their endeavors to tell stories, make films, and create content. This program is for creators of color in documentary filmmaking or nonfiction new media who identify as living with a disability. While AXS prefers that a person of color living with a disability is a key contributor to the project, the fund welcomes diverse teams to apply.
PEN America Literary Grants
Deadline: August 1
These various grants administered by PEN America intend to aid writers and works-in-progress across various genres, including translation, YA and middle-grade writing, and oral history. The PEN/Bare Life Review Grants support literary works in progress by immigrant and refugee writers, recognizing that the literature of migration manifests value.
“The Right to Have Rights” Open Call for Artwork & Proposals
Deadline: August 5
Dominicans Love Haitians Movement is presenting its second annual Nou Akoma Nou Sinèrji Haitian Dominican Transnational Symposium with the theme, “The Right to Have Rights.” The symposium invites artists, performers, panels, and podcasts to submit artwork and proposals related to the underpinnings of rights and their divestment: belonging, disallowance, invisibility, dignity, exclusion, uprootedness, vulnerability. Dominicans Love Haitians Movement invites artists, performers, panels, and podcasts to submit proposals related to event topics.
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.
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).
Resources
nyc Dance Rehearsal Space Subsidy Program
A list of organizations that offer subsidized rehearsal space to dance artists through the New York City Dance Rehearsal Space Subsidy Program through December 2024. Administered by Dance/NYC and made possible by the Mellon Foundation, the purpose of the program is to make affordable rehearsal space available to dance makers who are in critical need of space for the creation and development of their work, while also fostering a more inclusive and just dance field.
BKCM Studio Collective
BKCM Studio Collective is a true exchange for creatives to share, converse, and collaborate. Membership includes access to BKCM’s 17 practice studios – each home to a Steinway piano – for rent by musicians, writers, composers, and theater-makers. Membership is free!
What We're Reading
“Brooklyn Arts Council’s Rasu Jilani is Granting Social Justice in the Arts”
by Fern Gillespie | Our Time Press
“How to Turn Your Side Hustle into Your Career”
by Jennifer Lewi | Fast Company
“AFROPUNK BLKTOPIA: Culture-Coded Al: Empowering Artists And Ensuring Ethical Innovation”
by Skylar Mitchell | Afropunk
“Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition Celebrates Coney Island”
by Staff | BK Reader
“I’m visiting all 350 of NYC’s neighborhoods. Here’s some of what I’ve learned so far.”
by Rob Stephenson | Gothamist
Cover Image: Vanesa Alvarez Diaz, 2024 BAC Grantee. Photo by Rocio Segura.
Empowering Artists. Empowering Communities.
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