A Message from Our Programs Team
A big thanks to those who have applied to our 2022 Creative Equations Fund and Community Arts Grants! We are currently confirming panelists and will start reviewing your applications mid-October through December. Recipients will be notified in January 2022.
We would also like to congratulate Ron Norsworthy, a visual artist, designer, and multi-year Brooklyn Arts Council panelist, who has been highlighted in New York Times! The article, Telling Stories of Black Life Rescued Him, by Seph Rodney “explores his own experiences of marginalization in his textiles, installations and quilts.” You can read more HERE.
Now Hiring: Teaching Artists
Brooklyn Arts Council invites dynamic, experienced and creative Teaching Artists to apply to our Arts in Education Program for Fall & Spring residencies. We are looking for Teaching Artists in all disciplines.
Our Arts in Education (AIE) programs play a critical role in keeping the arts alive in New York City public schools, at the same time promoting the development of essential academic, communication, and critical thinking skills for some of the area’s most at-risk students.
Teaching Artists are asked to complete this online application. We highly encourage Black, Indigenous, people of color and people who identify as LGBTQIA+ to apply.
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Our Events
Thrive Talks: Webinars & Seminars on Financial Literacy & Empowerment
Brooklyn Arts Council joins friends at the NYC Business Solutions Center For Brooklyn, TD Bank, the Brooklyn Coop Federal Credit Union, and POWRPLNT to present THRIVE TALKS, a financial literacy and empowerment initiative to build capacity and sustainability in the cultural sector through webinar presentations and small group seminars led by our partners. Post-presentation seminars featuring Brooklyn artists and cultural entrepreneurs ground these conversations and center artists’ experiences and questions on topics that range from business financing; building a website; developing a business plan, to customizing systems for personal and business bookkeeping; income tax; self-employment tax; business expenses for freelancers; and choosing a bank or credit union.
Thrive Talks Webinar: Breaking the Cycle: Pathways to Financial Freedom - Part 1
October 12 | 5 PM - 6:30 PM
Laurel Eckhert and Natasha Dabney will present and be in conversation with two Brooklyn artists about financial goal setting and tools for tracking personal expenses. Q&A follows.
This webinar is presented in partnership with Brooklyn Cooperative Federal Credit Union (Brooklyn Coop), Grow Brooklyn, and featured artists.
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Thrive Talks Webinar: Breaking the Cycle: Pathways to Financial Freedom - Part 2
October 19 | 5 PM - 6:30 PM
Laurel Eckhert and Natasha Dabney will present and be in conversation with two Brooklyn artists about taxes for freelancers and credit repair tips. Q&A follows.
This webinar is presented in partnership with Brooklyn Cooperative Federal Credit Union (Brooklyn Coop), Grow Brooklyn, and featured artists.
Thrive Talks Webinar: Designing a Business Plan - Part 1
October 21 | 5 PM - 6:30 PM
Akil Ahmed begins this introduction to business plan development with topics like research, components of the plan, describing your product or service, and understanding your market. Two Brooklyn artists join in with reflections about their own experiences. Q&A follows.
Presented in partnership with TD Financial Education and featured artists.
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Thrive Talks Webinar: Designing a Business Plan - Part 2
October 28 | 5 PM - 6:30 PM
Akil Ahmed digs deeper into business plan development with topics like competition, resources, management, employees, and financials. Two Brooklyn artists join in with reflections about their own experiences. Q&A follows.
Presented in partnership with TD Financial Education and featured artists.
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Events, Artist Opportunities & Resources from Our Grantees & Many Other Organizations!
Our Grantees' Events
Upcoming in-person & virtual events hosted by our grantees, fiscal sponsees, and partner organizations. Keep scrolling for a full, comprehensive list of what's top-of-mind this October.
“grounds”
October 8
4:30 PM - 59th St. & 6th Ave., Brooklyn (an Open Culture event)
6 PM - Bush Terminal Park, 43rd St. & 1st Ave. (Meeting point: waves mural)
October 9
2 PM - 59th St. and 6th Ave., Brooklyn (an Open Culture event)
4 PM - Bush Terminal Park, 43rd St. & 1st Ave. (Meeting point: waves mural)
6 PM - Bush Terminal Park, 43rd St. & 1st Ave. (Meeting point: waves mural)
“Grounds” is a new performance fusing devised theater, opera, immersive installations, and site-specific art that intervenes in public space. Experimental director Jennifer Williams and International Contemporary Ensemble, both based in South Brooklyn, team up to create this interactive public ritual of healing for the South Brooklyn community. Retelling New York’s history through an inclusive feminist lens, this environmental opera installation illuminates female-identifying history-makers from Brooklyn, including Shirley Chisholm, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Emily Warren Roebling.
Something Positive Inc: “the arrival”
October 9
1 PM & 3 PM
Weeksville Heritage Center/Heritage Museum
158 Buffalo Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11213
As part of the Weeksville Heritage annual Harvest Festival, Something Positive Inc. will present "The Arrival," which chronicles water's appearance on Planet Earth. The festival will be an afternoon of food, music, tours of our Historic Hunterfly Road Houses, healing workshops, and other fall festivities!
“Brownstone Play Festival”
October 9 at 7 PM
October 10 at 3:30 PM
South Oxford Space
138 South Oxford Street
The Great Room - 2nd Floor
Brooklyn, New York 11217
Bringing you peace, love and theater, the 2021 “Brownstone Play Festival” is bringing you six short, dramatic and comedic one-act plays, each written by an emerging playwright and professionally directed by veteran storytellers from the NYC theater scene. Taking place in Brooklyn’s arts district, at the historic South Oxford Space in the Great Room, you are a mere stone’s throw away from the infamous Brooklyn Academy of Music and home of the Nets-Barclays Stadium and Arena.
Mil's Trills: "Let It Out" Album Release Concert & Songwriting Experience
October 9
Workshop (pizza provided) - 10 AM
Concert - 1 PM
10 Grand Army Plaza
Brooklyn, NY 11238
Join Mil's Trills to celebrate the release of their album, "Let It Out," offering all ages musical tools and activities that help identify, accept, and process emotions in positive and reaffirming ways. Expect a full band performance, dance presentation with Mil’s Trills' students and teaching artist Maria Mitchell, and an opportunity to get creative by participating in a collaborative songwriting experience using Mil's Trills' “Messy Music Method.”
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Gowanus Current: "Gowanus Torrent"
October 12 - 17
11 AM - 6 PM
San Art Framing
254 3rd Ave. at Union St.
Brooklyn, NY 11215
Marking the moment in time before a major rezoning is finalized, Brooklyn filmmakers Jamie Courville and Chris Reynolds present a multi-channel storefront video installation examining the physical transformation of Gowanus. “Gowanus Torrent” will draw from footage gathered over the last eight years for the in-progress documentary feature Gowanus Current.
“UNEARTHLY VISITANTS”
October 22 at 7:30 PM
October 23 at 2 PM & 7:30 PM
October 24 at 2 PM
Triskelion Arts
106 Calyer Street
Brooklyn, NY 11222
A fierce social critic and the first woman awarded the Pulitzer Prize (The Age of Innocence, 1920) Edith Wharton's chilling short stories are the beating heart of this devised play probing the confinement of social norms and the price the living pay for ignoring the past. Adapted and directed by Kevin Ray.
The LayeRhythm Experiment: “LayeRhythm Jam”
October 8 at 7 PM
November 12 at 7 PM
December 10 at 7 PM
92nd Street Y
LayeRhythm Productions, Inc. is a non-profit arts organization founded in 2020 in New York City. As a presenting platform since 2015, we produce and curate monthly “LayeRhythm Jam” events featuring world-class musicians, vocalists, emcees, and street/club dancers who specialize in the art of freestyle. Come be the performers' creative muse and co-create a unique music/dance show with the ensemble live.
“Brooklyn Textile Farm”
October 9
11 AM - 1 PM
Old Stone House & Washington Park
336 3rd Street
Brooklyn, NY 11215
Join Iviva Olenick to view the cotton plants grown at Old Stone House & Washington Park in recognition of the enslaved African and Native American laborers who built this country, and to learn how to card, spin and weave cotton. Free, walk-in event on Saturday, October 9th at Old Stone House & Washington Park, Brooklyn, NY. Suitable for adults and children with an adult companion. This event coincides with the 10th Annual Kings County Fiber Festival. Make sure to stroll around the park and visit the vendors selling textile products and art!
BUSHWICK STARR’s BLOCK PARTY WITH ONE WHALE’S TALE
One Whale’s Tale is a 2021 Brooklyn Arts Fund grantee. Stay connected via website.
October 10
4 PM - 7 PM
Join us for a special one-night only event to celebrate The Bushwick Starr's announcement of their new permanent home!
Come out to our new block for a special one-night only event by Ellpetha Tsivicos and Camilo Quiroz-Vazquez of One Whale's Tale! Set up as an outdoor block-party, this quince-themed event will feature live music, dance, food, drinks, fun local vendors and quinceañera themed festivities! Attendees can also take a peek at The Bushwick Starr's new space before construction begins.
rosa vocal group & renata skobo: “ROSAette”
October 16
8 PM
Triskelion Arts
106 Calyer St.
Brooklyn NY 11222
“ROSAette” is a collaboration between traditional vocal group ROSA and Renata Skobo, choreographer and performer. “ROSAette” is a multidisciplinary and multicultural performance, created and performed by female artists from four different countries, spanning three continents. Inspired by Balkan culture and tradition, performed by women of different ethnic, religious and cultural backgrounds, this piece addresses the very human struggle of being "stuck" and "in-between" in physical spaces, our bodies and our minds. A feeling we have collectively experienced during this global health crisis. Bringing the clash of epochs with a common thread that connects them - the captivity from once visible, and now invisible intruder; this piece is the interplay of struggle, defiance and, at the end, resilience as the inevitable stages of confinement.
L TRAIN BRASS BAND: "BRASSWICK FESTIVAL”
October 16
4 PM - 10 PM
3 Dollar Bill
260 Meserole St.
Brooklyn, NY 11206
Don't miss the third annual “Brasswick Festival” presented by the L Train Brass Band! An outdoor evening of brass, sass, and more! Five live brass bands, three comedians hosting, two food vendors, and a DJ spinning. Proceeds to support culture creators of New Orleans through Feed the Second Line.
Live music performances by Guerrilla Fanfare, Nation Beat, No Small Money Brass Band, Dingonek Street Band, the L Train Brass Band.
Arts Gowanus Open Studios
October 16 - 17
12 PM - 6 PM
Studios from Atlantic Ave. to 20th Street & from Court Street to 6th Ave.
Gowanus Open Studios, aka GOS, is a free annual weekend event that takes place in October. Artists in the Gowanus neighborhood (and slightly beyond) open their studio doors and welcome the public to view art, meet the artists, learn about the process of art-making, and get a glimpse of the life of artists. GOS is an amazing art exhibit and so much more. It is an important opportunity for the Gowanus community to rally around the artists and creativity and energy that makes this area so vibrant.
David Kutz: “The Machine in the Garden”
October 16
3rd Street fence of Old Stone House at 350 3rd St.
A public presentation of “The Machine in the Garden” that will be included in the Arts Gowanus Open Studio event.
The title of this project is a nod to a 1964 book by Leo Marx. His influential thesis considers why the American Pastoral ideal remains a cultural symbol even after massive industrial growth. Marx points to moments in American literature when the American Pastoral landscape is disturbed by a potent symbol of The Machine, the steam powered locomotive.
“Une Soirée Française”
Elina and Camille are 2021 Brooklyn Arts Fund grantees. Stay connected via Facebook, Elina’s Instagram, and Camille’s Instagram.
Elina Akselrud. Photo by Valéry Burot.
Camille Fonteneau. Photo by Andrej Grilc.
October 30
4:30 PM - 6 PM
ART NEW YORK
South Oxford Space
138 South Oxford St.
Brooklyn, NY 11217
This chamber music duo project is a collaboration between Elina Akselrud (piano) and Camille Fonteneau (violin). We are both classically trained musicians with a worldwide performing experience. The repertoire includes Sonatas for violin and piano by César Franck, Maurice Ravel, and Francis Poulenc. We hope very much to see you at the concert and enjoy the beautiful music together!
Events & Programs
Additional happenings hosted by outside organizations, collectives, and institutions.
Re-Imagine Lefferts Historic House: A Community Conversation
October 7
5:30 PM – 6:30 PM
Carousel Lawn (across from Lefferts Historic House)
452 Flatbush Ave.
Brooklyn, NY 11225
Prospect Park Alliance presents a Community Conversation with Meredith Sorin-Horsford, Director of the Dyckman Farmhouse Museum, as part of its "Re-Imagine Lefferts Historic House" initiative to re-envision the mission and programming of this historic house museum while it undergoes restoration to recognize the role the house played as a site of slavery, and tell the stories of enslaved Africans and Native Americans who lived and worked the land.
In this community conversation, Sorin-Horsford and Maria Carrasco, the Vice President of Public Programs at Prospect Park Alliance, will focus on ways of elevating enslaved African narratives.
The Spending Power and Patterns of Latino Travelers
October 7
2 PM - 3 PM
Our “Embracing Diversity” webinar series creates space for honest conversation that uplifts diverse voices, shares the lived experience of New Yorkers of all ethnicities, promotes allyship and accountability within NYC & Company and our membership, and builds meaningful alliances across our industry.
In this webinar, we will hear from research firm MMGY Global about the Latino travel market.
INDIGENOUS PEOPLES DAY NEW YORK CITY
October 10
11 AM - 9 AM
20 Randall’s Island Park
Performances, music, vending, food, spoken word, guest speakers, and an artist evening concert.
October 11
7 AM - 2 PM
20 Randalls Island Park
Sunrise ceremony, water ceremony, and guest speakers.
Panamanian Day Parade
October 9
12 PM
The 26th annual Panamanian Day Parade will be held at President Street and Classon Avenue in Brooklyn. Join the Panamanian community as they celebrate community leaders, educators, and artists who have made a cultural mark in the United States.
National Museum of the American Indian
Digital Lesson: Early Encounters in Native New York
Opens October 25
The Native New York exhibition encompasses twelve places in present-day New York, covering pre–Revolutionary War exchanges through contemporary events. From Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) ironworkers who helped build Manhattan’s iconic skyscrapers to Lenape (Delaware) teens visiting their ancestral home, stories of Native New Yorkers provide an expanded understanding of the region’s history and reveal that New York is—and always has been—a Native place.
Black Art is Eternal—Securing, Creating, and Sustaining Your Archival Legacy
October 27 & November 10
7 PM - 8:30 PM
In this highly interactive two-part workshop, Black artists will have a unique opportunity to learn how to create an archive of their works. Archivist Steven G. Fullwood will present case studies on Black artists’ legacies and offer practical advice about organizing and maintaining archival materials.
NYC Media Lab Summit 2021: Future Imperfect
October 6 - 7
10 AM - 3:30 PM
New York City’s tech and media sectors have been fielding many curveballs. And yet, in the face of disruption we continue to innovate, no matter how uncertain the future may seem at times.
The two-day online conference will bring together 1,000+ virtual attendees from NYC Media Lab’s core community—including executives, university faculty, students, investors, and entrepreneurs—to explore the future of media and tech in New York City and beyond.
ChaShaMa: BAT Open Studios
October 16 & 17
1 PM - 5 PM
Brooklyn Army Terminal
Explore studios of over 100+ visual artists and wander through the historic Brooklyn Army Terminal. This event is produced in tandem with Open House New York and Sunset Park Wide Open where arts organizations from across the neighborhood will be hosting events and open studios.
Free and open to the public. Proof of vaccination and masks will be required.
Youth Theater Ensemble JUNIOR COMPANY Registrations
Tuesdays beginning October 12
4 PM - 6 PM
Irondale in Fort Greene
Free middle school theater ensemble. In the first semester, students work towards an improv night of games, sketches and scenes.
abc Help Desk webinars
Help Desk is an eight-week long program from September 20th - November 12th designed to provide strategy and organizational recovery webinars, office hours for small-group support, and individualized pro-bono consulting for organizations serving communities of color, especially those belonging to Black, Indigenous, and Hispanic communities.
Exploring ESD Small Business Grants
October 6 at 6 PM
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Financial Planning and Risk Management for Your Small Business or Organization
October 20 at 6 PM
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Research, Strategy, Action: Strengthening Foundations, Visioning for the Future
November 3 at 6 PM
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Learn More about Office Hours and 1:1 Consultations
Common Field 2021 Convening: Sustaining futures
November 4 - 13
Common Field is excited to announce the opening of registration for our 2021 Convening: Sustaining Futures! From care sessions and workshops to panels and sound experiences, this year’s program features contributions from individuals and organizations exploring, experimenting with, and imagining new ways of being, living, and working creatively.
Open Boulevards performance series
Through October 10
Open Boulevard locations throughout the five boroughs
A new event series is on its way to the city's Open Boulevards, including Fifth Avenue in Park Slope, according to organizers. OpenCultureWORKS will run the events at its new Open Boulevards, the "supercharged" version of its initiative to close down streets for New Yorkers to dine and get outdoors during the coronavirus crisis from July through October.
Artist Opportunities
Reliable workshops and funding opportunities from outside collectives and institutions.
Professional Development
NYC & Company: It's Time for Culture
October 5 – 31
NYCgo showcases promotions from businesses citywide via our offers page on NYCgo.com, and elevates various categories throughout the year through dedicated marketing programs and campaigns. Businesses are invited to create their own deals within the parameters for a given program, which we will promote across paid and owned channels.
The following organizations can participate: non-profit cultural institutions, non-profit performing arts and Off-Broadway shows.
Young Arts: National Arts Competition
Deadline: October 15
YoungArts identifies the most accomplished young artists in the visual, literary and performing arts, and provides them with creative and professional development opportunities throughout their careers.
Artists ages 15–18, or grades 10–12, in the U.S. are encouraged to apply in the discipline of their choice. They could receive: cash awards; mentorship by accomplished artists; a lifetime of creative and professional support; a peer network of distinguished artists; nomination for U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts; and/or national recognition.
Residencies
Baryshnikov Arts Center Open Spring 2022
$4,500 honorarium
Deadline: October 24
BAC Open is a four-week residency designed to support the creative process by providing artists with resources to develop ideas, projects, and collaborations. The program offers a pressure-free environment for artists, who are encouraged to focus on their current priorities without the expectation of delivering a finished work. The BAC Open format, which hosts multiple residencies concurrently in BAC’s studio spaces, provides opportunities for artists across disciplines to meet and exchange ideas. BAC Open concludes in a day of voluntary public studio showings.
Disability. Dance. Artistry. Residency
Deadline: October 10
Made possible by the generous support of the Craig H. Neilsen Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation, the purpose of the 2021-2022 residency program is to expand opportunities for dancers with disabilities, including spinal cord injury (SCI) and other impairments, and to advance accessibility and equity for disabled dance artists within the larger dance, residency, and presenting communities. Dance/NYC will award residencies to up to ten (10) disabled dance artists and/or integrated dance companies.
Open Calls
Smack Mellon's Exhibition & Artist studio Programs
Smack Mellon's Exhibition Program is at the center of the organization. Designed to advance public interest in the visual arts, the program focuses on providing opportunities for artists to create site-specific works that creatively respond to our space, and work that explores innovative uses of both new technologies and traditional materials.
The Artist Studio Program was launched in 2000 in response to the crisis in availability of affordable workspace for artists living and working in New York City. This program provides free studio space; access to a workshop for metal; wood and general fabrication; a common area equipped with the latest technology; and a fellowship (dependent on funding) to six artists for an eleven-month period.
apexart NYC Open call
Deadline: October 31
Apexart is accepting exhibition proposals for its NYC Open Call from October 1–31, 2021. Five winning proposals will become apexart exhibitions presented at apexart’s NYC space as part of its 2020-21 exhibition season. Curators, artists, writers, and creative individuals, regardless of experience level or location, are invited to submit a proposal online.
Grants & Funding
Communities of Color Nonprofit Stabilization Fund
Up to $35,000 for small organizations
Up to $45,000 for large organizations
Deadline: October 22
CCNSF aims to build the capacity of New York City nonprofits in recognition of the fact that organizations led by people of the community are best equipped to meet the needs of the community. CCNSF is also intended to promote learning among CBO leaders. This initiative supports capacity building; strengthening and rescuing of nonprofit human service providers that serve communities of color including, Muslim and Immigrant communities; and community outreach. Grants may be used for projects related to financial management; leadership development; technology; facilitated collaborations and merger planning; and outcomes.
Circle for justice Innovations 2021 SOS Fund
Up to $5,000
Deadline: December 17
The Strategic Opportunities Support Fund (SOS Fund) is a rapid response funding mechanism that issues micro-grants to organizations addressing crises with strategic organizing and advocacy to meet emergency needs in their communities. The CJI SOS Fund also enables organizations to take advantage of unanticipated opportunities for organizing and advocacy that may be otherwise prohibitive due to a small funding gap.
Impact 100 NYC
$100,000
Application Opens: October 13
Deadline: November 10
Impact 100 NYC, an all-women philanthropic giving circle dedicated to transforming New York City communities through lasting impact, has announced the opening of its 2022 grant application cycle for eligible nonprofits. The all-volunteer organization annually bestows an Innovation Grant of $100,000 to at least one nonprofit operating within the five boroughs of NYC for the benefit of city residents and communities.
The Catapult Development Grant
$5,000 - $20,000
Deadline: Rolling
Catapult gives early support to propel projects forward that hold the promise of a story that should be uniquely told in film. We provide development funding, up to $20,000, to documentary filmmakers who have a strong story to tell, have secured access, and are ready to create a fundraising piece to help unlock critical production funding.
NYC Women’s Fund for Media, Music and Theatre
Image Credit: Courtesy the City of New York Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment.
$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. In 2021/22 cycle, the Women’s Fund will distribute $2.5M in funding to Media, Music and Theatre projects in NYC.
The fund is 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).
The Recharge New Surrealist Prize
Image Credit (Detail): Jan Harrison, BALANCE, 2015, Photo Credit: Nancy Donskoj.
$7,000
Deadline: October 19
The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) is proud to announce the creation of the Recharge New Surrealist Prize, a $7,000 award for painters living in the United States and U.S. Territories who are working in the New Surrealist style. The award program, formerly known as the Recharge Foundation Fellowship for New Surrealist Art, will be administered by NYFA with funding provided by the Gu Family of the Recharge Foundation.
Frameline Completion Fund
Up to $5,000
Deadline: October 31
The Frameline Completion Fund provides grants to emerging and established filmmakers. This program seeks to provide a much-needed source of financial contributions to artists who often struggle to secure funding to complete their works. Grants up to $5,000 are available for the completion of films that represent and reflect LGBTQ+ life in all its complexity and richness.
Café Royal Cultural Foundation Grants
Deadline: November 15
The Café Royal Cultural Foundation is delighted to announce our expansion to New York City. Since 2007 the foundation, based in Hamburg, Germany, has supported and fostered talented artists of all kinds, enabling them to enhance their craft and realize their artistic vision. Café Royal Cultural Foundation NYC is now offering grants for artists in NYC. The awards are established to support and encourage artists residing in New York City who are currently working in music, visual arts, performance and literature.
Pandemic Small Business Recovery Grant PRogram
$5,000 - $50,000
Rolling
The $800 million COVID-19 Pandemic Small Business Recovery Grant Program provides grant funding to small and micro businesses and for-profit independent arts and cultural organizations impacted by the pandemic. The grants will be flexible and can be used for a number of different business operating expenses, including payroll, rent or mortgage payments, taxes, utilities, PPE or other business expenses incurred between March 1, 2020 and April 1, 2021.
Fellowships
En Foco Photography Fellowship 2022
$1,000
Deadline: November 18
En Foco is highly regarded for its leadership in support of photographers of color and for its advocacy role in addressing the issues related to cultural equity and access.
The 7th annual En Foco Photography Fellowship is designed to support photographers of color who demonstrate the highest quality of work as determined by a photography panel of peers and industry professionals. The Photography Fellowship Program will: Award ten fellowships at $1,000 per; include fellows in a 2022 group exhibition; feature the fellows in the 2022 Nueva Luz publication printed and online editions; and provide professional development and networking opportunities.
Resources
Art Movez Podcast & Radio Show
Hosted by Toni Williams and Eli Kuslansky, the ARTMOVEZ_ podcast series interviews art luminaries, cultural leaders, community advocates, performers, authors, and emerging artists at the cusp of a new renaissance as we strive to make the arts more accessible, equitable and relevant.
Our conversations promote an equitable, diverse and inclusive artistic cultural space, that values and appreciates varied forms of expression, where everyone has access to full participation in the arts.
Support Afghanistan & Haiti
Human rights are universal, basic rights. Brooklyn Arts Council stands in solidarity with the people of Afghanistan and Haiti as well as those dedicating time and effort to provide relief. In light of recent tragic events, we are sharing a variety of resources from organizations focused on aiding safety and recovery efforts. Please consider donating, volunteering, or writing a letter to Elected Officials during this time of crisis. Together, we can make a difference.
Dance/NYC: Hurricane Ida Dance Impact Survey
In the wake of Hurricane Ida, Dance/NYC is committed to advocating for the dance community, and, in particular, the segments of the dance field that have disproportionate access to resources. You can help Dance/NYC better assess and respond to the field’s disaster relief and recovery needs by completing the Hurricane Ida Dance Impact Survey.
Americans for the Arts’ COVID-19 impact SURVEY
Deadline: October 15
Americans for the Arts has created a new short survey about the impact of COVID-19 on the employment of artists and creative workers. It will provide crucial info about employment and government assistance for artists and creative workers. The findings will be published by the end of the year and will inform ongoing advocacy for support of arts workers. Please support advocacy for arts and culture workers by taking five-ten minutes to complete the survey.
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.
Artnet Staff. “Afghan Artists Watch, and Worry, as Taliban Promises a Framework Rooted in Islamic Law to Evaluate Cultural Production,” artnet, September 2021.
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James Barron. “Tonight, a Night at the Theater,” New York Times, September 2021.
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Carina del Valle Schorske. "Dancing Through New York in a Summer of Joy and Grief," New York Times, September 2021.
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Melissa Smith. "The Guggenheim’s Chief Curator Naomi Beckwith on Why She Still Has Faith in Museums—and How They Can Change," artnet, September 2021.
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During times of uncertainty, Brooklyn Arts Council depends increasingly upon community members like you to help us continue celebrating and empowering local artists.