Thrive Fest 2022
Brenda Flores in QUINCE, written by Camilo Quiroz-Vazquez & directed by Ellpetha Tsivicos, Brooklyn Arts Fund & Creative Equation Fund grantees. Photo by Maria Baranova.
October 27 | 2:30 PM - 7:30 PM
COPE NYC
630 Flushing Ave, Brooklyn
Brooklyn Arts Council gathers artists, financial advisors, funders, and cultural entrepreneurs to exchange tools and strategies for financial thriving for creatives.
Presented with community partners COPE NYC and Brooklyn Style Foundation, Thrive Fest 2022 cultivates a growth and diversification mindset by creating pipelines to power, opportunity, and inspiration. Programming includes a Meet the Grantmakers Roundtable with Open Society Foundations, New York Community Trust, Howard Gilman Foundation and a Keynote Chat with Imara Jones of TransLash.
Hekima Hapa; Jessica Schreiber; Korina Emmerich; Dyuna Morgan
STYLE: Pathways in Cultural Entrepreneurship
October 13, 14, 15 | 5 PM
The IW Gallery at COPE NYC
630 Flushing Ave, Brooklyn
Brooklyn Arts Council’s four-part documentary web series, STYLE, debuts at Brooklyn Fashion Week with FREE daily screenings from October 13, 14, and 15 at 5pm. Screenings will take place in The IW Gallery at COPE NYC.
In episodes of STYLE, Brooklyn visionaries – Korina Emmerich of Emme Studios, Hekima Hapa of Black Girls Sew, Dyuna Morgan independent designer with Levi’s, and Jessica Schreiber of FabScrap – share their journeys in entrepreneurship in fashion. Their stories inspire beauty and bravery and offer blueprints for interrupting inequity with business models for the future.
Brooklyn Arts Council is proud to debut this series as part of Brooklyn Fashion Week's 2022 Runway Collection programs.
Become a 2023 Grantee!
Application Deadline: Sunday, October 16, 2022 at 11:59 PM EST
Our 2023 Grant Applications deadline is approaching fast! Don’t miss your chance to apply for awards up to $10,000.
All guidelines and applications for this year's Creative Equations Fund and Community Arts Grants (including Brooklyn Arts Fund, Local Arts Support, and The Charlene Victor and Ella J. Weiss Cultural Entrepreneur Fund) are available here.
Please review the application guidelines thoroughly before beginning your application to make sure you are eligible.
All Creative Equations Fund applicants as well as those applying for Community Arts Grants for the first time must watch/attend at least one Info Session. You can either watch an on-demand recording or attend a live virtual session.
Es usted un aplicante de habla hispana?
Conéctese con Mai-Elka Prado, coordinadora de programas de BAC, para un "Horario de oficina" de Zoom en vivo el Miercoles 12 de octubre de 2022 de 2:30pm a 4pm. O bien, puede agendar una cita y esclarecer cualquier duda que tenga acerca de el proceso y ciclo de aplicaciones del Brooklyn Arts Council. Para más información comuniquese con Mai-Elka Prado (mprado@brooklynartscouncil.org).
Death by Audio Arcade (DBAA), 2022 Brooklyn Arts Fund grantee. Photo by Walter Wlodarczyk, 2018.
Apply Now: Executive Director
Brooklyn Arts Council is looking to hire an Executive Director (ED) with the help of Arts Consulting Group. The ED will serve as a dynamic and visionary leader for Brooklyn Arts Council and key advocate for the borough’s arts and cultural sector. Reporting to the Board of Directors, the ED will serve as the public face of the organization and a convenor within the Arts and Culture community. They will advance the institution as a leading voice, ensuring the achievement of the organization’s philosophy, mission, and core values.
Our Grantees' Events
Upcoming 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 October.
FIRE ECOLOGIES ON NEWTOWN CREEK
Unheard-of Ensemble is a Brooklyn Arts Fund grantee. Photo by Michael Yu.
October 8 | 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Newtown Creek Nature Walk
329 Greenpoint Ave, Brooklyn
Unheard-of Ensemble with the support of the Tideland Institute invites you to a multimedia event that combines music, placemaking, and film projection. Composer Christopher Stark and multimedia artist Zlatko Ćosić share music and film inspired by traveling through an American landscape effected by climate change.
CROWN HEIGHTS FILM FESTIVAL
Crown Heights Film Festival is a Brooklyn Arts Fund grantee.
October 14 | 6:30 PM
October 15 | 9:30 PM
Dweck Auditorium inside Brooklyn Public Library
10 Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn
The 2022 Crown Heights Film Festival is a two night event highlighting local and international filmmakers and artists. There are a total of 17 winning films spread across two nights of screening. From thrillers, to animation, to comedy, this year's film fest hosts local and international up and coming directors and their short film works!
SUNSET PARK WIDE OPEN
NARS Foundation is a Destination > Brooklyn grantee.
October 14 - 16
Various Times & Locations
Over fifteen organizations and individual artist studios are opening their doors to the public, offering an opportunity to meet artists, see exhibitions, and explore a variety of spaces to see what is being created here in the Sunset Park community. The 3rd edition of SPWO has more events, exhibitions, and open studios than ever before! We hope you will join us for this exciting weekend celebrating the incredible arts and artists all throughout Sunset Park!
LayeRhythm x Sun Kim Dance Theatre
Layerhythm Experiment is a Brooklyn Arts Fund grantee.
October 20 | 7 PM - 9 PM
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
40 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York
On Thursday October 20, come witness a unique collaboration between LayeRhythm and Sun Kim Dance Theatre at the New York Library for the Performing Arts, co-presented by Works & Process and 92NY Harkness Dance Center, with community partner Hi-ARTS. The evening will feature choreographed work alongside improvisations by musicians, dancers, and emcees.
Creative Study Live Q&A’s
Creative Study (formerly Art World Conference) is a Brooklyn Arts Fund grantee.
Project Budgeting
October 17 | 5 PM - 6 PM
Virtual
Join Kay Takeda, Executive Director, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, for part two of her wildly popular Q&A on project budgeting. Unfortunately, many creatives experience budgeting in the context of deadlines and crises. Budgeting guru Kay Takeda uses simple spreadsheets to get viewers familiar with the format and the goals of effective budgeting to recontextualize budgeting as a resource and tool for communication.
Creative Study (formerly Art World Conference) is a Brooklyn Arts Fund grantee.
SOLIDARITY ECONOMY WITH ART.COOP
November 14 | 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Virtual
Join Art.coop co-organizers Nati Linares, Marina Lopez, Sruti Suryanarayanan, and Caroline Woolard for a Q&A on community-control of artistic value in the Solidarity Economy movement.
In this Q&A, you will learn about the working class and QTBIPOC creatives who are firing their bosses, freeing the land, electing themselves, and building livelihoods based on care, cooperation, mutual aid, and solidarity. If you are fed up with the system and actively looking for another way, we are here to share another way with you. If you have heard about worker cooperatives, non-extractive loans, or timebanks, but aren’t sure how those relate to you, your life, or your community, we are here to talk about how to bring them to life in daily practice in your context.
CHRISTINA MASSEY'S CHANGING THE COURSE OF TIME
Pink Sunset. Christina Massey is a Brooklyn Arts Fund grantee.
Through November 4
Agnes Varis Art Center
647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
Christina Massey is exhibiting her mixed media glass and repurposed aluminum sculptures in a new colorful installation that activates the UrbanGlass Window Gallery. The work addresses the potential effects of climate change on vegetation over time due to industries like fracking. The works have an oddness and mysteriousness to them, almost acting like crystal balls, where we look within for answers which are obstructed by reflections and patterns which distract us with their aesthetic beauty.
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Events & Programs
Additional happenings hosted by our grantees and other organizations, collectives, and institutions.
Open Streets on #theother5th
Saturdays through October 29 | 11 AM - 10 PM
Along 5th Ave starting at St. Marks Place
Open Streets on #theother5th has been a huge success these past two years thanks to ongoing community support. The Park Slope Fifth Avenue BID started in July of 2020 with just four blocks in the north Slope and have expanded our reach across 15 blocks. This year we’re looking forward to an even more exciting and robust schedule of events.
BRIC JazzFest 2022
October 20 - 22
BRIC House
647 Fulton St, Brooklyn
The 2022 BRIC JazzFest lineup brings together jazz world legends, rising stars, and emerging musical geniuses at BRIC House in Downtown Brooklyn. These artists are pushing the boundaries of the jazz genre, some through the lens and influence of hip hop and others through a musical style all their own.
This year’s star-studded lineup is co-curated by performer Maurice Brown along with BRIC Producer Viviana Benitez and Winter JazzFest Founder Brice Rosenbloom.
Workshops & Professional Development
Reliable workshops from outside collectives and institutions.
Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program for Visual & Multidisciplinary Artists
"In/Between 2022: Transcendental Coordinates," Photo Credit: Maria Baranova, Courtesy of New York Live Arts
Deadline: October 7 at 11:59 PM EST
NYFA’s Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program (IAP) pairs immigrant artists with artist mentors who provide one-on-one support for their mentee, guiding them to achieve specific goals and providing them with broader access to the New York cultural world through an exchange of ideas, resources, and experiences. Most importantly, the mentoring program fosters a community, providing opportunities to connect with other immigrant artists through group meetings, peer learning, and informal gatherings that include alumni from 2007 to the present.
Arts Educators’ Learning Lab:
Celebrating the Creation of Culturally Responsive Practices in Education Spaces
Stipend: $150
Deadline: October 10 at 6 PM EST
Wednesdays, November 2 - December 14 | 4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Hybrid - Virtual & In-person
Apply for the NYC Arts in Education Roundtable’s latest cohort-based learning opportunity, aimed to explore and strengthen culturally responsive sustaining education praxis through peer exchange and support. Facilitated by Janet Onyenucheya and Chelsea Harrison over the course of six sessions, this cohort will walk away with tangible resources to turnkey with colleagues and in the classroom.
THRIVE IN PLACE!
October 11 – November 17 | 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Virtual
ArtBuilt and the Entertainment Community Fund (formerly The Actors Fund) are partnering to present THRIVE IN PLACE! - a workshop to help creative sector workers understand the relationship between housing choices and their financial wellbeing. Focused on affordable housing, homeownership, and building knowledge to improve personal finances, this class uses artist-centric tools and straightforward language to help artists of all disciplines navigate their financial life with creativity, clarity and strength. Build housing security to thrive in place!
Demystifying NFTs
Vicki Da Silva, “Chimney Corner 2,” 2010
October 8 – November 17 | 10 AM - 4 PM
Virtual
Demystifying NFTs is a two-part workshop series and award program where artists, performers, writers, and cultural workers can learn how to create eco-responsible NFTs. While NFTs have disrupted the art world, many of us cannot explain how this technology functions. For this reason, NYFA partnered with artist/technologist Laura Ó Reilly, who developed this program as part of her new Technology Gap initiative in an effort to ground crypto back to earth. Demystifying NFTs presents an accessible, environmentally conscious alternative to creating and stewarding NFTs.
Funding & Open Calls
Reliable funding opportunities from outside collectives and institutions.
Rauschenberg Dancer Emergency Grants
Robert Rauschenberg, “Untitled [Cunningham dancers],” 1961, Copyright: Robert Rauschenberg Foundation.
$5,000
Deadline: October 14
This program provides one-time grants of up to $5,000 to professional dancers* in need, who are in dire financial emergency due to the COVID-19 pandemic and its consequences. “Dire financial emergencies“ include the lack or imminent endangerment of essentials such as housing, medicine/healthcare, utilities, and food. If you were displaced due to COVID-19, expenses to enable you to return to your working home base are eligible. You must demonstrate an urgent and critical need for emergency support in your application.
Culture push Fellowship for Utopian Practice
Deadline: October 13
Culture Push invites applications for our Fall 2022 cycle of the Fellowship for Utopian Practice. The Fellowship is a testing ground for new ideas that connect artistic practice, civic engagement, and social justice. Through the Fellowship for Utopian Practice, Culture Push serves artists by providing creative, analytical, and logistical tools in the creation of truly transformative projects. Of the three selected Fellows, one slot will be dedicated to our Black Utopian Fellow.
Hyperallergic’s Journalism Fellowship for Curators
$5,000
Deadline: October 15
With the support of the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation, Hyperallergic will award $5,000 fellowships to five curators to support ongoing research and develop their experience creating accessible writing and digital exhibitions for a wide audience.
Craft Research Fund Artist Fellowship
Altar: Offerings to Grief, 2021 Artist Fellow Macon Reed
$10,000
Deadline: October 21
The Craft Research Fund is a visionary program dedicated to supporting scholarly craft research in the United States. Awards of $10,000 will be granted to five artists to support research projects that advance, expand, and support the creation of new research and knowledge through craft practice.
A.I.R. FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM
Deadline: November 1 at 11:59 PM EST
The A.I.R. Fellowship Program was established in 1993 by former artist member Stephanie Bernheim in order to support underrepresented and emerging women and non-binary artists in New York City. Each year, six artists are awarded a year-long fellowship to develop and exhibit a project at A.I.R. Gallery.
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.
amant Studio & Research Residency Program
Deadline: November 15
The Studio & Research Residency Program in NY awards artists from around the world with research-oriented residencies in its campus in Brooklyn. Following Amant’s aim of slowing-down the art-making process, we provide artists with space, resources, and guidance to support long-term research projects and archival work. Our program welcomes experimental practices in visual arts, cultural theory, performance, filmmaking, and writing.
KUNSTRAUM OPEN CALLS
All Deadlines: November 15 at 11:59 PM EST
Exhibition view of “ADJUSTED For Inflation” featuring works of Cassandra Zampini, Laura Clark, and Dimana Zaharieva (left to right).
EXHIBITION PROGRAM
KUNSTRAUM is an artist hub, studios and a gallery. Through our Open Call for the 2023-2024 Exhibition Program, we select works that present compelling ideas, unconventional methods, and risky themes that expand the parameters of contemporary art. The resulting exhibition theme is selected and curated by our 2023 Curator-in-Residence.
Artist-in-residence
KUNSTRAUM offers artist residencies, thought-provoking exhibitions, public programs, networking opportunities, affordable studio space, curatorial fellowships, and discourse for creative production. Through the rotating artist residency program, we offer three-month residencies for national and international artists on a quarterly cycle to join our community.
CURATOR-in-residence
For the Curator-in-Residence 2023-24 (“CIR”), we are seeking a self-starter with an innovative and ambitious mind who thrives on creative freedom, is comfortable assuming a leadership role, and has an interest in working within an established artist-run gallery. CIR's mission is to bring a unique curatorial vision to the program and highlight their curatorial practice in the New York art world by facilitating engaging exhibitions and events and building our community.
DeVos Institute GLOBAL ARTS MANAGEMENT FELLOWSHIP
Photo by Lisa Helfert
Deadline: November 18
The DeVos Institute’s Global Arts Management Fellowship provides full scholarship training and support for arts executives from across the United States and around the world over a three-year, cohort-based engagement. Fellows attend a four-week residency in Washington, D.C. for three consecutive years. The Fellowship includes intensive, practical training in artistic & strategic planning, marketing, fundraising, board development, and finance; access to leaders of cultural institutions around the world; and collaborative group work.
SMACKMELLON Artist Studio Program
Deadline: November 23 at 11:59 PM EST
The Artist Studio Program was launched in 2000 in response to the crisis of available affordable space for artists living and working in New York City. The program provides six eligible artists working in all visual arts media a free private studio space accessible 24/7 and a fellowship (dependent on funding).
nars Studio Relief Residency
Deadline: Rolling
NARS’ mission is geared towards creating community while fostering expansion and exchange of artistic and cultural practices. In March 2020, in response to COVID, we dedicated part of the NARS Studios to NY based artists who were in need of a space but were otherwise unable to afford it. Each subsidized studio space is available for 3 months, as a work-space only. Throughout this time, artists have 24/7 access to their spaces and are be able to liaise with a diverse artistic community.
Resources
Get Ready to Vote!
Elections are coming up for Governor, Congress and other legislators who will make critical decisions for our communities – and there will be four ballot initiatives as well. Review the key dates below to make sure you’re ready to vote!
Voter Registration Deadline: October 14
Register to Vote
Absentee Ballot Deadlines:
Request ballot by: October 24
Return ballot by mail by: November 8
Return ballot in person: November 8 by 9 PM
Request an Absentee Ballot
Voting Deadlines:
Early voting: October 29 - November 6
Election Day: November 8
HueArts NYS Survey
HueArts NYS is a research project to create a comprehensive online Map and Directory for and about New York-based arts entities led by, founded by, and centering Black, Latinx, Indigenous, Asian, Pacific Islander, Middle Eastern, and all People of Color. Museum Hue has already developed a Map and Directory, and a Brown Paper for New York City, and is now looking to hear from arts entities founded and led by People of Color outside of NYC to understand the unique cultural arts landscape in New York State. We welcome any POC-founded and led art entity, to complete this survey.
The People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond
The People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond, a national, multiracial, anti-racist collective of organizers and educators, is dedicated to building a movement for social transformation. Our aim is to undo racism and other forms of oppression. Our work has always been to support the development of more anti-racist community organizers, thinking beyond single issues or campaigns to undo racism and elevate humanity.
Dance Industry Census
Deadline: October 31
Through the Dance Industry Census, you can share your experiences as an individual within the NYC dance workforce or as an organization that contributes to it. The Dance Industry Census will let our City’s leaders know that dance workers are demanding the recognition and representation we deserve.
What We're Listening To
ARTMOVEZ
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.
ARTMOVEZ 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.
Radio Show: Sundays at 8pm on WNYE 91.5
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.
Lori Chung. “Afro-Latino Festival Creator Motivated by Need for Community,” NY1, September 2022. Mai-Elka Prado currently works as the Programs Coordinator for Brooklyn Arts Council.
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C. Zawadi Morris. “Becoming Basquiat: His Family and a New Exhibit Offer a Clearer Picture of the Artist, the Icon from Brooklyn,” BK Reader, September 2022.
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Drew Richardson. “Banned Books Week: As book bans become ‘more numerous, more organized, more effective,’ Brooklyn Public Library Fights Back,” Brooklyn Paper, September 2022.
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Jennifer Schuessler. “White House Restores Arts Commission Dissolved Under Trump,” New York Times, September 2022.
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Etty Yaniv. “Repopulations: New Horizons,” Art Spiel, September 2022. Daniela Holban is a 2022 Brooklyn Arts Fund grantee.
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Cover Image: Dancer Lauren Hayes in WE ARE NATURE 4/2021: UNEARTHED presented by NOoSPHERE Arts. Photo by Effy Grey. NOoSPHERE Arts is a Brooklyn Arts Fund 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.