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OUR MISSION
Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC) strives to enrich the quality of life throughout Brooklyn by fostering, encouraging and promoting the arts through service and support to artists and arts organizations.
ABOUT BAC
Founded in 1966, BAC is the umbrella for Brooklyn’s range of cultural groups and individual artists working in the visual, performing, media and literary arts. BAC helps Brooklyn’s artist population–from the experimental to those preserving and evolving traditions of cultural heritage–create and present their work. BAC ensures that thousands of people throughout Brooklyn have access to a variety of free arts programming each year. Our programs are essential to the livelihoods of thousands of artists, creative professionals and arts organizations across the borough.
BAC takes a leadership role in creating an environment conducive to the arts by providing grants, resources, referrals, networking opportunities, seminars, performances, screenings, exhibitions and other activities that support and encourage the arts. These efforts ensure that Brooklyn’s ever-expanding cultural community remains a strong and vital part of the borough’s social and economic fabric.
Current programs and support services include the Community Arts Regrant Program, Professional Development Seminars for the Arts, Arts in Education, BAC Folk Arts, Scene: Brooklyn, Independent Film and Media Arts and BAC Gallery. BAC also offers technical assistance to individual artists and art organizations.
BAC takes a leadership role in creating an environment conducive to the arts by providing grants, resources, referrals, networking opportunities, seminars, performances, screenings, exhibitions and other activities that support and encourage the arts. These efforts ensure that Brooklyn’s ever-expanding cultural community remains a strong and vital part of the borough’s social and economic fabric.
Current programs and support services include the Community Arts Regrant Program, Professional Development Seminars for the Arts, Arts in Education, BAC Folk Arts, Scene: Brooklyn, Independent Film and Media Arts and BAC Gallery. BAC also offers technical assistance to individual artists and art organizations.
This video was aired as part of the Brooklyn Community Access (BCAT) Neighborhood Beat program.
Past episodes of the Neighborhood Beat series can be viewed on the web at:
http://www.briconline.org/bcat/features/neighborhoodbeat.asp
Meet the BAC team! Click on a name to view the staff member's bio. Ella J. Weiss, President Kathleen Christie, Arts in Education Manager Sara DeRose, Marketing and Communications Direct... more
Honorary Chairman Marty Markowitz, Brooklyn Borough President Chairman Dr. Thomas F. Schutte Vice Chairmen Peter Aschkenasy Marvin Numeroff Treasurer Sylvia Lanka Barone Secretary M... more
This website was made possible, in part, by Fidelity Investments through the Fidelity Foundation and by Robert Sterling Clark Foundation. Council programs are made possible, in part, with public fu... more
BAC is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and strives to build a staff and board that reflect the cultural diversity of New York, the constituencies and neighborhoods we serve.... more
Brooklyn Arts Council 55 Washington Street, Suite 218 Brooklyn, NY 11201 Office hours hours are Monday through Friday 10am - 5:30pm. BAC Gallery hours are 10am - 5pm. phone: 718-625-0080 f... more
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