2015 Grantees

BAC Community Arts Grants

2015 marks the 35th year that BAC has been providing this service to Brooklyn’s artists, cultural ambassadors, arts organizations and communities.  BAC Community Arts Grants provide the indispensable service of putting our city and state cultural dollars directly into the hands of the artists and organizations, encouraging the kind of cultural and artistic engagement that has helped make Brooklyn a world-wide destination for arts and culture.

2015 LOCAL ARTS SUPPORT GRANTEES

Anne LaFond
Window Studio Community Art Center

Arts & Democracy Project
Community Ingenuity Project

Bailey's Cafe
As Quiet As It's Kept

BatalaNYC
The Carnival Project Year 2: The Celebration Continues

Brooklyn Art Incubator
Artz Biz Kidz

Brooklyn Youth Company
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle in the Arts

Central Brooklyn Jazz Consortium
Jazz, Art and Nature

Colt Couer Theater Company
Education Initiative

Connection Works
Brooklyn Jazz Wide Open

Cypress Hills Local Development Corporation
Cypress Hills Musical Theater Program

Dariel James
A rubber band and clamp exercise in living color plus more!

Dave Powell
It Took 50 Years: Frances Goldin and the Struggle for Cooper Square

Dishman + Co. Choreography
Fold Rhapsody

Drama of Works
The Female Pirate Project

Ellia & Josh Bisker/Super Fun Variety Show
The Super Fun Passover Seder

Fresh Ground Pepper NYC
Fresh Ground Pepper Brooklyn Challenges

Genspace NYC, Inc
Bioengineering, Biomaterials, and Bioaesthetics

Grace Chorale of Brooklyn
Luminous Night - A Concert for Chorus and String Quartet

Jeff Newell and Resurrection Clinton Hill
A Musical Harvest in the Whole Community Garden

Joel Harrison
Infinite Possibility 2

K.S. J.A.M.M. Dance Troupe
A Brand New Day

Katherine Toukhy
RASMI (Arabic for "my drawing" or "official") community art workshops

Katy Pyle and The Ballez
Sleeping Beauty & The Beast (work in progress)

KowTeff School of African Dance
Home Season

Lane Sell
40 Easy Pieces

LAVA Brooklyn
Community Programs

Mara Mayer
Home Audio performance series

MONO NO AWARE
MONO NO AWARE Analogue Filmmaking Workshop Series

Music Matters Workshops
Music Matters Workshops

Mussukeba Sane
Mussukeba Sane 7th Annual West African Dance & Drum Conference

Myrtle Avenue Revitalization Project
Black Artstory Month 2015

Neil Clarke
Iyesa Drum Celebration for Orisa Osun

New Brooklyn Theatre
LAS MENINAS by Lynn Nottage

New York Art Residency & Studios Foundation
FREE Saturday Family Workshop

Only Child Aerial Theatre
Story Hour

Proteus Gowanus
Trade Routes Exhibition

Quest Youth Organization, Inc.
Elementary Music Ensemble

Regina Opera Company
Free Admission Performances at Public Venues

Renegade Performance Group
The AFROFUTURISM Series

ShapeShifter Plus
Creative Uses of Bass Guitar in Modern Forms of Music

Shoestring Press
Printmaking Workshops for Kids and Families

Singing Winds
Singing Winds: Storytelling from Around the World

Smith Street Stage
Shakespeare in Carroll Park

STooPS
STooPS 2015

Tami Stronach Dance
Around the Bend

The Brooklyn FilmShop
The Brooklyn FilmShop

Tiffany Mills Company
Brooklyn Pop-Up Series

United Community Centers
East New York Farms! Connecting Arts and Food Justice

Williamsburg Art neXus
WAXworks


2015 COMMUNITY ARTS FUND AWARDEES

Adam Golub and Gayatri Kaul
Sisters of the Wicked Wig

Aeilushi Mistry
"Aarti" - Hindu Lamp Ceremony

Aisha Cousins
Soulville Census

Alexander Torres
Exhibition of Alexander Torres's Digital Designs

Alexis Powell
An Invitation to Sleep

Alphabet Arts
Puppets & Poets

Anna LaFond
Window Studio Community Art Center

Annie Ferdous
Music, Dance, and Material Culture of Bangladeshi Weddings

Apogee Journal
Apogee Writing and Activism Workshop

April Mosqus
Brooklyn Girl Film Festival

Arts & Democracy
Community Ingenuity Project

Arts Gowanus (dba, Annual Gowanus Artists Studio Tour, Inc)
CURRENT: Gowanus

BatalaNYC
The Carnival Project Year 2: The Celebration Continues

Beka Goedde
Fictitious Force

Belinda McGuire Dance Projects
Solo Project #3

Bondfire Radio
2nd Annual Bondfire Radio Audio Festival

Brian Cavanaugh
#happy is...

Brooklyn Accordion Club
Brooklyn Accordion Club

Brooklyn Players Community Musical Theater
BPCMT's 5th Annual Muscial - THE PAJAMA GAME

Brooklyn Youth Company
Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle in the Arts

Built for Collapse
Red Wednesday

Christina Antonakos-Wallace
with WINGS and ROOTS

Connection Works
Brooklyn Jazz Wide Open

Dariel James
The Paint Infusion & Dye Mixology Experience

Dave Powell
It Took 50 Years: Frances Goldin and the Struggle for Cooper Square

David Zhu
Chun Lian Chinese New Year: Ming Shu (Folk) Festival

Deborah Monlux
Bayon 'n Brooklyn Music Festival

Desipina and Co.
Bhangin' It

Dishman + Co. Choreography
Fold Rhapsody

Đoan Hoàng
Scars for Eyes: Confronting & Healing Sexual Assault Through Film, Art & Discussion: An Artists Panel, Film Work Screening & Public Discussion

El Puente Bushwick
El Puente Bushwick End of Year [tentative title]

Feed Your Mind Music
Music Matters Workshops

Gary Glazner
Alzheimer's Poetry Project

Green Earth Poets Cafe
Open mic spoken word poetry series

Hamid Rahmanian
Tales from the Shahnameh: Zahhak: The Legend of the Serpent King

Hazuki Aikawa
Departure

Heather Hart
Barter Town

Heels on Wheels
The Opentoe Peepshow: Revealing New Work by Queer Artists

Hekima Hapa
Sew Green Fashion Mini Camp

Interference Archive
Interference Archive Exhibition Program 2015

Isabelle Garbani
Post War Blues

Iviva Olenick
Native/Immigrant City: Brooklyn in Soft Sculpture

Jadele McPherson
DA' CLOCK

Jamie Benson
Third Rail

Jeff Newell's New-Trad Quartet
River Songs of America

Jennifer Wade
Senior Ceramic Tile Mural

Jonathan Allen
Of Gentle Birth

Joshua Davis
Joshua Davis Computer Loops for 4 Choirs and Improvising Bass

Julia Steele Allen
Mariposa & the Saint

Katherine Gressel
In Search of One City: Artists Consider (In)equality

Katherine Toukhy
RASMI (Arabic for "my drawing" or "official") community arts workshop

Katy Pyle and The Ballez
Sleeping Beauty & the Beast (work in progress)

Laylah Amatullah Barrayn
The Baye Fall and the Land: Portraits of Senegal's Dynamic Sufi Community

Little Lord
BAMBIF*CKER/KAFFEEHAUS

Made in Brownsville
Brownsville Entourage Project

Mauricio Morales for El Paper Magazine
El Paper Magazine Webpage and Crossroads Vinyl Project

Michael B. Golub
Red Hook Jazz Festival

NACHMO (National Choreography Month)
NACHMO (National Choreography Month)

Nathan Trice
nathantrice/RITUALS Summer Intensive Project

National Theatre for Student Artists
What Happens Next

National Youth Organization of Pakistan
Community Development Through Language, Literature, and Music of Pakistan

New Brooklyn Theatre
LAS MENINAS by Lynn Nottage

Or Zubalsky
The Ongoing Listenings

Parlé Entertainment & Fariso Jordan
Georgia, the play

Persephone DaCosta
My Brooklyn My Arts

Pixy Yijun Liao
Book Art Workshops in Mandarin at Brooklyn Libraries

PLG Arts Jazz @the Inkwell
PLG Arts Jazz @the Inkwell

Project 59, Inc.
BRURAL: Skin of Liberty, Fractured & re-Structured

Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film Festival & Lecture Series
Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film Festival & Lecture Series

Renegade Performance Group
The AFROFUTURISM Series

Ricardo 'Harmonica Man'
Harmonica Ngoma

Ross Carlisle
Feint, Parry, Jab

Samara Gaev/Truthworker Theatre Company
Truthworker Theatre Company-IN|PRISM: Boxed In & Blacked Out in America

Shoestring Press
Printmaking Workshops for Kids and Families

Singing Winds
Singing Winds: Storytelling From Around the World

Sister Sylvester
They Are Gone and Here Must I Remain

Sisters With Purpose Inc.
East New York Film Festival

Smith Street Stage
Shakespeare in Carroll Park

Steve Cossman
Connectivity Through Cinema : In-person film screening series

Steven Ladd
Chapel

STooPS
STooPS 2015

Textile Arts Center
Sewing Seeds

The Forum Project and the Brooklyn Community Pride Center
What's the T?! Dialogic theatre with LGBTQ youth

The Invisible Dog Art Center
The Invisible Dog Art Center's 2015 Exhibition series

The People Movers
CRAWL

The Sonic Room
The Sonic Room

The Women Beatmakers Conference
The Women Beatmakers Conference

The Writers Studio KW ("kids write")
The Writers Studio KW creative writing workshops for high school students

Todd Shalom & Niegel Smith (Elastic City)
State of Affairs

Walk Of Art
Walk Of Art Kids

Wholelotta Productions
The Pearl Mixed Media Dance Series

With Food in Mind
The Fruity Pop Workshop

Women Writers in Bloom Poetry Salon Curated by JP Howard
Women Writers in Bloom Poetry Salon Literary Salon & Open Mic Series

Yasmin Mistry
Foster Care Film & Community Engagement Project

YK Hong
Brooklynism

Yo-E Ryou
Homeland/Heartland/Dreamland