2017 Grantees

BAC Community Arts Grants

2017 marks the 37th 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.

BAC celebrates its grantees in a public ceremony on Wednesday, March 29, 2017 at Brooklyn Borough Hall.

For our list of 2017 Panelists, click here.

BROOKLYN ARTS FUND

Funded by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA).

DANCE

Annie Wang
Hyperspace Dance Marigram

Dance Caribbean COLLECTIVE 
New Traditions Festival 2017

Flex Program 
FlexIN - FlexOUT

Hadar Ahuvia 
Joy Vey

Jamel Gaines' Creative Outlet Dance Theatre of Brooklyn 
Remembering

Persephone 
My Brooklyn My Arts

Suku Dance Lab 
Me Hago Falta

FILM

ActNow Foundation, Inc.  
New Voices in Black Cinema

Caribbean Film Academy 
Caribbean Film Series

Carolyn A. Butts-Schmalenberger 
Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film Festival & Lecture Series

Chivas DeVinck 
The Poets

Lizzie Olesker & Lynne Sachs 
EVERY FOLD MATTERS

The Black TV & Film Collective 
Make Your Web Series Brooklyn

Yasmin Mistry 
Foster Care Film & Community Engagement Project (FCFCEP)

FOLK ARTS

Cheryl ~The Gourd Lady~
Thomas Make & Play Shekere Workshop

James Lovell 
Garifuna Language Preservation and Performance with Music

Reggie Gray 
The D.R.E.A.M. RING (Dance Rules Everything Around Me)

Wafa Ghnaim 
Tatreez & Tea: Embroidery and Storytelling in the Palestinian Diaspora

INTERDISCIPLINARY

Artifacts From Soulville 
Briar Patch Sculptures

David Goren 
The Brooklyn Pirate Radio Sound Map

Glasshouse 
The Neo-Domesticity Performance Festival

Kevin Augustine's Lone Wolf Tribe 
BODY CONCERT

Nicole Shanté White 
Another Goddamn Lesbian Movie

OlaRonke Akinmowo 
The Free Black Women's Library

Peter Burr 
Aria End

Place in History 
Acreopolis Enterprises

RUSTY ZIMMERMAN 
The Free Portrait Project

LITERARY

Apogee Journal 
Writing in the Margins

Gary Glazner 
Alzheimer's Poetry Project

JP Howard aka Juliet P. Howard 
Women Writers in Bloom Poetry Salon (WWBPS) Literary Salon & Open Mic Series

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

MULTI-DISCIPLINARY

Arts Gowanus Art
Activism, & Civic Dialogue Festival

Dawn J. Fraser 
Barbershop Stories - Podcast

Jesse Phillips-Fein & Shanté Paradigm Smalls 
The Work of Imaging: Art in the Age of "Apocalypse"

Mariel Berger/The Moon Show 
The Moon Show

Sinking Ship Productions 
Puppet Playlist

STooPS 
STooPS 2017

The Octavia Project 
The Octavia Project Summer Program

Underwater New York 
Underwater New York

MUSIC

Brooklyn Raga Massive 
Brooklyn Raga Massive Weekly Concert and Jam Session

Building Beats 
Building Beats Remix Workshops

Coney Island Reggae On The Boardwalk 
Coney Island Reggae On The Boardwalk

Danielle Brown 
My Music, My Culture: The Caribbean Diaspora in Brooklyn

Feed Your Mind Music 
Music Matters Workshops

Kaoru Watanabe 

JO | HA | KYU

Mara Mayer 
Home Audio performance series

PLG Arts 
PLG Arts Jazz at KD's

Quest Youth Organization, Inc. 
Youth Jazz Jamboree Competition

Toni Blackman 
The Cypher Summit

Yacine Boulares 

AJOYO's creative residency at Bar Lunatico

THEATRE

Honest Accomplice Theatre
The Birds and the Bees: Unabridged @ Brooklyn College

Live Source Theatre Group
AS I LAY DYING Workshop Production

LoftOpera
Rossini's Otello

Maaa Theater
The Little Black Fish

Oye Group
Shake On The Block

Polybe + Seats
The Art of Hijab, Kohl Black, and the Right Way to Pray

Rooted Theater Co.
A LESSON BEFORE DYING by Romulus Linney based on a novel by Ernest J. Gaines

Samara Gaev/Truthworker Theatre Company
RE:VISION | A State of Emergence

Spiderwoman Theater
Fear of Oatmeal

The Habitat Theater Company
The Directors Playground Playoffs

The Light Fantastic Theater Company
A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE for Brooklyn

VISUAL ARTS

Anne LaFond 
Window Studio Community Art Center

Bay Ridge Storefront Art Walk 
8th Annual Bay Ridge Storefront Art Walk

Black Girls Sew 
Sew Green Fashion Camp

Fulton Art Fair, Inc. 
Fulton Art Fair Artist Lounge

Jahlel Goodwin-Blackman 
JG Blackman: Through My Eyes

Laylah Amatullah Barrayn 
Mfon: A Journal of Women Photographers of the African Diaspora

Linda Herritt 
Grease Rust Soot Sweat

Nancy Siesel 
Boro Park Project

Sarah Nicholls 
Jamaica Bay Pamphleteering Project

Wayfarers 
Summer Artist in Residence and Exhibition

For more information about Brooklyn Arts Fund

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DESTINATION: BROOKLYN

Funded by the Office of the Brooklyn Borough President Eric L. Adams and NYC & Company Foundation.

Arts Gowanus
Bay Ridge Storefront Art Walk (SAW)
Brooklyn Raga Massive
Building Beats
Coney Island History Project
FiveMyles
Fort Greene Park Conservancy
Haiti Cultural Exchange
Jack Arts, Inc.
Live Source Theatre Group
Lotus Creations Academy of Performing Arts, Inc.
NURTUREart
NY Writers Coalition
Open Source Gallery
PUPPETRY ARTS
ShapeShifter Plus
Smack Mellon
Steps Theatre & Production Company
Thelma Hill Performing Arts Center
Triangle Arts Association LTD.

For more information about Destination>Brooklyn

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LOCAL ARTS SUPPORT

Funded by the Decentralization Program of New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA). 

DANCE

Artichoke Dance Company 
Global Water Dances on the Gowanus Canal

Asase Yaa Cultural Arts Foundation
Art is Alive

Brighton Ballet Theater 
2017 Nutcracker and World of Dance Youth Performances

Cora Dance 
The Cora School for Dance

Dance Caribbean COLLECTIVE 
New Traditions Festival 2017

FILM

The Caribbean Film Academy 
Caribbean Film Series

The Brooklyn Chapter of The Links & Salute to Youth Inc. 
16th Annual Women of African Descent Film Festival & Youth Film Festival

FOLK

Polish American Folk Dance Company 
End of Season Concert

Victor Sirelson 
Lecture Demonstration on Dance and Music of Georgia

Wafa Ghnaim 
Tatreez & Tea: Embroidery and Storytelling in the Palestinian Diaspora

MULTI-DISCIPLINARY

RUSTY ZIMMERMAN 
The Free Portrait Project

STooPS 
STooPS 2017

The Arab-American Family Support Center 
Traditional Arts Youth Program

MUSIC

Brooklyn Raga Massive 
Brooklyn Raga Massive Weekly Concert and Jam Session

Building Beats 
Building Beats Remix Workshops

Feed Your Mind Music 
Music Matters Workshops

Fort Greene Park Conservancy 
Fort Greene Park Jazz Festival

Grace Chorale of Brooklyn 
Songs of Spring

PERFORMING ARTS

East New York Farms! 
Connecting Arts and Food Justice

THEATRE

LoftOpera Rossini's

Otello

Polybe + Seats 
The Art of Hijab, Kohl Black, and the Right Way to Pray

Smith Street Stage 
Shakespeare in Carroll Park

Spellbound Theatre 
Family Outreach Programs

VISUAL ARTS

Amanda Patenaude and Fort Greene Park Concervancy 
Fort Greene Park Glass Mosaic

Anne LaFond 

Window Studio Community Art Center

Bay Ridge Storefront Art Walk 
8th Annual Bay Ridge Storefront Art Walk

Interference Archive 
Protect! Fight! Heal!

Young New Yorkers 
Our Voices: Ongoing Courtroom Exhibitions

For more information about Local Arts Support

 

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