Brooklyn Arts Council to Receive $75,000 Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts
Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC) has been approved for a $75,000 Grants for Arts Projects award from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to support BAC’s Brooklyn Innovation Institute (BII) programming and neighborhood investments. BII empowers artists and cultural entrepreneurs through professional development, fiscal sponsorship, capacity building, technical assistance, cultural heritage, and community wellness. BAC’s BII is among 1,130 projects across the country, totaling more than $31 million, that were selected during this second round of Grants for Arts Projects fiscal year 2023 funding.
“The National Endowment for the Arts is pleased to support a wide range of projects, including Brooklyn Arts Council’s Brooklyn Innovation Institute, demonstrating the many ways the arts enrich our lives and contribute to healthy and thriving communities,” said NEA Chair Maria Rosario Jackson, PhD. “These organizations play an important role in advancing the creative vitality of our nation and helping to ensure that all people can benefit from arts, culture, and design.”
For more information on other projects included in the NEA grant announcement, visit arts.gov/news.
BAC’s Spring Party is over, but you can still help us reach our fundraising goal!
Photos by Gregg Richards.
Make a donation and show your support for BAC as we continue to empower independent artists throughout Brooklyn. Select prizes from the silent auction are also available for instant purchase.
Have photos to share? Be sure to follow and tag @bkartscouncil on Instagram with the hashtag #BACSpringParty.
Upcoming BAC Coaching Sessions
Grant Writing with Shahid Khan
June 13 | 6:30pm - 7:15pm | RSVP
Shahid Khan will provide methods for identifying appropriate federal grants sources for your needs and guide participants through how to craft a successful application.
Grant Writing with Victor Sirelson
June 14 | 6:30pm - 7:15pm | RSVP
Victor Sirelson will explore methods for identifying appropriate New York State grantmaking sources and discuss requirements and pre-requisites for different grants, the components that make up a complete application, and how to think through your proposal.
Grant Writing with Vong Pak
June 15 | 6:30pm - 7:15pm | RSVP
Vong Pak will share his method for identifying and locating grants geared towards performance and dance and will guide participants through how to craft a successful creative dance grant application.
Digital Archiving with Daniela Fifi
June 16 | 10am - 11am | RSVP
Scholars, cultural practitioners, and artists require assistance in preserving their most vital digital content. Daniela Fifi will assist you in translating archival concepts and best practices into teachable solutions for your projects.
DreamboxXx presented by Death by Audio Arcade (DBAA) & Dreamhouse. DBAA is a Brooklyn Arts Fund grantee. Photo by Walter Wlodarczyk / Gothamist, 2018.
BAC Grantee Events
Bundith Phunsombatlert: Mapping Fragments
Artist Walkthrough: June 10 | 4:30pm
Exhibition Closes: June 11
Brooklyn Public Library is proud to share two bodies of work by artist Bundith Phunsombatlert, the BPL 2023 Katowitz-Radin Artist-in-Residence. This collection touches on cultural dialogues and celebrates the memories and lived experiences of migration. Braiding media, materials, and oral history together, these artworks serve as a map of global diaspora.
Bundith Phunsombatlert is a Brooklyn Empower Fund grantee.
ART YARD BKLYN & Iviva Olenick present:
Earth Mother/Mother Earth
Photo by Meridith McNeal, Co-founder and Director, AYB. ART YARD BKLYN & Iviva Olenick are Local Arts Support grantees.
June 12 | 5:30pm - 7:30pm
Virtual | Email frida@artyardbklyn.org
June 13 | 5:30pm - 7:30pm
Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition (BWAC)
ART YARD BKLYN (AYB) provides free intensive art-making sessions led by professional artists and teaching artists through its Advanced Studio program. This special series of Earth Mother/Mother Earth focuses on themes of nurturance, renewal, and care for all living creatures, women/people with wombs, and the planet. Sessions range in media, processes and referential artworks, and are open to everyone ages 12 and up.
Stand4 Gallery:
Bay Ridge through an Ecological Lens
Exhibition Closes: June 17
Stand4 Gallery hosts Bay Ridge Through an Ecological Lens curated by Jennifer McGregor in collaboration with ecoartspace. This interactive art exhibition features New York artists whose work touches on environmental issues relevant to Bay Ridge.
Stand4 Gallery is a Brooklyn Arts Fund grantee.
9th Annual Brooklyn Americana Music Festival
June 22 - 25
Heralding the beginning of summer, the 9th Annual Brooklyn Americana Music Festival brings together a wide range of roots styles including country, folk, bluegrass, soul, and blues. It’s authentic, heartfelt, and most notably, diverse with an emphasis on LGBTQ and women-led bands.
Crys Matthews performing at Jalopy Theatre for Brooklyn Americana Music Festival, Local Arts Support & Brooklyn Arts Fund grantee. Photo by Quincie Hydock.
SOUP & SOUND: TERRY JENOURE/ANGELICA SANCHEZ & GWEN LASTER'S NEW MUSE — 4TET
Soup & Sound is presented by Continuum Culture & Arts, Local Arts Support grantee.
June 28 | 7pm - 9pm
Soup & Sound features world-class musicians in casual settings with excellent, homemade soup. Here we present Terry Jenoure (violin) accompanied by Angelica Sanchez (piano) and Gwen Laster (violin), with roots and formidable accomplishments spanning many areas.
Events, Workshops, & Professional Development
Jazz at lincoln center presents:
Carnival: The Sound of a People by Etienne Charles
June 9 - 10 | 7pm
Enjoy a high-energy celebration of life, freedom, and history as Etienne Charles plays The Appel Room. A scholar of Caribbean music and conservator of traditions, Charles plans to bring music, dance, costumes, and more to the performance.
The Laundromat Project:
Artists as Neighbors: Living Liberation
June 9 - 11 | Various Times & Locations
The Laundromat Project presents Artists as Neighbors: Living Liberation, a public convening featuring community conversations and panel discussions exploring issues of gentrification and displacement as well as how memory, history, and activism can be used to reclaim and defend neighborhoods.
NY WRITER’S COALITION: Virtual Writing Workshops
Registration Opens: June 13 at 7pm EST
NY Writer’s Coalition’s Virtual Writing Workshops run in 6-week segments, with the intention of having the same participants join each week for all of the six weeks.
Intergenerational Community Arts Council (ICAC) presents:
Spread Love: A Love Letter to Brooklyn
June 14 | 6:30pm - 9pm | Ingersoll Cornerstone Community Center
June 15 | 5:30pm - 7:30pm | Fort Greene Park
June 17 | 1pm - 4pm | Atlantic Terminal Cornerstone Community Center
Arts and community unite in a three day festival presented by the The Intergenerational Community Arts Council (ICAC) that celebrates the cultural legacy of our borough and the healthy futures we can create together. Experience the music, performance, dance, and storytelling of your neighbors in a magical event created by, with, and for the residents of Downtown Brooklyn and Fort Greene.
The Field’s Activate Equity 2023
June 15 | 11am - 7pm
The Field’s annual gathering of artists, cultural workers, activists, and educators tackling the question, "How can we create a more equitable arts sector?" All who recognize the challenges and systemic issues at play in the arts & culture sector, and want to create innovative solutions for addressing them are welcome.
Down the Barrel (of a Lens): a film installation by Kameron Neal
June 16 | 4pm - 8pm
Down the Barrel (of a Lens) is a film installation by Public Artist-in-Residence (PAIR) Kameron Neal that reimagines NYPD surveillance films from the NYC Department of Records and Information Services’ Municipal Archives collection. This installation captures moments from the collection when people stopped to look back, directly at the camera lens, acknowledging they were being surveilled.
BRIC’s Spring 2023 Youth Education Exhibitions
Emerging Creators
Closes June 18
Emerging Creators is BRIC’s yearly student exhibition celebrating the work of young artists and media makers from BRIC's Youth Education Residency Programs in public schools and community centers across Brooklyn and beyond.
Learn More
BRIC Youth Curatorial Exhibition: The World, Reflected In Your Eyes
Closes June 18
The World, Reflected In Your Eyes is planned, promoted, designed, and judged entirely by media-savvy high school students as part of the BRIC Youth Curatorial Fellowship Program.
bric celebrate brooklyn!
June 24 | July 1 | August 10 & 22-24
BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! is a free, summer-long experience allowing New Yorkers to appreciate and discover new genres, acclaimed artists, and world cultures each night of the Festival.
Brooklyn Exhibition Presents:
Do You See Me? : Stories of Yemeni Children
Old Walled City of Shibam by Aboubaker Balfaqih. Age when war started – 10 years old.
July 17 | 4pm - 10pm
Brooklyn Children’s Museum
Do You See Me? is the first exhibition in the USA that features art works of artists between 7-19 years old who have experienced the scourge of wars in Yemen since 2015.
national dance institute (ndi) collaborative:
teacher training workshops
NDI & The Art of Teaching Fundamentals | July 17 - 20 | Virtual
Level One Intensive Training | July 31 - August 11 | In-person
A professional development program for teaching artists, dance educators, musicians, and organizations worldwide. All trainings are experiential and include joyful dance classes, mentored teaching opportunities, stimulating group discussions, and live music. Teachers from all different dance backgrounds find the NDI Method enhances their practice and that our trainings equip them with new teaching strategies to motivate, engage, and inspire diverse learners.
Funding Opportunities
Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Design
$50,000
Deadline: June 12
The Vilcek Prizes for Creative Promise support emerging to mid-career immigrant professionals who have demonstrated exceptional achievements early in their careers. Eligible categories include digital design, graphic design, product design, and social design. Applicants must be born outside the United States to non-American parents; under 38 years old; and have 5 years of professional experience in design and possess a strong track record of creative and high-caliber work.
The JGS Fellowship for Photography
Penelope Umbrico (NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Photography ’10); 6, 063, 750 Suns from Flickr (Partial) 8/26/09, 2007-09, C-Print
$7,000
Deadline: June 14 at 5pm EST
The JGS Fellowship for Photography is a $7,000 cash grant open to New York State photography artists living and working outside of New York City. The Fellowship is awarded to five artists working in traditional and experimental photography or any form in which photographic techniques are pivotal. The support for this funding is provided by The Joy of Giving Something (JGS).
Hi-ARTS CRITICAL BREAKS & SKY LAB Residency
Deadline: June 20
CRITICAL BREAKS is for artists who are in a pivotal phase of developing new or existing work.
Learn More
SKY LAB is for artists who center community engagement in the development of their work.
Learn More
Brooklyn Filmmaker Collective: New Member Application
Deadline: June 30
The BFC mission is to be a supportive network of filmmakers and screenplay writers and they are actively seeking new members who can add unique perspectives and approaches to their existing community.
The Ryan Hudak LGBTQ+ Playwright Award
$10,000
Deadline: June 30 at 5pm EST
The Ryan Hudak LGBTQ+ Playwright Award is a $10,000 cash grant to be awarded to one (1) New York State-based playwright who self-identifies as LGBTQ+. Applicants will need to be practicing playwrights and be able to demonstrate an ongoing commitment to their creative practice and career.
2024 Dieu Donné Workspace Residency
$500 Stipend
Deadline: June 30
The Workspace Residency provides emerging New York State-based visual artists with the opportunity to explore paper pulp as an artistic medium. The program encourages emerging visual artists to explore the creative possibilities inherent in the hand papermaking process, and to develop this medium as a contemporary art form.
CUE Art Foundation: Open Call for solo exhibitions + curatorial projects
Deadline: June 30 at 11:59pm EST
CUE is a small nonprofit organization that aims to present new and exceptionally strong work by under-recognized and emerging artists based in the United States. CUE’s annual open call provides emerging and underrepresented artists and curators the opportunity and necessary resources to realize an exhibition at CUE’s storefront gallery space on West 25th Street in Manhattan, New York City.
Illuminations Grant for Black Trans Women
$10,000
Deadline: July 12
The Illuminations Grant for Black Trans Women supports visual artists who are self-identified Black trans women and trans femmes. The grant sheds light on the under-recognized contributions of Black trans women visual artists and provides critical support to their continuing work.
nysca FY24 Funding Opportunities
Deadline: July 13 at 4pm EST
Support for Organizations - provides flexible general operating and programming funding for non-profit organizations.
Support for Artists - funds creative commissions to individual artists across the state.
Support for Targeted Opportunities - provides funding for creative performance residencies, subsidized rehearsal spaces for all performing art forms, and folk arts apprenticeships.
Support for Regrants and Services - supports regrant and partner organizations while identifying new opportunities to ensure the greater reach of NYSCA funding and greater access for new applicants.
Resources
Get Ready for NYC Primaries
Every City Council seat is up for election due to redistricting. The Bronx, Queens, and Staten Island will also have elections for District Attorneys.
Key Dates":
June 12: Deadline to request your absentee ballot (online or by mail)
June 17: Deadline to register to vote or to update your address, for the June primary
June 26: Deadline to request your absentee ballot in-person from a city Board of Elections office
June 27: Primary Day & deadline to return or postmark your absentee ballot
Learn more in this informative article from The City.
Randy Cohen’s TOP 10 REASONS TO SUPPORT THE ARTS IN 2023
The following 10 reasons by Randy Cohen show why an investment in artists, creative workers, and arts organizations is vital to the nation’s post-pandemic recovery. Americans for the Arts' National Arts Publication Database (NAPD) is a bibliographic tool that gives access current and historical information on a multitude of topics related to arts administration and policy.
NYFA 1-on-1 Consultations for Immigrant Artists
Harvest Dome 3.0 by Alexander Levi and Amanda Schachter, 2021. Photo by Andreas Symietz.
NYFA 1-on-1 Consultations for Immigrant Artists offers individualized career-centered conversations for creatives of all disciplines. During these free 40-minute online consultation sessions with arts industry experts, you can seek advice on specific topics or general resources and opportunities to help you navigate building your arts career in the U.S.
What We're Reading
“Arts Grantmakers Must Change Their Ways”
by Rocío Aranda-Alvarado & Lane Harwell | Hyperallergic
“Arts Gowanus presents New Public Pride Month Outdoor Exhibition”
by Isabel Song Beer | Brooklyn Paper
“Herzog & de Meuron Transforms Derelict Brooklyn Power Plant into Arts Centre”
by Ben Dreith | Dezeen
“Can a Dance Class Free Men’s Bodies in a Place Meant to Contain Them?”
by Brian Seibert | New York Times
Cover Image: Open Arts Studio in Pisa with Keith Haring mural. Photo by Laura Peterson, Artistic Director of Open Arts Studio & 2023 Local Arts Support 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.