2025 Grantees

 

This year, Brooklyn Arts Council will provide $1.17 million to 299 Grantees through Brooklyn Arts Fund, Creative Equations Fund, the Charlene Victor and Ella J. Weiss Cultural Entrepreneur Fund, and Local Arts Support.

 

Brooklyn Arts Fund

 

Cultural Heritage

Aeilushi Mistry
2025 Aarti Hindu Lamp Ceremony

Bangladeshi Ladies Club
Stitching Stories: Embroidery Workshop for Sharing Childhood Tales

Capoeira Angola Sport Center
Fruta Madura Que Deu Semente - 2 Grand Masters

Capoeira Angola Sport Center - Ceca-Masters Grande
Fruta Madura Que Deu Semente - 2 Grand Masters

Cheryl ~ The Gourd Lady ~ Thomas
Make and Play Gourd Instrument Workshop

Chikako Iwahori
BNG Oendan

Dr. Jihene E. Serkhane
The NY Chaabi Orchestra 2025

Eileen Baptistin Level
PaleFO Cinema

falgoush
DAST DAR DAST

Glenda Sol Koeraus
Magic of Flamenco! Building Bridges between Cultures

Juan Ospina
Rueda de Oro

Ming Liang Lu
Chinese Paper Cutting Workshop for Celebrating Lunar Year of the Snake

Niko Diarra-Koloseus and Balafon Quartet 
Balafon Quartet: Tradition Reimagined

 

Dance

Alisha Desai
4th Annual Garba in Brooklyn; A Navaratri Performance and Festival

Althea Dance Company
RE•GARD: Stories echoed through Image & Movement

Anabella Lenzu | DanceDrama
Dances, Stories, and Songs to pass down to the next generation

Ankita Sharma
dhoka/Betrayal/

Cameron McKinney | Kizuna Dance
Kizuna Dance Open Intensive

Chia-Ying Kao
The Line Within

Dishman + Co. Choreography
Belly

Flex Dance Program Inc.
Flex Hype

Imogene Williams 
Land of the Free

Juliana F. May
Optimistic Voices (2025)

Kadeem Alston-Roman
The Healing Stage: Dance, Wellness, and Resilience

Kimiko Tanabe
Welcome to Topaz

Laura Peterson Choreography
Beyond

MV Dance Project
Our Bodies, No Apologies

Maiha Dang
Maiha Dang's Dance Film

NANM, A Robenson Mathurin Dance Company
TRANSIZYON

NVA & Guests
Cry Wolf

Nikki Theroux
Wildflower Collective

Persephone DaCosta
My Brooklyn My Arts, "Wake Up"

Peter Cheng, Founding Director
PLAY MOTION LAB

Petra Zanki
Murmurations

Shannon Yu余香儒 | SHA Creative Outlet
...all knowing 瞭然

Symara Sarai
Angelic Architectures 

Torkom Movsesiyan
Middle Eastern and North African Nights (MENA) in Brooklyn

 

Film & Video

Alfreda's Cinema
Alfreda's Cinema's Open-Air Summer Film Series

Alison Cornyn & Heather Greer
Hilda O. vs. The State of New York

Brydie O'Connor
The Roaming Center for Magnetic Alternatives

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

Charlotte Juergens
Breathing Room: Remembering a Pandemic

Ellen Martinez & Steph Ching 
Slumlord Millionaire

Fanny Texier
A Woman's Place Is Everywhere

Jamie Courville & Chris Reynolds
Gowanus Current 

Kelly Anderson & Jay Arthur Sterrenberg
Emergent City Brooklyn Community Board Tour

Le Joy Li
Asian Vote

Maaa Film
Iranian Women Film Series

Nancy Siesel
Happy in the Bronx

Siji Awoyinka
EJIRE

Stoop Stories
Stoop Chat Film, Episode 4

Taylor McNulty
THE OWLS

The PTA of PS 133
Community Learning

UFO (Untitled Filmmaker Org)
UFO Short Film Lab Community Screening

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

 

Interdisciplinary

Adrienne Westwood Projects | VIA Collaborative Arts Corporation
[ ] by Adrienne Westwood & Angélica Negrón 

Amy Ruhl
We shall not miss it

Angelica Sze-Chun Olstad 
Music for Healing 

Anna Ting Möller
Grafting: Whip and Tongue  

Brandon Woolf
The Mend

Brooke Singer
Carbon Sponge

CAROL Performance Group
To Bridge Ten Millennia

Camille-Louise K. Mbayo
Crafting Our Legacy: An Afrofuturist Engineering Experience

Chelsea Randall
American Mavericks Project 1: Quest

Cherrie Yu
Verb List

ChrisMastersDance
Feral Vintage

Diane Jacobowitz
Common Ground - Creating an Intergenerational Creative Movement and Music Workshop

Dominicans Love Haitians Movement
Nou Akoma Nou Sinerji (We Heart We Synergy) Haitian Dominican Transnational Film Festival

DuKode Studio
THE PROTOTYPE: an animation & creative tech workshop for gender expansive femmes of color in STEM

Hadar Ahuvia 
nefesh

Hannah Mitchell 
TRAD

Iviva Olenick
Brooklyn Embroidered Oral History Garden Tours 

Jak Ruiz
Legends Next Door

Jan Mun
The Fairy Rings | Air Trust

Jessica Shane (Constellations) & Yasaman Mansoori (That Intimate Feeling)
wav.pool

Kelly Ashton Todd
Under Review: Conservation

Lauren Hlubny & Danse Theatre Surreality
Shadowboxing in Blue

Leslie Cuyjet
For All Your Life

Lisa Wilde & DFaye Anderson
Denizens: We Belong to this Place

Lucia Warck-Meister
Anahí and the Ceibo Tree

Martina Abrahams Ilunga
Black Storytelling Week 2025 Celebration (Co-presented with NATAL & Weeksville Heritage Center)

Melinda Gonzalez
Juntos con la Bomba

Modicute
The Puppet’s Verdict: A Courtroom Cabaret

Parle Endeavors
Best of Brooklyn Poetry Slam Series

Sarah Esocoff
Sounds Gay

The Circle Keepers 
The Sounds of Justice and Joy Fellowship

Vincent Tiley
Community Couture Club

Voices of Lefferts Community History Project
Mapping Black History in Brooklyn 

Xinan Helen Ran
The Mandarin Project

 

Literary Arts

Brooklyn Women's Writing Group
Writing Conference with Brooklyn Women's Writing Group

Farah Faye
Scrappy Reading Series

Grace Issues
Unearthing Vol II: Speculative Archive

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

Mónica-Ramón Ríos
The Letter Podcast: Live Readings

PLAY Zine
PLAY Zine

Pulp Culture Inc.
Pulp Culture Inc.'s InterGen Club

Shirine Saad
Al Atlal: A Noise Zine

Tables of Contents
Tables of Contents Summer Reading 

The Parlor
The Parlor Reading Series

exquisites 
exquisites, queer and trans poetry reading, workshop, publication series 

 

Multidisciplinary

ABCirque
ABCirque Rising Stars 

Ann Rosen & Alice Braziller
Being Seen: Photography, Art and Writing Workshops for Women from Marginalized Communities

Arcade Commons
Infinite Continues: Collective Achievement Arcade Cabinet

Camilo Quiroz-Vázquez & Ellpetha Tsivicos 
The Brooklyn Cumbia Festival 

Carolyn Hall | Sunk Shore
Sunk Shore: Bay Ridge

Dana Hurwitz, Founder of Bond Hardware 
Bond Hardware Gallery 

Divine Times Collective
The Pan-Afro Wisdom (P.O.W.) Fest

Emissary Quartet
HARBOR

Irene Koloseus & Sound Bridges
"Harmony in the Heart” - Brooklyn Concert Series with the group Sound Bridges

Jack Holloway
Despair Sanctuary

KPC - Keeping People Connected
KPC's Pathway to Wellness through Movement

Libby Mislan
Inside Decatur Street 

Niama Safia Sandy
Genealogies of Sovereignty 

Okai Musik LLC
Conch Shell Symphony

One Breath Rising, Inc.
Brooklyn: Many Voices, One Breath - 2025

Project.KB | Studio.KB
Creative Entrepreneurship Series 

Rainy Lehrman
NY Lumber Library

Remy Davison
The Artisan Who Made Me

Rochelle Jamila
(blues) testimony for Lenapehoking

Rodney F. Fleurimont
Conch Shell Symphony

Rohan Bhargava | Rovaco Dance Company
Rovaco Dance Party 2025

Rusty Zimmerman
The Free Portrait Project

Shima Oliaee
The New 9 to 5

Spiffemol Industries Radio Hour
Spiffemol Industries Radio Hour

Stephanie Pierre, MBA of The Melanin Project 
Roots to Routes; A Cultural Map of East Flatbush 

Story Teller Gordon
Author Verses

The Center for Artistic Development, Inc.
Musical Wave Festival

The Exponential Festival
The Exponential Festival 2025

The Grandparents Story Lab
Interview your abuela

Tomato Mouse
2025 Exhibition Season

VERS :: Clothing for People
Sewing Skillshare Series

 

Music

Artifact (Matthew Ryals & Brian Wenner)
Artifact 2025 Concert Season

BlackBox Ensemble
BlackBox Ensemble Fall 2025 Season

Brackish – music & art
Brackish – music & art

Brian Prunka
Music for Oud, String Quartet and Percussion

Brooklyn Jazz Underground
Brooklyn Jazz Underground Presents

Brooklyn Maqam
New York Oud Festival

Carter Van Pelt
Summer Soundsystem Series

Concerts on the Slope
Neighborhood chamber music concerts in Park Slope, Brooklyn

Connection Works
Wide Open Works

Despers USA Youth & Culture Association, Inc.
Rhythms of Heritage

Friends of Bushwick Inlet Park
Friends of Bushwick Inlet Park Summer Music Series '25

Jae Kyo Han
A4 Collective

Killer Queen Opera
Madam

Koku Gonza
Young Maandazi: Cultural Currency 

L Train Brass Band
Brasswick 2025

Marwan Allam
Brooklyn Meets Chaabi

Megumi Saruhashi
Megumi & Friends

NYC Radio Live
Ragas Live Festival

Nietzsche Music Project
Black Broadway: The Early Years

Operation Gig
Operation Gig

PLG Arts Inc.
PLG Arts Music Series 2025

Perennial Muse
Lunch Music Cafe

Pique-nique
Unheard

Randall Woolf
"The Boy Who Drew Cats" Dance Party

The Narcotix
Echoes of the Divine 

The Rhythm Method
Rose Stoller & The Rhythm Method

Ty Citerman
Bop Kabbalah+Voices

 

Theater

Abbie Goldberg
504: The Musical

Asia Stewart
any experience with men and alcohol

Brooklyn Youth Company
Our Town: Flatbush and Church Ave

Built4Collapse
IRANIAN GIRLFRIEND (your mother wants you dead)

Das Besties
Das Rauschgift

Evan Silver aka Tiresias
Tiresias Presents UNDERWORLD: Abyss

Grand Pistachio
Layer the Walls @ Brooklyn College 

Ivan Talijancic
TRACES

Maria Müller
ExtraO1dinary Aliens! (Exit I-485)

Marina Zurita
Riven

Michael Galligan
Cloud Baby

Paul William Levine & Jordan Powell 
Sapphire by Ella Lee Davidson

Robin Bady
Nancy Drewinsky and the Search for the Missing Letter 

The Opera Next Door
Don Giovanni: A New York Tale

Theater in Asylum
The Seven Deadly Sins Cabaret

 

Visual Arts

ASMP NY & BKC
The Bridge: Real World Mentorship For Emerging Photographers

Anderson Zaca
Urban Legendes Mixtape

Armando Guadalupe Cortes
Dead Parrot Radio

Art Yard Bklyn
Advanced Studio

Cam Moore
Complementary Colors: Artistic Exploration for LGBTQ Survivors of IPV

Gallery Particulier
Gallery Particulier Sharing Art In Innovative Ways

Jennifer Wade
JASA Sheuer Older Adult Center of Coney Island Artist-In-Residence Ceramic Mosaic Group

Joshua Obawole Allen
Beings of Light

Juan Carlos Pinto Diaz
Brooklyn Recycle Project

Katherine Toukhy
Iteru

Kelsey Strauch
Gallery BQE

Lady Jday
The Resilience Wall 

Laleña Garcia & Annabelle Heckler
Singing For Our Lives

Leila Seyedzadeh
Echoes of Belonging: A Printmaking Workshop for Displaced Narratives

Mia Wright-Ross
Loose Chains Change

Melvin Isaac
Melvins Black Art Perspective Collection

Michela Muserra
Bedstuy Walls Mural Festival

Mollie Hosmer-Dillard
Multi-Vocal Public Art Piece with Incarcerated Youth

Mookntaka
Mookntaka's Friends and Follies: Squirmy-Wormy

Nzingah Oyo
Bright Minds Photo Diaries

RaisingHealth Partners
Sunset Park Unity Mural Project

Roland Mikhail
An Absence Reappears

Sara Kostic & Arantxa Araujo
The Bitter End

Seeds Of Liberation | Aliffer Zamira Sabek
Reclaiming Our Earth

Seema Lisa Pandya
Rain Taal - Public Sculpture

Stand4 Gallery & Community Arts Space
Essential Shore / Permeable Future

Stella Boatemaa Magloire
Our Year in Focus: Beyond the Pages

Yukai Chen
Meet Me At The Horizon

Zaq Landsberg & Dario Mohr
Trophy

Creative Equations Fund

 

Cultural Heritage & Diversity + Dance 

Briana Calderón Navarro
Artisans in Motion: Documenting Indigenous Latin American Dance 

Chief Awosanmi Sekou Alaje
256 Isese Festival NYC

David Lee
Resonance

Glenda Sol Koeraus
Season of Grace

Jian Yi
Cloud States

Redhawk Native American Arts Council
Redhawk Native American Arts Council

 

Justice, Equity, & Sustainability + Performing Arts

Brooklyn FAM
Brooklyn FAM

Brooklyn Youth Company
Our Town: Flatbush and Church Ave

Camilo Quiroz-Vazquez & Ellpetha Tsivicos
The Brooklyn Cumbia Festival

ChamberQUEER
ChamberQUEER 2025: Ancestry

Cultural Museum of African Art Inc | The Eric Edwards Collection
African Art Journey, Culture, And You 

Darrel Alejandro Holnes
The Candela Playwrights Summer Fellowship

Desiree Gordon
Lush Song Collective: She Lives

DreamStreet NYC
DreamStreet NYC 

Funmilayo Chesney
Fusha Dance Company

Grand Pistachio
Layer the Walls @ Brooklyn College and City of Trash workshops 

Gung Ho Projects
Our Ways with Words

Julia Rocha-Nava
Somos Medicina Public Programming

Las Mariquitas
Como Me Quiero: Transfeminist Songs for the Salsa Music Canon

National Queer Theater
National Queer Theater

Parle Endeavors
Best of Brooklyn Poetry Slam Series

Persephone DaCosta
My Brooklyn, My Arts, "Wake Up"

STooPS Art & Community
STooPS Art & Community 

Synth Library NYC
Synth Library NYC

The Thelma Hill Performing Arts Center
The Thelma Hill Performing Arts Center

The Charlene victor & ella j. weiss cultural entrepreneur fund


Aruni Dharmakirthi
Rituals of the Craft: A Professional Practice Guide for Artists

Christine Stoddard, Quail Bell Press & Productions
Columbia University Business School Bootcamp: "The Business of TV and Film: An Insider's Look"

Daniela Holban
Fundraising Training and New Inc Incubator Membership

Danielle Wu
Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS) Conference

Iyvon E.
Professional Development

Persephone DaCosta
Rhythms of Resilience: Exploring Gumboot Dance and South African Culture

Rebecca Bird
Tomato Mouse

Renana Neuman
Hollow

Rochelle Jamila
Restorative Yoga Teacher Training

Shannon Yu 余香儒
Movement Study Intensives

Shima Oliaee
The New 9 to 5

Local Arts Support

 

Cultural Heritage

Bailey’s Cafe
Flamenco y Sol

Black Girls Sew
Sew Green Fashion Camp 2025

Capoeira Angola Sport Center - Mestre Grande
Capoeira Angola Sport Center - Mestre Grande

Charukantha
Charukantha

Niko Diarra-Koloseus & Balafon Quartet
Balafon Quartet: Tradition Reimagined

 

Dance

Brighton Ballet Theater Co Inc.
Multicultural Folk Performance "Dances From Around The World"

Dishman + Co. Choreography
Belly

Flex Dance Program Inc.
FlexIN - FlexOUT

Persephone DaCosta
It Takes A Village: Youth Empowerment Arts Symposium

 

Film & Video

Dominicans Love Haitians Movement
Nou Akoma Nou Sinerji (We Heart We Synergy) Haitian Dominican Transnational Film Festival

Siji Awoyinka
EJIRE

Stoop Stories
Stoop Chat Film, Episode 4

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

 

Interdisciplinary

Field Meridians
Nature School

Iviva Olenick
Brooklyn Embroidered Oral History Garden Tours 

Martina Abrahams Ilunga
Black Storytelling Week 2025 Celebration (Co-presented with NATAL + Weeksville Heritage Center)

Octavia Project
Summer Institute 2025

Parle Endeavors
Best of Brooklyn Poetry Slam Series

Zainab Aliyu
AncestryandMe: DNA Processing Kit

 

Literary Arts

Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival
BCLF Cocoa Pod & Support Caribbean Writers Tour

Brooklyn Poets
Reading Series

 
 

Multidisciplinary

Ann Rosen & Alice Braziller
Being Seen: Art, Photography and Writing workshops for women from marginalized communities

Brooklyn FAM
Brooklyn FAM 2025

Graham MacIndoe & Susan Stellin
Art & Storytelling Group with VOCAL-NY

Irene Koloseus & Sound Bridges
"Harmony in the Heart” - Brooklyn Concert Series with the group Sound Bridges

New Youth Leaders
Brown Girls Empowerment

One Breath Rising, Inc.
Brooklyn: Many Voices, One Breath - 2025

Piao Capoeira in partnership with St. Francis de Sales School for the Deaf in Brooklyn | Professor Pião (Alisson Silveira)
Capoeira in Every Sense

The Brooklyn Combine for Progressive Action
The Breakfast Club

The Center for Artistic Development, Inc.
Musical Wave Festival

The Parsnip Ship
The Parsnip Ship - Live Episode Experience

 

Music

Adult Resources Center, Inc.
ARCArts

Brooklyn Choir Project
Brooklyn Choir Project

Carter Van Pelt
Summer Soundsystem Series

ChamberQUEER
ChamberQUEER 2025: Ancestry

Gender Amplified, Inc.
Gender Amplified, Inc.

Jan Bell
Brooklyn Americana Music Festival

L Train Brass Band
Brasswick 2025

Laura Elkeslassy
Ya Ghorbati: Divas in Exile

Megumi Saruhashi
Arabic music workshop for muslim women at women's shelter in Bay Ridge

Musicians , Teachers and Organists, Inc. a Branch of the National Assoc. of Negro Musicians, Inc.
2025 Choir Festival

Pathos Trio
Bridging The Gap: Pathos Trio Residency at Sunset Park High School

Perennial Muse
Steel Tongue Drum for Older Adults

Sisters With Purpose, Inc.
East New York Music Festival 

The String Orchestra of Brooklyn, Inc.
The String Orchestra of Brooklyn, Inc.

Trevor Robertson
LIVE! from Brooklyn: Bright Colors

 

Theater

Brooklyn Youth Company
Our Town: Flatbush and Church Ave

Children’s Acting Studio TalentLand
The Little House of Friendship

Grand Pistachio
Layer the Walls @ Brooklyn College 

Gung Ho Projects
Our Ways with Words

 

Visual Arts

Art Yard Bklyn Inc.
Art Yard Bklyn Advanced Studio

Jennifer Wade
JASA Sheuer House of Coney Island Older Adults Center Artist in Residence Ceramic  Mosaic Group

Melvin Isaac
Melvins Black Art Perspective Collection

NEBHDCo
Mural of changes/NEBHDCo's mural project

Nzingah Oyo
Bright Minds Photo Diaries

Open Source Gallery
2025 Open Source Gallery Exhibitions

Quimetta Perle
Houses of Memory

RaisingHealth Partners
Sunset Park Unity Mural Project

Sean Sirota
AAANY Youth Photo Program 

Seeds Of Liberation | Aliffer Zamira Sabek
Reclaiming our Earth

Spencer Alexander
Frolic Mural

Viktoriya Basina
Community Mural in BCS Sunset Park