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