BAC Wellness Studio
BAC WELLNESS FESTIVAL AT MOCADA
JUNE 21, 2022 | 12 PM - 6 PM
Come celebrate wellness with Brooklyn Arts Council and MoCADA on June 25 from 12 PM – 6 PM at the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts! The festival will feature live music from renowned musicians and performers that represent the diverse creative community of Brooklyn.
Join us for a day of healing pop-up activities, learn about healing traditions through BAC Sonic Clinic pop-up exhibition featuring digital art by David Gumbs, and engage in health-based conversations and health screenings with Brooklyn Plaza Medical Center.
Featured musicians include: Riva Nyri Precil & Maxine Montilus; Martin Vejarano & La Cumbiamba Eneye band; the Tai Allen band; The Resistance Revival Chorus; DJ Ushka & DJ Shamal.
Pop-up wellness activities facilitated by: Sunder Ashni, Brooklyn Plaza Medical Center, and Kaisokah Moko Jumbies USA, Inc.
Throughout the day, Trama Unit Entertainment will be DJ’ing: Whether you’re looking for a DJ, private event production or full concert production, Trama Unit Entertainment can provide what you need.
BAC SONIC CLINIC POP-UP EXHIBITION AT MOCADA
JUNE 25 - JULY 3
BAC Sonic Clinic Pop-Up Exhibition at MoCADA will be on view from June 25 – July 3!
BAC Sonic Clinic is a cross-cultural musical healing experience for our online and on-site visitors. The exhibition will feature musical sounds from immigrant populations throughout Brooklyn. In this sense, BAC Sonic Clinic explores the healing traditions of music and sounds from around the world that have become sounds nurtured by Brooklyn immigrant communities.
The exhibition features musical compositions by Samir Langus; Aeilushi Mistry; Vong Pak & Junghee Oh; Zane Rodulfo; and Martin Vejarano as well as digital artworks by artist David Gumbs, whose creations move you through each healing soundscape.
Stay tuned for more information on the following:
Wellness Festival at Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Plaza: July 29
Installation at Greg Jackson Center: July 30 - August 5
Installation at NARS Foundation: August 11 - 12
Incubator 2022: Fiscal Sponsorship
Deadline: June 17 at 11:59 PM
We are now accepting applications for our Incubator 2022: Fiscal Sponsorship program!
The Incubator: Fiscal Sponsorship is a program through our Brooklyn Innovation Institute which allows individuals and organizations to raise funds for non-profit activities , through tax-deductible/charitable contributions and grants.
Brooklyn Arts Council offers fiscal sponsorship to individuals and organizations for cultural projects with strong artistic merit that align with our Mission, Capacity, Culture, & Values . This Program is our imagining of an improved model for economic thriving, a pipeline to empower artists, a nexxus of resources, and an economic development space for much-needed incubation.
Cey Adams & FAILE Prints for Purchase!
LOVE Prints by Cey Adams
LOVE Print (blue/pink) by Cey Adams
Cey Adams, a New York City native, emerged from the downtown graffiti movement to exhibit alongside fellow artists Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring. As the Creative Director of Def Jam Recordings, he created visual identities, album covers, logos, and campaigns for Run DMC, Beastie Boys, LL Cool J, Public Enemy, Notorious B.I.G., Maroon 5, and Jay-Z. Today Adams' work focuses on themes including Pop Culture, brand identity, cultural and community issues.
Couture Print by FAILE
Couture Print by FAILE
Since 1999, Patrick McNeil and Patrick Miller have collaborated under the name FAILE (an anagram of "a life") to create kinetic, image-saturated paintings, prints, sculptures, and installations. Their democratic street style features fragmented mash-ups of comic book and cartoon characters, advertising and propaganda slogans, bright patterns and colors, and historical and pop cultural references.
Our Grantees' Events
Upcoming in-person & virtual events hosted by our board members, grantees, fiscal sponsees, and partner organizations. Keep scrolling for a full, comprehensive list of what's top-of-mind this June.
OPEN REHEARSAL: TIGER HANDS BY Benjamin Akio Kimitch
June 15 | 2 PM – 6 PM
The Invisible Dog Art Center
The Invisible Dog Art Center hosts an open-rehearsal of research, dancing and community engagement for a new work by choreographer Benjamin Akio Kimitch. As a mixed-race Japanese American choreographer whose studies began in Chinese dance, Kimitch dreams beyond the worn-out mantra of East-meets-West. He is interested in exploring the nuance of teaching and transforming codified technique, and the way in which tradition interacts with the contemporary. He is joined by dancers Pareena Lim and Lai Yi Ohlsen.
Juneteenth Celebration: sonic liberation
June 18 | 1 PM – 8:30 PM
The Center for Fiction & The Plaza at 300 Ashland
651 ARTS, in association with Downtown Brooklyn Partnership and The Center for Fiction, presents its Second Annual Juneteenth Celebration: Sonic Liberation with DJ Reborn and Friends hosted by dancer/choreographer and STooPS founder Kendra J. Ross. Centering around the role that sound plays in the quest towards freedom, this year’s celebration will include a day of events and activities featuring a panel discussion at The Center for Fiction, community DJ lessons, and a dance party.
651 ARTS’ Juneteenth Celebration is an annual commemoration of African-American liberation, resilience and self-determination featuring performances, panels and community engagement activities that honors the brilliance and vitality of Black culture.
One whale’s tale in association with ¡Oye! Group! presents QUINCE
Through June 19 | Thursdays - Sundays
The Bushwick Starr
Originally presented as an abridged workshop at the People’s Garden in 2020, Quince is the story of a 15 year-old Chicana confronting her queer identity, family and religion on the eve of her quinceañera. Quice is written and co-created by Camilo Quiroz-Vázquez; directed and co-created by Ellpetha Tsivicos; presented by The Bushwick Starr and One Whale’s Tale in association with ¡Oye! Group.
La Troupe Makandal presents A TRIP TO VODOU JAZZ
June 25 | 8 PM - 10 PM
Rooftop Terrace @ Brooklyn Commons
La Troupe Makandal will present a musical tribute to its late Artistic Director, Haitian Master Drummer Frisner Augustin (1948-2012). This tenth-anniversary commemoration pays homage to Mr. Augustin’s lifelong passion for jazz. Makandal's drumming ensemble (Renald St. Juste, Steve Deats, Kesler Pierre, Paul Uhry Newman) will collaborate with the Michael LeMorin Quartet (Michael LeMorin, Chris Fletcher, Bobby Raymond, Brian Carter) and vocalist Sirène Dantor René.
exhibition OPENING: EVERYTHING IS MIGRATING BY ZULU PADILLA
June 25 | 5 PM - 8 PM
The Compound Cowork Gallery
Everything is Migrating is an exhibition whose central motif is the intersection between the neotropical migration of Warbler birds, and the resilient culture of gay cruising in Prospect Park, Brooklyn. This work allows multiples perspectives to unfold: poetics, the political and psychological, embodying urgent visual participation through the ease and tension between uprootedness, freedom and beauty. Medium scale, odd shape-float-mount-frameless photographic mixed media pieces of birds and gay cruising activity will be assembled to create this exhibition.
Brownsville NEIGHBORHOOD Action Center's Jump into Summer Block Party
BAC is a community partner of Brownsville Neighborhood Health Action Center.
June 27 | 1 PM - 5 PM
Brownsville Neighborhood Health Action Center
BAC is proud to be a Community Partner with NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygeine's Brownsville Neighborhood Health Action Center helping to present their annual Jump Into Summer Block Party on June 27th. We are proud to present BAC grantee, Flex Dance Group, and Brownsville artists Gabriel Myers and Hope Victoria as a part of the line-up for this beloved event.
The Jump into Summer Block Party is an opportunity for the Brownsville Neighborhood Health Action Center, along with supporting partners, to meaningful engage and commune with the residents, participate in activities, and learn more about the services and programs we offer. Community-based organizations, faith-based organizations, city agencies, and local businesses will provide information and resources on health and wellness, games, arts and crafts, food demonstrations, business planning, notary, hands-only CPR training, youth ID cards, fitness classes, fire safety, face painting, music, and give-a-ways and more. Please join us for what is sure to be an educational and fun-filled affair!
Events & Programs
Additional happenings hosted by our grantees and other organizations, collectives, and institutions.
LMCC presents River To River Festival
June 12 – 26
Experience a dazzling and wide-ranging array of dance and musical performances, visual art installations, film, participatory processions, family events, and more, all by groundbreaking artists in NYC. This year, festival artists look to nature, ritual, and metaphysical wonders to offer a hopeful perspective on the future of public space. Featured artists include: Gregory Corbino, Rose Desiano, keyon gaskin, Beth Gill, Jonathan Gonzalez, Craig Harris, Amy Khoshbin & Jennifer Khoshbin, Heather Kravas, and Okwui Okpokwasili & Peter Born.
Whitney Museum of American Art QUEER HISTORY WALKS
June 14, 21, & 26 | 6 PM
Whitney Museum
This walk will bring visitors to select sites near the Whitney's building to reflect on the changing nature of queer community as it formed along the New York waterfront. We will visit the former sites of bars, clubs, and public spaces and consider the intersection between artistic and sexual experimentation that occurred alongside the piers of the West Side.
Sing Out! at Jazz at Lincoln Center
June 20 | 8 PM
Lincoln Center - Frederick P. Rose Hall: Rose Theater
Together with partners Playbill and HRC, "Sing Out!" will shine a light on underrepresented voices through a special one-night-only performance at The Rose Theater at The Jazz Club at Lincoln Center on June 20. The 90-minute staged concert features Grammy- and Tony-recognized performers from across the country singing reimagined classic Broadway tunes that speak to their personal experiences as part of the LGBTQ+ community. The show is appropriate for all ages and provides a positive and uplifting message while also taking a stand against efforts to silence marginalized communities.
Dance/NYC: Dance. Workforce. Resilience. Launch Event
July 20 | 7 PM - 9 PM
Mark Morris Dance Center
Dance/NYC is pleased to announce the launch of the Dance. Workforce. Resilience. (DWR) Initiative, which aims to address economic inequity in the metropolitan New York City dance industry and, in turn, act on its commitment to foster a just, equitable, and inclusive dance ecology.
To celebrate the launch of the Initiative, join Dance/NYC at the Mark Morris Dance Center for a party with community members, industry leaders, politicians, funders, and advocates in the field.
The Arts Center at Governors Island 2022 Public Season
Through October 30
The Arts Center at Governors Island, Building 110 at Soissons Landing
Featuring exhibitions by Amy Khoshbin and Jennifer Khoshbin, Elissa Blount-Moorhead and Bradford Young, and Simon Benjamin. This season's exhibitions center around ideas of healing, offering audiences a range of perspectives related to how we manage our experiences, individual and collective, and how we might find paths of recovery.
Artist Opportunities
Reliable workshops and funding opportunities from outside collectives and institutions. Keep scrolling for a list of what’s top-of-mind this June.
Workshops & Professional Development
Photo from the NYFA's Immigrant Artist Program: San Antonio exhibition opening. Photos credit: LMG PhotoArts (Luis M. Garza)
NYFA PRESENTS Understanding Artist Visas: Your Questions Answered
June 14 | 6 PM – 7 PM
Virtual
Join immigration attorney Michael Cataliotti for a town hall style discussion/Q&A on legal options for international/immigrant artists, entertainers, and entrepreneurs who seek to pursue an artistic career in the United States. Mr. Cataliotti will go through some of the frequently asked questions for artist visa and immigration process, and answer questions live from the audience. No matter if you are currently in the U.S. or are looking to enter the country, you’ll walk away with a clearer sense of the immigration process and what you can, or cannot, should, or should not do when pursuing a visa.
KASHIF INCUBATOR: THE BROWNSVILLE INITIATIVE
Week 1: Tuesday, August 2 & Thursday, August 4 | 6 PM - 9 PM
Week 2: Tuesday, August 9 & Thursday, August 11 | 6 PM - 9 PM
Week 3:Tuesday, August 16 & Thursday, August 18 | 6 PM - 9 PM
Kashif Incubator invites you to participate in our inaugural storytelling workshop. The Brownsville Initiative, is a 3 week, place-based community filmmaking program for local, burgeoning artists. We believe everyone has a story to tell, especially you! BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, gender non-conforming, and disabled persons are encouraged to apply. The Brownsville Initiative, a visual storytelling module engaging artists in Brownsville, Brooklyn.
Funding & Open Calls
Iris and Bianca recording an oral history interview with the Neighborhood Stories project in August 2018.
The Neighborhood Stories Project
The Neighborhood Stories Project is a storytelling initiative by the NYC Department of Records and Information Services (DORIS), which aims to gather and permanently preserve the stories of New York City community members - connecting local history with the records of City government maintained in the collections of the Municipal Archives and Library. The projects endeavors to "put the community in the archive" by empowering local residents to provide their own rich historical narrative, and to encourage them to reflect on how the past connects to their lives, their families and their future.
Brooklyn Public Library: BKLYN Incubator
$10,000
Deadline: June 25
This is an open call for innovative community collaborations with Brooklyn Public Library. Potential community partners can submit a Letter of Interest (LOI) for the opportunity to access up to $10,000 to work with our neighborhood libraries and develop innovative programs, events and other resources as part of the Library’s BKLYN Incubator program.
NYSCA/NYFA Artists with Disabilities Grant
$1,000
Deadline: June 28 at 5 PM
The NYSCA/NYFA Artists with Disabilities Grant program will distribute cash grants of $1,000 to artists with a disability who have experienced financial hardship due to the COVID-19 crisis to cover art related expenses. The grant will be open to visual, media, music, performing, literary, and multidisciplinary artists who live in New York State outside of the five boroughs of NYC.
Anonymous Was A Woman Environmental Art Grants
Agnes Denes, Wheatfield – A Confrontation: Battery Park Landfill, Downtown Manhattan – Blue Sky, World Trade Center, 1982. Copyright Agnes Denes, courtesy Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York.
$20,000
Deadline: June 14 at 5 PM
The AWAW EAG will support environmental art projects that inspire thought, action, and ethical engagement. This program provides up to $20,000 for projects led by women-identifying artists in the United States and U.S. Territories. Projects should not only point at problems, but aim to engage an environmental issue at some scale. Proposals should illustrate thorough consideration of a project’s ecological and social ethics. Projects that explore interdependence, relationships, and systems through Indigenous and ancestral practices are encouraged to apply.
NYSCA 2023 Funding Opportunities
Deadline for All Applications: July 12 at 4 PM
NYSCA will offer five opportunities this year: Support for Organizations, Support for Artists, Support for Special Opportunities, Support for Partnerships, and Regrowth and Capacity Enhancement. Please note that NYSCA will launch an additional Capital Projects Opportunity this fall.
Craft Archive Fellowship
Select Archival Images Courtesy American Craft Council Library & Archives
$5,000
Deadline: June 27
This fellowship fosters archival research on underrepresented and non-dominant craft histories in the US. Scholars, including independent artists and emerging to established researchers, are eligible to apply. Fellows receive a $5,000 stipend to conduct research in an archive of their choosing.
Illuminations Grant for Black Trans Women Visual Artists
Monique in her Room, Queens NY. Image by Mariette Pathy Allen.
$10,000
Deadline: June 30
Queer|Art is pleased to introduce The Illuminations Grant for Black Trans Women Visual Artists. Developed and named in partnership with Mariette Pathy Allen, Aaryn Lang, and Serena Jara, this new annual $10,000 grant, awarded to draw attention to an existing body of work, sheds light on the under-recognized contributions of Black trans women visual artists and provides critical support to their continuing work. Winning artists will receive additional professional development resources and further guidance to bolster their creative development in the field.
2022 Media Arts Assistance Fund for Artists
Up to $7,500
Deadline: July 1
For individual artists, MAAF provides support for the completion and/or public presentation of new works in all genres of sound and moving image art, including emergent technology. Grant awards assist artists in completing new work, reaching public audiences, and advance artistic exploration and public engagement in the media arts. Women, gender non-comforming people, and people of color are encouraged to apply. MAAF is presented by NYSCA in partnership with Wave Farm.
Children’s Museum of the Arts (CMA) Residency for Experimental Arts Education
Annual Salary: $50,000 plus benefits
Deadline: July 8
Built out of CMA’s 34 years of service to the community, the Residency for Experimental Arts Education invites individuals to reflect on the efficacy of arts education today while designing & implementing alternative futures through studio intensives, community-based programs, and online exposure.
Prospective applicants are invited to join a free virtual information session on Tuesday, June 21 from 3 PM - 4 PM.
Resources
Americans for the arts’ CULTURAL EQUITY RESOURCE CENTER
Americans for the Arts recognizes that many existing systems of power grant privilege and access unequally, and that equity is crucial to the long-term viability of both the arts and culture sector and communities-at-large. The Cultural Equity Resource Center is an initiative launched to ensure that everyone has equal access to a full, vibrant creative life, which is essential to a healthy and democratic society.
What We're Reading
Have you encountered an inspiring or engaging read related to the COVID-19 era lately? Tell us about it at webmaster@brooklynartscouncil.org.
Erin DeGregorio. "Dance to Your Own “Beet”: Dancers Unlimited Receives Funding to Discuss Food Topics Through Dance." The Red Hook Star Revenue, May 2022. Read
Ximena Del Cerro. "Brooklyn Arts Council to host collaborative ‘day of healing’ at Bed-Stuy Art House." Brooklyn Paper, May 2022. Read
Colleen Dilenschneider. “There Will Be Increased Competition for Leisure Activities in 2023.” Know Your Own Bone, June 2022. Read
Aaron Ginsburg. "In Pictures: A Public Art Show in Brooklyn Bridge Park Explores the Multitude of Black Identities in America." Artnet, May 2022. Read
Office of the City of New York Staff. “Mayor Adams Selects People's Theatre Project to Own, Operate First-of-its-Kind Immigrant Research and Performing Arts Center Coming to Inwood.” Office of the City of New York, May 2022. Read
Caroline Spivack. "Design Trust Pilots New Outdoor Venues for More Equitable Arts Access." Crain’s New York Business, May 2022. Read
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