2019 marks the 39th year that Brooklyn Arts Council has been providing this service to Brooklyn’s artists, cultural ambassadors, arts organizations and communities. 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. Each year, grant applications are reviewed by a group of panelists with expertise in the applicant's discipline. Click here for the list of 2019 Panelists.
Below, the 2019 Community Arts Grantees are listed by Grantee Name, Project Name.
2019 Brooklyn Arts Fund Grantees
Dance | Film | Folk Arts | Interdisciplinary | Literary | Multi-Disciplinary | Music | Theatre | Visual Arts
2019 Local Arts Support Grantees
Dance | Film | Folk Arts | Interdisciplinary | Multi-Disciplinary | Music | Theatre | Visual Arts
2018 and 2019 Destination > Brooklyn Grantees
2019 Charlene Victor and Ella J. Weiss Cultural Entrepreneur Fund Grantees
BROOKLYN ARTS FUND
Funded by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA).
DANCE
Alternative Synergy the Company, Life Symphony
Anabella Lenzu, Reliving/Revivr
Antonio Ramos, El Pueblo de Los Olvidados
Belinda McGuire Dance Projects, Offset Dance Fest
Carmen Caceres, BLINDSPOT
Chafin Seymour, Nacirema
Dance Caribbean COLLECTIVE, New Traditions Festival Incubator Award
Elijah Soto, For The Culture: A Free Litefeet Incubator
Hivewild, PRISM
Kate Ladenheim & Cecilia Lynn Jacobs, The People Movers, Oh, Celine
Kelly Todd, Under Review: Katahdin
NACHMO (National Choreography Month), NACHMO Brooklyn Shows
Persephone DaCosta, My Brooklyn, My Arts
Ren Gyo Soh, EN -Universal Connection-
Carolyn Butts-Schmalenberger, Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film Festival & Lecture Series
Cynthia Chatman, Crown Heights Film Festival
DreamMaker DreamDoer DreamSupporter, inc., The TIDE Film Festival
Heather María Ács, FemmePower Productions
Mark Blane, CUBBY (Narrative Feature Film)
Meerkat Media Collective, Newsreels From The Resistance
Michelle Beck, The Snakes
My Angel My Hero, Unkown Muslim Immigrants
Rebecca Bird, Triad Experimental Animation Festival
The Luminal Theater, Cinema Garden Party/Cinema Block Party
Victoria Coker, Black Web Fest 2019: Day 1
Woven Spaces, Inc., Greenpoint Film Festival
Yasmin Mistry, Foster Care Film & Community Engagement Project
FOLK ARTS
Aeilushi Mistry, Aarti Hindu Lamp Ceremony
Calvin Burton & Ivan Contreras, Misión Jaranera
Cheryl ~ The Gourd Lady ~ Thomas, Make and Play Shekere
Chief Awosanmi Sekou Alaje, Osun Healing Arts Festival
Crossfire Steel Orchestra Inc, Crossfire Cultural Pageants
Danielle Brown, Cuban Song & Dance Workshop
Fanmi Asòtò, Festival Minokan: Bringing all the Haitian Vodou Spirits Together Through Music and Dance
Melinda Gonzalez, Bomba Zone A
Olivia Harris, Steel Pan Wow!
Victor Sirelson, Georgian Dance in the Immigrant Community
Alexis Powell / Hearsay & Hyperbole, OK GURGLE
Allie Olson, A TELLING: NEIGHBOR
Anna Riley, Into the Same Someplace
Barbara Campisi, A Sound of Light appearing around the bend
Brooke Singer, Carbon Sponge: Brooklyn Pilot Plots
Caroline Falby, The Animation of Mortality: Ne Me Quitte Pas
Clara Santamaría, Memories We Never Had
Iviva Olenick, Plant(n)ation: Brooklyn As Farm
Melanie Greene, Sapphire
ShoutHouse, Terminals
Smoke & Mirrors Collaborative, BRAID-Weaving Together Art and Community
Stuart Meyers, BE YOUR OWN YENTA!: a guide for becoming your own Matchmaker
Superhero Clubhouse, Three Marias
Thea Little, Honest Process
Walis Johnson, The Red Line Archive Project
Angeli Rasbury, Our Voices Matter
Apogee Journal, Writing Resistance
Clarivel Ruiz, 1492: Dominican and Haitian Afro Futurist Anthology
Gary Glazner, Alzheimer's Poetry Project
JP Howard, Women Writers in Bloom Poetry Salon (WWBPS) Literary Salon & Open Mic Series
Lana C. Marilyn, The Lit Exhibit
Litmus Press, Cross-Pollination: An Interdisciplinary Reading Series
Organism for Poetic Research, Poetry, Perception, and the Political Imagination
Parachute Literary Arts, Walt Whitman in Coney Island
Wendy's Subway, The Quick and the Dead: Audre Lorde Edition
AbunDance Academy of the Arts, Inc., Freedom, AbunDantly: AbunDance Academy's 5th Annual June Production
Afrolatin@ Project, Inc., Afro-Latino Festival NYC
Amanda Gutierrez, Walis Johnson, Brooklyn League of Women Walkers
Brooklyn Youth Company, Creating Creators
Charisse Holder, Lyricalympics Festival
Continuum Culture & Arts, Soup & Sound Around Brooklyn
Create:ART, Create:ART Performance Series
Danielle Wu, Ghost in the Ghost
Darkness RISING: A Mental Health Awareness Project, Darkness RISING: A Mental Health Awareness Project
Dawn J. Fraser, The Barbershop Stories Podcast
D'Oro Dance Ensemble, Inc, KUYAH: Ol' Time Sinting!
Educated Little Monsters, 2019 Spring Program
Femmescapes Magazine, Femmescapes Magazine
GrowHouse NYC, AfroFutura 2019
Juan Pablo Siles, r e g i o n (e s)
Julia Barry, Habitat: Home
Microscope Gallery Event Series, Microscope Gallery Event Series
Nicki Miller, Fringes
Octavia Project, Octavia Project Summer Institute
Radio Free Brooklyn, RFB Teen Squad After School Program
Raquel Acevedo-Klein, Se Levanta (It Rises)
Sarah G. Sharp, The Tool Book Project
THE CREATORS COLLECTIVE, Artists Elevating Immigrant Narratives
The Kandake Dance Theatre for Social Change, ¡Resistência!
Veronica Agard, Who Heals the Healer: the convergence
MUSIC
Angela Morris, Brackish – music & art
ChamberQUEER, ChamberQUEER: An exploration of queerness in chamber music
Coalition to Preserve Reggae Music, Reggae Culture Salute
Concerts on the Slope, Concerts on the Slope
Dither, Inc., The Dither Extravaganza! 2019
Earl McIntyre, A Night Of Tributes
Ensemble Ipse, Both Eyes Open
Jan Bell, Brooklyn Americana Music Festival
Kathleen Supové, The Sword And The Mind
Mara Mayer, Home Audio
Megumi Saruhashi, Megumi & Friends
Nikos Brisco, Music of Curiosities
NYC Radio Live, Ragas Live Festival
Paris Alexandra & Kelsey Van Ert, Blue Nile Jam Session
PLG Arts, Inc., PLG Arts Music Festival 2019
Q Morrow and Stephen Guerra Duo, Choro in the Time of Bossa Nova
Raphael McGregor and John Eichleay, 2nd Annual Steel Guitar Unconvention
Ricardo St Louis, Harmonicaman & Sounds of Summer 2019
Roberto Poveda, The Troubadour of Brooklyn II
Shepherdess Duo, Shepherdess Duo Premieres New Works in Brooklyn
The Brooklyn Contemporary Chorus, Mozart, Gershwin et al
Vertical Player Repertory, miniatures Behind the Door 2019 series
Yacine Boulares, IFRIQIYA
Eva von Schweinitz, The Space between the Letters
Khristal Curtis, Devised Theatre Project
Laura Lassy Townsend | Zishan Ugurlu | Nicolas Saint Gregoire, Orgasmo Adulto Escapes from the Zoo, by Franca Rame & Dario Fo
Loading Dock Theatre, Forklift
Mia Drake Brandt and Dane Brandt-Lubart, My Life on the Spectrum
Monica Hunken, Mt Rushmore
Nia O. Witherspoon, CHRONICLE Y
Off The Page, New Works
Oye Group, Shake on the Block 2019
Rooted Theater Company, Rooted Theater Company Presents: The Last Saint On Sugar Hill by Keith Joesph Adkins
Ryan Conarro, Saints of Failure
Samieva Theater, Medusa Volution
Sean Donovan, Cabin
Sister Sylvester, Brecht Forensics
Steps Theatre & Production Company, "Mikhail’s Passion" - a fantasy based on the works of Mikhail Bulgakov
Sunita Prasad, BALD
The Exponential Festival, The Exponential Festival 2019
The Million Underscores, 1001SUR
Theater 2020, The Cradle Will Rock
Theater to the People (Julia Cavagna and Kate Bell), Theater to the People: Home
What Will the Neighbors Say?, Agua, Vida y Tierra
VISUAL ARTS
Anne LaFond, Window Studio Community Art Center
Art and Resistance Through Education (ARTE), Who We Are & Where We Are Going – Community Reflection on Rights through Collaborative Art
Ava Tomlinson, Insider looking out, Looking in.
Black Girls Sew, Sew Green Fashion Camp 2019
Bundith Phunsombatlert, Sunny Garden in Blue: Stories from the Caribbean to Brooklyn
Christina Massey, Experimental Glass Blowing
Curatorial Program for Research, Empowering the LatinX Arts Community of Brooklyn
Danny Dakari and AJ Kellie of The Art Hub NYC, Paint with Purpose
Fulton Art Fair, Inc., Fulton Art Fair Artist Lounge
Golnar Adili, Fragile Resilience: Exploring Identity Through Books, Boxes and the Accordion
Heather Falconer, hatchers.tv
Hidemi Takagi, The Bedstuy Social 'Photo' Club
Jennifer Harley, From My Window
Jennifer Wade, JASA Scheuer House of Coney Island Artist-In-Residence Ceramics Program
Jonathan Sparks, Lights Over Bushwick
Katherine Toukhy, Spring In Her Throat: A Personal and Collective Landscape in Texture and Form
Katie Bell, Katie Bell, Smack Mellon
Katya Grokhovsky, The Future is Bright
Laylah Amatullah Barrayn, MFON: Women Photographers of the African Diaspora - The Exhibition
Maddy Rosenberg/ CENTRAL BOOKING, Plant Cure/ Brooklyn
Marcia E. Wilson, Provocateurs: Telling Our Story
Meridith McNeal, Magical Things From My Mother's House
Museum Hue, Hueseum Tours and Hueniversity Workshops
Race and Revolution, Race and Revolution: Reimagining Monuments at Old Stone House
Tiffany Jaeyeon Shin, Tiffany Jaeyeon Shin – Exhibition
Tiger Strikes Asteroid, 2019 Exhibition Program
Yan Kong, The Balloon Project
LOCAL ARTS SUPPORT
Funded by the Decentralization Program of New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA).
Brighton Ballet Theater Co Inc., Performance of the Children's Ballet Adaptation of the "Sunrise" Story
Cora Dance, PAY-WHAT-YOU-CAN Dance Classes
Danielle Brown, Cuban Song & Dance Workshop
WHITE WAVE Young Soon Kim Dance Company, 2019 DUMBO Dance Festival
Alexis Lambrou, Jasmin Chang and Trellis, Red Hook Reporters
Honest Accomplice Theatre, The Trans Literacy Project
Salute to Youth Inc. and The Brooklyn Chapter of The Links, 18th Annual Women of African Descent Film Festival & Youth Film Festival
The Art of Brooklyn Film Festival, 2019 Art of Brooklyn Film Festival Sunset Park Screening
Woven Spaces, Inc., Greenpoint Film Festival
Crossfire Steel Orchestra Inc, Crossfire Cultural Pageants
Educated Little Monsters, 2019 Spring Program
Afrolatin@ Project, Inc., Afro-Latino Festival NYC
Arab-American Family Support Center, Beyond You, Me, and Us - Using Art to Bridge Gaps
Continuum Culture & Arts, Soup & Sound Around Brooklyn
NARS Foundation, Free Saturday Family Workshops
The SLAPcollective, SLAP FriendsGiving: Artist Showcase and Fundraiser
United Community Centers, East New York Farms! Project
Wendy's Subway, Wendy’s Subway Residency Program
Brooklyn Raga Massive, Weekly Raga Concert and Jam Session Series
Building Beats, Building Beats Digital Music Workshops
Grace Chorale of Brooklyn, A Long Dark Shadow: Commemorating the Centennial of the Red Summer of 1919
Jan Bell, Brooklyn Americana Music Festival
The Regina Opera Company, Inc., Two fully-staged operas - "La Boheme" and "Il Trovatore" - with full orchestra
Brooklyn Studios for Dance, Acheron: The River of Tragedy
Falconworks Theater Company, Movement
Laura Lassy Townsend | Zishan Ugurlu | Nicolas Saint Gregoire, Orgasmo Adulto Escapes from the Zoo, by Franca Rame & Dario Fo
Fulton Art Fair, Inc., Fulton Art Fair Artist Lounge
Jennifer Wade, JASA Scheuer House of Coney Island Artist-In-Residence Ceramics Program
DESTINATION>BROOKLYN
Funded by the Office of the Brooklyn Borough President and NYC & Company Foundation.
2018
Artichoke Dance Company
Arts Gowanus
Asian American Women Artists Alliance, Inc.
Brooklyn Heights Music Society
Brooklyn Raga Massive
Coalition to Preserve Reggae Music, Inc.
Cora Dance
Covenant Ballet Theatre of Brooklyn
CPR - Center for Performance Research
Falconworks Artists Group
Five Myles, Inc
Fulton Art Fair, Inc.
Living Traditions, Inc.
The Afrolatin@ Project
Woven Spaces, Inc. d.b.a. Greenpoint Film Festival
2019
Arts Gowanus
Brooklyn Raga Massive
Continuum Culture & Arts
CPR - Center for Performance Research
Green Earth Poets Cafe
HAITI CULTURAL EXCHANGE
JACK
NARS Foundation
PLG Arts, Inc.
Regina Opera Company, Inc.
Spellbound Theatre
The Afrolatin@ Project
Tiffany Mills Company
Wendy's Subway
What Will the Neighbors Say? Theatre Company
CHARLENE VICTOR AND ELLA J. WEISS CULTURAL ENTREPRENEUR FUND
Funded by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA).
Deneen Reynolds-Knott, Building a Sustainable & Expansive Playwriting Career
Tyshawn Henry, Selected Workshops: On Printmaking and Paper