Welcome
PERFORMERS
MirNaqibulIslam
2024BrooklynArtsFundGrantee
SugarVendil
2024BrooklynArtsFundGrantee
ShannonYu
2024BrooklynArtsFundGrantee
ARTACTIVATIONS
ViktoriyaBasina
2023BrooklynArtsFundGrantee
MingLiangLu
2024BrooklynArtsFundGrantee&SU-CASATeachingArtist
DJADAIR
DJ,Curator,&Producer
REMARKS
AudreyAnastasi BoardMember|BrooklynArtsCouncil
AlexBrunner CASAPrincipal|BrooklynBrownstoneSchool
LaurieCumbo Commissioner|NYCDepartmentofCulturalAffairs
KimCouncil DeputyBrooklynBoroughPresident
RasuJilani ExecutiveDirector|BrooklynArtsCouncil
ErikaMallin ExecutiveDirector|NewYorkStateCouncilontheArts
IvivaOlenick
2024SU-CASATeachingArtist
KristalPacific ProgramOfficer|HowardGilmanFoundation
CouncilMemberLincolnRestler
NewYorkCityCouncil|District33
ToniYuilleWilliams BoardChair|BrooklynArtsCouncil
MUSICBY
G enda Sol Koeraus | Flamenco y Sol 2024 BAF & LAS Grantee. Photo by Angel ca Escoto.
BROOKLYN ARTS FUND
OurFunders
SupportedbytheGreaterNewYorkArtsDevelopmentFundoftheNewYorkCityDepartmentofCulturalAffars(DCLA),the NewYorkCityCouncil,andtheOffceoftheBrooklynBoroughPresident
BrooklynArtsFund(BAF)developsBrookynsartistsandsmallartsorganizationsthroughitssupportofhigh-quaityarts projectsthatengageaudiencesinadversearrayofartistcworks naldisciplines,genres,andstyes.Thisyear,BAF distributed$600,000to155proectsacrossBrookyn.
CREATIVE EQUATIONS FUND
SupportedbytheHowardGilmanFoundation,theMertzGilmoreFoundation,&theNewYorkStateCounclontheArts (NYSCA)
TheCreatveEquationsFund(CEF)isBACsintiatvededicatedtoartsforsocialjustice.Thisprogramsupportscommunityengagedartists,artsorganzations,culturalentrepreneurs,andresearcherswhohavededcatedtheircreativitytosolving socialproblems.Thsyear,$425,000wasdistributedto39GranteesthroughCEF.
CHARLENE VICTOR & ELLA J. WEISS CULTURAL ENTREPRENEUR FUND
SupportedbytheGreaterNewYorkArtsDevelopmentFundoftheDCLA,theNewYorkCityCouncil,andtheOfficeofthe BrooklynBoroughPresident
TheChareneVctor&EllaJ WeissCultura EntrepreneurFundsupportstheprofessiona developmentofthenextgeneration ofwomena merExecutiveDirectors,thisfund awardstwo tofurthera
LOCAL ARTS SUPPORT
SupportedbytheStatewideCommunityRegrants(SCR)ProgramofNYSCAwiththesupportoftheOfficeoftheNewYork StateGovernorandtheNewYorkStateLegislature
Loca ArtsSupport(LAS)focusesoncommunity-based,high-qualityartsprojects nalldisciplines,genresandstyles.ThisLAS distributed $275,000 to 72 projects by Brooklyn-based nonprofit organizations and individual artists working wth communitiesacrosstheborough.
SOCIAL INNOVATION FELLOWSHIP
SupportedbyNYSCAwiththesupportoftheOfficeoftheNewYorkStateGovernorandtheNewYorkStateLegislature
TheSocialInnovationFellowshipisBACsnewprofessionaldevelopmentprogramforcreativesandculturalentrepreneurs. Fellowsreceivecoaching,training,technicalassistance,andadditionalfundingwhiecritiquingandsupportingeachotherto buildtheir ndividua andcollectivecapacityfortransformatvechangeandabundance.Thisyear,12artistsrecieved$1,500in addtiontotheirCEFgrant.
SU-CASA CREATIVE AGING
SupportedbytheNewYorkCityCouncilandadministeredbyDCLAandtheNYCDepartmentfortheAging(DFTA)
SU-CASA Creative Aging provides opportunites for seniors to actively express themselves creatively, socialize with a culturalyengagedcollectiveofseniorcitizens,participateinculturalperformances,andlearntechniquesinavarietyofarts disciplines.Acity-wdeintiative,SU-CASAisthelargestCreativeAgingprogram nthecountry.Thisyear,BACawarded $400,000to49TeachingArtstsat49olderadultcentersthroughoutBrookyn.
CreativeEquationsFund
2024GRANTEES
41% Funded Applicants
39 Grant Tot $425K Allocated Total
ArteEast
HIKAYAT
Amarah Azor
Ayibobo: A Choreopoem
Brooklyn FAM
Brooklyn FAM: Festival of Arts and Music
Chief Baba Neil Clarke
General Operating Support
Circus Amok
General Operating Support
Danielle Brown, Ph.D.
Central Brooklyn Casineros
Justice,Equity,Sustainability&PerformingArts
Ellpetha Tsivicos + Camilo Quiroz-Vázquez
of One Whale’s Tale
The Brooklyn Cumbia Festival
Emit Theatre
Emit Theatre
Funmilayo Chesney & Fusha Dance Co.
Brooklyn Rising: Unleash Your Superpowers
Gung Ho Projects
Home Remedies: A Theater Workshop
Towards Immigrant Health Justice
Hala Alyan
Kan Yama Kan
Julia Rocha-Nava
Liberation Sounds
MBDance
Glorious Bodies: Earth and Somatichealing Series
Melinda Gonzalez
Bomba Community Circles
National Queer Theater
National Queer Theater
NOoSPHERE Arts
WE ARE NATURE Rooftop Series
Project.KB
Studio.KB (Brownsville Studio Project)
Sebastian Angel
Escuela Popular de Arte Sonoro
Shaun Neblett
Homage 5: Life After Death at Bed-
Stuy Art House
STooPS
STooPS Summer Festival
Superhero Clubhouse
Superhero Clubhouse
Treya Lam
otherland: a sapling
Ray Jordan Achan
Superfund Soliloquies
The Free Black Women's Library
The Black Womanist Literary Canon
What Will the Neighbors Say? Inc.
New to the Neighborhood: Emerging Artist Incubator
CulturalHeritage, Diversity&Dance
Alex Smith, Jr.
From The Souls Of Our Feet
Juan Ospina
Rueda de Oro
Ogemdi Ude
Major
Rochelle Jamila
Once We Were Free
Veronica
Mothers of Tabla
Vincent Chong AKA Crystal Monkey
The Birth of Crystal Monkey //
Vong Pak
Dance in the Three Generations of Korean Immigrants
Simas de Souza & Seema Lisa Pandya
Aarti Hindu Lamp Ceremony, Brooklyn Bridge Park, 2023. Founded by Ae lushi Mistry, 2023 BAF Grantee. Photo by Er k Alme da
SocialInnovation& CulturalEntrepreneurs
The Migrating Octopus
Byas &
community-centric programming and initiatives
Emma Alpert Multitude Films LLC
Flex Dance Program Inc.
Flex Dance Program
Sirlenda Maxwell SO GROUNDED™
Speciwomen Inc.
Speciwomen
Vers :: Clothing for People
Resourcing Queer and Trans Fashion Artists to Cultivate Creative Spaces
Asmaa Amadou
Byas & Leon
Leon
Vers : Cloth ng for People, 2024 CEF Grantee at Fashion Week Brook yn, 2024. Photo by Pat Plush Ar as.
SocialInnovationFellowship
2024FELLOWS
SocialInnovationFellows
Sirlenda
Tilly
Vong
Asmaa Amadou
Chief Baba Neil Clarke
Danielle Brown, PhD.
Emma Alpert, Multitude Films
Harvey Leon, Byas & Leon
Jeremiah O. Ojo (Senior Fellow)
Ragnhild (“Ragz”) Bruland, Flex Dance Program
Rochelle Jamila
Shaun Neblett
Maxwell
J. Lapidos, Vers :: Clothing for People
Pak
“Where the Women Dance” featuring Rochel e Jamila, 2024 Social nnovation Fellow & CEF Grantee. Photo by Lisa Buser, 2023.
BrooklynArtsFund
2024GRANTEES
47% Funded Applicants
16 Grant To $558K Allocated Total
CulturalHeritage
Aeilushi Mistry
Aarti Hindu Lamp Ceremony 2024
Centro Esportivo de Capoeira Angola
- Mestre Grande (CECA-MG)
Capoeira Angola - Discyple who learned
Cheryl Thomas
Make and Play Gourd Instrument
Workshop
Chief Baba Neil Clarke
Pinkster Festival
Chikako Iwahori
BNG Oendan: A Celebration of Japanese Cheerleading Tradition
Danielle Brown, Ph.D
Central Brooklyn Casineros
Flamenco y Sol
Magic of Flamenco! Building Bridges between Cultures
Juan Ospina
Rueda de Oro
Kiire Wellness
Breathing with Ori
Maria Elena Pombo
Entrelazado de Achiote en el Jardín
Secreto de Jairo (Achiote Interweaving in Jairo's Secret Garden)
MingLiang Lu
Year of the Dragon - Chinese Paper Cutting
Art Workshops at Mapleton Library
Nikita Shah
At Home in Brooklyn – A Kalamkari Story
Cloth
“Rueda de Oro” presented by Juan Ospina, Brooklyn Arts Fund & Creative Equations Fund Grantee. Photo courtesy the artist.
Abigail Levine
Words Begin as Sound, an interdisciplinary and intergenerational conversation
Alisha Desai
3rd Annual Garba in Brooklyn; A Navartari Performance and Festival
Alternative Synergy The Company
The Myth
Anabella Lenzu
"Listen to Your Mother"
Anastasiya Usmanova | Kaleidoscope
Dance Under the Sky: Folk Steps in the Park
Anh Vo
Pussy Talks
Dance
Blaze Ferrer
Dick Biter
Dancers Unlimited
Edible Tales: The Return
Dishman + Co. Choreography
Belly
Inclined Dance Project inQUAD
Jaamil Olawale Kosoko
(chrysalis: activation 3)
Joyce King | JKing Dance Company
ContinU...um
Kimiko Tanabe
Float and Flow Pole Workshop Series
Kizuna Dance
The Open Intensive
More Fish Dance Company
More Fish Open Studios
NVA & Guests
Cry Wolf
Persephone DaCosta
"My Brooklyn My Arts, Wake Up"
Rohan Bhargava | Rovaco Dance Company
Rovaco Dance Party 2024
Shannon Yu | SHA Creative Outlet
\\\ (read as “three slashes”)
“Listen to Your Mother” by Anabe la Lenzu, 2024 BAF Grantee. Photo by Todd Carro l.
Film&Video
Bianca Mońa
Embodied Knowledge - A film experience
Charles de Agustin
Foundation
Cynthia Tobar & Brett Halperin Mujeres Atrevidas
Dara Kell & Veena Rao
The Art of Exile
Dominicans Love Haitians Movement
The Nou Akoma Nou Sinèrji Haitian
Dominican Transnational Film
Festival
Joy Le Li
Asian Bloc
Karen Marks GAAMAA
Kayla Donald
Threads of a Tapestry
Maaa Film
Iranian Women Film Series
Miaochun Zhang
Eight Walls Two Doors
Nancy Siesel
"Happy in the Bronx"
Odu Adamu
ACTOUT!
Stoop Stories
Stoop Stories Intergenerational Film 3
Temp.Files
Season 3: Transformation
The Radishes Radishes
Portra ts from “Stoop Chat with Jimmy & Shanaya.” Cinematography by Gabriel a Canal Stoop Stor es is a 2024 BAF & LAS Grantee
Photography by Marj K einman.
Almasphere
Almasphere
Blue Morph Collective
A Place Called Home
Bundith Phunsombatlert
Tracing Transformations:
Mapping Fragments Through Oral History
Common Notions
Common Notions
David Goren
Brooklyn Pirate Radio Sound
Map 4.0
Fei Li | Accented Projects
Tales from the Table
Interdisciplinary
Fei Liu
Our Good Bones
Jan Mun
The Fairy Rings: In Air We Trust
Jeannine Bardo
The Learning Ring; A Tree's
Standing
Kathleen McDermott & Monica
Duncan
How it Slips
Melinda Gonzalez
Juntos con la Bomba, part 3
Mookntaka
Mookntaka's Friends and Follies
Muyassar Yousef Kurdi
Sumud
Nora Almeida & Iki Nakagawa
Creek Care and Community
Celebrations
Sarah Drury
Gowanus Augmented Reality
Walking Tour App
Scope Collective
Channel
Sugar Vendil
scenes from childhood
Petra Zanki Dance Co.
The Garden Project
“The Garden Project” by Petra Zank Dance Co , 2024 BAF Grantee. Photo by Hisae Aihara.
Como Un lugar
Lugar Comun: 4th Annual Latin-American Poetry
Festival
Desperate Living Reading Series
Desperate Living Reading Series
exquisites bk exquisites queer reading series & anthologies
JP Howard
Women Writers in Bloom Poetry Salon (WWBPS)
Literary Salon & Open Mic Series
Lampblack Literary Foundation
The Lampblack Reading Series
Umar Bin Hassan of The Last Poets in
collaboration with Team Triumphant, Inc.
Backyard Poetry
“Lamblack Reading Series” featur ng author K m Co eman Foote, September 2023 at MoCADA. Lampb ack Literary Foundation is a 2024 BAF & LAS Grantee Photo by Sandia Ashley.
Ann Rosen
Being Seen
Arcade Commons
Playable Climate: Weather
Station Arcade Cabinet
Betty Yu
We Were Here: Unmasking
Yellow Peril
Clara Ibarra
The Grandparents StoryLab
CreateART
CreateART Dance Film Nights
Cristina Salas
The Turtle's Garden
Diane Jacobowitz
We Dance Together
Multidisciplinary
Irene Koloseus & Sound Bridges
Brooklyn Older Adult Center Concert
Series 2024 with Sound Bridges
J. Bouey
SATURN: A Revelation
Kristina Bermudez
Project.KB - Creative
Entrepreneurship Workshop
Kwame Brandt-Pierce
Shabazz Spacely’s Cabinet of
Intergalactic Curiosities
Material Liberation
Community Creativity Series
One Breath Rising, Inc.
Brooklyn – Looking Back, Looking Ahead
Renegade Performance Group
Against Gravity: Flying Afrikans +
Other Urban Legends
Rick Paulas
Loups: A Prospect Park Walking
Audio Story
Spiffemol Industries Radio Hour
The Spiffemol Industries Radio Hour
STooPS
STooPS Summer Festival
Veronica Simas de Souza & Seema
Lisa Pandya
Mothers of Tabla
Tomato Mouse
Tomato Mouse 2024 Exhibition
Season
VIA Collaborative Arts Corporation
[Community Stories]
Walis Johnson
Inheritance/SHACK
Dance Duo, Kristina Bermudez Creative Developments LLC, 2024 BAF Grantee.
Photo by Rebecca Hatter-Khan.
Annie Chen
Guardians Suite
BlackBox Ensemble
2024-2025 Season Opening Performance
Brooklyn Accordion Club
Brooklyn Accordion Club meetings and workshops
Brooklyn Jazz Underground
Brooklyn Jazz Underground Presents
Brooklyn Maqam
New York Oud Festival
Carter Van Pelt
Summer Soundsystem Series - Coney
Island Reggae / Reggae Under The Bridge
Chaia
Kleztronica
Collective Focus
Synth Road Summer Camp
Dither, Inc.
Music
Lena Bloch & Feathery
The Dither Extravaganza
Ellpetha Tsivicos + Camilo Quiroz-Vázquez
of One Whale’s Tale
The Brooklyn Cumbia Festival
Freelance Nun
Into the Garden: New Music Inspired by
Hildegard and Herrad
Friends of Bushwick Inlet Park
Summer Music Series at Bushwick Inlet Park
Jan Bell
Brooklyn Americana Music Festival
Jazz Passengers Music Projects, Inc.
Brooklyn Porch Music
L Train Brass Band
Brasswick 2024
Laura Elkeslassy
Ya Ghorbati
A World Without Fear
Megumi Saruhashi
Megumi & Friends
Mir Naqibul Islam
The Global Groove Project
Nietzsche Music Project
Black Broadway: The Early Years
NYC Radio Live
Ragas Live Festival
Off the Chamber
2024 Concert: Britten, Saint-Saëns, and Three World Premieres
Operation Gig
Operation Gig
Perennial Muse, Inc.
Steel Tongue Drum Class for Older Adults
Phonotonic
Phonotonic
Phil Andrews
Brooklyn Beats
Pique-nique
Unheard: A Collective Improvisation Series & Artist-In-Residency Program
Raphael McGregor
Steel Guitar UNconvention
Sputter Box
Sputter (PLUS IN THE) Box
Swamp in the City
Swamp in the City: A Cajun & Creole Music
Festival
SydeBoob Duo
Operator
The Brooklyn Classical Guitar Society
The Brooklyn Classical Guitar Society Open
Mic
Urbano Street
The U Street Music Fest
Theater
Adin Lenahan
FYP
Alicia Foxworth
Brownstone Steps Play Festival
AnomalousCo (beyond) Doomsday Scrolling
Brandon Woolf
The Stinking Nose
Brooklyn Youth Company
Family Tree
Ethan Fuirst
Dance Dance Revolution
Grand Pistachio
Layer the Walls @ Brooklyn College
Hedgepig Ensemble Theatre
Expand the Canon: Women, Diversity, and the Classics
Kate Name
The Factory La Senta
Ice-ing on the Cake
Lindsey Hope Pearlman | BREAD Arts
Collective
ROAR! Maaa Theater
After Her
Moxie Arts NY
The Moxie Incubator and Multi-Gen New Works Lab
Robin Bady
Nancy Drewinsky and the Search for the Missing Letter
Steps Theatre & Production Company
Flawed Choir (English Version); The Unexpected Man (English Version)
Susanna Brock & Ana Cantorán Viramontes
The Immigrant Imagination Lab
The Neurodivergent New Play Series
The Neurodivergent New Play Series
Theater in Asylum
The How To Survive the End of the World
Cabaret
Will Johnson
Stories Will Not Mend This Broken World
“Moving w th Screens” featuring André M. Zachery, 2024 BAF Grantee
Photo by L sa He fert.
ASMP & BKC
The Bridge: Real World
Mentorship For Emerging Photographers
CAZORLA + SALEME
Magical Encounters at the Adams Street Library
Curatorial Program for Research
Empowering the LatinX Arts
Community of Brooklyn
Ellen Coleman Izzo at PrintSpace
Neighborhood Printing
Collective
Friends of Commodore Barry
Park
Community Heroes
VisualArts
Jennifer Wade
JASA Scheuer House Senior
Center of Coney Island Artist-In-
Residence Ceramics Mosaic
Project
Mia Wright-Ross
Loose (CHAINS) Change
Melvin Isaac
Melvins Black Art Perspective
Collection
Michela Muserra & Frankie Velez
Bedstuy Walls (Mural Festival)
Mylo Mendez, Jan Descartes, Pop
Gym, Queer Fight School
Radical Holds, Issue 1: Self
Defense in Social Movements
Niceli Portugal
Walking feelings
Rusty Zimmerman
The Free Portrait Project
Tyshawn Henry
Let’s Make Art Together
Seeds of Liberation | Aliffer Sabek
Reclaiming our Earth -
Reclamando nuestra tierra
Sari Carel
A More Perfect Circle
Vanesa Alvarez Díaz
Growing Together
Steph Costello
Steph Costello Mural Project
Zachary Schulman
The Community Gardener
Portrait Project
Vanessa Alvarez D az, 2024 BAF Grantee. Photo by Rocío Segura.
CharleneVictor&EllaJ.Weiss CulturalEntrepreneurFund
2024GRANTEES
9% Funded Applicants 02 Grant Tot
$5,000 Allocated Total
CharleneVictor &EllaJ.Weiss Cultural Entrepreneur Fund
Maria Elena Pombo
Weaving & Dyeing Classes in Tintorero
Sasha Santer Hill
Clay Cohorts Mentorship
“Entrelazado de Aguacate en la Fábr ca de Concreto” by Mar a-Elena Pombo, 2024 BAF & C&E Grantee
LocalArtsSupport
2024GRANTEES
78% Funded Applicants
63 Grant Tot
$237K Allocated Total
Dance
AUNTS
CLASSCLASSCLASS
Brighton Ballet Theater Co Inc.
Folk Performance "Dances From Around the World"
Dancers Unlimited
Edible Tales: The Return
Dishman + Co. Choreography
Belly
Flex Dance Program Inc.
Flex Dance Program Inc.
Persephone DaCosta & Italian
American Civil Rights League
It Takes a Village, Youth Arts Project
Film&Video
Salute to Youth Project of the Brooklyn Chapter of The Links
Women of African Descent Film Festival
Stoop Stories
Stoop Stories Intergenerational Film 3
Yasmin Mistry
Foster Care Film & Community Engagement Project (FCFCEP)
Studio Session F ex Dance Program, 2024 LAS & CEF Grantee. Photo by Carol Dragon.
LiteraryArts
Lampblack Literary Foundation
The Lampblack Reading Series
Parachute Literary Arts
The Coney Island Poetry Map 2024
Interdisciplinary
Common Notions
Common Notions
Scope Collective
Channel
Multidisciplinary
Ann Rosen
Being Seen
Brooklyn FAM
Brooklyn FAM: Music & Arts Festival
Cypress Hills Local Development Corporation
East New York Farms! Project
Diane Jacobowitz
We Dance Together
ESTIA Creative Home
ESTIA Day Fest 2024
Irene Koloseus & Sound Bridges
Brooklyn Older Adult Center Concert Series 2024 with Sound Bridges
La Troupe Makandal
The Drum and the Seed: A Haitian Odyssey
Octavia Project
Summer Institute 2024
One Breath Rising, Inc.
Brooklyn – Looking Back, Looking Ahead
Pião Capoeira
Capoeira in every sense: A collaborative workshop and production with St. Francis de Sales School for the Deaf
STooPS
STooPS Summer Festival
White Bird Productions
Creative Families Residency
Mark Zlotsky & Karyn Lao of Mookntaka, 2024 BAF Grantee, n front of “Hedgehog” at Old Stone House. Photo by Anna Robertson, 2023.
Music
Brackish - music & art
Brackish - music & art
Brooklyn Maqam
The New York Oud Festival
Carter Van Pelt
Summer Soundsystem Series - Coney
Island Reggae / Reggae Under The Bridge
ChamberQUEER
ChamberQUEER 2024: Constellation
Connection Works
Wide Open Works
Grace Chorale of Brooklyn
Songs of Hope: Psalms for Troubled Times
Hamid Al-Saadi
Archiving, recording and performing the ancient Iraqi Maqam
Jan Bell
Brooklyn Americana Music Festival
Jazz Passengers Music Projects, Inc.
Brooklyn Porch Music
L Train Brass Band
Brasswick 2024
Perennial Muse, Inc.
Steel Tongue Drum Class for Older Adults
Raphael McGregor
Steel Guitar UNconvention
Sisters With Purpose, Inc.
East New York Music Festival
“ChamberQUEER 2023: We Refract”, featur ng Darian Donovan Thomas, Ju es Biber, Yoshi Weinberg, Rajna Swaminathan, Aviva Jaye, Brian Mummert, and A exis C Lamb ChamberQUEER s a 2024 LAS Grantee. Photo by by Sean Salamon.
Theater
Alicia Foxworth
Brownstone Steps Play Festival
Broken Box Mime Theater
BKBXKids! Climate Change Project
Brooklyn Youth Company
Family Tree
Grand Pistachio
Layer the Walls @ Brooklyn College
Gung Ho Projects
A Theater Workshop Towards
Immigrant Health Justice
Hedgepig Ensemble Theatre
Expand the Canon: Women, Diversity, and the Classics
CulturalHeritage
ASNEAA
ASNEAA
Bailey's Cafe
Flamenco y Sol
Centro Esportivo de Capoeira Angola -
Mestre Grande (CECA-MG)
Capoeira Angola - Discyple who learned
Charukantha
Charukantha
Danielle Brown, Ph.D.
Central Brooklyn Casineros
UPROSE & BombaYo - a collaborative BOMBA: Rooted in Resistance
Broken Box Mime Theater 2024 LAS Grantee. Photo by Toby Tenenbaum, 2021.
VisualArts
Art and Resistance Through Education (ARTE)
Youth Voices Lead: Immigration
Black Girl's Sew
Sew Green Fashion Camp
Brooklyn Emerging Mural Artist Coalition
Art in the Wild: A Poster Campaign
Promoting Brooklyn-Based Emerging Artists
Fulton Art Fair, Inc. On The Fence
Grace Roselli
Pandora's BoxX Project: Brooklyn
Jennifer Wade
JASA Scheuer House Senior Center of
Coney Island Artist-In-Residence Ceramics
Mosaic Project
Melvin Isaac
Melvins Black Art Perspective Collection
Mia Wright-Ross Loose (CHAINS) Change
NEBHDCo
Mural of Changes
Nzingah Oyo Of 30 Siblings
Seeds of Liberation
Barro en el Barrio
Tomato Mouse
Tomato Mouse 2024 Exhibition Season
Zachary Schulman
The Community Gardener Portrait Project
“The Blue Bus Project” mobi e art ga lery by Miche a Muserra & Frank e Ve ez, 2024 BAF Grantees. Photo by Zu Hanafusa.
SchoolPrograms
2024TEACHINGARTISTS
26 Served Schools
35 Emplo Arti
3,000 Served Students
Abby Walsh
PS 288
Abou Diarrassouba
PS 109, JHS 234
Amrita Singh
St. Athanasius Catholic Academy
Angelika Menendez
PS 169
Avani Patel
PS 288
Brynne O’Rourke
PS 94
Candaceia Charles
The Brooklyn Brownstone School,
Yeshiva of Flatbush, PS 274
Candance Sumpter
Cole Belt
PS 5
Devin Richey
Substitute
Eilish Henderson
The Brooklyn Brownstone School
TeachingArtists:SchoolPrograms
PS 288, Shulamith School for Girls of Brooklyn
Emmy Weissman
PS 195
Fernando Moya Delgado
PS 299
Gloria Lee
PS 5
Hildos Abla
PS 145
Irene Koloseus
PS 329
Iviva Olenick
Shulamith School for Girls of Brooklyn
Kathie Halfin
PS 95
Kelsey Van Ert
PS 288, IS 96
Kyle Marra
Nelson Mandela School for Social Justice
Mafor Mambo Tse
Nelson Mandela School for Social Justice,
PS 109, PS 274
Marina Celander
P231
Natalia Durango
PS 205
Nzingah Oyo
PS 145, St. Athanasius Catholic Academy
Öneza Lafontant
PS 5, P231
Petra Zanki
PS 299
Rute da Silva
PS 299, PS 104, PS 95, Liberation Diploma Plus
Salomé Egas
PS 94
Sara C. Sun
PS 145
SB Kosinski
PS 169
Scott Lilly
JHS 234, Yeshiva of Flatbush
Theo Frorer
PS 205, PS 145, PS 104
SU-CASACreativeAging
2024TEACHINGARTISTS
49 Served Centers
Served OlderAdults
Adedeji Afolabi
Amico Eileen Dugan Senior Center
Adela Navarro Moreno
Hope Gardens Older Adult Center
Alex Sniderman
Diana Jones Older Adult Center
Anderson Zaca
St.Nicks Alliance Swinging Sixties
Senior Center
Andrea Coronil
Christopher Blenman Older Adult Club
Cathy Henry- Ayum
Young at Heart Older Adult Center at the Flatbush YMCA
Camryn Moore
Glenmore Social Club
Cecilia Smith
Hazel Brooks Older Adult Center
TeachingArtists:SU-CASACreativeAging
Chia Ying Koa
BCA 6th Avenue Older Adult Center
Danielle Brown
Shore Hill Older Adult Center
Ekaterina Khankhalaeva
JASA Senior Alliance Older Adult Center
Erica Shires
Washington Lexington Older Adult Center
Glenda Sol, Dance
JCCGCI Coney Island Seaside Older Adult
Center
Grace Baley
Grace Agard Harewood Older Adult Center
Grace Lee
Park Slope Center for Successful Aging
Ian Donald, Painting
Marine Park Older Adult Center
Irene Koloseus
Simone Dundas Older Adult Center
Iviva Oleneck
JCCGCI Midwood Older Adult Center
James Clements
Independence Senior Center
Jamie Warren
Boro Park YMHA
Jennifer Wade, Visual Arts
JASA NORC Trumps United Older Adult Center
Jessica Dixon
Cypress Hills Adult Social Club
Jihane Serkhane
Borinquen Plaza Older Adult Center
Jin Tao
Karen Azouley
Shalom Neighborhood Citizens Center
Kenneth Rykewood
United Senior Citizens Center of Sunset Park
Lenore Slomo
AMICO 59th Street Senior Center
Liliana Marotta
CCNS Glenwood Senior Center
Michael Durkin
CCNS Pete McGuinness Older Adult Center
MingLiang Lu
Tompkins Park Older Adult Center
Nancy Espinoza
Hugh Gilroy Older Adult Center
Nancy Ma
Jay Harama Older Adult Center
CPC Brooklyn Older Adult Center
Nancy Siesel
Krakus Senior Center
Nathasha Brooks-Harris
Prospect Hill Senior Service Center
Nicole Abraham
St. Louis Older Adult Center
Öneza Lafontant
Bergen Basin Midwood Older Adult Center
Persephone DaCosta
Stuyvesant Gardens Older Adult Club
Rebecca Bernard
CCNS The Bay Senior Center
Richard Estrin
Brookdale Neighborhood Center
Russel Zimmerman
JASA Warbasse Cares NORC SSP
Stephanie Costello
Cooper Park Older Adult Center
Stephanie Larriere
Bay Ridge Center
Tracy Duhamel McFarlane
Sephardic Multi Service Center
Vanesa Alvarez Diaz
Cypress Hills Senior Citizen Center
Viktoriya Basina
Homecrest Bensonhurst Older Adult Center
Vincent Chong
JASA Starrett City Older Adult Center
William Schultz
Marlboro Older Adult Center
Yasmeen Abdallah
Albany Older Adult Center
WordsfromOurGrantees
“Stoop Stories is a proud and grateful grantee of Brooklyn Arts Council! With BAC’s support, we produced the short doc film, "Stoop Chat with Jimmy & Shanaya," which recently won best documentary at Urban Dreams Mental Health Film Festival and helped us grow our team and community. This summer, we will produce the third short in this intergenerational “Stoop Chat” series. The goals of this series of films and programs are to increase social connection, preserve neighborhood stories, and revitalize communities through stoop culture and intergenerational connections.”
Marj Kleinman
Brooklyn Arts Fund & Local Arts Support Grantee
Stoop Stories
“We received our first grant from the Brooklyn Arts Council in 2009, which enabled us to pay poets at our Parachute Festival at the New York Aquariums jellyfish exhibit. We have paid poets and artists ever since. Poets and artists deserve to be paid! Applying for BAC grants over the years taught me how to write grants and served as a stepping stone to apply for larger grants. Parachute Literary Arts has grown from a volunteer-run to a staffed community arts nonprofit. THANK YOU!”
Amanda Deutch
Local Arts Support Grantee
Parachute Literary Arts
A isha Desai, 2024 BAF Grantee Photo by Ananta Cuffee
WordsfromOurTeachingArtists
“Working with Brooklyn Arts Council for the past two years gave me an extraordinary opportunity to apply my teaching philosophy and the freedom to create diverse and creative student-centered curricula that explores different art medium, bring experience of artists into the classroom and provide students with a unique learning opportunities that can be explored later in life. Art Education is a necessity not a luxury. It goes beyond art techniques and exposes students to a broad range of knowledge and skills, brings cross curricular experience, enlightening of thoughts, life skills, self confidence, expressing and communicating ideas, becoming better makers and thinkers, understanding community, collaboration, openness to others; all the tools needed to become successful and productive members of the society.”
Hildos Abla
Teaching Artist: School Programs
Visual Arts
“As a Scottish immigrant artist making documentary theatre in New York today, my annual SU-CASA/Creative Aging Projects are amoungst my proudest and most fulfilling creative processes. It is such a privilege to connect with diverse seniors each Spring, spending hours with them, talking about their lives, their pasts, their futures, their dreams and their reflections on the ever-changing borough we all call home - Brooklyn. Turning these discussions into documentary theatre alongside these incredible folks is such a joy, and I learn so much from them every year - about life, perspective, survival, morality and integrity. It truly is a project for, by and of these seniors. I have been an artist with the Brooklyn Arts Council for years, and so appreciate all they do for our borough and the arts ecosystem here. I am proud to be a part of this community, and proud to be a Brooklyn Arts Council artist.”
James Clements
Creative Aging Teaching Artist
Performing Arts
BAC 2024 SU-CASA Teaching Artist Nathasha Brooks-Harris, dol -making residency at Prospect H ll Senior Service Center. Photo courtesy the art st.
New York City Department for the Aging (DFTA)
New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA)
New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA)
The Howard Gilman Foundation
The Mertz Gilmore Foundation
PERFORMERS
Sugar Vendil Shannon Yu Mir Naqibul Islam
Viktoriya Basina Ming Liang Lu
EVENT SPONSOR
National Sawdust
Blick Art Materials
EVENT FRIENDS
Camparti Catering
Redens Desrosiers (REX Photography)
“Art of Ex le” by Dara Kell & Veena Rao, 2024 BAF Grantees. Photo courtesy the artists.
Alyssa Alpine
Alyssa Sanchez
Alysson Lynch
Andrea Coronil
Andrea Phillips-Merriman
Anna Riley
Anthony Carrera
Ariel Willmott
Ashley Eckhardt
Bianca Mona
Caroline Garcia
Catherine Goode
Cecilia Smith
Christina Kruise
Christopher Kaufman
Cindy Sibilsky
Damaris/Tamavis Santiago
Danielle Wu
Derya Celikkol
Panelists
Doug Easterly
Lisa Wilde
Lorie Reilly
Lucia Warck-Meister
Marcelo Maccagnan
Maria Elena Pombo
Marandi Hostetter
Megumi Saruhashi
Michele Jaslow
Michele Jones
Michiko Grasso
Natali Bravo-Barbee
Nzingah Diallo
Olivia Harris
Paige Stewart
Pnina Srour
Rebecca Bird
Renana Neuman
Robert Gibbons
Roni Aviv
Ronit Levin Delgado
Emile Dubuisson
Ethan Lucher
Gabrielle Mertz
Giorgia Valenti
Grace Jahng Lee
HanaKyle Moranz
Hayley Ferber
Jamie Courville
Jason Farr
Jennifer Fei
Jenn Hyland
Jennella Young
Jeanelle Augustin
John Murchison
Katie Cercone
Kerry Warren
Ketriana Yvonne
Leila Seyedzadeh
Liam Alexander Sam Adrain
Sato Yamamoto
Sergio Castillo
Sophia Chizuco
Stefan Hagen
Stacey McMath
Tamavis Santiago
Thomas Piercy
Tricia Vita
Varghese Chacko
Watson Mere
Ximena Zuluaga
Ya Yun Teng
Yaminah Legohn
Yvonne Mpwo
Megum Saruhash , 2024 BAF Grantee. Photo by Kiyofumi Tanaka.
Staff
Allie Marotta
AIE Coordinator for School
Partnerships
Didintle Ntsie
Grants & Artist Engagement Manager
Emma Cookson
Operations Director
Emmy Weissman
Grants Associate
Mai-Elka Prado Gil
Programs & Cultural Heritage Manager
Marie Szalkiewicz
Communications Manager
M’Kina Tapscott
AIE Manager for Community & Equity
Melissa Caballero
Operations & Executive Coordinator
Rasu Jilani
Executive Director
Stanley Delva
Development Manager
Taeesha Muhammad
AIE Advocacy & Outreach Coordinator
Yasmine Lalkaka
Programs, Grants & Community
Engagement Coordinator
“Mont Blanc” by NVA & Guests, 2024 BAF Grantee. Photo by Tessa Fungo.
BoardofDirectors
Honorary Chairman
Antonio Reynoso
Brooklyn Borough President
Chair
Toni Yuille Williams
Vice Chair
Karen Sophia Auster
Treasurer
Frazier Holloway
Secretary
Sidney R. Jean, Esq.
Board Members
Cey Adams
Audrey Frank Anastasi
Julia Chu
Jack Esterson, AIA
Ellen Gottlieb
Lisa Dolberry Hancock
Ashley Hart
Samara Karasyk
Jidan Kim
Kristina Newman-Scott
Christine Osuji
Barbara Stallworth, PMP, CSM
