SPRING PARTY
06.05.23
INDUSTRYCITY5-2-A
PhotosbyGreggRichards
Left to Right: Cey Adams, BAC Board Member; Toni Yuille Williams, BAC Board Chair; Derrick Adams, Visual Artist, Performance Artist, & Educator; Stephanie Johnson-Cunningham, Museum Hue; Alireza Esmaeilzadeh, Brookfield Properties
DerrickAdams
Visual Artist, Performance Artist, & Educator
AlirezaEsmaeilzadeh
Senior Vice President of Development | Brookfield Properties
Left to Right: Tian Fan, Brookfield Properties; Andrew Graham, Brookfield Properties; & Alireza Esmaeilzadeh, Brookfield Properties
StephanieJohnson-Cunningham
Co-founder & Executive Director | Museum Hue
Left: Assemblymember Brian Cunningham, District 43
Right: Stephanie Johnson-Cunningham, Museum Hue
ToniYuilleWilliams
BAC Board Chair & Media Host | Brooklyn Savvy & ArtMovez
Left: Toni Yuille Williams, BAC Board Chair
Right: Kristina Newman-Scott, BAC Board Member
Taahira Maynard, Open Society Foundations
RasuJilani
Executive Director | Brooklyn Arts Council
Left to Right: Chentis Pettigrew, Soul Science Lab; Rasu Jilani, BAC Executive Director; Asante Amin, Soul Science Lab
ChiefBabaNeilClarke
Percussionist, Scholar, & Educator
2023 Creative Equations Fund & Brooklyn Arts Fund Grantee
Kevin Batchelor, NYC Ska Orchestra Quintet, 2023 Brooklyn Arts Fund Grantee
ViktoriyaBasina Visual Artist & Muralist | 2023 Brooklyn Arts Fund Grantee
in Education
Philip A. Alexander, Ph.D, BAC Arts
Director
MarinaCelander Theater & Movement Artist | 2023 BAC Teaching Artist
TheNYCSkaOrchestraQuintet
2023 Brooklyn Arts Fund Grantee
ThePoetrySocietyofNewYork featuringAnnaGenevieveWinham
2022 Brooklyn Arts Fund Grantee
YaaSamar!DanceTheatre
2023 Creative Equations Fund Grantee
DJSpinna
DJ, Producer, & Remixer
Left: DJ Dre Ngozi
Right: DJ Spinna
Left: Ericka Merriwether
Right: Kas Merriwether, BAC Grant Writer
Left: Kendra Ross, SToops & Cheyenne Ross
Right: Philip A. Alexander, Ph.D, BAC Arts in Education Director & Laura Dee, Artist
Lauren Nordvig, BAC Grants & Services Manager (Former)
Left: Cheyenne Ross, Artist
Right: Kendra Ross, Founder of STooPS
Left: Chief Baba Neil Clarke, BAC Grantee
Right: Assemblymember Brian Cunningham, District 43
Left to Right: Salome Asega, Director, NEW INC; Ayesha Williams, Executive Director, Laundromat Project; Suhaly Bautista-Carolina, Director of Public Programs & Partnerships, American LGBTQ+ Museum
Left: Laura Dee, Artist
Right: Khidr Joseph, Artist
Left to Right: Amy Andrieux, MoCADA Executive Director; RunP, DJ & Producer; Rasu Jilani, BAC Executive Director; Mai-Elka Prado Gil, BAC Programs Manager; Amilcar Priestley, AfroLatin@ Project
Left: Taahira Maynard, Open Society Foundations
Right: Cherae Robinson, Founder & CEO of Tastemakers Africa
Right: Ayoka Wiles, Ph.D, Acting Director, Expression | Culture & Art, Open Society Foundations
Left: Masha Lisitsyna, Senior Program Manager, Open Society Foundations
Wes Jackson, President, BRIC Arts & Media
Malik Yoba, Actor Dahkil Hausif, Men at Work Healing & Kamau Ware, The Black Gotham Experience
Left to Right: DJ Dre Ngozi; Laura Dee; Ari Melenciano, Artist & Founder, Afrotectopia; Stephanie Meiling, Photographer
Left: Alex Darby, Curator & Founder of DARBY STUDIOS
Right: Gregory Truono, Artist
Left: Mai-Elka Prado Gil , BAC Programs Manager
Right: Desirée Gordon, BAC Strategy & Programs Director
Left to Right: Gregg Bishop, Tsai Foundation Executive Director; Toni Yuille Williams, BAC Board Chair; Kristina Newman-Scott, BAC Board Member; Samara Karasyk, BAC Board Member; Rasu Jilani, BAC Executive Director
Left: Rasu Jilani, BAC Executive Director
Right: Cey Adams, BAC Board Member
Left: Frazier Holloway, BAC Board Member
Right: Ellen Gottlieb, BAC Board Member
Left to Right: Rasu Jilani, BAC Executive Director; Joseph Anastasi, Tabla Rasa Gallery; Audrey Anastasi, BAC Board Member; Gary Hattem, Chair of Trustees at Pratt Institute & President of Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation; & Frazier Holloway, BAC Board Member
Standing: Jean-Ronald Berthoumieux & Anamaria West, S&P Global
Sitting: Jada Berthoumieux & Barbara Stallworth, BAC Board Member
Left to Right: Edward S. Berliner, Bridge Property Advisors; Jidan Kim, BAC Board Member; Brian T. Leary, Bridge Property Advisors
Left to Right: Lisette Wong, Think! Architecture; Jack Esterson, BAC Board Member; Martin Kapell, Think! Architecture
Left to Right: Toni Williams, BAC Board Chair; Tobie Stein, BAC Board Member; & Sidney R. Jean, Esq., BAC Board Member
Left to Right: Daniela Fifi, Ed.D, BAC Cultural Heritage Researcher & Community Liaison Consultant (former); Toni Yuille Williams, BAC Board Chair; Rasu Jilani, BAC Executive Director, Kristina Newman-Scott, BAC Board Member; Christine Osuji, BAC Board Member
NATIONAL SAWDUST JUNE 26, 2023
Photos by Will O'Hare
Mikaela Brandon, McKoy Dance Project || MDP, 2023 Local Arts Support, Creative
Equations Fund, & Brooklyn Arts Fund Grantee
eGALitarian Brass
2023 Brooklyn Arts Fund & Brooklyn Empower Fund Grantee
Julie Zedeck & Kate Amrine, eGALitarian Brass
Left to Right: Lindsay Ross, Jasmine Lavariega, Gina Benalcázar-López, Julie Zedeck, & Kate Amrine, eGALitarian Brass
Jasmine Lavariega, eGALitarian Brass
McKoy Dance Project || MDP
2023 Local Arts Support, Creative Equations Fund, & Brooklyn Arts Fund Grantee
Left to Right: Tyler Choquette; Mikaela Brandon; & Aanyse Chandler, McKoy Dance Project || MDP
Aanyse Chandler, McKoy Dance Project || MDP
Shaina McGregor, McKoy Dance Project || MDP
DJ Dre Ngozi
DJ, Artist, & Producer
Dre Ngozi, DJ, Artist & Producer
Steph Costello
2023 Brooklyn Arts Fund Grantee
Karyn Lao of Mookntaka, 2023 Brooklyn Arts Fund Grantee
Rosemary Johnson, Womanly Magazine, 2023 Brooklyn Arts Fund Grantee
Liang Lu
Brooklyn
Grantee
Ming
2023
Arts Fund
Left: Desiree Gordon, BAC Strategies & Programs Director; Right: Ming Liang Lu, 2023 Brooklyn Arts Fund Grantee
Ming Liang Lu, 2023 Brooklyn Arts Fund Grantee
Rasu Jilani, BAC Executive Director
Laurie Cumbo
Commissioner | New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA)
Rasu Jilani Executive Director | Brooklyn Arts Council
Lincoln Restler Council Member | District 33
Toni Yuille Williams
Board Chair | Brooklyn Arts Council
of Programs | New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA)
Megan White Deputy Director
Left to Right: Sasha Gutiérrez, Zack Ofarrill, & Isabel Rolston of The Opera Next Door, 2023 Brooklyn Arts Fund Grantee
Left: Yago de Quay, Artist & BAC Advisory Group Member
Right: Rasu Jilani, BAC Executive Director Mai-Elka Prado Gil, BAC Programs Manager
Left to Right: Kristina Newman-Scott, BAC Board Member; Toni Yuille Williams, BAC Board Chair; Christine Osuji, BAC Board Member
Left: Persephone DaCosta, Founder of Batingua Arts & 2023 Creative Equations Fund & Brooklyn Arts Fund Grantee; Right: Philip A. Alexander, Ph.D, BAC Director of Arts in Education
Olaronke Akinmowo, Founder of the Free Black Women's Library & 2023 Brooklyn Empower Fund & Brooklyn Arts Fund Grantee
Modesto "Flako" Jimenez, Founder of ¡Oye Group! & 2023 Local Arts Support & Creative Equations Fund Grantee
Left: Darryl Harrison, Founder of Urban Jali & 2023 Creative Equations Fund Grantee
Right: Amelia Robinson, Founder of Mil's Trills & 2023 Brooklyn Arts Fund Grantee
Left to Right: Jamie Courville, 2023 Brooklyn Arts Fund Grantee; Marj Kleinman of Stoop Stories, 2023 Local Arts Support & Brooklyn Arts Fund Grantee; Phil Andrews of Brooklyn Beats, 2023 Brooklyn Arts Fund Grantee
Left to Right: Lila Milgrom, BAC Development & External Affairs Coordinator; Emma Cookson, BAC Operations Director; M'Kina Tapscott, BAC AIE Manager for Community & Equity
Left: Benjamin Lewis, Bread Arts Collective, 2023 Brooklyn Arts Fund Grantee
Right: Lindsay Hope Pearlman, Bread Arts Collective, 2023 Brooklyn Arts Fund Grantee
Left: Philip A Alexander, Ph D, BAC Director of Arts in Education
Right: Ellen Gottlieb, BAC Board Member
Terry & Reggie Gray, The D.R.E.A.M. Ring, 2018 Brooklyn Arts Fund Grantee
Left to Right: Derick McKoy; Shaina McGregor; Tyler Choquette; Mikaela Brandon; & Aanyse Chandler, McKoy Dance Project || MDP, 2023 Local Arts Support, Creative Equations Fund, & Brooklyn Arts Fund Grantee