The Brooklyn Arts Council, Inc. (BAC) is an arts service organization dedicated to helping artists, arts organizations, and community groups promote and sustain the arts. Major areas of service include BAC's Community Arts Re-grant Program, Professional Development Seminars for the Arts, Arts in Education, BAC Folk Arts, the Printmaker's Portfolio Project and the BAC International Film and Video Festival.
The Brooklyn Bridge Park Film Festival is sponsored by the Brooklyn Bridge Park Coalition in cooperation with the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. The Summer Film Series features films about Brooklyn, shot in Brooklyn, or by Brooklyn artists. Admission to all films is free.
DUMBO Arts Center
is a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving and enriching the identity of D.U.M.B.O. as an artists' community. The center also promotes the collective work of emerging artists by producing the annual d.u.m.b.o art under the bridge festival, exhibiting group shows in its fine arts gallery, maintaining a slide registry, and collaborating with other organizations to sponsor local arts events.
The South Of the Navy Yard Artists, Inc. (SONYA) community includes visual artists whose homes, studios or galleries are located within the boundaries of Flatbush Ave., Atlantic Ave., Bedford Ave., and Flushing Ave. in Brooklyn, which essentially falls within the areas of Fort Greene, Clinton Hill, and Bedford-Stuyvesant.
The Alliance of Resident Theaters/New York (A.R.T./New York) is the service and advocacy organization for the nation’s largest, most artistically influential and culturally diverse theatre community: Off Broadway. Founded in 1972, A.R.T./New York serves nearly 400 not-for-profit theatres throughout New York City.
Mark Morris Dance Group
offers classes for adults and children in its state-of-the-art dance facility. Primarily used for the company and school, the center’s five studios, including the largest unobstructed dance studio in the country, are available for rent to nonprofit dance companies at low, subsidized rates.
Heart of Brooklyn Cultural Partnership
is a partnership of the leading cultural institutions located near Grand Army Plaza: Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Brooklyn Children’s Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn Public Library, Prospect Park, and Prospect Park Zoo.
BRIC Arts | Media | Bklyn
is a multi-disciplinary arts non-profit dedicated to presenting quality visual, performing and media arts programs reflective of Brooklyn’s diverse communities, and to providing resources and platforms to support the creative process. BRIC programs include: in the performing arts, Celebrate Brooklyn, a free eight-week performing arts festival in Prospect Park and BRICstudio, a 74-seat performance space that presents and supports the work of performing artists with an emphasis on Brooklyn-based arts organizations; in media, BCAT/Brooklyn Community Access Television, which operates the borough’s public access television channels, offers educational programs and produces television programming about Brooklyn; and in visual arts, BRIC Rotunda Gallery, which presents contemporary art, public events and an innovative arts education program.
Brooklyn Music School
(BMS) provides on-site instruction in music and dance, public school outreach programs, and professional performances touching the lives of thousands annually by utilizing a distinguished faculty of 30 artist-educators. Students come to BMS from all walks of life and with diverse goals.