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01/24/2023

Stop by for our Spring 2023 Exhibition Opening Reception tomorrow & also visit our neighbors UrbanGlass for the opening of "Table Settings" by Noah Breuer! http://bit.ly/3kABBnH

01/23/2023

BRIC Invites You to the Opening of Its Spring 2023 Contemporary Art Exhibitions - BK Reader

Come take a first peek at our spring contemporary art exhibitions, meet the artists and enjoy some refreshments on January 25 at 7:00pm.

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Come take a first peek at BRIC's spring exhibitions, meet the artists, and enjoy some refreshments.

01/22/2023

BRIClab 2021/22 Video Art Resident Buzz Slutzky’s interdisciplinary practice is, in many ways, an autobiographical and historical intervention. Slutzky creates drawings and paintings based on photographic images found in instructional manuals, visual arts textbooks, interior design catalogs, and family scrapbooks, many of which were published between the 1950s and 70s. More info: https://bit.ly/3Zr8Mdn

Image caption: Buzz Slutzky, Detail from Manual Power #5, 2015-22

01/20/2023

Lucia Hierro creates works that focus on consumable goods rendered in photographs and reproductions in larger-than-life proportions. Her mattress sculptures are printed with gig economy delivery drivers, removed from the bike, the precarity of their bodies can be seen within the larger context of desire for economic freedom.

You're invited to the opening of When I Am Empty, a group exhibition featuring the work of seven artists who explore the dominant myths of the American dream. Come take a first peek at the exhibitions, meet the artists, and enjoy some refreshments. https://bit.ly/3Zr8Mdn

Image caption: Lucia Hierro, Essencialmente Essencial, 2021

01/19/2023

Town Hall "Healing with Housing: Decriminalizing the Unhoused & Mentally Ill,” will bring together experts and leaders to discuss the housing crisis facing communities throughout Brooklyn and the impact of different strategies to mitigate harm and create pathways towards economic justice.

Join us at BRIC House on Thursday, February 23rd for this important event. RSVP: http://bit.ly/3GRfYa3

01/18/2023

BRIC is pleased to announce Pia Monique Murray as the 2023 ICAC artist-in-residence. Pia has dedicated her artistic practice to multidisciplinary work that encompasses community engagement and audience interaction and will work closely with ICAC members for Spread Love, an original Hip-Hop and performance community tour.

Learn more! http://bit.ly/3XCCavx

01/16/2023

Pacifico Silano re-examines q***r visual culture at the height of the HIV/AIDS epidemic through rephotographing, selecting, cutting, and overlapping enlarged images. Through this act, he addresses these normative tropes in order to create new narratives of deep desire missing from the archive and of lives lost.

BRIC invites you to the opening of When I Am Empty, a group exhibition featuring the work of seven artists who explore the dominant myths of the American dream. Come take a first peek at the exhibitions, meet the artists, and enjoy some refreshments. https://bit.ly/3Zr8Mdn

Image caption: Pacifico Silano, When I’m Down On My Knees You’re How I Pray, 2022

01/15/2023

Forever Your Girl (working title), Ayanna Dozier’s Super 8 film and autoethnographic sound score, is a meditation on the personal desire for control and the longing of soft femininity.

BRIC invites you to the opening of When I Am Empty, a group exhibition featuring the work of seven artists who explore the dominant myths of the American dream. Come take a first peek at the exhibitions, meet the artists, and enjoy some refreshments. https://bit.ly/3Zr8Mdn

Image caption: Ayanna Dozier, Forever Your Girl (video still), 2022

01/12/2023

Join us for a work-in-process showing of Root Cause: Black American Circus by 2022/23 BRIClab Performing Arts resident Cleo Reed on January 26.

"Root Cause: Black American Circus" is a self-produced musical project. Cleo guides us through their narrative driven, pre-performance of their debut album while integrating the aesthetics and movement of 20th-century circus performance.

More info and RSVP: https://bit.ly/3GOqznw

01/11/2023

CALLING ALL TEEN ARTISTS! Submissions are now open for BRIC Youth Curatorial Exhibition: The World, Reflected In Your Eyes.

Submit your artwork for a chance to be featured at a physical exhibition at BRIC House gallery in May 2023. Applications are open until Jan. 31st. https://bit.ly/3BIq2k6

01/10/2023

Join us live and in-person on January 31st at BRIC House for this month's Brooklyn Poetry Slam, an incredible evening of poetry and community led by co-founders Mahogany L. Browne and Jive Poetic, and featuring Yesenia Montilla.

Don't miss a chance to speak out and be heard! https://bit.ly/3V9PaXK

01/09/2023

This Tuesday, January 10, Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso will be giving his first State of the Borough address, highlighting 2022 triumphs and setting expectations for the year to come.

We are proud to be the official media partner for the evening, livestreaming the event over our broadcast channels, as well as on YouTube. https://bit.ly/3vQNCYE

01/06/2023

BRIC Brooklyn

Start out the year strong! 🙏🏽 https://bit.ly/3QnekRO

01/01/2023

Happy New Year, Brooklyn! 🎊🥂💃

12/30/2022

Support BRIC's transformative work

We were able to do a lot of things in 2022 and, with your support, aspire to do even more in 2023. Give today to help us support work that could only happen at BRIC. https://bit.ly/bricgiving2022

12/30/2022

Cheers to a great year of Brooklyn Poetry Slams! 🎤 Shout-out to everyone who was a part of it.

There is no December slam, but you can RSVP for our Jan 31 event now. See you next year! https://bit.ly/3V9PaXK

12/29/2022

Looking back at 2022! 👀 was a whole vibe.

12/27/2022

Support BRIC's transformative work

This September we reopened BRIC House to our Brooklyn community with two groundbreaking Contemporary Art exhibitions. In our Project Room, we showcased Sophia-Yemisi Adeyemo’s debut show Earth & Iron: Archival Visions of Land and Struggle, which grew out of her work as a BRIClab artist-in-residence.

BRIClab offers year-long support to 18 artists and teams over four disciplines: Contemporary Art, Performing Arts, Video Art, and Film + TV. Other BRIClab alumni include Grammy-winner Ty Defoe, Brooklyn-based theater collective The TEAM, and Sarah E. Brook, whose work is currently on display at the Lena Horne Bandshell.

We were able to do a lot of things in 2022 and, with your support, aspire to do even more in 2023. Give today to help us support work that could only happen at BRIC. https://bit.ly/bricgiving2022

12/25/2022

As we reflect on the past year we are so proud to have “The Need You Know it is A Letting Light” by Sarah E. Brook on display at the Prospect Park Bandshell. But no worries, it's coming with us into 2023! Stop by through May.

Photo by Sebastian Bach

12/24/2022

Reflecting back on all the fun we had at BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn Festival this year! 🪩

12/23/2022

BĀS is a Black and Asian bridging project that seeks to address racial tensions and foster mutual understanding, empathy, and healing through active listening, music, movement, and storytelling.

In this BRIClab residency, composer-musicians and interdisciplinary artists Janelle Lawrence and Sugar Vendil shared an incredible excerpt of their work-in-progress piece. To learn more visit https://bit.ly/3WkRDQr.

12/22/2022

Our current exhibitions have been extended through January 8th!

This is your last chance to catch Rodrigo Valenzuela: New Works for a Post Worker’s World and Sophia-Yemisi Adeyemo: Earth & Iron: Archival Visions of Land and Struggle at BRIC House.

The gallery is open Wednesday-Sunday, 11AM-6PM; but closed for the holidays Dec 24th - January 3rd. More info: https://bit.ly/3mdQhWX

12/21/2022

Learn to Podcast with BRIC

This is your sign! BRIC offers a variety of no-or-low cost podcast education opportunities and classes, including Make a Podcast on Your Phone, Video Production in the Field, and Field Audio Certification. Additionally, the BRIC Podcast Intensive applications are now open! This unique program will guide you through all of the stages of starting a podcast. A group of 12 Brooklynites will be selected to write, produce, record, and edit a podcast episode on a topic or subject of their choice.

Apply now and learn more: https://bit.ly/3hMwAYb

12/20/2022

In February 2022, BRIC convened the third cycle of the Intergenerational Community Arts Council (ICAC). Public housing residents and neighbors from Fort Greene and Downtown Brooklyn spent a year collaborating with BRIC artists and staff to create values-driven programming by, with, and for their communities.

In June, the ICAC held an event celebrating their collaborative work "Resources for Joy,” a free book of community-sourced poems, practices, recommendations, and recipes for healing and inspiration designed through virtual gatherings during COVID-era lockdowns. Over 1,500 copies of “Resources for Joy” have been shared with local residents and partners since first being published.

Uniting our communities through a shared goal of healing, artistic creation, and celebration is at the core of our work at BRIC. Make a gift today to help support restorative, community-driven work! https://bit.ly/bricgiving2022

12/19/2022

Learn a new skill or skill up in the new year! Check out our Media Classes for 2023, with many no-to-low cost offerings, ranging from how to create content to how to sell it. Register early: https://bit.ly/2LlWNtz

12/18/2022

Join us to watch the amazing films produced during the 2022 BRIC Documentary Intensive! BRIC's 2022 Documentary Intensive cohort learned the ins and outs of making a short, compelling film—from choosing a documentary subject and style, crafting a treatment and pre-production plan, and then overcoming the challenges of producing and editing a short documentary for the first time.

More info and RSVP: http://bit.ly/3BCJ4bz

12/17/2022

Vote BRIC! We are thrilled to announce that the Brooklyn USA and TELL podcasts from BRIC TV are finalists for Signal Awards Listener’s Choice Awards. Cast your vote to help us cross the finish line! https://bit.ly/3FNGEZX

12/16/2022

CALLING ALL TEEN ARTISTS! Submissions are now open for BRIC Youth Curatorial Exhibition: The World, Reflected In Your Eyes.

Submit your artwork for a chance to be featured at a physical exhibition at BRIC House gallery in May 2023. Applications are open until Jan. 31, 2023.

More Info: https://bit.ly/3BIq2k6

12/15/2022

BRIC Hip-Hop is coming soon!

"We’re hard at work on a full year of innovative programming around the 50th anniversary of Hip-Hop (...) All year, we will be bringing together artists, musicians, creators, thought leaders, and our community at large to both uplift Hip-Hop communities across the globe and actively support and celebrate Hip-Hop’s innovative creativity in Brooklyn and beyond." - BRIC President Wes Jackson

Learn more here: bit.ly/3FStATf

12/13/2022

Stumped about what to give someone who seems to have everything? A membership to BRIC is a year-long passport to the best cultural experiences in Brooklyn, including BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn!, BRIC JazzFest, our gallery exhibitions, and media workshops and resources.

To gift a membership...

✨ Head over to bricartsmedia.org/membership, select the level you would like to give, and checkout.
✨ Once you've finished the transaction, you’ll be asked whether the membership is a gift.
✨ Let us know the name and email of your recipient.
✨ We’ll send you a digital certificate that you can either forward along to your friend or print and give them in person.

Simple!

12/10/2022

OPEN NOW! Get your tickets to the fascinating, edgy universe of Thierry Mugler in Brooklyn Museum's latest exhibition, Couturissime, open through May 7, 2023.

Thierry Mugler: is the first retrospective to explore one of the most daring and innovative designers of the late twentieth century. Purchase tickets at https://bit.ly/3Or1UHQ for a show you don’t want to miss.

12/08/2022

Buzz Slutzky: For Example | BRIC House

Our Project Room exhibition "Buzz Slutzky: For Example" will open Jan. 26, 2023, in conjunction with our Spring 2023 Gallery exhibition! “For Example” presents the artist’s ongoing investigation into the relationship between mark- and meaning-making. Through drawing, painting, and film, Slutzky explores the aesthetics of authority, instruction, and knowledge production.Join BRIC for an Opening Reception Jan. 25, 2023 from 7-9PM. RSVP here: bit.ly/3UzkhvB

12/05/2022

Join us at BRIC House on Dec 14 & 16 for a work-in-process showing of BĀS by 2022/23 BRIClab Performing Arts residents Sugar Vendil and Janelle Lawrence.

BĀS is a Black and Asian bridging project by composer-musicians and interdisciplinary artists Janelle Lawrence and Sugar Vendil. It seeks to address racial tensions and foster mutual understanding, empathy, and healing through active listening, music, movement, and storytelling.

More info and RSVP: https://bit.ly/3Y1vasU

12/03/2022

Free things to do in NYC | December

Finishing out the year strong! 💪🏽 http://bit.ly/3iA2jMg

12/02/2022

Your Concise New York Art Guide for December 2022

"Sophia-Yemisi Adeyemo presents the colonized memory as a fractional space, using a cut-up method to accentuate the gaps. Based on 20th-century photography from West Africa and the Caribbean, Adeyemo’s sparse paintings and sculptures render scenes of subjection into fragments of guerrilla fugitivity."

Read more from Hyperallergic below and make sure to visit the exhibition in person, open Wednesday-Sunday, 11AM-6PM at BRIC House through December 23rd.

Your list of must-see, fun, insightful, and very New York art events this month, including art made during the first stock market crash, a homage to feline friends, and the 10-year anniversary of a crucial public art initiative.

12/01/2022

Brooklyn USA | You Wanna Play?

Love your job, and you’ll never work a day in your life. But what happens when you turn a hobby or interest into a profession? This week, we spoke with members of the Nets Gaming Crew – a professional NBA2K team affiliated with the Brooklyn Nets, about what happens when play becomes work.

Listen to the latest episode of Brooklyn, USA podcast now on all major podcast streaming platforms.

11/30/2022

Applications close tomorrow, 12/1! The ICAC seeks an environmental designer, set designer, or installation artist to help create the visual, physical, and interactive elements for SPREAD LOVE, a pop-up performance event that will travel to four local community centers in May-June 2023.

The position includes an honorarium of $3500, the opportunity to collaborate with community members and artists and more! https://bit.ly/3SMI7mR

11/29/2022

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11/29/2022

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11/29/2022

It Could Only Happen At BRIC | Giving Tuesday

At BRIC JazzFest 2022 we presented 18 boundary-pushing acts, including HERA – a group of powerhouse female artists who debuted on the festival stage. Led by Chelsea Baratz, who brought together five incredible artists, HERA performed together for the first time for the BRIC JazzFest audience after being connected by guest curator Maurice Brown.

Every musician in HERA has her own band, her own original music, and her own sound outside of the group, but when they came together they made something never seen before.

That kind of magic could only happen at BRIC.

Will you make a tax-deductible gift by December 31st and support BRIC’s creative magic? bit.ly/bricgiving2022