Opportunities for Bronx Individual Artists, Arts Organizations, and Artist Collectives

The Bronx Council on the Arts (BCA) offers grant funding and program opportunities to support community-centered arts and culture projects and to recognize outstanding local artists.

Applications are accepted from individual artists, artist collectives, and nonprofit arts or community organizations for projects in a wide variety of disciplines, including dance, visual arts & crafts, theater, music, film & video, opera, folk arts, interdisciplinary arts, literary arts, multi-disciplinary art forms, and others.

Emerging and pre-professional artists, women artists, artists of color, artists with disabilities, artists who identify as LGBTQ, and artists from other historically excluded communities and demographics are strongly encouraged to apply.


For more information, please visit www.bronxarts.org/grants, send an email to tracey@bronxarts.org.

 Dear BRIO Recipients,


We are happy to have had you as part of BCA's 2024 Bronx Recognizes its Own Cohort. As part of your 2024 BRIO agreement, you agreed to submit a Final Report. This will complete your funding requirements. 

Your report will help enrich our understanding of how BRIO has impacted your work and continue to support the performing arts ecosystem of the Bronx.  

Key Details: 

  • Submission Deadline: June 30, 2025 

If you have any questions or need assistance completing your report, please don't hesitate to contact our Grantmaking Manager, Tracey O'Reilly, at tracey@bronxarts.org or our Grantmaking Associate Guadalupe Ambrosio, at guadalupe@bronxarts.org 

Thank you for your participation and your contribution to the Bronx arts community. 

Best regards, 

BCA's Grant Team 

Are you a performer, visual artist, arts critic, arts historian, musician, curator, other artist or arts professional, or arts engaged community leader?

The Bronx Council on the Arts (BCA) seeks artists, arts professionals, and nonprofit and community leaders to serve as panelists for our 2024 and future grant cycles.

BCA offers several grantmaking programs and distributes more than $750,000 of grant funds every to Bronx artists, collectives, and nonprofit organizations. BCA Panelists review and score applications, provide invaluable panelist comments, and recommend recipients for funding. They play a key role in the grants process, and their knowledge and expertise are crucial in shaping the way public arts funds are distributed.

If this is you and you would like to help make a difference in the Bronx, please apply to serve on one of our grants panels!

Potential panelists from all boroughs are welcome to apply, as BCA’s different grant programs require panelists from in and outside of the Bronx. BCA supports panel diversity in all forms: age, race, gender, disability, sexual orientation, artistic discipline, location, etc.

Selected panelists will be contacted when needed. All panelists receive an honorarium. 


For more info on BCA's grants, please visit this link.

Dear 2024 Community Engagement Recipients,

As part of your grant agreement for your 2024 Community Engagement Grant, you agreed to submit a Final Report on your grant activities for the year.

Please complete this Final Report as soon as possible.

Completing this Final Report will complete your funding requirements.

BCA has combined the four different Final Report forms into one Submittable form. If you received more than one Community Engagement Grant, please include data for all of them.

Community Engagement Grants:

  • Arts Fund
  • Community Arts
  • New Work
  • Arts on the Block

If you have any questions about your Final Report, please contact BCA Grants Making Manager Tracey O’Reilly at tracey@bronxarts.org

Bronx Council on the Arts