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.
Open Call – Book Cover Design
DEADLINE: FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 2025, 11:59 PM
Description: Bronx Council on the Arts is seeking a Bronx-based photographer and/or visual artist to design a cover for The Bronx Memoir Project Volume IX, a multi-genre anthology written during the 2024-2025 Bronx Memoir Project Workshop Series. The Bronx Memoir Project offers free, professionally-led memoir-writing workshops across the Bronx. Aligned with BCA’s mission to elevate local narratives and stories, the Bronx Memoir Project helps amplify local voices and document Bronx history through an array of writing tools, along with the professional development needed for writers to publish on their own. The book will be self-published by the Bronx Council on the Arts and distributed through amazon.com. This year's anthology theme is:
Body, Memory, Witness: Weaving Personal Histories
From the stories our bodies carry to the inherited legacies that shape us, from the landscapes that define our journeys to the pivotal moments of self-discovery, this collection serves as a powerful testament to the act of writing as remembrance, healing, and bearing witness.
Details:
- Please submit one image per artist.
- Only submit JPEG or TIFF files.
- It must be high resolution -- 300 dpi or higher.
- Ideal dimensions for cover files are 2,560 pixels in height x 1,600 pixels in width.
- An ideal height/width ratio of at least 1.6:1, meaning: For every 1,000 pixels in width, the image should be 1,600 pixels in height.
- The image can be color or B&W.
- The image must depict a scene set in the Bronx (i.e. scenic, street scenes, symbolic, etc.) open to interpretation by the artist.
- Submit up to a paragraph about your image and how it relates to the goals and intentions of the Bronx Memoir Project.
- Both; the artist and BCA retain reproduction rights to the image, with credit always given to the artist as the creator of the image.
- All visual media that can be reproduced in print may apply (Photography, Illustrations, Prints, Paintings, etc.)
- Stipend of $500 will be provided.
- Deadline is April 11, 2025, at 11:59 PM.
Eligibility Requirements: Artist / Creative must be a Bronx resident.