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.
Bronx Council on the Arts
Longwood Arts Project
Longwood @ Governors Island Residency Program 2026
We are thrilled to announce the third edition of Longwood @ Governors Island, a BCA/Longwood Arts Project artist residency program presenting Bronx-based artists with a free studio space to explore, create, and develop their work. The residency is available to artists of all disciplines who do not have external studio space at the time of the application or during the residency period from May 16, 2026, to November 1, 2026.
Longwood @ Governors Island furthers BCA’s mission to create connections between Bronx artists and others outside the borough. The program will serve a cohort of five visual artists by providing each artist with their own studio space from mid-May to early November. There will be two Open Studio Weekends – tentatively July 18 and 19, and October 17 and 18 – allowing the public to engage with the artists and their work. The latter weekend will also feature a celebratory performance by Bronx performing artists, bringing together BCA’s unique cross-disciplinary constituency of artists and audiences. Resident artists will receive a stipend.
This residency program will provide selected artists with an incredible opportunity for exposure to the several thousand visitors to Governors Island during this period. Throughout the course of the residency, BCA will arrange to have independent curators visit the house and meet with resident artists. The residency will culminate in a residents’ exhibition that will activate all spaces throughout the house. Additionally, artists will benefit from the Island’s year-round tenant organizations, many of whose interests intersect with the themes of their artistic practice (i.e., climate, architecture, technology).
Longwood @ Governors Island 2026
Application Period
January 28, 2026 – February 28, 2026
(Deadline extended to Thursday, March 5, 2026.)
Notification of selection
March 13, 2026
Residency dates:
May 16, 2026 – November 1, 2026
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/community leaders to serve as panelists for our 2026, and future grant cycles.
BCA offers several regranting programs, distributing nearly one million dollars of grant funds every year 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 in appreciation for their service.
For more info on BCA's grants, please visit this link.
As part of your grant agreement for your 2025 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. For those needing to submit an interim report, please use the same template.
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
If you have any questions about your Final Report, please contact BCA Grants Manager Tracey O’Reilly at tracey@bronxarts.org.
Dear BRIO grantees,
We are happy to have had you as part of BCA's 2025 Bronx Recognizes its Own cohort. As part of your 2025 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, 2026
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