BRIC Arts Media

We’re BRIC Arts Media, aka BRIC, founded in 1979 as The Fund for the Borough of Brooklyn to drive economic revitalization through the arts by providing free cultural programming to its residents. At the time, our primary function was to host the now-legendary BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival. We expanded to include a contemporary art gallery (1981) and named the Public Access Television Network for Brooklyn (1988). Today, our work reaches 200,000 people annually and encompasses performing arts, in-school arts instruction, adult media education, and artist residencies.

A Space to Create, a Place to Transform

BRIC is a creative haven for dreamers and storytellers located in the heart of downtown Brooklyn. It’s a transformational space where artists and audiences connect, visionary ideas are brought to life, and YOU and your community are empowered to express yourselves authentically. Join us in this culture-shifting work by supporting BRIC through a donation today. 

Our Impact

• BRIC Reached 97,656 people through in-person and virtual programming


• An additional 5.7 million people engaged with BRIC content through social media and television programming


• BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! welcomed 75,000 music lovers to Prospect Park and featured luminary artists like Meshell Ndegeocello, Sean Kuti, and Thee Sacred Souls


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  30 BRIC Teaching Artists delivered high-quality arts and media instruction for 3,200 K-12 students across 40 public schools in 23 Brooklyn neighborhoods


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  700 Brooklyn residents became certified producers through BRIC's media education courses. These programs offer 44 distinct classes, like field recording, television production, and podcasting, all available at little to no cost


• Provided 40 young adults with creative development and professional training opportunities like curatorial fellowships and teen media classes


• Commissioned 17 filmmakers to create new work and took home a 2024 New York Emmy for our documentary Homeroom Dreams: NYC's Unhoused Student Crisis
  


• Presented three unforgettable nights of music at the 10th Anniversary of JazzFest, which honored the contributions of women artists like harpist Lakecia Benjamin, Terri Lyne Carrington, and Brandee Younger