Education

Register for Spring Classes

Registration Now Open

Classes will run April 8th - June 25th

Registration is now open for BRAC'S Spring 2024 art classes and workshops. Our 2-hour classes meet once a week for ten weeks in our state-of-the-art Fine Arts Studio, Ceramics workshop, or Digital Media Lab, and are taught by professional teaching artist with fine arts degrees and multiple years of teaching experience. Classes include painting, drawing, ceramics, printmaking, mixed media, and cartooning, as well as the digital arts of illustration, animation, and photography. Classes run on weekday afternoons and evenings, and on Saturdays. Pricing for weekly classes starts at $95, with a 10% early bird discount until March 23rd.

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"Finally, It's Friday!" Art Workshops

Fridays from 5:30pm - 8:30pm

Join us at the end of a busy work or school week in our three-hour art workshops, and learn a variety of art mediums and techniques in a relaxed environment. You will have the opportunity to sharpen your artistic skills in drawing, painting. Our Sold Out Winter Workshops were a great success. You can begin registering for our Spring Series (beginning in April) right now! Our upcoming classes include:

April 12th - The Importance of Color Shapes in Painting with Jaron Newton

April 19th - Live Model Figure Drawing with Douglass Guy

Workshops are $15 per session and are open to everyone ages 7 and above; with the exception of our monthly Figure Drawing sessions, which are $20 and limited to ages 18 and older. Registration for our Spring Series of workshops, running April to June, is also now open.

For more information about available workshops, visit our Education Page.

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Teen Project Studio +2.0

Mondays & Wednesdays from 4:30pm - 6:30pm

Teen Project Studio + 2.0 is an intensive, eight-week interdisciplinary arts program for teens and young adults ages 14 to 25. TPS is a FREE program limited to 15 students and is available by application ONLY. The program is a unique opportunity to experience and learn about visual arts & the creative industry in an interactive and challenging way. It is also an opportunity to meet other participants with similar interests and eagerness to learn and create.

TPS for Winter 2024 began on January 29th and runs until March 25th, meeting twice a week on Mondays and Wednesdays from 4:30pm to 6:30pm. In this session, participants will learn a wide array of artistic modalities and disciplines using the five senses, technologic tools and skills to investigate the impact of the environment on our lives and cultures. This session is now closed, but registration for the Spring 2024 semester, beginning April 29th, is now open.

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Exhibitions

INGENUITY

ART & ENTREPRENEURSHIP OF THE BRONX

February 23 - April 6

Curated by Jordan Horton

BRAC is proud to present Ingenuity: Art & Entrepreneurship of the Bronx, an exhibition that showcases the relationship between photography and the business of art in New York. This exhibition will feature the works of Bronx-based professional photographers, who use innovative business acumen and skills to thrive as working artists.

Featured in this exhibition are the works of Stephanie Ayala, Michael Paul Britto, Lisa Dubois, Edgar Santana, Jose “Tutes” Tutiven, and Jomar “MSVDA” Velez.

GALLERY HOURS:

Tuesday - Friday: 2:30 - 6 PM

Saturday: 12 - 5 PM

Gallery hours are only in effect during the exhibition dates.

Upcoming

NEVER WAIT! / ¡NUNCA ESPERES!

April 13 - June 8

Curated by Blanca Amezcua

Opening Reception: Saturday, April 13 at 5:30 - 8:30pm

Artist Talk: Saturday, May 11 at 4:30pm

BRAC is proud to present NEVER WAIT! / ¡NUNCA ESPERES!, an exhibition that combines two artist-run projects — the Bronx Blue Bedroom Project (BBBP) and AAA3A — that were originally hosted in curator Blanca Amezcua's residence in the South Bronx, among others. This exhibition sees the work of these local artists moved out of the domestic space and into BRAC's gallery, switching up the surroundings while keeping the setting undeniably of the Bronx. 

Amezcua's goal is to provide artists with an accessible platform to exhibit their work and connect with a wider audience, holding the steadfast belief that these pieces will resonate and be universally relatable to everyone, regardless of their formal understanding of art.

Pedro Giraudo Tango Quartet

"From Tradition to the Future"

Saturday, April 27 at 4:30pm

Join us next month for a musical performance from the Pedro Giraudo Tango Quartet! This program will include selections from great tango masters from the 1930s to the present: from Alfredo Gobbi, to Francisco Canaro, to Osvaldo Pugliese, to the revolutionary Astor Piazzolla. And, of course, Pedro Giraudo himself. This ensemble offers the audience insight into how tango evolved from marginal venues, to cafes and dance halls, and finally to prominent concert halls. Let them take you on a musical journey that will be accompanied by short anecdotes about the main figures in the history of tango, as well as some explanation of the principal rhythms of the genre (milonga, waltz, and tango).

Tickets:

$10.00 for adults, $8.00 for seniors, $5.00 for Students with ID, and pay what you can for currently enrolled students

SNAP Discounts will be available.

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Last Month...

Classes and workshops have been as fantastic as ever! Thank you to everyone who came to the opening of Ingenuity and the Juneteenth LP musical performance! And thank you to MoMA for hosting our Teen Project Studio +2.0 students!