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Learn the various components of what it means to present your best self as an independent artist. The facilitator will lead participants through the difference between the three, providing examples and opportunities for questions along the way. Join us for this engaging workshop. REGISTER HERE

Learn how to create an effective portfolio or enhance your current one to gain entrance into the gallery or museum of your dreams. It is important that your portfolio catches the eye of curators before your work is installed. This session will offer the necessary tools to a successful portfolio. Please…

In this four-week intensive class, lead by Jakki Kerubo, participants will develop a narrative essay. Participants will workshop one another’s ideas. Jakki will provide feedback throughout. At the end of the four weeks, participants will have a completed draft of a narrative essay.

In the new age of technology, ownership of your creativity can be in constant jeopardy. As artists, exposure of your work on popular mediums, such as the Internet, can have its negative consequences due to unauthorized usage. How do you showcase your work and still protect it? In the course, professionals…

In this four-week intensive class, lead by Jakki Kerubo, participants will develop a narrative essay. Participants will workshop one another’s ideas. Jakki will provide feedback throughout. At the end of the four weeks, participants will have a completed draft of a narrative essay.

Want to learn more about applying for affordable housing? The Actors Fund and Bronx Council on the Arts are pleased to present this affordable housing seminar that aims to help participants navigate the process, and get organized so they can be prepared to apply. The application process is explained…

In this four-week intensive class, lead by Jakki Kerubo, participants will develop a narrative essay. Participants will workshop one another’s ideas. Jakki will provide feedback throughout. At the end of the four weeks, participants will have a completed draft of a narrative essay.

An artist’s bio is often the first piece of information to reach audience members and collectors. Your bio is important for your website, social media, retailers, galleries, grant applications, market applications and press releases. The key is to continually update it and have different versions for…

Art industry professionals, Yancey Richardson, founder of Yancey Richardson Gallery, and Gail Albert Halban, American fine art and commercial photographer, answer your questions on how best to navigate a career in the visual arts. The conversation will be centered around how best to navigate the art…

Resurgence of Magic is an invitation to collectively create a variety of art objects and a text, taking into consideration materials that you have readily available in your home, while contemplating the effects of Covid-19 in our lives. These virtual workshops will invite you to reflect on your current…

The session gives an overview of the strategic management series by creating space for talking about our current distribution and the importance of cultivating a resilient mindset. We will also describe some of the tools we’ll present in the remainder of the series that can aid organizations in responding…

Space to create is also space to heal, and being able to choose one before the other or both simultaneously is the artist’s superpower. Shadow work is another among the arsenal of tools at our disposal. From our deepest fears, traumas, and most fantastical thoughts, we create worlds. But what do we…

Resurgence of Magic is an invitation to collectively create a variety of art objects and a text, taking into consideration materials that you have readily available in your home, while contemplating the effects of Covid-19 in our lives. These virtual workshops will invite you to reflect on your current…

Resurgence of Magic is an invitation to collectively create a variety of art objects and a text, taking into consideration materials that you have readily available in your home, while contemplating the effects of Covid-19 in our lives. These virtual workshops will invite you to reflect on your current…

The second session will introduce participants to the idea of strategic alliances (partnerships, collaborations, alliances, mergers) as tools that can be used to strengthen and preserve their mission in an environment marked by uncertainty. Drawing on a real-world case study, we will talk through the…

Resurgence of Magic is an invitation to collectively create a variety of art objects and a text, taking into consideration materials that you have readily available in your home, while contemplating the effects of Covid-19 in our lives. These virtual workshops will invite you to reflect on your current…

There was a time where the most stable and viable nonprofits were those that relied on the traditional business model of contributions and government grants. In this challenging environment, dependency on the “market” forces of philanthropic and taxpayer support is not possible. As an alternative…

Resurgence of Magic is an invitation to collectively create a variety of art objects and a text, taking into consideration materials that you have readily available in your home, while contemplating the effects of Covid-19 in our lives. These virtual workshops will invite you to reflect on your current…

The third session will give an overview of the scenario planning process, discuss who is involved, and share some tools to help participants create plausible future scenarios and plan strategies to address each potential scenario. We emphasize iterative strategy development involving acting, learning,…

Join us for this web-lead web design course. You will learn the basics of how to build your own site using free host Webflow.com. Led by David Ulloa, web developer, Studio Creative Director and Lecturer at Bronx Community College and former Senior Visual Experience Designer at Amazon.

Resurgence of Magic is an invitation to collectively create a variety of art objects and a text, taking into consideration materials that you have readily available in your home, while contemplating the effects of Covid-19 in our lives. These virtual workshops will invite you to reflect on your current…

The Bronx Council on the Arts, with the support of Council Member Andrew Cohen, invites you to the first online performance of its FREE Summer Concert series featuring Salsa sensation Edwin Perez. Join us on Friday, June 5th for this exciting online concert by the three-time Independent Music Awards…

Resurgence of Magic is an invitation to collectively create a variety of art objects and a text, taking into consideration materials that you have readily available in your home, while contemplating the effects of Covid-19 in our lives. These virtual workshops will invite you to reflect on your current…

The fourth session is for organizations with a larger staff, that either had to do layoffs and will need to restructure on the other side of the crisis, or that want to use the crisis as an opportunity to rethink their structure entirely, moving away from traditional hierarchy (power over) to a flatter…

Resurgence of Magic is an invitation to collectively create a variety of art objects and a text, taking into consideration materials that you have readily available in your home, while contemplating the effects of Covid-19 in our lives. These virtual workshops will invite you to reflect on your current…

The Bronx Council on the Arts, with the support of Council Member Andrew Cohen, invites you to the first online performance of its FREE Summer Concert series featuring world renown Caribbean Jazz pianist Elio Villafranca. Join us on Friday, June 12th for this exciting online concert by the two-time Grammy…

Two friends cloistered in their living quarters and studios, one by the Mississippi River and the other by the Bronx River, engage in a show-and-tell, more like a perform-and-tell, dealing with their creative lives from a place of isolation, but of great expansion as well. Drawing from a life-long art…

The Bronx Memoir Project, sponsored by the Bronx Council on the Arts, is a popular workshop series that inspires Bronxites to write about their lived experiences in The Bronx. Open to avocational and professional writers and storytellers of all ages and from all walks of life, the program has produced…

“We always...I guess...in a way...center... before we...”  Referencing Deniece Williams’ song Black Butterfly, Justin Hicks and Kenita Miller-Hicks offer original songs and meditations that acknowledge love, in its various modes and expressions, as the ultimate gesture and a primary source of…

The Bronx Council on the Arts, with the support of Council Member Andrew Cohen, invites you to its final online performance of its FREE Summer Concert series featuring acclaimed Classical pianist Chantal Balestri. Join us on Friday, June 26th for this exciting online concert by the 2017 Miami Piano Festival…