BRIC, formerly known as BRIC Arts Media or Brooklyn Information & Culture, is a

non-profit A nonprofit organization (NPO) or non-profit organisation, also known as a non-business entity, not-for-profit organization, or nonprofit institution, is a legal entity organized and operated for a collective, public or social benefit, in co ...

arts organization based in

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founded in 1979 as the "Fund for the Borough of Brooklyn". A presenter of free cultural programming in Brooklyn, it incubates and showcases work by artists and media-makers with programs reaching hundreds of thousands of people each year. Their main venue, BRIC House, is based in the

Brooklyn Cultural District The Brooklyn Cultural District (formerly known as the BAM-Downtown Brooklyn Cultural District) is a $100 million development project that focuses on the arts, public spaces and affordable housing in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, New York. The project ref ...

, and offers a public media center, a contemporary art exhibition space, two performance spaces, a glass-walled TV studio, and artist work spaces. BRIC’s programs include the BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival in Prospect Park, a contemporary art exhibition series, and two distinct media initiatives: Brooklyn Free Speech, Brooklyn's Public Access initiative, and BRIC TV, a nonprofit community TV channel and digital network. BRIC also offers education and other programs at BRIC House and throughout Brooklyn.

BRIC House

Prior to the opening of BRIC House (in the former Strand Theater building on Fulton Street) in 2013, BRIC programmed in a number of locations around Brooklyn including the Rotunda Gallery in

Brooklyn Heights Brooklyn Heights is a residential neighborhood within the New York City borough of Brooklyn. The neighborhood is bounded by Old Fulton Street near the Brooklyn Bridge on the north, Cadman Plaza West on the east, Atlantic Avenue on the south, an ...

. The 40,000-square-foot BRIC House, renovated by Leeser Architecture, allows BRIC to present music, arts and media programming under the same roof for the first time with a 3,000-square-foot public gallery, flexible performance space, and artist studios. Along with

UrbanGlass UrbanGlass, located on Fulton Street in the historic 1918 Strand Theatre in the Downtown Brooklyn Cultural District is the New York metropolitan area's leading glass-blowing facility. UrbanGlass was founded in 1977 by three artists and was origina ...

(their upstairs neighbor), the

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, and the

Mark Morris Dance Center The Mark Morris Dance Center is the permanent home of the international touring modern dance company, the Mark Morris Dance Group (MMDG), in the Fort Greene neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City. It is at 3 Lafayette Avenue, on the corner o ...

, BRIC is considered a key part of the

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which also includes the three buildings of the

Brooklyn Academy of Music The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) is a performing arts venue in Brooklyn, New York City, known as a center for progressive and avant-garde performance. It presented its first performance in 1861 and began operations in its present location in ...

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Official website
Arts organizations based in New York City Organizations based in Brooklyn Arts organizations established in 1979 1979 establishments in New York City