Headquarters New York, United States | Founded 1979 | |
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Similar BRIC, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn Public Library, Smack Mellon, Bronx Museum of the Arts | ||
BRIC Arts Media, usually styled BRIC Arts | Media or BRIC Arts | Media | Bklyn and best known as BRIC is a non-profit arts organization based in Brooklyn, New York founded in 1979 as the "Fund for the Borough of Brooklyn". Among its best known programming is the annual Celebrate Brooklyn summer concert series. Since the opening of their first permanent home, BRIC has played host to the On Air Readings and Look & Listen Festival. BRIC also provides community access television for Brooklyn. LEESER Architecture’s renovation and expansion of this existing, under-utilized building involves two user groups, BRIC Arts | Media |Brooklyn and UrbanGlass. The project includes a full renovation of the interior space to create new theaters, television broadcasting studios, art galleries, glass workshops, media labs, classrooms, administrative and operation offices, and support spaces.
BRIC House
Prior to the opening of BRIC House (in the former Strand Theater building on Fulton Street) in 2013, BRIC Arts Media (as BRIC) programmed in a number of locations around Brooklyn including the Rotunda Gallery in Brooklyn Heights. The 40,000 square foot BRIC House allowed BRIC to present their 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. It is also home to one of Brooklyn's three Hungry Ghost Cafe locations.
Along with UrbanGlass (their upstairs neighbor) and Theatre for a New Audience, BRIC is a key part of the growing Downtown Brooklyn Cultural District which also includes BAM's three buildings.