BRIC Arts Media Brooklyn

BRIC will launch Project New stART, an initiative to increase student interest in looking at, discussing, and creating art and media. The program will serve 6th-12th grade students by placing teaching artists in 12 schools in East New York, Brownsville, and Bedford-Stuyvesant. These three Central Brooklyn neighborhoods experience disproportionately high rates of gun violence and are home to several schools with high populations of students at risk of entering the juvenile justice spectrum or already moving along that spectrum, and the majority of public schools lack full or part-time arts teachers and consequently have a dearth of creative opportunities for young people. The program will provide school-based and community-based visual and media literacy and learning through contemporary art and media residencies combined with a variety of events at BRIC House as a strategy for redirecting the school to prison pipeline in the targeted neighborhoods. The project will reach 720 middle-school and high-school students over 432 total residency days.