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 animation and photography. Classes run on weekday afternoons and evenings, and on Saturdays.

We also welcome you to join us for for a BRAC Open House on Saturday, April 13th from 12pm to 3pm. Come and enjoy a few hours of fun art activities, such Cartooning and Graphic design. You will have the opportunity to tour our studios as well. Register for our Spring 2024 slate of art classes on the day of the open house to get 10% off. Snacks and refreshments will be served.

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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 upcoming classes include:

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.

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.

Registration is now open for the Spring 2024 session of TPS, beginning on April 29th and running until June 20th, meeting twice a week on Mondays and Wednesdays from 4:30pm to 6:30pm.

Apply for Teen Project Studio +2.0

Butterfly Craft Event

April 21 from 12pm - 2pm @ Loreto Playground

Did you know that there is a protected Pollinator Pathway along the Hutchinson Parkway?

Join us out in Loreto Playground on Sunday, April 21 at 12pm to create your own origami Monarch butterfly with artists Ruth Marshall & Michele Brody, and educator Patti Cooper. Experience how to make handmade paper from native plants and learn about the Monarch's migration to-and-from Mexico and their importance to our local habitat.

This event is brought to you by the Bronx River Art Center's Cultural Immigrant Initiative to provide programming based on the history and traditions of immigrant communities. Find out more about this and other CII programming by emailing Michele Brody at [email protected].

Exhibitions

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.

GALLERY HOURS:

Tuesday - Friday: 2:30 - 6 PM

Saturday: 12 - 5 PM

Gallery hours are only in effect during the exhibition dates.

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Performances

Pedro Giraudo Tango Quartet

"From Tradition to the Future"

Saturday, April 27 at 4:30pm

Join us 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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Upcoming

Crochet for Habitat

May 8, 22, and 29 from 9am - 11am

@ Northeast Bronx Senior Center

Join us out at the Northeast Bronx Senior Center on Wednesday, May 8, 22, and 29 at 9am for a series of three (3) workshops that will focus on the relationship between human migration and the annual flight migrations to-and-from Mexico of the Monarch Butterfly. Please join Australian-Bronx Artist Ruth Marshall to create crocheted butterflies & other native species with durable nylon Paracord for being installed outdoors to decorate a protected Pollinator Pathway habitat along the Hutchinson Parkway.

This event is brought to you by the Bronx River Art Center's Cultural Immigrant Initiative to provide programming based on the history and traditions of immigrant communities. Find out more about this and other CII programming by emailing Michele Brody at [email protected].

Last Month...

Classes and workshops have been as fantastic as ever, and it was a joy to participate in this year's Teen Arts Week!