- Brooklyn Artists
= List of Brooklyn Artists =
A partial list of artists who are either active in Brooklyn or hail from Kings County.
Steve Buscemi - Film and television actor and directorJennifer Egan - Novelist and short story writerJonathan Safran Foer - WriterJhumpa Lahiri - AuthorJonathan Lethem - WriterMark Morris - Modern dancer, choreographer and director
[http://www.ottoneals.com Otto Neals] - Artist, sculptor, and printmakerLynn Nottage - PlaywrightDavid Salle - Painter and leading contemporary figurative artistDanny Simmons - Abstract-expressionist painterSufjan Stevens - Singer-songwriter and musicianJohn Turturro - ActorColson Whitehead - NovelistJeffrey Wright - Film and stage actor
Andrea Zittel - Installation artistArts Organizations
[http://www.bam.org Brooklyn Academy of Music] - America's oldest continuously operating performing arts center, founded in 1861
[http://www.brooklynartscouncil.org/ Brooklyn Arts Council] - The umbrella for Brooklyn’s range of cultural groups and individual artists working in the visual, performing, media, and literary arts
[http://www.brooklynbridgepark.org/ Brooklyn Bridge Park Film Festival] - Annual event in Downtown Brooklyn sponsored by the Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy
[http://www.dumboartscenter.org/ DUMBO Arts Center] - Contemporary arts organization that sponsors annual Arts Under the Bridge Festival
[http://www.sonyaonline.org/ South of the Navy Yard Artists] - Non-profit organization of visual artists living, creating, and exhibiting in the Ft. Greene, Clinton Hill, Wallabout, and Bedford Stuyvesant neighborhoods of Brooklyn
[http://markmorrisdancegroup.org/ Mark Morris Dance Group] - Dance company known around the world that offers classes for adults and children in its state-of-the-art dance facility
[http://www.heartofbrooklyn.org/ Heart of Brooklyn] - A partnership of the leading cultural institutions located near Grand Army Plaza
[http://www.briconline.org/ BRIC Arts/Media/Brklyn] - Presents, produces and enables a wide array of quality visual, performing and media arts programs
[http://www.brooklynmusicschool.org/ Brooklyn Music School] - Provides on-site instruction in music and dance, public school outreach programs, and professional performances
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