Brooklyn Museum of Art
www.brooklynmuseum.org
The Brooklyn Museum, housed in a 560,000-square-foot, Beaux-Arts building, is one of the oldest and largest art museums in the country. Its world-renowned permanent collections range from ancient Egyptian masterpieces to contemporary art, and represent a wide range of cultures. Only a 30-minute subway ride from midtown Manhattan, with its own newly renovated subway station, the Museum is part of a complex of nineteenth-century parks and gardens that also includes Prospect Park, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, and the Prospect Park Zoo.

Fifth Element
A female hip-hop collective working to empower women and youth through hip-hop culture and challenge misogyny and sexism within hip hop. Using workshops for skill and technique development in music, spoken expression and visual art, Fifth Element hands on training in various mediums of urban art to nurture the creativity and self expression of supporters and participants.

The Green Circus
www.greencircus.org
The Green Circus is a team of clowns, artists and teachers with the mission of educating the public about more ecologically sustainable ways of living.

Mid Hue Mamas
Through participatory action, Mid Hue Mamas will follow in the footsteps of Isaiah Zagar and Lily Yeh to build sustainable art-centered community projects. Using direct community involvement to create these spaces of beauty, Mid Hue Mamas will be a catalyst for joining sustainability and art, while continuing to grow and strengthen community ties.

Parallel MVMT
www.parallelmvmt.com
Parallel MVMT is a creative agency specializing in business development, publishing and marketing. Utilizing unique partnerships with premium brands, they work to Combat the Mundane™ through progressive media networks.

Partnerships for Parks
www.partnershipsforparks.org
A program of the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation and City Parks Foundation, Partnerships for Parks, works to increase community support for and involvement in parks throughout New York City. Founded in 1995, Partnerships works to start, strengthen, and support neighborhood park groups; to link these groups together so that they can learn from each other and become stronger collectively; and to promote involvement in parks so people will join in efforts to restore and preserve them.

powerHouse Arena
www.powerhousearena.com
Home to world-renowned art book publisher powerHouse Books, the Arena is a gallery, boutique, book store, performance, and events space located at 37 Main Street, in New York City’s scenic DUMBO neighborhood. With soaring 24-foot ceilings on the 5,000 square foot ground floor (with over 175 linear-feet of glass frontage and arena-style seating), the powerHouse Arena showcases a series of landmark exhibitions, performances, and controlled mayhem fusing the worlds of art, photography, design, fashion, pop culture, advertising, music, dance, film, and television into a glorious whirlwind of captivating spectacle.

The Re:Construction Period
The Re:Construction Period is a think tank that develops novel and innovative curriculum and programming to support youth organizations, communities and institutions. Focusing on media arts, we enhance young people’s ability to succeed in passion-driven career paths and to make significant social change on a local and international level.

Jamel Shabazz
www.jamelshabazz.com
Jamel Shabazz has been dubbed “the finest documenter of the urban lifestyle.” Born in 1960, Shabazz, a photographer, artist & activist based in Brooklyn, New York, has a body of work that includes nearly 10,000 images. Known for putting hip-hop on photographic paper in the 1980s, his photographs have captured the vibrance of many Brooklyn neighborhoods. powerHouse Books has published four titles featuring the photography of Jamel Shabazz, Seconds of my Life (2007), A Time Before Crack (2005), The Last Sunday in June (2003), and Back in the Days (2001). His work has also been featured in many exhibits worldwide.

Shabazz also volunteers with the Rush Arts Philanthropic Foundation and the Studio Museum’s Expanding the Walls project, a workshop focused on teaching youth the connection between photography, history and community.

So Live! Arts Movement
www.solivearts.com
By taking the arts back to the creative spot, So Live Arts Movement (SL!AM) works to build a bridge into a world of possibility, connecting artists and arts organizations worldwide. Collectively, SL!AM creates arts programs in schools, with a focus on business and financial education, so artists and communities will continue to be empowered.

Sistas’ Place
www.sistasplace.org
Located in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, this community-oriented venue’s mission is to educate and create new opportunities for emerging artists. Programs at Sistas’ Place are produced by the CODE Foundation in association with Shamal Books & Melchizedek Music Productions, and partially funded by private grants from BET J, and Councilman Al Vann.

Red Eye Studios
Owned and operated by two musicians, Shelton Garner (singer/guitarist) and Len Johnson (bassist), this studio is located in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Both producers and engineers have been playing and recording in New York City for over fifteen years. Red Eye Studios specializes in seeing projects from beginning to end, from song creation to mix/mastering. We offer professional quality affordable prices.

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