Welcome Back to Brooklyn: Joe Sclafani and Tony Zupo; Linda McQueen and Madina Johnson

The Brooklyn Arts Council was founded by Charlene Victor in 1966 as the Brooklyn Arts and Cultural Association (BACA). The program worked to facilitate collaborations between Brooklyn's large cultural heritage institutions, such as the Brooklyn Museum and the Brooklyn Academy of Music, with local artists, musicians, and galleries. BACA worked to secure grants for artists and programs with a focus on Brooklyn neighborhoods typically underserved by cultural heritage programming. In 1986 BACA formally changed its name to Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC).

In 1988, BAC received a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) as part of an effort to place folk arts programs in counties across New York state to do field research, create documentation, produce programming, and provide assistance to other organizations interested in developing programs.

This collection is composed of materials produced from 1986-2013 for Folk Arts, a multi-year grant funded program of the Brooklyn Arts Council to celebrate, document, and educate the public about folk arts traditions in Brooklyn.  The collection includes extensive audiovisual documentation of events, artist submissions, and oral history interviews.

A finding aid to the entire collection can be found here: [https://findingaids.library.nyu.edu/cbh/cbhm\_0002](https://findingaids.library.nyu.edu/cbh/cbhm\_0002)/