Located between the Manhattan and Brooklyn bridges, DUMBO (Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass) is an exciting neighborhood that has become a hub for arts and events in Brooklyn.
Barge Music
Operating out of a floating barge at the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge, Barge Music hosts concerts from emerging and established musicians with the spectacular Manhattan skyline as a backdrop. Barge Music features over 220 concerts annually, with free monthly concerts for the community and free tickets offered weekly to specific groups.
Brooklyn Arts Council
Located in DUMBO, Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC) supports artists (both professional and amateur), art organizations and community groups in the borough. BAC offers grants, seminars, resources and referrals for all artistic disciplines.
Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy
The Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy advocates for the state run Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park and the city operated Brooklyn Bridge Park. Currently 12 acres, the Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy envisions transforming the current parks into a 76 acre, world class recreation area along the downtown Brooklyn waterfront. Currently, the Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy offers classes, workshops, performance art and a summer movie series, "Movies With a View."
Brooklyn Community Board 2
Website for the community board serving the DUMBO community.
Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition
Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition is "the largest artist run, not for profit art organization in Brooklyn." It features artwork in DUMBO's Empire Fulton Ferry and Brooklyn Bridge Parks. (It also exhibits art out of its space in Red Hook).
Dumbo Arts Center
Dumbo Arts Center (DAC) is a nonprofit arts organization. It exhibitions work year round in its gallery, offers workshops, commissions works, and hosts the Annual Dumbo Art Under the Bridge Festival, "the largest forum for experimentation in public art by emerging artists in the United States."
Smack Mellon
Smack Mellon supports "emerging, under-recognized, mid-career and women artists in the creation and exhibition of new work by providing exhibition opportunities, studio workspace, and access to equipment and technical assistance for the realization of ambitious projects." Smack Mellon projects include the Visual Arts Exhibition Program and the Artist Studio Program.
St. Ann's Warehouse
St. Ann's Warehouse (formerly Arts at St. Ann's in Brooklyn Heights) is now located in a former spice-milling warehouse on Water Street in DUMBO. St. Ann's serves the New York cultural community by providing exhibition, rehearsal and performance space for artists, arts organizations and producers. It is also dedicated to reinvigorating the Brooklyn waterfront.
