Our Dream

The Future Arts Collective (FAC) is an intergenerational, multidisciplinary team of artists and organizers working with youth in Sunnyside, Bed-Stuy, Brownsville and other neighboring North Brooklyn areas. Through various artistic mediums, we support visual and performance artists having social justice conversations that shape these artists' re-envisioning of the future. 

Last summer, FAC successfully mounted its first one-week Future Museum Program at Brooklyn Free School, in Restoration Plaza. The program invited ten youth participants to a week of art history introductions, contemporary visual art commentaries, and creative exercises that culminated in a devised public exhibit.

In a defining moment, the program visited a local museum to explore how exhibits currently operate and inspire the creative process. Several participants noticed a disconnect between the Museum’s purpose and practice. Their frustration with a meaningful lack of access became a focal point for their final showcase and evidence of the necessity of programming like ours.

FAC creates spaces for young Brooklyn-based artists to walk in and see themselves reflected through access to art materials, education, and mediums for multidisciplinary and intergenerational work, and access to a staff of caring adults with experience, practice, and resonance in supporting young, underserved artists of color.