TICKETS
Individual tickets are
$190, and group and
corporate packages with
ad pages in the
commemorative journal
are also available. All
proceeds will benefit
Brooklyn Arts Council’s
programs and services.
Please visit
www.brooklynartscouncil.org
or contact Katy Higgins
at 718.625.0080 for more
information and to
purchase tickets.
ABOUT THE HONOREES
Audrey and Joseph
Anastasi are
accomplished visual
artists and passionate
advocates for the arts
community in Brooklyn.
Both have played
important roles in
making Brooklyn Arts
Council the healthy and
growing organization it
is today. In 2005, the
Anastasis opened Tabla
Rasa, a pioneering art
gallery in Sunset Park,
Brooklyn that exhibits
artists working in a
wide range of styles and
media.
Audrey Anastasi has been
a member of BAC’s Board
of Directors since 2001.
She also serves on the
Board of Directors of
Dance Theater Etcetera (DTE)
and was President of the
Brooklyn Waterfront
Artists Coalition (BWAC)
for five years. A
curator, gallery
owner/director, educator
and arts advocate,
Audrey is, above all
else, a tireless and
dedicated working
artist. She has an
extensive history of
exhibiting her artwork
in the United States and
abroad.
Born in Greenpoint and
raised in Sunset Park
and Bay Ridge, Joseph
Anastasi brings a
diverse background in
technology and
architectural design to
his artwork.
Among his site specific
works and exhibitions
are the William Carlos
Williams Center in
Rutherford New Jersey,
Rockefeller Center and
La Mama la Galleria in
Manhattan, and Danny
Simmons’ Corridor
Gallery in Brooklyn.
Agnes Murray is
an artist, master
printmaker, educator and
an integral part of
Brooklyn Arts Council.
Agnes—BAC’s most veteran
staff member—has
dedicated over ten years
of service to our work
on behalf of Brooklyn
artists and arts
organizations. She
established the
Council’s Print
Portfolio Project and
has produced the
Brooklyn Arts Council
International Film
Festival since 2002. As
Art Services Director,
Agnes coordinates BAC’s
fiscal sponsorship and
technical assistance
services and supervises
all of the Council’s
government grants. Her
prints, drawings and
paintings are exhibited
nationally and
internationally and are
included in the
collections of the
Bibliothèque Nationale
in Paris, Library of
Congress, Brooklyn
Museum, San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art and
many others.
ABOUT BAC
Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC),
an arts services
organization founded in
1966, is the umbrella
for Brooklyn’s range of
cultural groups and
individual artists
working in the visual,
performing, media, and
literary arts. BAC helps
Brooklyn’s artist
population–from the
experimental to those
preserving and evolving
traditions of cultural
heritage–create and
present their work. BAC
ensures that thousands
of people throughout
Brooklyn have access to
a variety of free arts
programming each year.
Our programs are
essential to the
livelihoods of thousands
of artists, creative
professionals, and arts
organizations across the
borough.
BAC’s programs and
support services include
the Community Arts
Regrant Program,
Professional Development
Seminars for the Arts,
Arts in Education, BAC
Folk Arts, the
Printmaker’s Portfolio
Project, the BAC
International Film and
Video Festival, and BAC
Gallery. BAC also offers
technical assistance to
individual artists and
organization
BAC
programs are made
possible, in part, with
public funds from New
York State Council on
the Arts, the Brooklyn
Delegations of the New
York State Senate and
New York State Assembly,
New York City Department
of Cultural Affairs, and
New York City Council
and its Brooklyn
Delegation