BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange

BAX | Brooklyn Arts Exchange is a multigenerational arts incubator that nurtures artistic practice, centers community, and advances racial and cultural justice through education, residencies, and performance.

For over three decades, BAX has honored the power of performing arts to connect and transform individuals and communities. As an arts incubator, we support artists of all ages and stages of development—from young children to award-winning professionals—through communities of learning. Our artist residencies, affordable rehearsal studios, practice lab, and youth education programs annually invite over 10,000 students, parents, families, artists, and audiences to engage in shared creative journeys. We focus on embodied practices such as dance, movement, theater, and multidisciplinary performance, prioritizing experimentation, process, collaboration, and mentorship. 

As we reflect on nearly 35 years of BAX, we’ve been thinking about what it takes to sustain artists over time. How does an artist become an artist? It doesn’t happen through a single residency, or a performance, or a youth class, but through years of practice and mentorship.

BAX nurtures the art of becoming. We do it in classrooms where young people are moving freely, in workshops where emerging artists are developing new work, and in relationships that are sustained over years. This kind of support is not visible in a single moment. It accumulates over the years, through care, and through people who choose to stay in it. Many of you have been part of that continuity! Thank you for the ways you’ve shown up for BAX, by giving, by staying connected, and by believing in artists and the time their work requires. 

Earlier this year, we updated our mission, vision, and values, and invited our community to reflect on those commitments with us. What we heard through that survey was a clear reaffirmation that BAX is not only a place to make work, but also a place to belong.

Your support helps sustain the space, time, mentorship, and community that artists of all ages need to thrive and feel a sense of belonging throughout their lives. It carries this work forward into our celebratory 2026–27 season and helps us manifest the next 35 years. We can’t wait to share more soon about how you can get involved!