Founded in 1987 to bring professional arts programming to a culturally underserved population, Bronx River Art Center (BRAC) is a culturally diverse, multi-arts, non-profit organization that provides a forum for community, artists, and youth to transform creativity into vision. Its Education, Exhibitions, Artist Studios, and Presenting Programs cultivate leadership in an urban environment and stewardship of our natural resource — the Bronx River.

It offers youth programs taught by professional artists, ambitious, an energetic exhibitions program that expose various paradigms of contemporary art to the litmus test of a local Bronx community and the cultural, economic, and social landscape that defines it, a series of interdisciplinary performances that embrace popular, contemporary, experimental, and classically-inspired music, dance, performance art, and poetry, and studio space for artists for up to two years, at below-market-value rates.