Cultural Voucher Program, Publication - Fort Greene and its people: An evolving history, circa 1980

BACA or the Brooklyn Arts and Culture Association (now the Brooklyn Arts Council) received grant money, state funding, and donor money which they used to sponsor cultural activities in Brooklyn. BACA was founded in 1966 and in 1968 began working with the Brooklyn Museum by supporting the annual exhibit Salute to Brooklyn's Creative Youth. The relationship continued and broadened to other programming. This series contains information on the Theater-in-the-back program, Holiday crafts festivals, and concert series, and We Follow the Dream: In Celebration of Black History programming.

The Brooklyn Museum was a participant in the Museume's Collaborative Inc. Cultural Voucher Program starting in 1974. In order to increase access to cultural institutions, vouchers were issued to small cultural institutions. These vouchers could be redeemed at participating larger cultural institutions for a variety of services or training. This fostered new relationships, new programming, increased skill sets, and new audiences. For example, the Where We At? collective redemmed vouchers for the Brooklyn Museum to design and print 2 small publications about the collective and their exhibitions. The cultural voucher program advanced to focusing on providing vouchers for schools.