The Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition (BWAC) is an artist-run 501(c)(3) nonprofit founded in 1978 by sixteen artists looking for places to show their work, and has grown into Brooklyn's largest artist-run arts organization, managed entirely by volunteer artist-members. For decades the coalition presented large group exhibitions, classes, workshops, gallery talks, and performance events in a 25,000-square-foot gallery spanning two floors of a 155-year-old warehouse on the Red Hook waterfront. After a five-alarm fire swept through the building in September 2025 — days after BWAC opened the group shows 'Brooklyn Resilience' and 'Aerosol Euphoria: Urban Street Art' — the organization lost its longtime home and has continued programming while searching for a new permanent space.