The Laundromat Project is currently accepting applications to the 2012 Create Change Professional Development Fellowship and the 2012 Create Change Public Artist Residency.
These opportunities are available to artists living in the Greater New York Area (including Hoboken, Jersey City, and Newark, NJ), and or the first time, The LP in collaboration with The Leeway Foundation, is making the Create Change Public Artist Residency program available to Philadelphia-based artists of color.
Create Change Professional Development Fellows participate in monthly discussions and workshops designed to help artists deepen their approach to having a socially-engaged creative practice. These monthly sessions, while led by a facilitator or guest speaker, encourage peer learning and knowledge exchange. They also provide access to information and resources from both the arts and social justice sectors, and offer an opportunity to expand fellows’ personal and professional networks.
Create Change Public Artists in Residence not only participate in the program’s professional development component, but also are resourced to apply this learning through a site-specific project in their local laundromat. Each public artist is charged with placing art-making in the context of everyday living by creating a project that:
- is socially relevant and specific to the unique space of your local coin-op
- engages neighbors and fellow laundry patrons as participants in the creative process, rather than as passive recipients of the work;
- taps into what it means to be a neighbor in the area you call home.
Overall, Create Change invites artists to use their creative practice as a vehicle to build relationships with and among their neighbors.
If you are interested in learning more, we are hosting info sessions in New York and Philadelphia where you can have your questions answered. RSVP here.
