OVERVIEW
At The Laundromat Project, artists are community organizers, and community organizers are artists. To be an artist is to be a creative problem-solver. Creative problem-solvers tap into communities and utilize resources to create and manifest ideas.
By The LP’s definition, we consider any cultural tradition, practice, object, or action made with creative intent and grounded in community as art. This includes the visual, media, literary, and performing arts, as well as archival curation, scholarship, oral history, education, healing, gardening, community organizing, activism, and other modes of cultural production.
You do not have to consider yourself an artist or community organizer to apply.
Consider the following list of types of art *categories and language adapted from Leeway Foundation’s Art and Change Grant.
Craft & Textiles
Book art
Costume design
Crocheting
Doll making
Fashion design
Furniture making
Knitting
Puppetry
Quilting
Weaving
Woodworking
Zines
Folk Arts
Cooking or baking
Hair braiding
Gardening
Storytelling
Traditional dance
Traditional music
Literary Arts
Creative writing
Playwriting
Poetry & Prose
Short Stories
Media Arts
Animation
Audio
Film
Interactive design
Podcast
Sound art
Video
Web-based work
Music
Composition
Deejaying
Hip-hop
Instrumental performance
Jazz
Opera
Producing
Rapping
Singing
Songwriting
Performance
Acting
Dance
Movement
Oral history
Performance art
Spoken word
Theater
Visual Arts
Comics/cartoons
Digital art
Drawing
Graphic design
Illustration
Installation
Mixed media
Murals
Painting
Photography
Pottery
Printmaking
Screen printing
Sculpture
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