Create Create Change Fellows Kyra Assibey-Bonsu and Madjeen Isaac are artists who share an interest in engaging with Black immigrant communities. For our Creative Conversations series, Kyra and Madjeen talked about their experience and approach to working with Black immigrant…
Create Change Fellows Jing Dong and Jessica Cortez are community-based theater artists who share an interest in performance as a space for imagination. For our Creative Conversations series, Jing and Jessica interviewed each other about their respective performance practices and…
Johari James is a youth mentor, business owner, community activist, hip hop artist, and father from Flatbush, Brooklyn. Through his organization Str8OuttaBklyn Media, he offers vocational training and artistic programs for youth and community artists to thrive. Johari’s work was…
The Laundromat Project is excited to announce the 2022 cohort of creative practitioners selected to participate in our 17th annual Create Change Artist Development Program! The cohort will collaborate with New York City communities of color to develop and implement…
The Fulton Street window commission is a yearly project whereThe Laundromat Project commissions a 2-D image or illustration from a local artist. The vinyl artwork lives on the public-facing window of The LP’s office at 1476 Fulton Street in Brooklyn…
Brooklyn (January 22, 2021) –– The Laundromat Project is thrilled to announce the 2021 cohort of diverse creative practitioners selected to participate in our 16th annual Create Change artist development program, as well as the inaugural recipient of our Radical…
New York City (January 27, 2020) –– The Laundromat Project is pleased to announce the cohort of diverse creative practitioners selected to participate in our 2020 Create Change artist development program. The cohort, comprised of 10 Fellows and 4 Artists-in-Residence,…
Storytelling Fellow Destinee Forbes interviewed Gina Goico during the last month of her 2019 Kelly Street Residency. They talked about what she learned working with the Kelly Street community, the impact that the youth perspective has had on her art…
We are excited to announce the participants in our 2019 Create Change program, designed to engage, educate, and advance artists. These diverse, creative practitioners are change agents embedded within our New York City neighborhoods. Building on learnings drawn from our…
We are excited to announce the participants in our 2018 Create Change program, designed to engage, educate, and empower artists. These diverse, creative practitioners represent the change agents embedded within our New York City neighborhoods. Artists' Projects Artist Fellows…
On Saturday on June 17, the weekend before Juneteenth, The LP's 2017 Create Change Cohort visited current Bed-Stuy Artists-in-Residence Lizania Cruz, who welcomed us into her studio. She shared about her project "We the News," which will start next month…
Watch video profiles of our 2016 Create Change artists' projects, produced by Line Break Media. Bed-Stuy Artist-in-Residence Ayo Okunseinde & Salome Asega: Iyapo Repository Harlem Artist-in-Residence Havanna Fisher: Harlem Motion Hunts Point/Longwood Artist-in-Residence Misra Walker: Coquito & Climate Cart …
