Meet Board Member Salvador Muñoz
Join us in welcoming Salvador Muñoz to The LP fam! Salvador recently joined our board of directors—read our short Q&A to get to know him! The LP: As a supporter of the arts, why does art matter? Salvador Muñoz: Art…
Meet Board Member Diya Vij
Join us in welcoming Diya Vij to The LP fam! Diya recently joined our board of directors—read our short Q&A to get to know her! The LP: What attracted you to The LP and excited you most about joining the…
The Laundromat Project, Museum Hue, and Hester Street Announce HueArts NYC
Update February 16, 2022: HueArts NYC has now launched! Click here to read about it. The Laundromat Project is thrilled to announce our collaboration with partners at Museum Hue and Hester Street on a new, comprehensive online platform for NYC…
Reimagining Blackness and Civic Design
This spring at The LP, we're exploring creative place-keeping and radical mapping in Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian, Arab, and other communities of color. How can our communities creatively use practices like cultural asset mapping, cartography, and archiving to invest in…
Resource Guide: Radical Mapping
Dive in to our resource guide to learn more about community asset mapping, using data for social justice, and more. This guide was originally compiled as part of our April 2021 event, Radical Mapping: Making Meaning in Our Communities. Watch…
Meet Board Member Jessica Lee
Join us in welcoming Jessica Lee to The LP fam! Jessica recently joined our board of directors—read our short Q&A to get to know her. The LP: As a supporter of the arts, why does art matter?Jessica Lee: The arts…
Meet Board Member Panthea Lee
Join us in welcoming Panthea Lee to The LP fam! Panthea recently joined our board of directors—read our short Q&A to get to know her! The LP: As a supporter of the arts, why does art matter?Panthea Lee: bell hooks…
Meet Board Member Patton Hindle
Join us in welcoming Patton Hindle to The LP fam! Patton recently joined our board of directors, so we sat down with her for a short Q&A. The LP: As a supporter of the arts, why does art matter?PH: Art…
Meet Board Member Alison Cuzzolino
Join us in welcoming Alison Cuzzolino to The LP fam. Alison recently joined our board of directors—read our short Q&A to get to know her. The LP: What is your neighborhood? What’s your favorite thing about it? Alison Cuzzolino: I…
Announcing the 2021 Create Change Cohort and Radical Imagination Fellow
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…
The Big Rethink
Designing the We 2017 Kelly Street Collaborative Community Artist-in-Residence Installation , Multidisciplinary, Performance, Photography, and Visual Arts The Laundromat Project is excited to announce the launch of our Kelly Street Collaborative Community Artist Residency, a three-month site-specific residency in which…
Kelly Street Artist Interview with Fay Bonas
On August 11, 2017, Melissa Liu interviewed* Fay Bonas—a visual artist, teaching artist with The LP, and Kelly Street resident—about her artistic background and work. Fay most recently made a three-panel work of intricate and detailed buttons, which was on…
Meet Ambar Castillo, Programs Intern
Get to know Ambar Castillo, our 2017-2018 017 CUNY Cultural Corps Programs Intern: So, what made you decide to intern with The LP? How does the internship relate to your studies? The LP mission and vision intersects with what…
Meet Kacy George, Development and Communications Intern
Get to know Kacy George, our 2017-2018 CUNY Cultural Corps Development & Communications Intern: So, what made you decide to intern with The LP? How does the internship relate to your studies? The Laundromat Project was one of the…
Words from Stephanie Alvarado, 2017 Create Change Fellow
2017 Create Change Fellow Stephanie Alvarado's 2017 Public Art Potluck speech: "Buenas tardes a todxs. Muchisimas gracias por la oportunidad de estar aqui compartiendo este momento con ustedes. Good evening everyone. Thank you so much for the opportunity…
Interview with Stay Hungry Founder Syreeta Gates
Read our interview with Stay Hungry's founder, Syreeta Gates. Stay Hungry is The Laundromat Project's featured culinary experience at our Eighth Annual Public Art Potluck (and don't forget to buy your tickets or support). What is STAY HUNGRY? STAY HUNGRY is a…
Alejandra Nasser and Emilio Poppe in Creative Conversation
2017 Create Change Fellows Alejandra Nasser and Emilio Poppe embarked on their creative conversation much like a burgeoning friendship. In a moment of great wonder, joy, and change they wanted to first celebrate their unique and precious union through traditional…
Elizabeth Rossi and Stephanie Alvarado in Creative Conversation
2017 Create Change Fellows Elizabeth Rossi and Stephanie Alvarado have creative conversations through journaling. They began with choosing a journal and writing an entry, followed by a prompt. Both artists exchanged their journals for six weeks building on their creative…
Abby Dobson, Nayo Sasaki-Picou, & Kearra Gopee in Creative Conversation
For their Creative Conversation, 2017 Create Change Fellows Abby Dobson, Nayo Sasaki-Picou, and Kearra Amaya Gopee discuss the impact of the Caribbean Diaspora.
Nayo Sasaki-Picou and Alethea Pace in Creative Conversation
2017 Create Change Fellows Alethea Pace and Nayo Sasaki-Picou used the language of movement to explore the creative process and its challenges, both as dancers and women of color. Nayo: These series of images look at the process as…