BROOKLYN, NY – Today, The Laundromat Project (The LP) announced its 2024 Create Change Artists-in-Residence Open Studio dates, offering the public an in-person opportunity to experience the work-in-progress of artists and cultural producers selected for the organization’s Create Change Artist Development Program.
Since 2005, The LP has invested in nearly 250 multiracial, multigenerational, and multidisciplinary artists; 93 innovative public art projects; and a creative community hub in Bed-Stuy, while engaging over 50,000 New Yorkers across the city and beyond. Now in its 18th year, The LP Create Change program awards a cohort of multicultural artists, critical thinkers, and cultural leaders a $1,000 to $25,000 fund, along with professional development, critical mentorship, and peer-based support to develop and realize artistic projects in neighborhoods across New York City.
The 2024 Create Change Open Studios are a critical moment within the year-long Artist-in-Residence program for the public to meet the current cohort of artists and experience the progression oftheir work and the projects created during the residency program. This year, the Create Change residency cohort includes projects that explore themes such as genealogy and family histories, healing collective trauma, identity reclamation through portraiture, historical preservation, dynamic movement, creative play, and love.
The LP’s Create Change Artist Development Program and the artist’s projects that are selected reflect the organization’s commitment to amplifying the importance of creativity and the arts as necessary to building thriving creative communities.
Open Studios are free and open to the public and the media.
Future locations will be updated on https://laundromatproject.org/
Please email [email protected] to RSVP or to request additional information.
2024 Create Change Artists-in-Residence include:
Khidr Joseph
Immanuel Oni
Alicia Foxworth
Anjali Kamat
Rehan Ansari
Timothy Prolific
2024 Create Change Artists in Residence Open Studio Dates
Khidr Joseph
All About Love: Community Narratives
JULY 24, 2024, 6:30PM – 7:45PM
LOCATION: Hattie Carthan Playground | 308 Monroe St., Brooklyn, NY 11216
“All About Love: Community Narratives” is an immersive video archive endeavor inspired by the transformative insights of bell hooks’ seminal work. Through intimate narratives, participants will candidly share personal experiences, reflections, and perceptions of love, offering profound insights into the role love plays in shaping our lives. Participants will engage in a painting activity to reflect their definitions and perspectives of love after a short presentation of Khidr’s community installations.
Immanuel Oni
Beyond Memorial | Sacred Sites
AUGUST 14, 2024, 6:30PM – 7:45PM
LOCATION: TBA
“Beyond Memorial:Sacred Sites” is an art, spatial, and healing justice response to the invisible yet palpable scars left in spaces of community trauma or loss. “Beyond Memorial: Sacred Sites” involves crucial dialogue with community groups, such as a peace-keeping youth cohort, exploring how to reclaim public spaces for community well-being and belonging.
Alicia Foxworth
Brownstone Steps Garden Reading Series
SEPTEMBER 18, 2024, 6:30PM – 7:45PM
LOCATION: Herbert Von King Park’s Cultural Arts Center | 670 Lafayette Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11216
The Brownstone Steps Garden Reading Series is a theatrical arts program designed to provide free entertainment to local and low-income communities in easily accessible public settings for residents that can not always afford tickets to theatrical productions in Times Square and other arts districts.
Anjali Kamat and Rehan Ansari
Breaking the Silence
OCTOBER 16, 2024, 6:30PM – 7:45PM
LOCATION: South Asian Youth Action (SAYA) | 54-05 Seabury Street, Brooklyn, NY 11373
“Breaking the Silence” is a storytelling and oral history project within the South Asian American community in Queens, New York. This project will offer workshops for South Asian American youth to develop a multimedia storytelling project about the legacies of ethnocentrism as well as stories of resistance within their family histories.
Timothy Prolific
Egungun: The Afro-Indigenous Genealogy Project
OCTOBER 30, 2024, 6:30PM – 7:45PM
LOCATION: TBA
The focus of “Egungun” (Yoruba for “ancestors”) is to utilize genealogical and genetic research as a catalyst for healing and creative expression in pursuit of reparations for Afro-Indigenous people. At no cost, participants will chart their family lineages, take tests from African Ancestry to uncover their ancestral genome, conduct oral history interviews, engage in indigenous ancestral spiritual rituals, and synthesize their findings in a culminating artistic presentation in Bed-Stuy.
*NOTE: Open Studio locations will be updated as they are confirmed.
ABOUT THE LAUNDROMAT PROJECT
The Laundromat Project is a Black-rooted and POC-centered community-based arts organization dedicated to advancing artists and residents of New York City as change agents within their communities. We envision a world in which artists and neighbors in communities of color work together to harness the power of creativity that can inspire and initiate meaningful change and generate long-lasting impact. We make sustained investments in growing a community of multiracial, multigenerational, and multidisciplinary artists and neighbors committed to societal change by supporting their artmaking, community building, and leadership development.
Since 2005, The Laundromat Project has directly invested over $1M in nearly 250 multiracial, multigenerational, and multidisciplinary artists; nearly 93 innovative public art projects; and a creative community hub in Bed-Stuy, while engaging close to 50,000 New Yorkers across the city and beyond. The idea of a laundromat as a primary place for engagement has expanded over time. It now serves as a metaphor for a variety of community settings in which artists and neighbors transform their lives and surroundings. Our programming has evolved to take place in community gardens, public plazas, libraries, sidewalks, local cultural organizations, and other places where people gather.
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