The Laundromat Project is seeking artists for its 2019 Create Change program focused on the theme of "Abundance." The program includes artist residencies and fellowships to develop community-based art projects in NYC neighborhoods. Residencies involve a 6-month project in one of three neighborhoods, while fellowships include workshops to strengthen socially-engaged practices, culminating in team projects in the South Bronx. The application opens February 1st.

11. “We are the leaders we've been looking for.”
― Grace Lee Boggs
The Laundromat Project is building our 2019 Create Change artist development program
around the theme: Abundance. We are looking for artists, cultural producers, and makers of
all creative disciplines, backgrounds, and experience levels to explore abundance through
community-based art projects across NYC.
ABUNDANCE
Author, social activist, philosopher, and feminist Grace Lee Boggs asks: With People of Color
becoming the new American majority in many parts of the country, how are we going to create
a new vision for this country? This year at The LP, we are delving into abundance as a
pathway to imagine more for ourselves and our communities. Our creative visions, ideas,
and actions can fuel new ways of making positive change in the world. Through abundance,
we know that we are many, we are more than enough, and that our communities encompass
everything we need to work towards an equitable future. The Create Change program is an
invitation to learn within a diverse, talented, passionate, and knowledgeable LP community
striving to build collective spaces which invite new possibilities.

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13. The Laundromat Project offers its flagship Create Change
Artist-in-Residence program for artists interested in
developing and mounting a socially-engaged and
participatory public art project in their local
laundromat and/or other community spaces. Each
year, a total of 5 artist projects are supported through the
program. Four artist projects are developed through a
six-month residency that runs from April to October, and
one alumni project is selected for a year long residency
program that runs from April to March respectively.
RESIDENCY OVERVIEW
The residency is open to artists of color who live in or
are deeply invested in the communities of
Bedford-Stuyvesant, Harlem, and Hunts Point /
Longwood*. The program requires a significant time
commitment as artists are expected to develop
collaborative projects in-community amongst neighbors,
local stakeholders, and community organizations.
*Create Change Alumni can propose projects that
take place anywhere across NYC.

14. Up to 4 Create Change Residents will be selected to
participate in the 2019 program. This year’s program has
been reshaped into a practice-based lab around The
Laundromat Project’s process for community arts
engagement. Our pedagogy is one that centers
collaboration and partnership, where the work of the
artist is created through a cooperative approach with
community members and local organizations.
A CULTURAL
ARTS LAB
Our aim is to develop new strategies and ideas
around equitable public art, community engagement,
and social intervention practices. We plan to support
residents by offering individualized programs of project
incubation and exploration to strengthen their ways of
learning and discovery. The Residency is an experimental
platform and we invite participants to explore new areas of
artistic practice and methods of research.

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16. The Laundromat Project offers its Create Change
Fellowship program for artists and creative
individuals who may or may not have experience with
community-based projects and are interested in
developing or deepening collaborative and
socially-engaged creative practice. Fellows need to be
from one of the five boroughs to attend all program
activities between April and October.
The Fellowship is a six-month series of workshops and
programs that are meant to be an effective,
affordable, and intensive training for artists interested
in local, community centered, civic actions.
FELLOWSHIP OVERVIEW
Throughout the program, Fellows meet with a diverse
roster of artists, activists, arts professionals, curators,
funders, and change agents offering strategies for
creating and sustaining work at the intersection of the arts
and social change sectors. As the Create Change
Fellowship champions a practice-base model, the
program culminates in site-specific team projects by
Fellows through partnerships established across select
anchor neighborhoods. This opportunity is open to
artists, activists, and neighbors at all stages of their
creative practices and disciplines.

17. Up to 12 Create Change Fellows from across New York
City’s five boroughs, will be selected to participate in the
2019 program. This year’s Fellowship will center its
activities within one neighborhood - the Hunts Point /
Longwood area of the South Bronx. Through the
theme of abundance, Fellows will work on proposals for
local cultural resources that center the voices and
histories of long term residents, small business owners,
youth, activists, cultural institutions, and artists throughout
the neighborhood.
THE ACTIVATION OF
CULTURAL ABUNDANCE
Working in small teams, fellows will engage models of
cultural asset mapping. Addressing where and how does
culture take shape in 2019? How are aesthetics produced
and in what ways do they evolve? What role does the
commons play amidst rapid urban change and how
are neighbors reshaping what it means to belong to a
city, a neighborhood, or a block?
Together, we hope to learn and contribute to the complex
makings of cultural art production and civic engagement
in the South Bronx. At the culmination of the program,
fellows will activate local cultural resources through
community exchange, cooperation, and zeroing in on our
commitment towards valuing place.

19. TIMELINE
April May June July August September October
Framework
Goals
I WE US
Entering
Community
Community Engagement
Transitioning
out of
Community
Reflection
Presentation
Celebration
Setting the
Context

20. BENEFITS TO ARTISTS
Access to an incredible range of information
designed to deepen and expand one’s
socially-engaged creative practice
Access to a rich network of local and national
peers, activists, arts professionals, curators,
funders, and change agents
Formation of a strong long-lasting peer
network where one can share their creative
vision, strategies for change, and ideas
Access to a peer network of over 100+ Create Change
alumni living and working in New York’s five boroughs and
nearby cities like Jersey City, Yonkers and Philadelphia
As alumni, eligibility to receive grants from The
Laundromat Project for future community-based projects
Preference for ongoing professional opportunities, such as
speaking engagements, press coverage, and commissions

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22. NEW
FELLOW
NEW
RESIDENT
FELLOW
ALUMNI
RESIDENT
ALUMNI
No fees to apply and participation in program is FREE ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Required to attend artist development workshops ✓ ✓
Must identify as a person of color ✓ ✓
Have lived, worked, or are accountable to one anchor neighborhood: Bed-Stuy,
Harlem, Hunts Point/Longwood
✓
Applying with a project proposal ✓ ✓
Do a project for one of the anchor neighborhoods ✓ ✓
Applying with a project for one of the 5 NYC boroughs ✓
Applying with a project for a community of affinity ✓
Awarded a $7,500 honorarium and $2,500 production budget ✓ ✓
Alumni professional development opportunities ✓ ✓
APPLICANT PROVISIONS

23. HOW TO APPLY?

24. OPEN CALL
Application Launch
February 1, 2019
Application Closes
February 18, 2019
Webinar Info Session
February 11, 2019 | 6 - 7:30pm
Bronx Info Session
February 13, 2019 | 6:30 - 8pm
920 Kelly Street
Interview Date for Residency Applicants
March 15, 2019 | 127 West 127th Street
Interview Date for Fellowship Applicants
March 16, 2019 | 127 West 127th Street