2019 Create Change info session
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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.
2019 Create Change info session
- 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