Our Mission

Believing that tools of self-determination lie within creative practices, The Laundromat Project uses the space of local coin-ops to provide communities of color living on modest incomes with broad access to visual art as a tool of personal and social transformation.


Our Vision

We aspire to be:

• a laundromat-based art center, where our neighbors can gather to wash clothes, take art classes, and connect as human beings;
  
  
• an organization whose programming builds creative communities where people of color are inspired to imagine change and to improve the quality of their lives;
  
  
• a living, breathing, ever-evolving, permanent public art project the ultimate site-specific installation. Using the familiar space of laundromats allows us to overhaul the way art is exhibited. We don't want people to look at art. We want them to experience it-- talk back to it, manhandle it, make it, own it;
  
  
• a non-profit social enterprise with a self-sustaining revenue model to support our mission. Using proceeds from a laundry business to underwrite our operations, we will apply the same principles of entrepreneurship that overlap with any artistic disciplines (from risk-taking to innovation to seeing a vision to fruition).