We provide:
- A modest stipend
- A materials budget to complete your Create Change project.
- Professional development specific to creating public works
- Opportunity to meet with other area artists to brainstorm ideas about your project once every other week
- Projects will be featured on The Laundromat Project’s website
- Community celebration featuring your work at the end of the residency cycle
Eligibility:
Create Change is open to artists:
• who make socially engaged work
• live in the New York Metropolitan Area
• who are available to fully participate in residency activities between May and October 2010
• who work in any medium as long as they can adapt their creative practice to a site-specific project for their local laundromat
• who are not enrolled as a full-time student
Strong Create Change Candidates Have:
• Problem-solving skills, resourcefulness, and flexibility
• Demonstrated ability to carry out a project of this scale
• Deep respect for your neighbors, and the ability to collaborate with a broad public
• Willingness to take risks and step out of comfort zones
• Ability to actively engage non-artists in all aspects of your creative process
Criteria Used to Evaluate Applications:
• How is the project socially relevant to the community in which the artist lives?
• Is it clear how the artist will engage community members in this project? What aspects of this project include community interaction?
• Is this project feasible? Can the artist complete the project during the residency?
• Is the project unique to the laundromat setting? How does the project interact with the laundromat as a public space?
Key Program Dates:
March 1, 2010: Application Received
March 21, 2010: Interviews/Selection Event
April 1, 2010: Notifications sent
May 15 – October 31, 2010: Create Change residencies take place
Visit our Create Change Public Artist Residency program page for more info and frequently asked questions.