Thank you for circulating our Create Change Call for Proposals! We received really exciting applications, but as you know we were only able to select three projects. We are very happy to announce that Hanalei Ramos + Jiny Ung, Bayeté Ross Smith, and Tattfoo Tan were selected to be apart of this year's cohort.

(L-R: Jiny Ung + Hanalei Ramos, Bayeté Ross Smith, Tattfoo Tan)

Hanalei Ramos is a writer, performer, and community educator. Jiny Ung is a
mixed media artist with a background in political science, teaching, and fine arts.
As a duo, Hanalei and Jiny participated in Project Row Houses’ Artist Rounds
program where they installed “Intertwined” – a collaborative project that adapted
stories, images, and historical artifacts contributed by residents of Houston’s
Third Ward into a house-sized installation. For their Create Change project,
Ramos and Ung will create a documentary-style animated short based on the
oral histories of residents living in Jersey City, New Jersey and Woodside, Queens. [More]

Bayeté Ross Smith is an artist, photographer and arts educator whose work
explores identity, American youth and popular culture. For his Create Change
project, Bayeté will create a prototype for a larger public art project titled
Boombox as Community Music. Through workshops offered at his local
laundromat in Washington Heights, Ross Smith will work with his neighbors to
collect and record music and sound recordings that have personal significance
to them. For his larger project, musical contributions will be compiled into a
series of mashups that will broadcast from a tower of boomboxes installed in
an urban center. [More]

Tattfoo Tan is an artist and educator whose work seeks to find an immediate,
direct, and effective way of exploring issues related to the individual in society
through which to collapse the categories of ‘art’ and ‘life’ into one. Using his
Staten Island laundromat as a hub, Tattfoo will host a series of workshops
around creating a sustainable future through the cultivation of fresh produce. [More]