Sunday, Sept 12, 12 - 3pm
Many Hands Make Light Work: Community Collograph with Rosemary Taylor

The Laundromat Project at Studio Museum in Harlem for a special
Target Free Sunday workshop

Bring the whole family to the museum to enjoy a collograph printing workshop led by Rosemary Taylor. What's a collograph? Come find out. Make your own print to keep, plus contribute to a giant, collaborative banner made from the many hands of each participant.

Where: Studio Museum in Harlem, 144 West 125th Street, New York, NY
Directions: Take A/B/C/D/2/3 Train to 125th Street
Price: Free

Saturday, Sept 18, 2 - 6pm
The Laundromat Project + MLAB with Tattfoo and Rosemary Taylor

Join us for a day of workshops ranging from printmaking to "seed-bombing." Learn how to "green-up" your neighborhood with Tattfoo who will teach a variety of easy strategies for being an environmental steward using his SOS Mobile Classroom. And, if you missed the workshop at SMH, here's another chance to learn how to make collograph prints with Rosemary Taylor.

Where: Stephan Stoyanov Gallery, 29 Orchard Street, New York, NY
Directions: Take F Train to East Broadway or B/D Train to Grand Street
Price: $4 suggested donation

About MLAB
The Mobile Literacy Arts Bus (MLAB) is an artist-run, renovated recreational vehicle that exists as a flexible space open to community members’ proposals for alternative educational and cultural programming. MLAB is a gutted, re-designed and rebuilt 1984 American Eagle RV created and founded by artist Marion Wilson and nine Syracuse University students in 2008.

Bling - Spices, Gold, an Precious Stones: Sidewalk Drawing with Cooking Spices
with Brendan Carroll

Calling back to the days when spices were used as currency, participants abandon chalk to adorn the 116th Street corridor with fragrant and colorful sidewalk drawings.

Where: The Laundry Room, 143 West 116th Street
(btwn 6th + 7th Ave), New York, NY
Directions: Take B/C/2/3 Train to 116th Street
Price: $4 suggested donation

Thursday, Sept 23, 5:30 - 8:30pm
Musical Currents in African-American and Latino Communities
with Bayeté Ross Smith

As a 2010 Create Change Public Artist in Residence, Bayeté has been exploring how
a community might create its own soundtrack. What are the playlists, speeches, and even ambient noise that reflect how a particular neighborhood sounds? In true Radio Raheem fashion, Bayeté has assembled a tower of boomboxes at his local laundromat that not only serves as a kind of ever-growing community jukebox (choose from a selection of donated cassettes...that's right we said cassettes), but also as a site of discussion and exchange. Bring a load of wash and your vote for the definition of Washington Heights on wax.

Where: Gold Star Laundromat, 431 Edgecombe Ave (and 155th Street), New York, NY
Directions: Take C Train to 155th Street or 1 Train to 157th Street
Price: Free

Sunday, Sept 26, 12 - 3pm
Solar Reconstruction: Solar Printing a New Neighborhood
with Lady-K Fever

Using the sun, new and old neighborhood photographs, and found objects, participants create solar prints that re-imagine their communities.

Where: The Laundry Room, 143 West 116th Street (btwn 6th and 7th Ave), New York, NY
Directions: Take B/C/2/3 Train to 116th Street
Price: $4 suggested donation

Tawakalitu Amusa recently graduated from the University at Buffalo with a major in political science and minors in philosophy and English. Hailing from Long Island (otherwise known as Strong Island), she is excited to be a new member of The LP team. Upon graduating from college, she began looking for opportunities to get involved with non-profit organizations committed to strengthening communities in the New York City Area. During her time with us, she is thrilled to explore the many ways art can make social impact.

Tyler Burton is a graduate of James Madison University's philosophy department where he logged many hours reading Kant, Heidegger and Hindu thought. After graduating, he moved to Seoul where he taught English to well-behaved and overworked students. Soon after returning to the States, he moved to Brooklyn and became a history and writing tutor to high school students in Harlem. Having grown up in the Appalachian foothills near Harrisburg, PA, he's beginning to learn the ways of environmental stewardship in New York City.

Alessandra Rodda is an artist, musician, and arts administrator. While in high school, this New Jersey native jumped across the Hudson River to study French Horn at the Juilliard School. She graduated with a French Horn performance degree from Manhattan School of Music in 2009. After completing business studies, Alessandra joined the board of the Patriot Brass Ensemble, worked in marketing and development for Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and held a position at 21C Media Group.