Wed, June 1
Community Organizing
Presented by Citizens Committee of New York (Lead Facilitator: Arif Ullah)
This workshop addressed the fundamentals of community organizing, which include: issue identification, establishing a purpose and vision, strategic planning, organizing outreach and participation, evaluation, and leading community meetings.
Sat, June 25
Entering, Building and Exiting Community
Presented by Urban Bush Women (Lead Facilitator: Paloma McGregor)
Entering, Building and Exiting Community teaches others to enter a community by first asking community members to express what they want to see accomplished instead of entering with predetermined assumptions about participation, project themes or goals. The workshop also invites participants to consider their own agency when working in communities whether it is their own or someone else's.
Sat, July 16
Writing Workshop: Writing for Multiple Audiences
Presented by Patricia Beirne
This workshop invites participants to explore writing about their work for
different audiences, including a local community, an art institution, and a
potential partner.
Wed, July 27
Ethics and Strategies of Oral History Collection
Presented by Weeksville Heritage Center (Lead Facilitator: Kaitlyn Greenidge)
This workshop addresses ethics and best practices of oral history collection.
Using Weeksville Heritage Center collection strategies as a point of departure,
participants will explore techniques in collecting their own stories.
Wed, Aug 24
The America Project
Presented by MAPP International
MAPP International will present Sekou Sundiata's American Project, which was conceived on in 2001 as a shared contemplation of America's national identity, its power in the world, and its guiding mythologies.
Wed, Sept 7
Making Your Public Art Projects More Public Using the Web
Presented by Dread Scott
This workshop addresses strategies in increasing web traffic to an artist's website and offers tools and brief how-tos for building a successful participatory-based website that can further develop an existing participatory project that does not already live on the web.
Posted on Saturday June 04, 2011
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Create Change Public Artist Residents and Professional Development Fellows participate in monthly discussions and workshops designed to help them deepen their approach to having a socially-engaged creative practice. These sessions are led by guest speakers and facilitators who work in the arts and social justice sectors.(Left: Arif leads a workshop on the fundamentals of community organizing)
Posted on Friday June 03, 2011
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The Office of Human Rights | June 2 – 9Asian Arts Initiative
1223 Vine Street, Philadelphia
Opening Reception / Town Hall Meeting
Thursday, June 2, 6 – 9 pm
In a world polarized by race, class, religion, and other tensions, our communities may feel increasingly fragmented. But one thing we all have in common is the need for Home—be it a roof to keep out the rain, or a healthy community where we all can pursue our dreams.
Co-presented by the Asian Arts Initiative and the Laundromat Project, artists Michael Premo and Rachel Falcone of Housing is a Human Right bring you The Office of Human Rights. The exhibit features over 50 photographs exploring the struggle for Home, stories-in-sound, and live remixing of your stories by DJ SpazeCraft One.
Oral History Interviews & Storytelling Workshops
This weekend Premo and Falcone will interview local residents and teach participants of all ages how to conduct their own in-depth oral-history interviews. RSVP here>>>
Visit The Office of Human Rights>>>
Barri-o-rama | Friday, June 3, 6-9 pmTaller Boricua / Puerto Rican Workshop, Inc.
1680 Lexington Avenue, East Harlem
Silkscreen a tote bag with LP Faculty Shani Peters at the opening of Barri-o-rama, an exhibit celebrating East Harlem. Artist Hatuey Ramos Fermin and others will explore challenges in healthy eating in East Harlem, concentrating on the role that bodegas, delis, farmers' markets, green carts, local gardens, and supermarkets play in the community.
Celebrate East Harlem and healthy eating>>>
Works in Progress | Kaleidoscopia: Harlem Refracted Sunday, June 5, 12-3pm
The Laundry Room
143 West 116th Street, Harlem
Led by Kiran Chandra
Optical illusions come into play as we create our community-inspired kaleidoscopes. Channel your childhood while meditating on Harlem’s landscape by making a kaleidoscope with us this weekend.
Make art with your friends and neighbors>>>
Posted on Friday June 03, 2011
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LP Faculty members have been busy. Find out where you can catch up with them....
June 26 - September 5, 2011, view work by LP Faculty Shani Peters at the Bronx Museum in Bronx Calling: The First AIM Biennial, held in conjunction with the museum’s AIM (Artist in the Marketplace) program for emerging artists. 72 artists, including Peters, will show work in this exhibition. On view is her project We Promote Knowledge & Love, which gathers inspiration from the street advertising of pawnbrokers in low-income communities but promotes knowledge, love, and other pillars of a healthy neighborhood through print and performance-based works. Shani will also lead a jewelry-making workshop through Works in Progress (WiP) for The LP on July 31st as an extension of this work. See the WiP schedule here and read more about her work here.
Learn hand sewing and mending on Governor’s Island at FIGMENT NYC 2011 with Mending Circle on June 10th and 11th (find them at the big patchwork quilt under the tree). Mending Circle is a collaboration between Sewing Rebellion NYC (which Maya Valladares organizes) and the Textile Arts Center.
Through June 12th, stop by a pick up a silkscreened patch from LP Faculty Maya Valladares to take home at Good Work, a fiber arts show at the Oak Knit Studio/Textile Arts Center in Brooklyn that celebrates textile works and textile workers. Maya and others react to issues that have affected these workers and their craftsmanship, including gender, politics, immigration, and more. Find out how to visit on the Textile Arts Center website.
Through July 9, LP Faculty members Kathleena Howie-Garcia and Kiran Chandra and LP Create Change Professional Development Fellow Elvira Clayton’s work at the Art for Change Gallery in the exhibition Faces of the Economy, which focuses on how the pressures of the economy affect the lives of individuals locally. Current pressures such as outsourcing of jobs overseas, lack of an adequate living wage against rising housing costs, and low job security are explored visually in various mediums.
Posted on Friday May 20, 2011
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Photo credit: Craig Hayes
May 7th brought thousands of New Yorkers and visitors together to enjoy food, music, and - most importantly - the beautiful weather at New Museum’s StreetFest, a one-day outdoor event along the Bowery held as part of the Festival of Ideas for the New City. The streets were lined with slinky, neon tents, called “Worms,” which housed tables for arts organizations, sustainable gardening and food programs, and other entities from across the city. (Read the New York Times article about the event.
We met with community members and festival goers who joined The LP for “Mixtapes + Totebags.” For eight hours, we worked with volunteers and LP Faculty Shani Peters to offer silkscreening workshops where visitors decorated their own tote bags with designs created for the event. ‘10 LP Create Change alumnus Bayeté Ross Smith encouraged attendees to add their favorite songs to the Bowery mixtape playlist, which is part of his project Got The Power, which amplifies ambient sound, music, and oral history mashups of American communities through a boombox tower.
This summer, Bayeté will also bring Got The Power to Franconia Sculpture Park in MN, where he’ll be a Franconcia Sculpture Park/Jerome Fellow.
Listen to Got the Power mixtapes here andhere.
We met with community members and festival goers who joined The LP for “Mixtapes + Totebags.” For eight hours, we worked with volunteers and LP Faculty Shani Peters to offer silkscreening workshops where visitors decorated their own tote bags with designs created for the event. ‘10 LP Create Change alumnus Bayeté Ross Smith encouraged attendees to add their favorite songs to the Bowery mixtape playlist, which is part of his project Got The Power, which amplifies ambient sound, music, and oral history mashups of American communities through a boombox tower.
This summer, Bayeté will also bring Got The Power to Franconia Sculpture Park in MN, where he’ll be a Franconcia Sculpture Park/Jerome Fellow.
Listen to Got the Power mixtapes here andhere.
Posted on Wednesday May 04, 2011
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We're excited to be participating in the New Museum's Festival of Ideas for the New City this Saturday, May 7th, 11am - 7pm. Read the New York Times article that plugs The LP in a feature about the festival.
Last March Huffington Post writer Damiano Beltrami brought The LP to folks across the country. If you missed the story, catch up on what he had to say here.
And, see what people are saying about The LP in the blogosphere:
Noted: The Laundromat Project, posted on Etsy's blog, "This Handmade Life," by Michelle Traub
Art & The Laundromat, posted on Chrissy Gemmill Jewelry by Chrissy Gemmill
The Laundromat Project, posted on Ive Been Funked Underground Arts Journal by Julia Perez
Friday's Lovelies, 4.1.11, posted on Kind Over Matter by Amanda Oaks
Last March Huffington Post writer Damiano Beltrami brought The LP to folks across the country. If you missed the story, catch up on what he had to say here.
And, see what people are saying about The LP in the blogosphere:
Noted: The Laundromat Project, posted on Etsy's blog, "This Handmade Life," by Michelle Traub
Art & The Laundromat, posted on Chrissy Gemmill Jewelry by Chrissy Gemmill
The Laundromat Project, posted on Ive Been Funked Underground Arts Journal by Julia Perez
Friday's Lovelies, 4.1.11, posted on Kind Over Matter by Amanda Oaks
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