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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
Posted on May 4th, 2011
Posted on April 27th, 2011
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Artists (left to right): Ronny Quevedo, Shani Peters, Piero Passacantando, Rudy Shepherd
The Festival of Ideas for the New City
Saturday, May 7, 11am-7pm
Booth #36 at StreetFest
east side of Bowery (between Stanton and Rivington)
Join The LP at The Festival of Ideas for the New City for "Mixtapes and Tote Bags." Come jam ‘90s style! Add your music to LP alum Bayeté Ross Smith's Bowery mixtape. Screenprint a totebag responding to the festival themes: The Heterogeneous City; The Networked City; The Reconfigured City; and The Sustainable City. Check out our blog post from the Festival of Ideas website below.
Saturday, May 7, 11am-7pm
Booth #36 at StreetFest
east side of Bowery (between Stanton and Rivington)
Join The LP at The Festival of Ideas for the New City for "Mixtapes and Tote Bags." Come jam ‘90s style! Add your music to LP alum Bayeté Ross Smith's Bowery mixtape. Screenprint a totebag responding to the festival themes: The Heterogeneous City; The Networked City; The Reconfigured City; and The Sustainable City. Check out our blog post from the Festival of Ideas website below.
Visual Notes on the Heterogeneous City
The existence of a heterogeneous city is contingent on living with mixed national, ethnic, and economic populations. Is this the ideal city? What is the influence each community has on each other? Do the effects of living amongst different cultures actually make a complex, yet rich, community?
We invited four artists to respond to this festival theme and ponder these questions.
In Spanish and Spanglish, Ronny Quevedo’s work transcribes a chant to the Lower East Side that says, “1, 2, 3 Lower East Side.” Rudy Shepherd’s contribution, a line drawing of Henry David Thoreau, begs the catalytic question, “Who is that?” which prompts an answer that leads to a discussion about Thoreau’s legacy and how his contribution to American history made the United States into a more heterogeneous country. Piero Passacantando’s pattern illustrates black and halftone fusing circles that emerge from a white backdrop, while Shani Peters’ four chained name plates render the words, “wisdom,” “knowledge,” “power,” and “love” – four concepts that she promotes like a pawnbroker in a performance that started on Harlem’s 125th Street in 2010.
Quevedo’s and Passacantando’s contributions offer ideas on how living with disparate communities can create a cultural osmosis that eventually yields a hybridized identity. Shepherd’s and Peters’ illustrations reference differing, but equally important, ideologies that each community should consider any time there is a demographic change on the horizon.
Varying in their approaches, each contribution lends a poignant perspective, which leads us to the conclusion that difference paired with tolerance equals the ultimate heterogeneous community.
For $15, you can silkscreen one of the four illustrations on to a Laundromat Project tote bag. We’ll be on Bowery between Stanton and Rivington. See you this Saturday!
1, 2, 3 Festival of Ideas for the New City!
The existence of a heterogeneous city is contingent on living with mixed national, ethnic, and economic populations. Is this the ideal city? What is the influence each community has on each other? Do the effects of living amongst different cultures actually make a complex, yet rich, community?
We invited four artists to respond to this festival theme and ponder these questions.
In Spanish and Spanglish, Ronny Quevedo’s work transcribes a chant to the Lower East Side that says, “1, 2, 3 Lower East Side.” Rudy Shepherd’s contribution, a line drawing of Henry David Thoreau, begs the catalytic question, “Who is that?” which prompts an answer that leads to a discussion about Thoreau’s legacy and how his contribution to American history made the United States into a more heterogeneous country. Piero Passacantando’s pattern illustrates black and halftone fusing circles that emerge from a white backdrop, while Shani Peters’ four chained name plates render the words, “wisdom,” “knowledge,” “power,” and “love” – four concepts that she promotes like a pawnbroker in a performance that started on Harlem’s 125th Street in 2010.
Quevedo’s and Passacantando’s contributions offer ideas on how living with disparate communities can create a cultural osmosis that eventually yields a hybridized identity. Shepherd’s and Peters’ illustrations reference differing, but equally important, ideologies that each community should consider any time there is a demographic change on the horizon.
Varying in their approaches, each contribution lends a poignant perspective, which leads us to the conclusion that difference paired with tolerance equals the ultimate heterogeneous community.
For $15, you can silkscreen one of the four illustrations on to a Laundromat Project tote bag. We’ll be on Bowery between Stanton and Rivington. See you this Saturday!
1, 2, 3 Festival of Ideas for the New City!
Posted on April 9th, 2011
The LP is thankful to have a wonderful team of artists who support and deliver our art workshops and other programs. Here's a snapshot of what they have cooking over the next few months. Find out where you can see their work near you!
From April 15-July 9, see Kathleena Howie-Garcia’s work at the Art for Change Gallery in 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.Kathleena will also participate in the 5th Annual Mott Haven Artist Open Studio Tour on April 30. A free trolley will start at Longwood Art Gallery, and whisk visitors to studios and art spaces from 12 to 5pm. Hop on and off at different stops along the South Bronx Cultural Corridor to enjoy the day’s special events. The Bronx Culture Trolley is free to ride, wheelchair accessible, and all are welcome.
The website Beautiful/Decay recently featured Brendan Scott Carroll’s Jersey Stories, a collection of Polaroids images taken in the Garden State. Each photograph includes a typewritten, real or fictional anecdote in the lower margin. Beautiful/Decay is a printed book series and apparel line with a focus on experimental, grotesque, and groundbreaking art. See Brendan's website.
Through May 4, see Teaching Artist Shani Peters’ artwork at Observed, Imagined and Recreated at Longwood Art Gallery. Curated by Juanita Lanzo, this exhibit features works by the 2009 Urban Artist Initiative Grant (UAI NYC) winners in visual arts and media. The show focuses on how the recreation and reconstruction of the politics of representation, gender, national identity, historical events, migration, post-colonial history and politics impact on the construction of the self.Shani is also a participant in Artist in the Marketplace (AIM), a professional development program for artists at the Bronx Museum. See Shani's website.
LP Teaching Artist Maya Valladares's work is included in Good Work, a gallery exhibition and May Day celebration at the Textile Arts Center. Running from April 29 to June 12, this exhibit honors the textile workers, artists, designers, and activists who make our world more beautiful and just—all makers tied together by the products of our labor—all makers whose work tries to do good in a multitude of ways. See Maya's website.Posted on April 2nd, 2011
Here's a look at what's in store at The LP in the upcoming months.... We're bringing you a new season of art workshops, festivals, and more to a neighborhood near you! Join us for a chance to unleash your creative side - you'll learn cool art techniques, engage in insightful conversation, and spend time with your neighbors while beautifying your community.
The Festival of Ideas for the New City | May 711am - 7pm
Booth #36
East side of Bowery (between Stanton Street and Rivington Street), Manhattan
Join The LP at The Festival of Ideas for the New City this Saturday for "Mixtapes and Tote Bags." Add your music to LP Create Change alum Bayeté Ross Smith's community playlist, which he will turn into the Bowery Mixtape, and screenprint a tote bag with images that address one of the festival’s themes - The Heterogeneous City.
The Festival of Ideas for the New City, May 4th-8th, 2011, is a major new collaborative initiative in New York involving scores of downtown organizations, from universities to arts institutions and community groups, working together to affect change. A first for New York, the Festival will harness the power of the creative community to imagine the future city and explore the ideas destined to shape it. It will take place in multiple venues Downtown and is organized around three central programs: a three-day slate of symposia; an innovative StreetFest along the Bowery; and over eighty independent projects and public events. The Festival will serve as a platform for artists, writers, architects, engineers, designers, urban farmers, planners, and thought leaders to exchange ideas, propose solutions, and invite the public to participate.
For more information, visit festivalofideasnyc.com.
Works in Progress | Sundays, June 5 – August 2112pm - 3pm
The Laundry Room
143 West 116th Street, Manhattan
Next month, we’ll be back in Harlem for our summer drop-in art workshops. Color your world by making kaleidoscopes, jewelry, collograph prints, and more while using your neighborhood as inspiration!
Last season, participants made their own books, used their neighborhoods as inspiration for solar and collograph prints, designed their own t-shirts, and beautified the community by drawing on sidewalks with ground cooking spices. See pictures from past Works in Progress workshops.
The Office of Human Rights | June 2-9Asian Arts Initiative
1223 Vine Street, Philadelphia
Opening Reception / Town Hall Meeting
Thursday, June 2, 6 pm
In a world polarized by race, class, religion, and other tensions, our communities may feel increasingly fragmented. But one thing many of us have in common is the desire for Home—be it a roof to keep out the rain, or a healthy community where everyone is allowed to pursue their dreams. Through photography and stories-in-sound, Housing is a Human Right co-founders Michael Premo and Rachel Falcone invite you to hear and be heard in Philly.
Gallery hours: 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. Tuesday – Friday
215.557.0455 or www.asianartsinitiative.org
Seeding the City | July 3012pm - 5pm
Weeksville Heritage Center
1698 Bergen Street, Brooklyn
The LP and NYFA's Immigrant Artist Project partner to present a day of workshops and demonstrations focused on environmental awareness, food cultivation, and urban beautification. The skillshare is an opportunity for artists, urban dwellers, farmers, and food activists to teach and learn from each other. Join us for a potluck of strategies to improve the quality of life for communities of color living on low incomes.
Posted on April 1st, 2011
The LP team has been growing this spring. Meet out our newest additions!
We're proud to welcome the members of our 2011 Artist and Community Council. These socially engaged art professionals live and/or work in the communities where our programming is located and will serve as both programmatic advisors and ambassadors to The LP over a year long period. This year’s Council members will help select our 2011 Create Change Public Artists in Residence and Fellows; lead and/or participate in professional development sessions for Create Change artists; and continue to serve as outreach partners to increase the impact of our programs.
We're also thrilled to introduce our new interns! Welcome to the team!
Sara Raggini, program intern, is an artist visiting from Italy and a graduate of Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti in Milan.
Stephanie Madrid, design intern, is a Bachelor of Business Administration candidate in Design and Management at Parsons the New School for Design.
Joanna Reynolds, program intern, is a candidate in the Masters of Urban Planning program at NYU Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service.
In other news - This April, LP Program Manager Petrushka Bazin celebrates her second year with the organization. Petrushka is an independent curator and arts administrator committed to finding new ways of making art more accessible. As Program Manager of The Laundromat Project, she works closely with the organization's teaching artists and public artists in residence to present engaging art programs in unconventional spaces throughout the Greater New York Area. Meet Petrushka and The LP team here.
We're proud to welcome the members of our 2011 Artist and Community Council. These socially engaged art professionals live and/or work in the communities where our programming is located and will serve as both programmatic advisors and ambassadors to The LP over a year long period. This year’s Council members will help select our 2011 Create Change Public Artists in Residence and Fellows; lead and/or participate in professional development sessions for Create Change artists; and continue to serve as outreach partners to increase the impact of our programs.
We're also thrilled to introduce our new interns! Welcome to the team!
Sara Raggini, program intern, is an artist visiting from Italy and a graduate of Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti in Milan.
Stephanie Madrid, design intern, is a Bachelor of Business Administration candidate in Design and Management at Parsons the New School for Design.
Joanna Reynolds, program intern, is a candidate in the Masters of Urban Planning program at NYU Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service.
In other news - This April, LP Program Manager Petrushka Bazin celebrates her second year with the organization. Petrushka is an independent curator and arts administrator committed to finding new ways of making art more accessible. As Program Manager of The Laundromat Project, she works closely with the organization's teaching artists and public artists in residence to present engaging art programs in unconventional spaces throughout the Greater New York Area. Meet Petrushka and The LP team here.
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