The Laundromat Project is accepting applications for the 2010 season.

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.

Check out the profile NYFA Current wrote about our organization in their December 2009 issue:
Karen Demavivas and Suzan Sherman on The Laundromat Project

What can we say...it's been an amazing season. We had a great opening for the 2009 Create Change Public Artist Residency exhibition in October and 'fabu' turn out for our first benefit auction at Envoy Gallery on the Lower East Side. Create Change Public Artist Resident Michael Premo's project, Housing is a Human Right, has been getting great press! Click here here, and here to read the buzz. See a trailer of the project here.

Beautiful people, positive energy, and amazing ideas - we are so excited for our next year of programming.

Stay tuned!

Donating artists
Ifetayo Abdus-Salaam • David Abir • Dawolu Jabari Anderson • Petruskha Bazin • Aisha Bell • Nathan Bennett • Sanford Biggers • Louis Cameron • Saul Chernick • William Cordova • Pradeep Dalal • Stephanie Diamond • Stephanie Dinkins • Nathaniel Donnett • Sam Durant • Torkwase Dyson • Chitra Ganesh • Rico Gatson • Deborah Grant • Kira Lynn Harris • Wayne Hodge • Sheree Hovsepian • Jennie C. Jones • Nsenga Knight • Joseph Laurro • Simone Leigh • Shaun El C. Leonardo • Glenn Ligon • Carlos Martinez • Paul D. Miller (aka DJ Spooky) • Chris Myers • Glexis Novoa • Wura-Natasha Ogunji • Karyn Olivier • Jessica Ann Peavy • Micheal Premo • Rob Pruitt • Ronny Quevedo • Tanea Richardson • Marc Andre Robinson • Athena Robles • Paul Mpagi Sepuya • Xaviera Simmons • Shinique Smith • Anna Stein • Hank Willis Thomas • Zefrey Throwell and Eric Anderson • Robert Trujillo • Mary Valverde • William Villalongo • Deborah Willis • Saya Woolfalk • and others

Host Committee
Derrick Adams • Anthony Allen • Yona Backer • Naomi Beckwith • Collette Blanchard • Sylvia Chivaratanond • Dean Daderko • David Harper • Michelle Huff • Kemi Ilesanmi • Desiree Mwalimu • Kavita Rajanna • Alvin Starks • Sharon Pendana • Rudy Shepherd • Alvin Starks • Emma Taati • Mickalene Thomas • Jacquette Timmons • Rise Wilson • list in formation

Tickets
To purchase tickets, write specialevent@laundromatproject.org. Space is limited. Levels of support include:

The Laundromat Project Champion, Gift of $1,000
• Ten tickets to the event
• Limited-edition print by Mickalene Thomas
• Premiere recognition on all Laundromat Project publications & website
• Half-page advertisement in the event catalogue
Tax-deductibility of $800

The Laundromat Project Ally, Gift of $250
• Five tickets to the event
• Limited-edition print by Rudy Shepherd
• Premiere recognition on all Laundromat Project publications & website
Tax-deductibility of $150

The Laundromat Project Sustainer, Gift of $100
• Two tickets to the event
• Name recognition in the event catalogue & website
Tax-deductibility of $70

The Laundromat Project Contributor, Gift of $25
• Individual ticket to the event
• Name recognition in the event catalogue & website
Tax-deductibility of $15

If you cannot attend but would like to make a contribution, please visit our Support page.

Please make all checks payable to NYFA (New York Foundation for the Arts) with “The Laundromat Project” written in the memo line of the check, and mail to: The Laundromat Project, 275 Macdonough Street, Brooklyn, NY 11233.

The Laundromat Project is a sponsored project of NYFA (New York Foundation for the Arts), a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization.