The LP's Calendar
Sunday, February 12, 1pm - 4pmDrawing Your Block
The Studio Museum in Harlem, 144 West 125th Street, New York, New York
Led by Alice Mizrachi
Do you know what's on your block? Join The Laundromat Project for a neighborhood drawing workshop that references the visual cues of artist Kira Lynn Harris's The Block | Bellona, a re-imagining of Romare Bearden's The Block (1971.) Using oil pastels and watercolors, participants will learn how to make a drawing of their own neighborhood block. Bring a picture of your neighborhood or just your imagination and you'll leave with a new understanding of where you live and visual representation of where you live.
This workshop is free and open to the public.
Image: Kira Lynn Harris, The Block | Bellona (installation view), 2011 Photo Credit: Adam Reich
Sunday, January 15, 2012 |1pm - 4pmRomare Bearden Collage and Portraiture Workshop
The Studio Museum in Harlem, 144 West 125th Street, New York
Led by Alice Mizrachi
Paying homage to artist Romare Bearden and civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., The Laundromat Project presents through its Works in Progress program a portrait workshop that asks participants to employ Bearden's iconic collage technique to create a portrait of the person that they aspire to be. Using some of Dr. King's quotes as a source of inspiration, completed portraits will integrate color, xerox copies, magazines, and textiles to creatively illustrate a figurative image that includes the qualities each participant wishes to embody in 2012.
This workshop is free and open to the public.
Image: Dave McKenzie, They Dreamed of Nefertiti's Holiday, 2011. Courtesy the artist
Wednesday, December 7, 2011 | 7pm – 9pmBayeté Ross Smith in Conversation with Tahir Hemphill (Moderated by Ben Herson)
NYFA, 20 Jay Street, 7th Floor, DUMBO, Brooklyn
The socio-political concept of the "town square" has been reinvigorated by the recent protests in Cairo's Tahrir Square and by our country’s own Occupy Wall Street movement. The Laundromat Project's new artist talk series Dispatches from the Square features artists who use their creative practice to make pop-up and permanent “town squares” that stimulate public dialogue and action on a range of issues. The series also highlights artists who collaboratively make artwork with non-artists as a strategy for creating more livable societies.
Join Create Change Public Artist in Residence alum Bayeté Ross Smith and multi-media artist Tahir Hemphill for a conversation about how they have used hip-hop as a platform to create new work that engages, mobilizes, and documents local and global communities. Moderated by Ben Herson, Founder and Director of Nomadic Wax. Read more
This event is free and open to the public.
Thursday, September 29, 2011 | 6pm–9pm2nd Annual Public Art Potluck
Taller Boricua Puerto Rican Workshop
Julia De Burgos Latino Cultural Center
1680 Lexington Avenue (and 106th Street)
New York, NY 10029
Celebrate the culmination of this year's Create Change Public Artist Residency program, The LP invites you to its 2nd Annual Public Art Potluck. Instead of food guests are asked to bring questions and ideas for how this year's Create Change residents and professional development fellows can sustain their public art projects and socially-engaged artistic practices. Lear more about this event here.
Buy Your Ticket | $35 includes dinner and drinks
There is limited seating. Purchase your tickets in advance. Ticket purchase will be available, but not guaranteed at the door. Cash and credit card accepted.
Saturday, August 6 and 14, 2011 | 12 pm – 3 pmMaking an Apartment Planter with Household Materials Led by Adopt-a-Farmbox
World Laundromat
73 Empire Blvd, Brooklyn
Why throw away your perfectly 'good', non-degradable garbage? Use items like plastic water bottles, detergent bottles and old newspaper to create planters to take home! Bring your clean empty bottles and we'll provide the rest.
Sunday, July 31, 2011 | 12 pm – 3 pmMake Jewelry, Promote Knowledge & Love Led by Shani Peters
The Laundry Room
143 West 116th Street, Manhattan
Accentuate the Positive. Make jewelry as iconic as Radio Raheem’s LOVE and HATE rings in Do the Right Thing. In this workshop you can harness the power of language as you stamp your hand-crafted accessories with words like ‘knowledge’ ‘wisdom’ or ‘power’ written in one of 116th Street’s many tongues: Wolof, English, or Arabic.
Saturday, July 30, 2011 | 12 pm – 5 pmSeeding the City:Learn How to Live Green in the City
Weeksville Heritage Center
1698 Bergen Street
Brooklyn, NY 11213
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The LP and NYFA's Immigrant Artist Project are jointly organizing a day of workshops and demonstrations focused on environmental awareness, urban farming and beautification. The skillshare is an opportunity for everyday citizens, artists, 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.
12 - 4pm - Attend 8 FREE workshops that teach you how to cultivate and beautify your spaces using a variety of environmentally responsible strategies.
4 - 5pm - Join us for a potluck picnic in Weeksville's Garden
Workshops Include:
Learn the Benefits of Permaculture with Environmental Educator Claudia Joseph
Solarize a Toy with Sustainable Flatbush’s Energy Solutions Project Manager Jocelyn Cohen, PhD
Double Digging To Grow More In Less Space with artist and farmer Jason Gaspar
Learn How To Build a Mobile Garden with artist Tattfoo Tan
Get Dirty to Get Clean: Purifying Water with Microbial Mud Balls with artist Miki Katagiri
DIY: Tips on How to Make Your Home Sustainable withPratt Center for Community Development’s Jay-E Emmingham & Rasu Jilani
Portable Solar Panel Demo on Sustainable Energy with You Save Green’s David Magid
Making an Apartment Planter With Household Materials with Adopt-A-Farmbox’s Aki Harata-Baker and Yemi Amu
Weeksville will also have their Farmer's Marker from 9am to 2pm.
This program is made possible in part by NYFA-Immigrant Artist Project, Brooklyn Arts Council, and Weeksville Heritage Center.
Sunday, July 10 and August 21, 2011 | 12 pm – 3 pmBleach Batiking Led by Alice Mizrachi
The Laundry Room
143 West 116th Street, Manhattan
If you have ever dropped bleach on a colored shirt, and thought “what now?” this workshop is for you. Inspired by the process of Batik fabric dyeing, participants use bleach instead of wax to create their own neighborhood-inspired tees. Bring your imagination and we'll supply the black shirt and bleach for you to design a t-shirt that reflects a part of your neighborhood, whether it’s a person or place, past or present.
Sunday, July 4 and August 4, 2011 | 12 pm – 3 pmTextured Collographs and Collages Led by Rosemary Taylor
The Laundry Room
143 West 116th Street, Manhattan
Cut paper. Layer. Roll ink. Repeat. While your clothes on the spin cycle, you'll make colorful images out of paper. Learn how to make a collograph print with materials you can easily find at home.
Sunday, June 26, July 17, and August 14, 2011 | 12 pm – 3 pmSewing Pieces of the City Led by Maya Valladares
The Laundry Room
143 West 116th Street, Manhattan
Calling back to the quilt-making tradition, you'll learn how to make and sew landscape-inspired appliqués onto your worn-out clothes. Bring a jacket, shirt, or dress and we'll provide the rest.
Sunday, June 5 and 19, 2011 | 12 pm – 3 pmKaleidoscopia: Harlem Reflected Led by Kiran Chandra
The Laundry Room
143 West 116th Street, Manhattan
Reflect Harlem while you reflect on Harlem in this workshop that demonstrates how to make a kaleidoscope using materials often found at the hardware store.
Thursday, June 2 - Friday, July 15, 2011Opening Reception / Town Hall Meeting: Thursday, June 2, 6 pm
The Office of Human Rights
Asian Arts Initiative
1223 Vine Street, Philadelphia
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. Through photography and stories-in-sound, Housing is a Human Right co-founders Michael Premo ('09 Create Change Public Artist in Residence) and Rachel Falcone invite you to hear and be heard. The LP and AAI co-present.