CIEVEL XICOHTENCATL Community Engagement Manager and DESTINEE FORBES Storytelling Fellow co-interviewed The LP’s community partner and founder of Yon Vilaj CORDELIA (COCO) JUNE. During the interview they discussed the importance of holding oneself accountable when working in community, The LP’s…
Destinee Forbes, Storytelling Fellow, met with artist, scholar, and cultural strategist and organizer, Ebony Noelle Golden, on a hot and humid summer afternoon at the Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics in the East Village. Destinee arrived a few minutes…
Kemi Ilesanmi, Executive Director of The Laundromat Project, sat with past and current LP Programs team members to discuss how The LP conceives of and reconciles the relationship between art practice and pedagogy specifically focusing on the changes to the…
Storytelling Fellow Destinee Forbes interviewed Gina Goico during the last month of her 2019 Kelly Street Residency. They talked about what she learned working with the Kelly Street community, the impact that the youth perspective has had on her art…
On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of The LP’s 2009 Create Change cohort’s completion of their residency, The LP has released a series of conversations to check-in with each artist to see what they have been up to and…
Tiara Ebony Austin joined our team as our Programs Associate in July 2019. Get to know more about her! In what neighborhood do you live? Bed Stuy How did you first become connected to The LP, or hear about The…
At this year's Greening the City Festival, The LP in partnership with The Point CDC, Kelly Street Garden and Build On celebrated the diversity of cultural roots found in the Bronx at Barreto Point Park! Here are some of our…
Moncho Alvarado joined our team as our Operations Associate in April 2019. Get to know more about them! In what neighborhood do you live? Brooklyn How did you first become connected to The LP, or hear about The LP? The…
In this 2019 Creative Conversation, Rasu Jilani (Director of Recruiting and Community Engagement at New Inc., LP Board Member, and 2015 LP Artist-in-Residence) and Denae Hannah (Founder of Debt-Free Denae and 2014 LP Create Change Fellow) discuss the idea of…
Mira Soni joined our team as our Programs Intern in February 2019. Get to know more about her! In what neighborhood do you live? Morningside Heights How did you first become connected to The LP, or hear about The LP?…
On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of The LP’s 2009 Create Change cohort’s completion of their residency, The LP is releasing a series of conversations to check-in with each artist to see what they have been up to and…
This summer, Executive Director Kemi Ilesanmi interviewed Bridget Bartolini (CC Fellow ‘13, Commissioned Artist ‘14) and Cynthia Tobar (CC Fellow ‘16) about their respective ventures into the field of oral history. During their engaging conversation, Bridget and Cynthia discussed the…