Pelenakeke Brown's art practice explores the body as an archive, examining Indigenous identity’s relationship to disabled identity and crip concepts of time. Pelenakeke was a Laundromat Project Create Change Fellow in 2018, and in the summer of 2019 was the…
Emma Colón joined our team as Media & Storytelling Manager in September 2019. Get to know more about her! In what neighborhood do you live? Flatbush-Ditmas Park How did you first become connected to The LP, or hear about The…
Jazy Cintron joined our team as Kelly Street Associate in July 2019. Get to know more about her! In what neighborhood do you live? Allerton How did you first become connected to The LP, or hear about The LP? My…
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…
Working at either The LP's Harlem office or our Kelly Street location, the 2019 summer interns not only gain valuable arts and nonprofit management skills, but play an integral role in our mission to advance artists and neighbors as change…
Our LP family is growing! Get to know Ashima Aggarwal, who recently joined The Laundromat Project’s Board of Directors: As a supporter of the arts, why does art matter? Art opens so many doors. It opens viewers up to 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…
Giovannah Philippeaux, Development & Communications Intern (CUNY Cultural Corps), had the unique pleasure of getting to know Bronx-artist and LP neighbor Sajata Epps at her live/work studio. Over a home-cooked meal and a pot of traditional rice tea, Giovannah and…
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…
We are excited to announce the participants in our 2019 Create Change program, designed to engage, educate, and advance artists. These diverse, creative practitioners are change agents embedded within our New York City neighborhoods. Building on learnings drawn from our…
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…
At The LP, we're building a resilient institution for artists and communities of color, those who understand that creativity can change the world—and, most importantly, their local communities—for the better. Over a two year period, we engaged in an extensive…