The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

The Laundromat Project

Location
Brooklyn, NY
Grant Cycle
Fall 2019
Amount
$100,000
Type of Grant
Multi-year Program Support
Website
laundromatproject.org ↗

The Laundromat Project (The LP) was incorporated in 2005 to make art accessible and relevant in New York City neighborhoods where people of color reside. The LP advances artists and neighbors as change agents in their own communities. They envision a world in which artists and neighbors in communities of color work together to unleash the power of creativity to transform lives. The LP makes sustained investments in growing a community of multiracial, multigenerational, and multidisciplinary artists and neighbors committed to societal change by supporting their artmaking, community building, and leadership development. Their programming has evolved to take place in community gardens, public plazas, local cultural organizations, and other places where people gather.


Invited by 2017 Create Change Artist-in-Residence Lizania Cruz as part of her “We the News” project, neighbors map their stories during the annual TAMA Festival in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. Courtesy The Laundromat Project.
Community members lay down a collectively assembled bandana quilt activated by Create Change Artists-in-Residence The Black School. Field Day Harlem, 2017. Photo by Neha Gautam, courtesy The Laundromat Project
Community members gather at the unveiling of the “Mabuhay” mural, designed and installed by Artists-in-Residence Xenia Diente and Jaclyn Reyes in partnership with local Filipino small business, Amazing Grace restaurant. Photo credit: Little Manila Queens Bayanihan Arts, courtesy The Laundromat Project.
Create Change Artists-in-Residence Xenia Diente, Jaclyn Reyes, and neighbors pose at the unveiling of a mural they created in Little Manila, Queens, aka Woodside, in partnership with local Filipino small business, Amazing Grace restaurant. Photo credit: Little Manila Queens Bayanihan Arts, courtesy The Laundromat Project.

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