The Laundromat Project fundraising for People Powered Art 2014

Creativity is a powerful force for social transformation.

Arts and culture change how we see and live in the world, by challenging us to think in new ways and opening up new possibilities of connection with our neighbors. 

The Laundromat Project brings art, artists, and art engagements to the places where our neighbors already gather, such as laundromats and other community spaces. The LP works with socially minded artists, but also believes in the creative potential of everyday people, and aims to ignite and amplify the astounding creativity that’s already present in our communities.

The LP supports artists who want to better leverage their creative practice to be agents for change in their own neighborhoods through Create Change programs: a public artist residency, which specifically supports artists of color developing socially engaged projects in their own neighborhood laundromats; a fellowship program; and a brand-new commissions program supporting public art projects by Create Change alumni across all five boroughs.

Check out some photos of the work The LP does here.

Click here to watch a video featuring beluvid ola-jendai, 2014 Artist-in-Residence in Harlem, and find out how working with The LP has enhanced his practice.

Join us!

The People-Powered $10K Challenge is an invitation to join a people-powered movement for art, creativity, imagination, delight, and change in our communities!

By supporting The People Powered $10K Challenge, you’ll be making a small investment with a BIG impact. Your donation of $10 or more helps us raise $10,000 for People Powered Art in New York City!

What can $10,000 do?

$10K = Commissions one of our Fellowship alumni artists to develop public art project in a community space across NYC

$10K = A neighborhood-based artist residency for an entire season

$10K = An after-school program centered around printmaking and social movements

$10K = A season of professional development workshops for our artist Fellows

$10K = One summer of free art workshops across three neighborhoods

Become a part of The LP family! Together, we can easily and collectively raise $10,000 over just 10 days through $10 gifts... That’s pretty small change for some BIG impact.

By investing in The LP, you'll be supporting a vision for artistic production that is valued, recognized, and supported as an integrated part of daily community life, in all neighborhoods.

THANK YOU!!