This event is dedicated to anyone who’s considered the idea of public art as an agent for social change. Noting Robin Kelley’s seminal text Freedom Dreams as a source for inspiration, co-founder of the Laundromat Project, Risë Wilson asserts that self-determination and social transformation exist within creative exploration.
Using this blueprint, The Laundromat Project will host its closing reception for its first program, Create Change, Friday, November 10. Developed to “provide genuine opportunities for emerging artists of color and their neighbors to connect,” Create Change commissions artists of color to create site-specific installations at their local laundries. The first year’s artists, media, and locations are:
• Miriam Neptune, documentary video, Bed-Stuy/Crown Heights
• Rudy Shepherd, drawing and sculpture, Harlem
• Shinique Smith, book arts and fabric, Clinton Hill
