Bed-Stuy's Laundromat Project Announces New Residency Cohorts

BED-STUY, BROOKLYN — Memory, change, identity and community are some of the themes the 2023 Create Change artists-in-residence at Bed-Stuy's The Laundromat Project will focus their art on.

The Laundromat Project, a community arts organization that focuses on supporting artists of color across the five boroughs, will team up with 21 artists for Create Change Artist Development Program. Each member will receive between $1,000 to $25,000 to help the development of their "participatory and community-attuned creative projects," according to an announcement.

“This year’s cohort of Create Change Artists-in-Residence and Fellows have a remarkable depth to the type of work they are doing in communities across New York City and in our anchor neighborhood of Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn,” said Ayesha Williams, Executive Director of The Laundromat Project. “They remind us that the creativity that sustains communities, are built in connection to our histories, our cultures, and to each other, and that it is incredibly important for our art to reflect and capture that."

Projects included in this year's Create Change Artists-in-Residence include photography and oral history, a project on Black Utopia and a treasure hunt and free course on history and gentrification in Bed-Stuy.

Since 2005, the Black-rooted community-based arts organization has invested over $1 million in over 200 artists, nearly 90 public art projects and a creative community hub on Fulton Street near Kingston Avenue.

The storefront space opened last summer after the group signed a 10-year lease at 1476 Fulton St.

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