With generous support from the Andy Warhol Foundation ($75,000) and the Lambent Foundation ($50,000) The LP will increase the number of artists we can invite to participate in our annual Create Change program. Every year The LP invites artists of color to mount site-specific projects at their local laundromats as a Create Change Public Artist in Residence. In 2011 The LP will accept more artists into the program, increase their production budget and stipend, and add a commissioning opportunity for program alumni. Additionally, Create Change will expand to include professional development opportunities for artists from all backgrounds and stages of their career interested in developing or deepening a public art practice. 
Create Change Professional Development Fellows are able to participate in monthly discussions and workshops designed to help artists deepen their approach to having a socially-engaged creative practice. The benefits of participation include: 
-access to information and resources from both the arts and social justice sectors;
-opportunity to form a peer network with artists;
-a peer learning process for work-shopping ideas
Create Change Public Artists in Residence not only participate in the program’s professional development component, but also are resourced to apply this learning through a site-specific project in their local laundromat. Each public artist in residence is charged with placing art-making in the context of everyday living.
RSVP To An Info Session: http://laundromatproject.eventbrite.com/