The Create Change Fellowship program is for artists and cultural producers who are interested in developing and deepening a collaborative, community-based, and socially-engaged creative practice.
Donor Name: The Laundromat Project
State: New York
City: New York City
Type of Grant: Fellowship
Deadline: 08/18/2023
Size of the Grant: $1,000
Grant Duration: 6 months
Details:
The Fellowship is philosophically grounded in peer-learning around art making, power analysis, and community building. The 2024 Create Change Fellowship is a six-month incubator that gives participants the tools to develop, workshop, and generate project ideas incorporating The LP’s values and community-based methodology.
The program will consist of a series of hybrid (virtual and in-person) convenings to engage The LP’s community-based art pedagogy and practices, which center collaborative, cooperative, and co-created art projects. Their convenings are based on their three main learning blocks which lead the focus of each convening and are designed to ground participants in their LP Values.
The Create Change program is shaped around three learning blocks (graduated advancements in the training):
- Make Art
- What role does art, culture, and creativity play in making meaning, shifting narratives, and creating change in communities? Participants examine a range of art forms across the fields of social practice and creative place making that align with The LP’s approaches to cultural asset mapping and leadership development.
- Build Community
- How can art and cultural practices build trust and accountability with communities? Participants will explore approaches to fostering attunement with community rhythms, building reciprocal partnerships, and the art of meeting people where they are.
- Create Change
- Understanding the power that exists within themselves and communities, how they creatively leverage power for equity and positive societal change? Participants will explore personal and collective relationships to race, power, and privilege in order to facilitate social transformation through their art and cultural practices.
At least five workshops based on their learning blocks of making art, building community, and making change:
- Individual and group coaching sessions on cultural organizing
- Opportunity to develop a collaborative public program
- A culminating final presentation
- Access to weekly office-hours with LP program staff
- Supplemental Artists workshops.
Funding Information
- Each Fellow will receive a honorarium of $1,000 for their participation in the program and group production fund.
- The 2024 Fellowship program will run from January 2024 through June 2024.
- Up to 10 Fellows will be selected to participate in the 2024 program.
Eligibility Criteria
- Ideal candidates have some experience with developing collaborative or community-based projects. They are in alignment with LP values and have the experience or capacity to contribute to a collaborative learning environment. They value applications with diverse backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and expertise, while encouraging age diversity, multilingual folks, and practitioners without formal arts-education to apply.
- Eligible Fellow Candidates:
- Are at least 21 years of age
- Are not enrolled in a degree-seeking program
- Are committed to working collaboratively with their cohort members
- Are in alignment with The LP’s values and POC-centered principles
- Demonstrate a practice or deep interest in socially and community engaged art
- Are familiar with the cultural history and local issues impacting communities of color
- Lives in one of the five NYC boroughs.
For more information, visit TLP.