2016 create change info session
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Create Change Fellowship &Create Change Residency
Info Session
We bring art, artists, and arts programming into laundromats and other everyday spaces, thus amplifying the creativity that already exists within communities to build community networks, solve problems, and enhance our sense of ownership in the places where we live, work, and grow.
Who We Are
About Create Change
Create Change recognizes that artists and the roles they play within their own communities ultimately improve the holistic quality of life in New York City’s diverse communities, particularly (though not exclusively) in those of color and modest income. Over the long-term, we intend to foster and support artist-leaders who are empowered by, committed to, and fully conversant in community-attuned art practices.
There are three arms to Create Change: our Fellowship, Residency, and Commissions programs:
1. Residency2. Fellowship3. Commissions
• $5000 in honoraria and up to $1500 in production funds to produce and present a laundromat-based and/or other community space(s) public art project over 6-months in your own neighborhood (Bed-Stuy, Harlem, or Hunts Point/Longwood).
• Opportunity to develop and incubate a community-based project that engages others in the development of the project.
• Access to an incredible range of information designed to deepen and expand one’s socially-engaged creative practice.
• Access to a rich network of local and national peers, activists, arts professionals, curators, funders, and change agents including nearly 95 Create Change Alumni.
• Formation of a strong long-lasting peer network where one can share their creative vision, strategies for change, and ideas.
• As alumni, eligibility to receive grants from The Laundromat Project for future community-based projects.
• Preference for ongoing professional opportunities, such as speaking engagements, press coverage, commissions.
Benefits of being a Create Change Resident, include…
Who Should Apply to the Residency?
This program is ideal for creatives who:
• Are not just interested in art for art’s sake, but who intend for their creative practice to bring about social justice, cultural equity, cooperation, or cultural preservation.
• Are already creating positive local impact with a demonstrated socially engaged artistic practice.
• Want to develop their individual creative practices by incorporating tools for social engagement.
• Want to build community among artists working to create impact with their creative practice.
• Believe that listening first and doing second is the best strategy for developing community-based art projects
• Live in one of our anchor neighborhoods: Bed-Stuy, Harlem, or Hunts Point /Longwood.
To participate in the Residency, artists should:• Identify as a person of color• Have a demonstrated creative practice and already be making socially-engaged art• Have demonstrated their ability to connect their artistic practice to local community topics by having already completed at least one community-based project.• Live in or be deeply invested one of The LP’s anchor neighborhoods: Bedford-Stuyvesant, Harlem and Hunts Point• Be at least 21 years of age.• Not be currently enrolled in any degree-bearing program.• Can commit the time and attention to developing and presenting their residency project, participating in the workshops, potluck dinners, and Field Day. Residents should expect to spend at least 300 hours over 6 months working on their project.
Selection Criteria for ResidencyStrong Create Change Residents have:
• Demonstrated record of artistic excellence in their work samples and resume.
• Familiarity or interest in local issues impacting their neighborhoods.
• Willingness to take risks and step out of comfort zones.
• Interest/ability to actively engage non-artists in all aspects of your creative process.
• Problem-solving skills, resourcefulness, and flexibility.
• Capacity for critical analysis.
• Deep respect for their neighbors, and the ability to collaborate with a broad public.
• Demonstrated ability to carry out a project of this scale.
Benefits of being a Create Change Fellow, include…
• Access to an incredible range of information designed to deepen and expand one’s socially-engaged creative practice.
• Access to a rich network of local and national peers, activists, arts professionals, curators, funders, and change agents.
• Formation of a strong long-lasting peer network where one can share their creative vision, strategies for change, and ideas.
• Access to a peer network of over 50 Create Change alumni living and working in New York’s five boroughs and nearby cities like Jersey City, Yonkers and Philadelphia.
• As alumni, eligibility to receive grants from The Laundromat Project for future community-based projects and become a Create Change Commission artist, including honoraria and production support to complete a community-based project.
• Preference for ongoing professional opportunities, such as speaking engagements, press coverage, commissions.
Who Should Apply to the Fellowship?
This program is ideal for creatives who:
• Are already creating positive local impact with their artistic practice, or interested in doing so.
• Want to develop their individual artistic practices by incorporating tools for social engagement.
• Can commit the time and attention to participating in the program’s workshops, project planning meetings, potluck dinners, and Field Day. Fellows should expect to spend at least 200 hours over 6 months participating in the program.
• Are open to building knowledge about The LP’s anchor neighborhoods - Bed-Stuy, Harlem, and Hunts Point / Longwood.
• Want to build community among artists working to create impact with their creative practice.
To Participate in the Fellowship, Artists Should:
• Have a demonstrated creative practice.
• Be interested in (or already) making socially-engaged art.
• Live close enough to New York City to attend all required program activities.
• Be at least 21 years of age.
• Be able to attend all program activities listed in this document.
• Be able to spend 50 hours attending Fellowship workshops and completing related assignments.
• Be able to spend at least 150 hours over 6 months working independently and with other Create Change artists on group Field Day and related projects.
• Demonstrated record of artistic excellence in their work samples and resume.
• Familiarity or interest in local issues impacting their neighborhoods.
• Interest/Ability to actively engage non-artists in all aspects of their creative process.
• Capacity for critical thinking and analysis.
• Deep respect for their neighbors and desire to collaborate with a broad public.
• Ability to commit to all program activities.
Selection Criteria for Fellowship
Application Timeline
Jan 26 In-person info session
Jan 31 (11:59pm) Application due
Feb 26 Interviews for short-listed Residents
Feb 27 Interviews for short-listed Fellows
By the 1st week of March Final Notifications sent
April 23 Orientation
Please visit our website for exact Fellowship and Residency meeting dates
