 The Laundromat Project is access, development, and cultural sensitivity. Art, love, people. A change of pace. Creative, supportive, and radical. The Laundromat Project is everyday potlucks and cultivation. Creatives, community partners. Love, inspiration, and respect. I'm the 2014 Create Change Artist Investing for Harlem with the Laundromat Project. It's been an incredible experience. The way that I was introduced to the Laundromat Project was kind of twofold. One as an artist and a teaching artist, and also one as a consultant, having had arts and education experience for the last couple of years. My uncle's a writer, his name is Walter Dean Myers, and every time I spoke to him, particularly because I was living in Harlem now, he would share with me all these wondrous stories, stories that you wouldn't get in a history book, and I realized these are kind of stories that live with people. And with people moving out of Harlem, it's like, well, how do we capture some of these stories of generations deep, and have them live on in a way that people can still access. As we all know, there are opportunities all over New York City for artists, but it really felt good to be able to do what I do in my neighborhood and to kind of use that as a platform to meet my neighbors and to really get to know the people around me. And this project, doing the residency, really kind of brought me out into the public. Part of the reason why I want to give back to the LPs, because this opportunity came from me at an incredible time. This has been an opportunity where I can do work that's tied to what my passion is, tied to my self-expression, and also it's tied to community in a way that's meaningful as far as activism and connecting art, that I couldn't always say about the work that I did. I want the laundromat project to be around for a while. I want them to be able to continue to do the work that they're doing. I want that work to grow, and I want more people to be exposed to the opportunities that they provide. Ten years, I see the LP everywhere. Ideally, it would be awesome if the LP could be in every laundromat in the city. They can have artists everywhere. Please donate $10 or more to help us raise over $10,000 in just 10 days. $10,000 allows the LP to fund a people-powered art project like Harlem on My Mind too. Tell the socially-minded artists in the neighborhood laundromat in 2015. I'm giving ten. Will you?