2015 SOAPBOX Benefit

SOAPBOX is The Laundromat Project's elegant and art-filled spring benefit, featuring unique art experiences, delicious drinks and hors d'oeuvres, a live DJ, and an exclusive special edition print. Tickets begin at $150.

We also invite you to consider being a part of the host committee. (All hosts will be listed in the program book. We will contact you to follow up about your host committee membership.)

SOAPBOX 2015

Honorary Chairs

Jason Moran and Alicia Hall Moran

Honorees

Glenn Ligon is an NYC-based artist whose art examines race, language, desire, sexuality, and identity. A mid-career retrospective of his work opened at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 2011. He is included in this year’s Venice Biennale, and his painting Black Like Me #2 is on view in the Obamas’ personal quarters in the White House. (Photo by Paul Mpagi Sepuya)

Shani Peters is a multi-disciplinary, Harlem-based artist whose work explores community building, activism histories, and reinterpreted notions of media. She is currently enjoying a one-person show at the University of Michigan. Shani was a 2013 artist-in-residence in Harlem and has been a teaching artist with The LP since 2010. (Photo by Sonia Louise Davis)

Featured Print Artist

Xaviera Simmons is an artist whose work spans across disciplines, including photography, performance, video, sound, sculpture and installation. She has exhibited or performed at institutions including The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, MoMA, MoMA PS1, The Sculpture Center, and The Studio Museum In Harlem.

We are reaching out to friends and supporters, near and far, who really care about our work. With your help, SOAPBOX will be a huge success, helping sustain and nourish our rich and growing suite of programs—from free arts workshops to community-based artist residencies—that ignite creativity in everyday community spaces, and serve over 6,000 New Yorkers each year.

Interested in sponsorship or volunteering at SOAPBOX? Please email us at: specialevent@laundromatproject.org