Events
Out Of Bounds - 10/17/19 Panel - On the Legacy of New Museum Founding Director Marcia Tucker
Art World Conference - 4/26/2019 Panel – Audience vs. Community: What are you building?
University of Maine Orono – 4/16/2019 Speaker – Intermedia MFA Tuesdays @ IMRC Lecture Series
Contested City Panel @ CUNY Grad Center – 4/3/2019 Panel – Contested City: Art, Planning and Community Power
Narrative Symposium at Columbia University – 2/27/2019 Moderator – Narrating community power (Narrative in the arts)
Hauser & Wirth: BFAMFAPhD Panel – 2/1/2019 Panel – BFAMFAPhD presents Making and Being
Paper Monument Book Launch Panel – 12/3/2018 Panel – The shifting politics of contemporary art institutions
Wash'd Talk Back @ BAAD - 11/16/2018 Performance Moderator
DiverseWorks – 11/12/2018 Speaker -Diverse Discourse Lecture
Brooklyn Museum: Black Institutions – 11/10/2018 Panel – Independent Art and Social Spaces
Museum of the City of NY - 3/27/2018
Panel - State of the (Public) Art
Brooklyn Conference - 10/20/2017
Panel - Everyday Creativity
New School Symposium - 10/6/2017
Panel - What's At Stake?: Community & Visual Culture
Ideas City, New Museum - 9/16/2017
Panel - With Karen Wong & Alexandra Bell
The Metropolitan Museum of Art - 4/7/2017
Honoree - MADI Annual Celebration of Women
Smith College Museum Alumni Symposium - 10/29/2016
Keynote Speaker
Denver Imagine2020 - 7/21/2016
Keynote Speaker
Creative Time Summit - 11/14/2015
Speaker & Moderator - Geography of Learning
PRess + features
New York Times - 2022
Article - At The Laundromat Project, Artists are Ambassadors of Joy & Activism
Brooklyn Magazine - 2022
Article & Podcast - Kemi Ilesanmi, Curator of People, Looks Back at 10 Years at The Laundromat Project
The LP Documents - 2021
Podcast - Radical Imagination with Piper Anderson
The LP Spin Cycle - 2021
Article - Design is a Language: Kemi Ilesanmi and Architect Nandini Bagchee in Conversation
Artsy - 2020
Article - The Laundromat Project’s Kemi Ilesanmi Wants to Make Art a Necessity
BRIC TV - 2017
Video - BK Stories: The Laundromat Project
Pew Center for Art & Heritage - 2016
Video - Questions of Practice
Working with People -2015
Video - Sustainability
New York Times - 2014
Article - De Blasio Brings Back a Mayoral Tradition
WRITINGS
The LP Spin Cycle - 2021
The LP Spin Cycle - 2020
Black Abundance: Mutual Aid and Community Support, Then and Now
What Should Art Institutions Do Now? - 2018 Edited by Paper Monument
Activating Democracy - 2016
Edited by Sheryl Oring
Essay - Turning Strangers into Neighbors