About this project
NYC faces the worst homeless situation since the Great Depression. Every night, 35,475 are homeless in NYC. 16,000 children and 9000 families live in shelters.
Clothing the Line is dedicated to raising awareness, generating dialogue, and sparking policy change to end homelessness. A non-profit collaboration between homeless organizations, arts organizations, the city, and people like you will help reduce the suffering of thousands.
How it works:
The Installation
A studio apartment will be installed in a public park. Over a period of four weeks, the public will purchase donated clothing for $1 each at partnering museums, galleries, theaters, and other participating locations. Each article of clothing will be hung on a frame surrounding the apartment creating 20 foot tall by 20 foot wide walls made from 35,475 clothes. One article of clothing for each homeless person in New York City which, depending of the final condition, will be donated to the homeless after the project is complete.
Homeless Stories
We will interview homeless persons in New York City and collect stories of how they became homeless. Signs will be attached to various articles of clothing on the structure reading, “Hear My Story” with a phone number below. Visitors will be able to call this number from their cell phone and hear a recording of how this person became homeless.
The Performances
Once the clothing walls are complete, free performances begin inside the apartment. Collaborating theatre companies, artists, and musicians will perform pieces inspired from the homeless interviews. For example, The Windmill Factory will create eleven 3 minute scenes staged inside the ‘home’ portraying stories of how different people became homeless. One by one visitors will push through the clothes and enter the apartment. Alone with the performer, enclosed by the ghosts of homeless people under the NYC sky, each person will experience one scene. If you come with 5 friends you will see 5 different scenes encouraging dialogue about the performance and the issue.
Goal numbers:
- 1 million viewers
- 35,475 people to build the clothing walls
- 35,475 clothes donated to the homeless
- $100,000 raised for homeless organizations
- 85 homeless persons working on the project
- Hundreds of free performances
Phase 1 = Kickstarter Funds:
- Develop partnerships with homeless organizations, arts organizations, and the city.
- Interview homeless persons, collecting inspiration material for collaborating artists.
- Develop campaign
- Develop the website
- Design the structure
- Workshop the performance
- Production costs
How you can help:
- Pledge for Fun Prizes: Pledge whatever amount you can and get great prizes!
- Donate: Make a tax deductible donation at https://www.fracturedatlas.org/site/contribute/donate/1484. You’ll still receive the pledge prizes and get the write-off!
- Facebook: Join Clothing the Line and invite your friends: The more friends = the more effective the project. http://www.facebook.com/group.php...
How to follow our project:
www.clothingtheline.com
If you have any connections you think would be interesting for the project please let us know.
FAQ
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20
Backers
$634
pledged of $19,750 goal
Funding Canceled
Funding for this project was canceled by the project creator on January 19, 2010.
Pledge $3 or more
An article of clothing on the sculpture + the infamy of your name on the website.
Pledge $25 or more
A groovy Clothing the Line button and a Windmill Factory sticker. Plus article of clothing on the sculpture and the infamy of your name on the website.
Pledge $50 or more
A Brazilian Love song sung to whomever you choose via cell phone or Skype from The Windmill Factory! Plus clothing on sculpture & name on website. CTL button and WF sticker.
Pledge $100 or more
A Clothing the Line T-shirt and your name on the website as a special donor. Plus clothing on sculpture, CTL button, and WF sticker.
Pledge $250 or more
A 8 X 10 professional photographic print of the project signed by the artist + an invitation to the opening night. Plus clothing on sculpture, special donor on website, CTL button, and WF sticker.
Pledge $500 or more
A personalized song written and performed for you by Windmill Factory resident singer songwriter Michael Mathis. Plus clothing on sculpture, name on website as special donor, CTL button, T-shirt, and WF sticker, and a 8 X 10 signed print of the project, and an invitation to the opening night.
Pledge $500 or more
A two night stay on our daybed at The Windmill Factory Loft, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York. Fun guaranteed for you or your in town guest! Plus clothing on sculpture, name on website as special donor, CTL button, T-shirt, and WF sticker, and a 8 X 10 signed print of the project, and an invitation to the opening night.
Pledge $1,000 or more
2 Tickets and hang out with the cast of Fuerzabruta including optional cameo in the show (www.fuerzabrutanyc.com.) Plus one of a kind handmade TINAP (scarf/hat) designed by The Windmill Factory that everyone will be wearing next season. Plus clothing on sculpture, name on website as special donor, CTL button, T-shirt, and WF sticker, and a 8 X 10 signed print of the project, and an invitation to the opening night.
Pledge $1,500 or more
Have your birthday at The Windmill Factory Loft! Plus clothing on sculpture, name on website as special donor, CTL button, T-shirt, and WF sticker, and a 8 X 10 signed print of the project, and an invitation to the opening night, 2 Tickets and hang out with the cast of Fuerzabruta including optional cameo in the show (www.fuerzabrutanyc.com.) Plus one of a kind handmade TINAP (scarf/hat) designed by The Windmill Factory that everyone will be wearing next season.
Pledge $2,500 or more
A private performance of The Windmill Factory CTL creation. Plus clothing on sculpture, name on website as special donor, CTL button, T-shirt, and WF sticker, and a 8 X 10 signed print of the project, and an invitation to the opening night, 2 Tickets to Fuerzabruta Experience (www.fuerzabrutanyc.com), and, a TINAP (scarf/hat).
Pledge $5,000 or more
A place to stay in the heart of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for the 2016 Summer Olympics with Windmill Factory Producer Ana Luiza Constantino’s family. If you chose this amount, we guarantee our eternal gratitude. We will actually love you. For now... clothing on sculpture, name on website as special donor, CTL button, T-shirt, and WF sticker, and a 8 X 10 signed print of the project, and an invitation to the opening night, 2 Tickets to Fuerzabruta Experience (www.fuerzabrutanyc.com), and, a TINAP (scarf/hat).
Project By
Connected as Jon Morris (1820 friends)
The Windmill Factory is a collective of artists, designers, architects, performers, producers with over 30 years experience and a client list that includes Microsoft, Apple, 2008 Olympics, Cirque Du Soleil, Carnegie Hall, Radio City, The Oscars, Broadway, Fuerzabruta, Madonna, David Letterman, De La Guarda, Pilobolus, The Metropolitan Opera joining in social entrepreneurship in 2009 to create an art factory.
After creating and performing with some of the largest theatre companies in the world (Cirque du Soleil, Fuerzabruta, Theatre de la Jeune Lune) artist Jon Morris wanted to move beyond theatre walls to touch a wider and diverse demographic--The Windmill Factory. An art factory dedicated to presenting work within public space that questions how we view our community, landscape, and existence.
Awards/Fellowships include; Artist Residency at Robert Wilson’s Watermill Center, Creation Residency at La MaMa ETC, Tennessee Williams Fellow(The University of the South), NCAA Post Graduate Scholar, 1999 Watson Fellowship “Athletics to Acting in Movement Theatre”(London, Paris, Sydney, India, Bali, Italy).
