Carnegie Mellon Guest Lecturer Inspires Social Change Through Art at Laundromats
Artist and social entrepreneur Risë Wilson will discuss her Laundromat Project during a lecture at 4:30 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 24 in the Kresge Recital Hall in the College of Fine Arts at Carnegie Mellon University. Her lecture, titled “Innovations in Funding and Access to the Arts,” is part of Carnegie Mellon’s Institute for Social Innovation lecture series, sponsored by the Grable Foundation.
Wilson is one of four 2007-2008 special guests of the Institute for Social Innovation. The institute aims to help nonprofits become financially secure, help for-profits affect social change through their business models and solve social problems through education, research, and local and global partnerships.
