Interested in being one of our 2024-2025 Franklin Furnace FUND for Performance Art Recipients? For this info session, we were joined by multidisciplinary artist, Franklin FUND Recipient and 2023-24 FUND panelist Amy Khoshbin, Franklin Furnace Ken Dewey Director Harley Spiller and Program Manager Xinan Helen Ran.
The Info Session provided details about new funding opportunities, how to apply for a Franklin Furnace FUND support, and helpful tips on grant-writing and answers to questions regarding different sections of our guidelines.
Video documentation of the Feb 28 (7-8pm ET) event of the Info Session. Recorded on Zoom, edited by Xinan Ran.
About our guest
Amy Khoshbin is an Iranian-American Brooklyn-based artist, activist, and educator. Her practice, as an artist and pedagogue, builds bridges between disparate communities to counteract fear with a collective sense of empowered radical acceptance. She pushes the formal and conceptual boundaries of artmaking to foster progressive social change through performance, social practice, video, rap music, installation, tattooing, teaching and writing. She has shown at venues such as The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Times Square Arts, Artpace, The High Line, Socrates Sculpture Park, VOLTA Art Fair, Leila Heller Gallery, Arsenal Contemporary, National Sawdust, BRIC Arts, and festivals such as River to River and South by Southwest. She has received residencies at spaces such as The Watermill Center, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Project for Empty Space, Anderson Ranch, and Banff Centre for the Arts. She has received a NYFA Grant, Franklin Furnace Fund and a Rema Hort Mann Grant. Khoshbin received an MFA from New York University in Tisch School of the Arts and a BA in Film and Media Studies at University of Texas at Austin. She has collaborated with Laurie Anderson, Karen Finley, House of Trees, Tina Barney, and poet Anne Carson among others.
