Video documentation of the February 28, 2022 Information Session to apply for the FF Fund.
Learn what constitutes a well-prepared grant application and listen to questions about Franklin Furnace Fund programs from our staff. The session was followed with a Q&A.
For this info session, we were joined by multidisciplinary artist, Franklin Fund Recipients and panelist IV Castellanos and panelist Marlène Ramírez-Cancio. IV Castellanos and Marlène Ramírez-Cancio spoke about how to apply for a Franklin Furnace Fund, provided helpful tips on grant-writing and answered questions regarding different sections of our guidelines.
About the Panelists
IV Castellanos
IV Castellanos is a gender deficient Trans* Queer mx Latinx POC. One’s work bridge’s abstract performance art, sculpture and group task based vignettes. The anchor is the futility of labor and generating an action without a ‘purpose’ or with no inherent value; questioning value structures. One is the co-steward/founder of Para\\el Performance Space in Brooklyn, NY. Has performed at the Queens Museum, Panoply Performance Lab, Dixon Place, Gibney, Judson, is a Franklin Furnace Recipient 2019 and has been on the Chez Bushwick, Culture Push, Judson, BIPAF, and the Artists of Color Council selection panels.
IG: @iv_castellanos
Marlène Ramírez-Cancio
Marlène Ramírez-Cancio is a Puerto Rican cultural worker, artist, and educator based in Brooklyn. She is the Executive Director of EMERGENYC, an incubator and network for emerging artists-activists in New York City and beyond, focused on developing the voice and artistic expression of people of color, women, and LGBTQAI+ folks. She is also co-founding director of Fulana, a Latina satire collective, and Director of Implementation of the Latinx Arts Consortium of New York, a network of arts organizations dedicated to knowledge exchange, resource sharing, and collective action. Through Mujer Que Pregunta, she works as a Process Doula for artists, scholars, and cultural workers to shape their ideas and clarify their purpose. Marlène serves on the Board of Directors of the National Performance Network and the Board of Advisors of the Center for Artistic Activism. In 2018, she curated “Cuerpxs Radicales: Radical Bodies in Performance,” a live art series presented at the Brooklyn Museum in conjunction with the Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960–1985 exhibition.
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IG: @mujerquepregunta
IG: @emergenyc_art
Arantxa Araujo
Her work is essentially multidisciplinary, feminist, and rooted in bio-behavioral research and technology. Explorations of gender constructions, performativity and identity, and the politics of migration are seen and experienced in her installations, which often include new media, video, sound, photography, mapping, light, and performance. Her work has been shown in the Brooklyn Museum, at the Radical Women Latin American Art Exhibit, Chashama Space to Present, Grace Exhibition Space, Glasshouse Gallery, The Queens Museum, Panoply Lab, Art in Odd Places in NYC; RAW during Miami Art Week; the Semel and Huret & Spector Gallery in Boston, and the SPACE Gallery and Bunker Projects in Pittsburgh; in Mexico, at El Monumento a la Revolución and La Explanada del MUAC, during the Hemispheric Institute’s Encuentro and El Vicio; also participated in the Nuit Blanche Festival in Saskatoon, Canada.
Araujo is a Franklin Furnace Fund for performance art award recipient (2020/1019), BAC grantee (2020), an LMCC (2019) grantee and has received support through numerous residencies and fellowships including Leslie-Lohman Museum Artist Fellowship (2019-2020), Creative Capital taller (2018), ITP Camp (2018, 2019) and EMERGENYC (2017). Araujo was awarded a full scholarship from Mexican Government Institution CONACYT (2012). She holds an MA in Motor Learning and Control from Teachers College, Columbia University and a BA in Theater Studies from Emerson College.
IG: @ArantxaAraujo
Raquel Du Toit
MFA recipient at Pratt Institute, Raquel Du Toit is a Mexican American artist who works within multiple disciplines exhibiting work in London, New York and Mexico. She was a fellow at the Vermont Studio Center and went to Pacific Lutheran University for Photography . Before moving to New York, she collaborated with other artists in London and Seattle to create a non-profit named “What is Art” in which performance, sound, new media art forms were challenged, experienced and expanded in new ways. Raquel continues to create interactive sculptures, performances, video and installations in order to remove the white walls of the galleries within her work. She is currently a recipient of the NYFA Fellowship for Emerging Leaders in the Arts and continues to curate, create, and cultivate work nationally and internationally. She is the co founder of Luxury Blight, a curatorial, production company that creates spaces in which artist can project video, create sound and incorporate performance art.
