January 28th, 7-8pm EST - Learn what constitutes a well-prepared grant application and ask questions about Franklin Furnace Fund programs from our staff. The session will be followed by a Q&A.
January 21, 7-8pm EST Tish Benson is a cyberjunkie and experimental visual artist. The cyberjunkie is a confession of sorts- not having a website nor any mathematical proof of a following that relies on her truth to balance out the shinanigans known as “LIFE IS A MYSTERY” she can only deem the phone cling to her palms and “vital scans” of her instagram as some sort of weird addiction made sane only because of The Quaratine Pandemic.
Join us in the Franklin Furnace Loft for our annual Fund Winner event with our 2020-2021 Fund Winners!
On October 28th, 2020 (7:00 PM EST) video documentation from Zoom performance Performance Art in Times of Covid with Rashayla Marie Brown and Shayna Dunkelman. Recorded on Zoom, edited by Yoon Cho, 2020 Fall Intern.https://vimeo.com/493838992 2018-19 Fund recipients Shayna Dunkelman and Rashayla Marie Brown in conversation with Martha Wilson, Founding Director Emerita of Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc. Shayna Dunkelman and Rashayla Marie Brown shared selections from their recent Franklin Furnace funded projects (descriptions below), spoke on their processes and performances, and discuss how the pandemic…
October 16, 2020 6:00pm - 8:00pmPublic Assistants711 Franklin Ave, Brooklyn, NY Richard Kennedy will present Free Lunch: From Drink to Tix to Dream Tix that shifts away from the focus on personal trauma to ways Richard Kennedy can use opera to facilitate community healing.Free Lunch: From Drink Tix to Dream Tix will take place outside, socially distanced, bringing the opera house into the streets of Brooklyn. With the indefinite closure of opera houses across the globe, now is the time to reclaim the…
Initiated in 1985 with the support of Jerome Foundation, Franklin Furnace has annually awarded grants to early career artists selected by peer panel review to enable them to prepare major performance art works in New York.
On August 26th, 2020 video documentation from Zoom presentation "A Celebration of the Centennial of Women's Suffrage in the USA" with Ayana Evans, Hee Ran Lee, Morgan O'Hara. Recorded on Zoom, edited by Yoon Cho, 2020 Fall Intern. A night with Ayana Evans, Hee Ran Lee, Morgan O'Hara, and Martha Wilson in commemoration of the Centennial of Women's Suffrage in the USA.
Goings On: posted week of December 22, 2006 CONTENTS:~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~1. Murray Hill, FF Alumn, in the New York Times, Dec 152. Donna Henes, 32 nd Annual Winter Solstice Celebration, South St. Seaport, Dec 213. Mitzi Humphrey, FF Alumn, at art6, Richmond, VA, thru Dec 314. Daniel Joseph Martinez, FF Alumn, represents the U.S. at the 10 th Cairo International Biennale, thru Jan 31, 20075. Harley Spiller & Micki Watanabe, FF Alumns, online at http://tinyurl.com/y8mab4~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~TOP 1. Murray Hill, FF Alumn, in the New York Times, Dec 15 Dance…
Goings On: posted week of December 13, 2006CONTENTS:~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~1. Jenny Polak, FF Future of the Present 2005 recipient, now online2. Peter Cramer, Jack Waters, FF Alumn, in Venice, Italy, now online3. Robert C. Morgan, Joseph Nechvatal, FF Alumns, at Roger Smith Lab Gallery, opening Dec 15 th, 6:30-9 pm4. Juana Valdes, FF Alumn, at Clemente Sot Velez, NY, thru Jan 21, 20075. Koosil-ja, FF Alumn, in the New York Times, Dec 86. Isabel Samaras, FF Alumn, at Copro Nason, Santa Monica, thru Jan 9, and more7. Michel Auder,…