What happens when three Queer Latina/x performance art luminaries gather for an evening of laughter, conversation and reflections. Considering humor as a strategy for survival in navigating race, gender, immigration through the generations and today, what does it mean to be Latina/x right now?

Arantxa Araujo, Tam Gryn and Andrea Lerdo explored ways to codify new spaces such as the digital Metaverse with its simulated environments, Web3, and others. FF seeks to support artists in the process to formalize the knowledge to reach large audiences, build communities, and create spaces for rich user interactions with the latest in tech. We will examine opportunities, challenges and real life examples of performance collectives experimenting with Web3 from the process of building communities to potentially achieving perpetual royalties.

Jeanette Andrews as she spoke on the choose-your-own adventure companion book to her GPS-based, user-activated audio AR work “Invisible Museums of the Unseen.” Jeanette presented a short reading of the book, spoke on the creation and execution of both iterations of the piece including the research, writing, app testing and experience design. She also presented a piece from her performance repertoire to round out the evening.

Art and war are mutually exclusive concepts: creation and destruction, while the concept of destruction is not a stranger in modern art. War deteriorates life, becoming part of it.

A free public panel discussion about artists’ books in relation to the new exhibition 46: Artists’ Books from Franklin Furnace Archive, 1976-2022. This panel brought together three artists whose work is featured in the exhibition: Elly Clarke, George Ferrandi, and Xinan (Helen) Ran, to share their experiences in self-publishing books and cross-disciplinary practice, and discuss the role of artists' books in the creation of dialogues and engagement.

The virtual opening of the exhibition 46: Artists’ Books from Franklin Furnace Archive, 1976-2022 when co-curators Fang-Yu Liu and Nicole Rosengurt provided a guided tour of the exhibition at Pratt Library in Brooklyn and the companion virtual exhibition online. The curators shared insights on how they selected these books, explored thematic threads connecting the works, discussed the variety of forms featured in the exhibition, and engaged in Q&A with the audience.

Cracked Eggs is the pilot collaboration between interdisciplinary artist, Linda Sibio, and San Bernardino County’s Department of Behavioral Health (SBC-DBH.) Linda’s lived experience with schizophrenia has led her to develop creative exercises that channel mental differences into creative expression. She first designed the Cracked Eggs as an arts workshop series in 2002.

Join Korea Art Forum on Saturday, March 26, 2022 from 7PM - 8PM to kick off the 2022 Shared Dialogue, Shared Space spring program. Share Dialogue, Shared Space (SDSS) is a series of one-day interactive art initiatives presented for free in NYC Parks connecting immigrant communities and underserved ethnic enclaves to visual arts and culture through language access and participatory art activities. Meet artists participating in the spring 2022 Shared Dialogue, Shared Space program, preview their works, and learn about the varied processes behind creating public art works.

February 28, 2022, 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.

Join us for a special movie screening of new and early works by Marja Samsom, followed by an interview between the artist and Laura Brown. We look forward to see you there!