Upcoming + archived, in-personal and online events (LOFT) of Franklin Furnace
[April 10, 2026] Join us for a once-in-50-years celebration honoring Franklin Furnace’s Golden Anniversary.
[February 20, 2026. 6:00pm EST] Ice(age), a 35-minute video remediation of ICE depredations, garnered from entrenched reporters witnessing it live.
February 4, 2026, 7-8pm EST - Learn what constitutes a well-prepared grant application and ask questions about Franklin Furnace FUND programs from our staff. The session was followed by a Q&A.
[January 27, 2026. 6:00pm EST] A public lecture on the history of the American reception and impact of one of the most radical Parisian late avant-gardes: the Lettrist movement.
[January 26, 2026. 6:00pm EST streamed live from Center for Book Arts, New York]
[December 11, 2025. 4:00-7:00pm CST] Inspired by Bettina’s cycles of making, Franklin Furnace is invited to present an activation within the exhibition space on December 11, 2025.
[December 4, 2025] The inaugural Archival Thinking: Artist Archive Symposium was jointly organized by Asian Cultural Council (ACC) and Cai Foundation. It was a full-day event curated by Paul Holdengräber and featured two keynote speeches and three panel discussions.
November 13, 2025, 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. ET at Franklin Furnace's new location in LIC. We celebrated this year's 12 grant recipients from three categories: FUND, XENO Prize, and Jacki Apple Award.
[October 25, 2025. 1:00pm EST (7:00 pm CEST) streamed live from Munich, Germany] “Return to the Story That Holds You” situates performance as a site of ancestral remembrance and embodied research. Drawing on South Asian heritage and Indigenous epistemologies, the work reactivates practices of communal gathering in which ritual, storytelling, and care functioned as modes of survival and connection.
[Oct 2025—April 11, 2026] A retrospective gallery show anticipating its 50th anniversary in 2026. Included in the exhibition are works by Martha Wilson, Jenny Holzer, Tehching Hsieh, Dread Scott, and more.