On December 1, 1995, Dan Perjovschi and friends ERASED HIS SHOW on the Day Without Art, an annual event proposed by Visual AIDS to acknowledge the devastation of the AIDS crisis.

Open Call for submissions: Dry Run: A Night of Student Performance Art. On Thursday, November 9th, 2023 from 6:00pm – 8:30pm in Pratt Institute’s Student Union, Dry Run is co-presented by Franklin Furnace and PerformVu.

An in-person interactive workshop led by Pratt Institute Archivist Cristina Fontánez Rodríguez on finding meaning in the archive. Working with and around objects highlighted through the current Live at the Library exhibition Dragging the Archive, participants are invited to look beyond the content of an archive in order to focus on its structure, context, and significance.

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.