All past events from our FF LOFT
September 18th, 6pm ET. "Breaking the Code" explores the life and career of Vernon Fisher, featuring interviews with Dave Hickey and Frances Colpitt, the film, winner of "Best Historical Film" at the 2023 Dallas International Film Festival.
June 12, 2024, 6:00-8:00pm ET: Hosted in person by Printed Matter (231 11th Ave, NYC) and streamed online via the Franklin Furnace LOFT, the event marked the U.S.-American launch of An Anarchitectural Body of Work: Suzanne Harris and the Downtown New York Artists Community of the 1970s by Friederike Schaefer, the first book published about the life and work of this groundbreaking yet historically overlooked artist.
May 20, 2024, 6-7pm ET: This live presentation with Paco Cao in conversation with Pablo Helguera and the public focused on the creation and development of the Museum Beauty Contest project organized by La Galleria Nazionale di Roma between 2016 and 2017.
February 14, 2024, 7:30 - 8:30pm ET: Cracked Eggs is truly a crazy ride for the audience from Amazing Grace to the Vegetarian Wolf to the world cracked into pieces; bits of Austrich Eggs float in the air.
January 16 through April 11, 2024. The new exhibition The Ballad of Reversals: Ephemeral Images of Ephemeral Art reflects on the medium of reversal film through the image archives at Franklin Furnace.
February 28, 2024, 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.
EVENT CANCELLED: join this live discussion between J.SON, a journeyman graffiti writer, historian and author of Graffiti 365 (Abrams 2011) and Riff 170, one of the greatest graffiti style-masters of all time.
On November 16, 2023 at 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm ET in the Alumni Reading Room of Pratt Institute Library, Franklin Furnace will introduce the 2023-24 FF FUND for Performance Art recipients. This in-person event provides a unique opportunity to celebrate this year's ten fundwinners and introduce them to the wider audience.
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.
October 17th, 7:00-8:00pm: Performance artist and author Anya Liftig and Founder of PPL (Panoply Performance Laboratory), Esther Marveta Neff, will discuss the role of different states of consciousness in Liftig’s recent performance art memoir, Holler Rat. The conversation will explore the psychology of the traditional memoir form as performance art and the role of association and dissociation in written language.