Interested in being one of our 2025 Franklin Furnace FUND for Performance Art Recipients? For this info session, we were joined by multidisciplinary artist, Franklin FUND Recipient and 2024-25 FUND panelist Ogemdi Ude, Franklin Furnace Ken Dewey Director Harley Spiller and Program Manager Xinan Helen Ran.
The Info Session provided details about different funding opportunities, how to apply for a Franklin Furnace FUND support, and helpful tips on grant-writing and answers to questions regarding different sections of our guidelines.
February 26, 2025, 7–8 PM EST: This LOFT event will be held virtually via Zoom. RSVP is required, and a recording of the session will be available 2–3 weeks after the event.
About our guest
Ogemdi Ude is a Nigerian-American dance and interdisciplinary artist, educator, and doula based in Brooklyn. Her performance work focuses on Black femme legacies and futures, grief, and memory. Her work has been presented at Gibney, Danspace Project, Abrons Arts Center, BRIC, ISSUE Project Room, Recess Art, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Center for Performance Research, Movement Research at the Judson Church, Streb Lab for Action Mechanics, La Mama Courthouse, and for BAM’s DanceAfrica festival. As an educator, she serves as Head of Movement for Theater at Professional Performing Arts School and has taught at Princeton University, Sarah Lawrence College, MIT, and University of the Arts. She is a 2022-2023 Smack Mellon Artist-in-Residence and 2022-2024 Movement Research Artist-in-Residence. She has been a 2021 danceWEB Scholar, 2021. Laundromat Project Create Change Artist-in Residence, and a 2019- 2020 Center for Ballet and the Arts at NYU Resident Fellow. In January 2022 she appeared on the cover of Dance Magazine for their annual “25 to Watch” issue. She graduated Magna Cum Laude with a degree in English, Dance, and Theater from Princeton University.
