Welcome to Franklin Furnace
Franklin Furnace’s mission is to present, preserve, interpret, educate, and advocate on behalf of avant-garde art, especially forms that may be vulnerable due to institutional neglect, cultural bias, ephemerality, or politically unpopular content.
The organization provides physical and virtual venues for the presentation of time-based art, including artists’ books and periodicals, performance art, installation art, and unforeseen contemporary avant-garde artforms; and undertakes other activities related to these purposes.
Franklin Furnace is dedicated to serving early-career artists, cultivating appreciation of avant-garde art for all, and fostering artists’ zeal to circulate ideas.
Ongoing Events
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Goings On | 09/16/2024
Contents for September 16th, 2024 CONTENTS (please click on the links or scroll down for complete information on each post): CONTENTS (please click on the links or scroll down for complete information on each post): ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Weekly Spotlight: Vern Fisher, FF Alumn, online at the FF LOFT, Sept. 18 1.
Past, Present & Future X: 2024-25 FF FUND Recipients Celebration
December 10, 2024, 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. ET at the Pratt Institute Library, Alumni Reading Room. We celebrate this year’s 15 grant recipients from three categories: FUND, XENO Prize, and Jacki Apple Award.
Past LOFT events
Invisible Museums of the Unseen Book Launch / Performance
Jeanette Andrews as she spoke on the choose-your-own adventure companion book to her GPS-based, user-activated audio AR work “Invisible Museums
WAR IN UKRAINE & ART by Irina Danilova
Art and war are mutually exclusive concepts: creation and destruction, while the concept of destruction is not a stranger in
Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc. gratefully acknowledges the government agencies, foundations, corporations and individuals whose support makes our programs possible:
Franklin Furnace has received support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Arison Arts Foundation, Henry Luce Foundation, Marian Goodman Foundation, Teiger Foundation, and the Willem de Kooning Foundation through Coalition of Small Arts New York City (CoSA NYC).