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 | 09/09/2024
Contents for September 9th, 2024 CONTENTS (please click on the links or scroll down for complete information on each post): ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Peter Downsbrough, FF Alumn, In Memoriam Weekly Spotlight: Franklin Furnace FUND for Performance Art 2024-2025 grant recipients, announced today, 9th September 2024 1. Jacki Apple, Skúta Helgason, Dick Higgins,
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
46: Artists’ Books: A Panel Discussion with Artists, Scholars, and the Public
A free public panel discussion about artists’ books in relation to the new exhibition 46: Artists’ Books from Franklin Furnace
Virtual Opening & Guided Tour
The virtual opening of the exhibition 46: Artists’ Books from Franklin Furnace Archive, 1976-2022 when co-curators Fang-Yu Liu and Nicole
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).