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 | 08/12/2024
Contents for August 12th, 2024 CONTENTS (please click on the links or scroll down for complete information on each post): ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 1. Pablo Helguera, FF Alumn, at Far Rockaway Public Library, Queens 2. Sheryl Oring, FF Alumn, at Monmouth University, NJ, Sept. 3-Dec. 20 3. Graciela Cassel, FF Member, at
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
HISTORIAS: para Niñxs / for the Kids
As part of the online exhibition HISTORIAS Franklin Furnace, in collaboration with Pratt Institute Library, presents How to Make Art
Sirreras Fem
Video documentation of the September 18, 2021 (5 – 6:30 PM EST) performance of Sirreras Fem presented by Franklin Furnace and Arantxa
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).