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.

ON A MISSION TO MAKE THE WORLD SAFE FOR AVANT-GARDE ART
ON A MISSION TO MAKE THE WORLD SAFE FOR AVANT-GARDE ART
ON A MISSION TO MAKE THE WORLD SAFE FOR AVANT-GARDE ART

Ongoing Events

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Goings On | 08/05/2024

Contents for August 5th, 2024 CONTENTS (please click on the links or scroll down for complete information on each post): ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 1. Katie Cercone, Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow, Chun Hua Catherine Dong, Ricardo Miranda Zúñiga, FF Alumns, at Governors Island, NYC, opening Aug. 17 2. Adam Pendleton, FF Alumn, at The 8th

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Past LOFT events

Photo by Jackie M. Hayn

Stefan Hayn: Cinema and Painting

As a Berlin based painter and filmmaker, Stefan Hayn (*1965) rediscovered painting through cinematic approaches, especially along the questions about

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).