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,
2025-26 Franklin Furnace FUND for Performance Art Application Information Session
February 26, 2025, 7-8pm EST – Learn what constitutes a well-prepared grant application and ask questions about Franklin Furnace Fund programs from our staff. The session was followed by a Q&A.
Past LOFT events
HISTORIAS: Una Conversación / A Panel Discussion
Join Ruth Benitez, Ines Yujnovsky, Flavia Krause, Carlos Motta, Liliana Porter and Rosaura Ramos for a discussion on HISTORIAS and
Verónica Peña’s “The Body In The Substance”
The search for peace is an endless human endeavor. “The Body In The Substance” is a process-based ongoing performance art,
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).