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; to cultivating appreciation of avant-garde art for all, and to fostering artists’ zeal to circulate ideas.
Ongoing Events
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Goings On | 04/08/2024
Contents for April 8, 2024 CONTENTS (please click on the links or scroll down for complete information on each post): ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 1. Coreen Simpson, FF Alumn, now online at NYTimes.com2. Yoshiko Chuma, Liz Kresch, Nicky Paraiso, FF Alumns, at Theaterlab, Manhattan, April 253. Christen Clifford, Pamela Sneed, FF Alumns, at
Suzanne Harris – An Anarchitectural Body of Work: A Conversation
June 12, 2024, 6:00-8:00pm ET: Hosted in person by Printed Matter (231 11th Ave, NYC) and streamed online via the Franklin Furnace LOFT, the event marks the U.S.-American launch of An Anarchitectural Body of Work: Suzanne Harris and the Downtown New York Artists Community of the 1970s by Friederike Schaefer, the first book published about the life and work of this groundbreaking yet historically overlooked artist.
Past LOFT events
Past, Present & Future IX: 2023-24 FF FUND Recipients Celebration
On November 16 2023 at 6 30 pm 8 30 pm ET in the Alumni Reading Room of Pratt Institute
Dry Run- A Night of Student Performance Art
Open Call for submissions Dry Run A Night of Student Performance Art
On Thursday November 9th 2023 from
Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc. gratefully acknowledges the government agencies, foundations, corporations and individuals whose support makes our programs possible:
Franklin Furnace receives support from the Arison Arts Foundation, The Willem de Kooning Foundation, the Marian Goodman Foundation, the Henry Luce Foundation, and Teiger Foundation through the Coalition of Small Arts NYC.