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 | 12/16/2024
Contents for December 16th, 2024 CONTENTS (please click on the links or scroll down for complete information on each post): ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lorraine O’Grady, FF Alumn, In Memoriam 1. Nicolás Dumit Estévez, FF Alumn, in new publication 2. Micki Watanabe Spiller, Julie Lemberger, FF Alumns, at Studio 34 Gallery, Long Island
American Aria: screening
[January 6, 2025, Film Screening 2:00–8:30 PM ET, Followed by Q&A Until 9:30 PM] American Aria is a 6-hour, 11-minute durational video installation that invites audiences to reflect on the transgressive events of the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. This event is presented in collaboration with Oakwood Arts/OAJet Productions.
Past LOFT events
Koloto Siraji: NABBUZANA, the melting Moon
[December 14, 10–11 a.m. ET] This live performance will take place in Jinja, Uganda and will be broadcast live via
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 celebrated this
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).