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 | 04/22/2024
Contents for April 22, 2024 CONTENTS (please click on the links or scroll down for complete information on each post): ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 1. Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel, FF Alumn, at University of Texas at Austin, April 30-May 42. Dread Scott, FF Alumn, at Castello Gallery, Venice, Italy, thru
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
Spontaneous Combustion: Linda Sibio and Cracked Eggs in Performance
February 14 2024 7 30 8211 8 30pm ET Cracked Eggs is truly a crazy ride for the audience from
The Ballad of Reversals: Ephemeral Images of Ephemeral Art | LIVE AT THE LIBRARY IX
January 16 through April 11 2024 The new exhibition The Ballad of Reversals Ephemeral Images of Ephemeral Art reflects on
Franklin Furnace partners with PerformVu on our mutual 2023-24 membership campaign, making performance art accessible to all.
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.