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👉 We are delighted to announce and welcome back M Lamar as this year’s Jacki Apple Award recipient!!Lamar was one of our...
10/09/2026

👉 We are delighted to announce and welcome back M Lamar as this year’s Jacki Apple Award recipient!!
Lamar was one of our 2013 FUND for Performance Art recipients.

His project Mandingo Tarantino is a patriarchal c**k fight between Lamar, as a self-determining Black male artist and Quentin Tarantino’s fantasies about Black men, interrogating how these fantasies overdetermine both the external representation and internal self-perception of Black men. 

This work was made possible by the Jacki Apple Fund, administered by Franklin Furnace, in memory of Jacki Apple’s contributions to the New York community since the early 1980s through her writing, teaching, radio shows, and artistic practice.

đŸ”„ Here are Franklin Furnace’s Goings On for October! đŸ”„For more information on these events, visit our website’s “Goings ...
10/08/2026

đŸ”„ Here are Franklin Furnace’s Goings On for October! đŸ”„

For more information on these events, visit our website’s “Goings On” page. For weekly updates straight to your inbox, subscribe to our email newsletter (both links in bio).

If you’re an FF member or alumn artist and would like to submit your event to our Goings On newsletter, feel free to reach out to us at [email protected]

10/07/2026

As part of the FF50 celebration, we’re interviewing recently funded artists to learn more about their practice and their connection to time-based art.
First in this series is our 2025 FUND artist recipient, Kim Ye ( Ye).
Kimberly Ye is an artist and writer whose work traverses performance, film, installation, and object-making. Appropriating popular cultural forms and rituals, Ye uses their body and personal archives to interrogate the gendered constructs that shape perceptions of power, labor, and taboo. 
Kim’s upcoming FUND project premieres this month in NYC! 
“Choreographies of Care”
October 18, 2026 at 5:15pm.
Flushing Meadows Corona Park’s Model Airplane Field (https://maps.app.goo.gl/pWhpUNPEvgongHEo9), Queens
>> RSVP link in bio

Announcing 2026 Franklin Furnace XENO Prize: Nicoletta DarĂ­ta de la Brown Nicoletta Daríta | Artist & Curandera ChamĂĄna...
10/05/2026

Announcing 2026 Franklin Furnace XENO Prize: Nicoletta DarĂ­ta de la Brown Nicoletta Daríta | Artist & Curandera ChamĂĄna and Daria Irincheeva Daria Irincheeva!
This season marks the fourth year of the XENO Prize, which supports one artist’s book proposal addressing book banning or burning, and one early-career LGBTQ+-identifying performance artist working in one of the 27 states where gender-affirming care is restricted.

Learn more about this year’s award on our website >> franklinfurnace.org/xenoprize/

It was especially meaningful to celebrate our anniversaries with ISSUE Project Room ISSUE Project Room during the Brookl...
10/02/2026

It was especially meaningful to celebrate our anniversaries with ISSUE Project Room ISSUE Project Room during the Brooklyn Book Festival Brooklyn Book Festival. Thank you all for the joyful reunions and warm embraces!
The evening began with presentations by Martha Wilson and ISSUE Artist-in-Residence Bradley Eros Bradley Eros, followed by performances by Arantxa Araujo Arantxa Araujo and ISSUE AIR Jean Carla Rodea Jean Carla Rodea.

LINK IN BIO 👉 preorder Martha’s upcoming book “Back to the Present: 50 Years of Free Expression”

photos by Owen

On Saturday, September 5, 2026, as a special feature of Franklin Furnace Archive's 50th Anniversary, a group of stalwart...
09/22/2026

On Saturday, September 5, 2026, as a special feature of Franklin Furnace Archive's 50th Anniversary, a group of stalwart friends of Franklin Furnace who live in the Hudson Valley met for the first KoFFee Klatch & Donut Klutch at Golden Harvest Farms in Valatie, New York. Longtime supporters Alexandra Anderson; Ann Artschwager; Ann Butler; Kat Griefen, Rob Van Erve & Sjorsje; William Klein; Karen Lynch, and Richard Minsky joined Franklin Furnace's Ken Dewey Director Harley Spiller & his wife, the Franklin Furnace artist alumn Micki Spiller.

We modelled FF t-shirts; enjoyed coffee and fresh apple c***r donuts, and perused the advance copy of Martha Wilson's forthcoming Back to the Present: 50 Years of Free Expression with Franklin Furnace (Princeton Architectural Press, publication date November 17 - pre-order using the link below). It was so much fun we're talking about making it an annual event!

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LINK IN BIO: 2026 Membership Now Open!We’re giving print a lot of extra love this year. From Dieter Roth and Lawrence We...
09/15/2026

LINK IN BIO: 2026 Membership Now Open!

We’re giving print a lot of extra love this year. From Dieter Roth and Lawrence Weiner’s early conceptualizations, to Carolee Schneemann and Suzanne Lacy’s formative feminist publications, the field of artists’ books has always offered steadfast, quiet, and powerful acts of resistance.

Ever in opposition to cultural commodification and gatekeeping, artists’ books create spaces for ideas and voices that aren’t heard or welcome in the mainstream.

Franklin Furnace was conceived to be such a space and you’re invited to join our continual celebration artists’ books.

Art in Odd Places (AiOP) began as an action by a group of artists led by Ed Woodham to encourage local participation in ...
09/14/2026

Art in Odd Places (AiOP) began as an action by a group of artists led by Ed Woodham to encourage local participation in the Cultural Olympiad of the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta.
In 2005, after moving back to New York City, he re-imagined it as a response to the dwindling of public space and personal civil liberties – first in the Lower East Side and East Village, and since 2008, on 14th Street in Manhattan. AiOP has always been a grassroots project fueled by the goodwill and inventiveness of its participants.

The event is curated by Arantxa Araujo Arantxa Araujo and Pancho LĂłpez Pancho Lopez

This year‘s festival is dedicated to Franklin Furnace, in honor of their 50th anniversary! For more info, visit link in bio 🔗

đŸ”„ Here are Franklin Furnace’s Goings On for September!đŸ”„For more information on these events, visit our website’s “Goings...
09/11/2026

đŸ”„ Here are Franklin Furnace’s Goings On for September!đŸ”„
For more information on these events, visit our website’s “Goings On” page. For weekly updates straight to your inbox, subscribe to our email newsletter (both links in bio).
If you’re an FF member or alumn artist and would like to submit your event to our Goings On newsletter, feel free to reach out to us at [email protected]

Cherrie Yu (she/they) Artist Biography:Born in Xi’an, China and based in New York, Cherrie Yu works in choreography, mov...
09/07/2026

Cherrie Yu (she/they)

Artist Biography:
Born in Xi’an, China and based in New York, Cherrie Yu works in choreography, moving image and installation. She has been in residence at Yaddo, the Fine Arts Work Center, Macdowell, and Sharpe Walentas Studio Program. She was a 2022 Media Award Fellow at Kala Art Institute in Berkeley, and a 2024 Van Lier Fellow with Movement Research in NYC. She is currently working towards a performance premiere at Abrons Art Center in November 2025.

Proposed Project:
I propose a performance lecture in the format of a satirical art competition, revolving around the history of the cargo ship Golden Venture. The lecture will follow the historical timeline of underground Chinese immigration into the US in the 80s and 90s, smuggling operation of the snakehead Cheng Chui Ping, as well as a paper sculpture made by Cai Xiang Qui, one of the immigrant survivors aboard Golden Venture. The lecture will dissolve into an art competition, where a group of contemporary artists attempt to reenact Cai’s paper sculpture for a jury formed by audience members.

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