Deadline: 1-Apr-21
The Franklin Furnace Fund is supported in 2021-22 by Jerome Foundation and the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. It has annually awarded grants to early-career artists selected by peer panel review to enable them to produce major performance art works in New York.
In the spring of 2008, Franklin Furnace combined the Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance Art and The Future of the Present programs into one, entitled the Franklin Furnace Fund. Franklin Furnace made the decision to combine these programs because during the last decade, artists have created works on every point of the spectrum between the body of the artist and the circulatory network of the Internet in the creation of temporal work.
Funding Information
- Grants range between $2,000 and $10,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- Supported Artists and Collectives: Eligible artists and collectives must meet all of the descriptors listed. Franklin Furnace Fund supported artists are early career generative non-student performance artists who actively generate new original work.
- Eligible Artists
- Are in the early stages of their creative development.
- Have a focused direction and are actively creating new work in performance art.
- Have yet to be substantially celebrated within their field, the media, funding circles or the public at large.
- Are vocational (as opposed to avocational, academic, amateur or educational) artists.
- Are not participating in any degree-granting programs (K-12, undergraduate, graduate) in any field.
- Generate new works and claim creative “authorship” and creative control in the creation of new work, and whose primary practice is centered in creation of new work through their roles as performance artists.
- Expand the aesthetic or social experience in the discipline in which they work and/or reclaim and revive traditional forms in original ways.
- Create works that are:
- Imaginative, rigorous, and well-executed;
- Compelling and has a distinctive vision and authentic voice;
- Connected with intended audiences/participants;
- Engaging aesthetically and experientially;
- Bold and risk-taking.
- Ineligible Artists
- Would be identified as “mid- or late-career” or established in any arts discipline.
- Are engaged in the performance art as a hobby or avocational pastime.
- Are applicants who are or will be students enrolled in degree-granting programs.
- Interpret, perform, critique, report on, edit, or design the work of others (e.g., singers, musicians, screenwriters, dancers, actors, instrumentalists, vocalists, arrangers, editors, journalists, designers in sets/lights/costumes/sound, or critics, among others) but who do not also generate new work.
- Are managers, administrators, builders or technicians who do not also have a significant history of generating new work.
For more information, visit http://franklinfurnace.org/artists/franklin_furnace_fund/index.php