Grants 2026-27 Franklin Furnace FUND for Performance Art
Opportunity Description
International Deadline: April 1, 2026 – Initiated in 1985 with the support of Jerome Foundation, Franklin Furnace annually awards grants to early career artists selected by peer panel review to enable them to produce major performance art works in New York City.
Artists may apply once per year as an individual, and once per year as part of a collaboration. FUND grants range between $2,000 and $10,000 based on the peer review panel allocation of funding received by Franklin Furnace.
Franklin Furnace has no curator; each year a new panel of artists reviews all proposals. This peer panel system allows all kinds of artists from all over the world an equal shot at presenting their work. Every year the panel changes, and brings new perspectives of “early career artist” and “performance art.” So if at first you don’t succeed, please try again.
ELIGIBILITY
- Early career performance artists who have yet to be substantially celebrated within their field, the media, funding circles, or the public at large and are in the early stages of their creative development.
- Are NOT participating in any degree granting programs in any field including k-12, undergraduate, or graduate programs.
- Vocational Artists focused on generating new artwork.
- Artists who actively generate new work and claim creative authorship and creative control in the creation of new work.
For an overview of the Franklin Furnace FUND and to find out about the components of a well-prepared application, all prospective applicants are highly encouraged to register and attend our online information session. You can attend live, or access a recording on our website.
APPLY ONLINE – No Fee
For other questions, please contact proposals@franklinfurnace.org
About:
Franklin Furnace’s mission is to present, preserve, interpret, proselytize and advocate on behalf of avant-garde art, especially forms that may be vulnerable due to institutional neglect, cultural bias, their ephemeral nature, or politically unpopular content. Franklin Furnace is dedicated to serving artists by providing both physical and virtual venues for the presentation of time-based art, including but not limited to artists’ books and periodicals, installation art, performance art, and unforeseen contemporary avant-garde artforms; and to undertake other activities related to these purposes. Franklin Furnace is committed to serving emerging artists; to assuming an aggressive pedagogical stance with regard to the value of avant-garde art to life; and to fostering artists’ zeal to broadcast ideas.
Franklin Furnace
Pratt Institute
200 Willoughby Avenue
Brooklyn NY 11205
