Franklin Furnace invites applications for inaugural Jacki Apple Award in Performance and Artist Projects awards

The mission of Franklin Furnaceis 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. Franklin Furnace invites applications for the inaugural Jacki Apple Award in Performance and Artist Projects awards, an annual award to reflect Jacki Apple’s commitment to championing artists, demonstrated through her multidisciplinary career as a writer, educator, radio host, and artist since the early 1980s. The fund is a tribute to Jacki’s lifelong dedication to New York and Los Angeles’s avant-garde art communities. Franklin Furnace and sister organization LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions)will each distribute one $10,000 award per year for a total of 20 awards over the coming decade.Through Franklin Furnace, one New York City-based artist working in performance art will be awarded $10,000 to fund projects in performance, media, exhibition, and/or publication. The project must be completed within one year of receiving the award. The artist selected for the inaugural 2024 grant will have the added requirement of being a mid or late-career artist, including past recipients of the Franklin Furnace FUND for Performance Art.For complete program guidelines and application instructions, see the Franklin Furnace