FROM THE ARCHIVE: Panel about Mikel Rouse’s avant-garde opera “Dennis Cleveland” – November 16, 2017
December 11, 2024 12pm
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FROM THE ARCHIVE: Variation on a Bean Sequence by Sean Carrillo and Bibbe Hansen (In honor of Alison Knowles) / September 2015
November 28, 2024 12pm
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News: Stamford Advocate Article on FSW Closing – Published June 24, 2020
March 28, 2022 12pm
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PRESS: Ante Magazine in Conversation with FSW Creative Director Terri C Smith – August 14, 2020
March 28, 2022 12pm
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FSW CLOSED PERMANENTLY IN APRIL 2020-ARCHIVE IS GOING TO SUNY PURCHASE COLLEGE LIBRARY!
December 30, 2021 12pm
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Opening Reception “Roots & Roads” – exhibition features contemporary art that centers Black hair culture
February 8, 2020 5pm
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“A Litany” performance by Nadia Wolff at opening reception for Roots & Road
February 8, 2020 4pm
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CLOSING PARTY! “Otherwise Obscured: Erasure in Body and Text” – Poetry Salon, Curator Tour, and Champagne
January 26, 2020 3pm
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Schedule a Group Tour of Our Current Exhibition! On view through January 26th
January 26, 2020 12pm
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Verbal Description Tour for Low-Vision and Blind Individuals
January 22, 2020 1pm
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Franklin Street Works awarded second ARTE-Accessible grant for accessibility initiatives
January 19, 2020 11am
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Commissioned Performance by “Otherwise Obscured” Exhibiting Artist Jennif(f)er Tamayo
January 11, 2020 4pm
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Panel w/ “Otherwise Obscured” exhibiting artists: Noelle de la Paz, Noah Fox, and Alex Dolores Salerno – at Ferguson Library
December 14, 2019 3pm
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Art Engaged Member Trip to FLAG Foundation – Nicholas Party exhibition
December 7, 2019 11am
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Verbal Description Tour of “Otherwise Obscured: Erasure in Body and Text” with Ezra Benus- Please RSVP
December 4, 2019 2pm
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Spanish Language Tours – ¡Le invitamos a unirse a nuestras dos visitas guiadas y gratuitas en español! sábado, 16 de nov. 3:00 – 4:00 pm
November 16, 2019 3pm
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Poetry Reading by award-winning NYC-based Candace Williams w/ UConn-Stamford Writing Students
November 14, 2019 6pm
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Art, Experiences, and Indulgences – Contemporary Art Online Auction to Benefit FSW – Nov. 12 – Dec. 3rd
November 13, 2019 5pm
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Spanish Language Tours – ¡Le invitamos a unirse a nuestras dos visitas guiadas y gratuitas en español! sábado, 9 de nov. & sábado, 16 de nov. 3:00 – 4:00 pm
November 9, 2019 3pm
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Curator Tour of “Otherwise Obscured: Erasure in Body and Text” w/ Danilo Machado
October 18, 2019 6pm
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A Conversation with The Stamford Land Conservation Trust with exhibition tour and wine reception
October 5, 2019 4pm
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Public Reception for “Otherwise Obscured” w/ performance by Joey De Jesus -Saturday, September 21st
September 21, 2019 5pm
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Download Our Collaboratively Published Resource Guide for Women & Girls
September 1, 2019 12pm
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Bringing Urban Gardening to Your Backyard: A Conversation with Fairgate Farm’s Pete Novajosky
August 17, 2019 2pm
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Art Engaged Outing – Private Tour of Urs Fischer exhibition at Brant Foundation, Greenwich
August 10, 2019 2pm
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Sign up for Spanish Language and American Sign Language Tours!
August 10, 2019 1pm
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Herbalism and Plant Medicine Walking Tour of Mill River and Tincture Workshop with Antonia Estela Pérez Rojas
July 27, 2019 4pm
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Award-winning Author Eugenia Bone discusses her book, Microbia: A Journey Into the Unseen World Around You
July 20, 2019 4pm
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Rare chance to visit Starn Brothers’ sprawling studio in Beacon, NY – Next Art Engaged Outing.
July 19, 2019 11am
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2019 Stamford Art Walk: Art, Music, Activities and More
June 28, 2019 5pm
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Art Engaged Trip SATURDAY, June 8! Warhol x Basquiat at Jack Shainman’s The School, Kinderhook NY
June 8, 2019 11am
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First Friday Lunch Tour of Collective Action Archive: Redux – activist projects by the Guerrilla Girls, ABC No Rio, Conflict Kitchen & more
June 7, 2019 12pm
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Join Working Artists and the Greater Economy Core Organizer Lise Soskolne for a Talk on Strategies for Organizing Artists’ Labor
May 25, 2019 4pm
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Private Tour of SOLD OUT Jean-Michel Basquiat retrospective Lower East Side, NYC
May 6, 2019 4pm
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Welcome Franklin Street Works New Executive Director Carole Southall
April 20, 2019 1pm
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Justseeds Member Shaun Slifer Print Demo at Center for Contemporary Printmaking
March 31, 2019 2pm
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Shaun Slifer from Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative Talks Art and Activism with FSW Creative Director Terri C Smith
March 30, 2019 4pm
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Media Arts Collaborative Knifeandfork in Conversation
March 9, 2019 4pm
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Lunchtime Engagement: First Friday Tour
March 1, 2019 12pm
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Publication Launch: “Resource Guide for Women, Girls & Fairfield County Residents”
February 27, 2019 6pm
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T.J. Dedeaux-Norris (fka Tameka Jenean Norris) Artist Talk at UConn-Stamford Campus
February 11, 2019 4pm
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Opening Reception for Collective Action Archive: Redux
February 9, 2019 5pm
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Lunch Engagement: First Friday Tour
January 4, 2019 12pm
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Lunch Engagement: First Friday Tour
December 7, 2018 12pm
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Panel on Media Phenomena Connected to Current Exhibition “False Flag: The Space Between Paranoia and Reason”
December 2, 2018 4pm
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Hands-on Art Workshop with Jeff Ostergren – Exploring Salvador Dalí’s “Paranoiac Critical Method”
November 17, 2018 1pm
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Public Exhibition Reception for False Flag:The Space Between Paranoia and Reason
November 3, 2018 5pm
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Friday Lunchtime Tour of Our current exhibition
November 2, 2018 12pm
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Lunch Engagement: First Friday Tours
November 2, 2018 12pm
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Member Visit to the Judd Foundation Spring Street Studio
October 13, 2018 1pm
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ANNUAL BENEFIT PARTY! Intersections: Celebrating Feminist Voices
September 22, 2018 5pm
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Schedule a Free Tour of Our Current Exhibition – Through September 9th
September 9, 2018 12pm
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Lunch Engagement: First Friday Tours
August 3, 2018 12pm
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Artist Conversation: Anna Betbeze and Molly Zuckerman-Hartung
July 14, 2018 4pm
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Lunch Engagement: First Friday Tours
July 6, 2018 12pm
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Art Engaged Patron Membership Summer Trip to Magazzino Italian Art and Dia:Beacon
June 23, 2018 11am
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Stamford Downtown Art Walk
June 22, 2018 5pm
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Lunch Engagement: First Friday Tours
June 1, 2018 12pm
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Opening Reception for My Vicious Throbbing Heart: Animating Desire in Abstract Painting
May 26, 2018 5pm
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Artist in Residence: Anne Cousineau
May 17, 2018 10am
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Special Edition of Lunch Engagement: First Friday Exhibition Tour with “In this place where the guest rests” curator Jacqueline Mabey  12:30-1 pm
May 4, 2018 12pm
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Reading Group with Curator Jacqueline Mabey: “Step of Hospitality / No Hospitality” from Of Hospitality by Jacques Derrida 
April 28, 2018 3pm
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Reading Group with Curator Jacqueline Mabey: Exploring the text-based work of artist Tanya Lukin Linklater
April 21, 2018 3pm
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Reading Group with Curator Jacqueline Mabey: Exploring the Text-based Work of Exhibiting Artist Tanya Lukin-Linklater 
April 21, 2018 3pm
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Forced Mobility: An Affective Physics – Artist Talk on Triptych Series by Sherry Millner
April 7, 2018 4pm
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Book Club Discussion, Zami: A New Spelling of My Name by Audre Lorde at The Ferguson Library, South End Branch
March 26, 2018 7pm
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Performative Lecture with Divya Mehra at UConn-Stamford Room 108
March 26, 2018 4pm
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Member Meet Up: The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum – MEMBER ONLY EVENT
March 24, 2018 5pm
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Reading Group with Curator Jacqueline Mabey: “Foreigner Question” from Of Hospitality by Jacques Derrida
February 24, 2018 3pm
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Audre Lorde Birthday Bash
February 18, 2018 3pm
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Curator Tour with Jacqueline Mabey
February 10, 2018 4pm
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Opening Reception for “In this place where the guest rests,” Jan. 27th
January 27, 2018 5pm
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Artist Talk with Nayland Blake
January 6, 2018 4pm
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Member, Volunteer, Donor Field Trip to Brant Foundation
December 15, 2017 3pm
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Cady Noland Primer
December 6, 2017 6pm
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Panel Discussion: TV Talk Show Themed Opera “Dennis Cleveland”
November 16, 2017 7pm
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“I hear it everywhere I go” Mid-Exhibition Public Reception and Curator and Artist Tour
November 11, 2017 5pm
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“I can’t get no satisfaction” Tour of “I hear it everywhere I go”
October 19, 2017 6pm
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“Get Out! Making Art Public” Annual Party to Benefit Franklin Street Works
September 16, 2017 5pm
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Screening of Audre Lorde documentary “A Litany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde” at The Ferguson Library South End Branch
August 16, 2017 6pm
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Member, Volunteer and Donor Appreciation Field Trip — Visit the Brant Foundation exhibition “Animal Farm”
August 5, 2017 4pm
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Screening of Wildness, directed by Wu Tsang at The Ferguson Library Main Branch
July 25, 2017 6pm
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Tour of the exhibition “The Work of Love, The Queer of Labor.”
July 12, 2017 6pm
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Opening Reception for The Work of Love, The Queer of Labor
May 20, 2017 8pm
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PWR BTTM Vinyl Listening Party with Danilo Machado
May 3, 2017 6pm
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“Witchcraft: a corporeal practice” with NYC dancer iele paloumpis
April 8, 2017 3pm
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“You, I, and Other” with artist Julian Phillips
April 1, 2017 3pm
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B-YOU/Build Your Own University with Bruce High Quality Foundation University
March 25, 2017 4pm
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Damali Abrams Artist Talk at UConn-Stamford
March 6, 2017 4pm
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CHAKRAPOLIS
February 25, 2017 3pm
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David Livingston Performance for “Vote Your Conscience” at the Ferguson Library followed by reception at Franklin Street Works
December 3, 2016 3pm
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Art Activism: Celebrating Socially Conscious Art // Franklin Street Works Annual Benefit Party
November 12, 2016 5pm
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Activists Make a Tool Kit for Public Events with Artists Pedro Felipe Vintimilla and Julian Phillips
October 30, 2016 1pm
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“Living Memorial” a community engagement artist project that explores how communities contribute to shared space and memory
October 29, 2016 10am
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Artist Talk by Xaviera Simmons at UConn-Stamford
October 24, 2016 4pm
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An Evening with Ann Magnuson
October 15, 2016 4pm
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Sunita Prasad Artist Talk
July 9, 2016 4pm
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Luncheon with artist collaborative Kegels for Hegel
June 8, 2016 12pm
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Eva Hesse Documentary with Pre-Screening cocktail party and Q & A
June 1, 2016 6pm
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Moby Book Signing and Cocktail Party
May 21, 2016 6pm
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Indie Gala at Stamford Innovation Center to Benefit Franklin Street Works
May 5, 2016 6pm
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Screening “The F Word” Documentary on “4th Wave” feminist artists
March 26, 2016 5pm
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Art+Feminism Edit-A-Thon followed by exhibition tour and cocktails
March 5, 2016 1pm
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Four-on-the-floor: The Art of Five. A Party to Benefit Franklin Street Works.
November 14, 2015 5pm
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Panel Discussion for Acting on Dreams
July 11, 2015 5pm
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Listening Room: Music in Contemporary Space
May 30, 2015 7pm
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“Only the Lonely” A Performance by Ryann Slauson
May 20, 2015 12pm
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Show and Tell: Fandom
May 17, 2015 4pm
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Artist Talk by Jon Campbell, Exhibiting Artist in “It’s gonna take a lotta love”
March 28, 2015 4pm
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Ribbon Cutting for Jon Campbell Public Art Project
March 19, 2015 3pm
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Panel Discussion on the Medium of Painting “About Like So”
February 12, 2015 7pm
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Leslie Wayne Artist Talk
January 31, 2015 4pm
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Augustus Thompson Performs Ambient Electronic Music
January 22, 2015 4pm
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Pre-Screening Reception for the Documentary ART AND CRAFT with Avon Theatre
January 14, 2015 6pm
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SPECTRUM and Franklin Street Works Present: a panel on gender identity with artists Kerry Downey, Leon Finley, Juliana Huxtable, and iele paloumpis
December 4, 2014 6pm
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It Narratives: Curator Tour and Mailbox Inauguration, Closing Weekend
November 8, 2014 4pm
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Artist Talk by Frank Heath
October 23, 2014 7pm
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“It Narratives” Curator, Zanna Gilbert, Talks About Mail Art and Exhibiting Artist, Lance Wakeling, Screens Video
October 18, 2014 4pm
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MakerBot 3D Printing Demonstration
October 9, 2014 6pm
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Jen McGinn, iele paloumpis and Joanna Groom Second Performance of Original Work
August 15, 2014 6pm
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Curator Tour of “Showing the Work” with Sarah Fritchey
July 17, 2014 6pm
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Kent “Wood” Evans Performance
July 12, 2014 4pm
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Tatyana Tenenbaum and Claudia La Rocco Performances
June 27, 2014 7pm
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The Sunken Living Room — Closing Party with Performance by Danna Vajda
May 24, 2014 6pm
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Tour of “The Sunken Living Room” with the curator and four exhibiting artists, Thursday, April 24 at 7pm
April 24, 2014 7pm
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Fair Tomatoes: Documentary Film Screening and Discussion
March 13, 2014 7pm
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Closing Dance Party for the exhibition “Neuromast: Certain Uncertainty and Contemporary Art”
March 8, 2014 7pm
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An Evening with Artist Juliana Huxtable: Reading and Performance
March 1, 2014 5pm
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Become Your Unlimited Self: Workshop and Talk with Diane Pauley
February 27, 2014 7pm
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Connecting Over Missed Connections: A Talk with New York Artist Ingrid Burrington
February 20, 2014 6pm
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ART SHOP! The Sale and Party to Benefit Franklin Street Works, Saturday, November 23
November 23, 2013 5pm
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“Tell All” – Looking Back at Franklin Street Works’ First Two Years
October 6, 2013 12am
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Outdoor Movie “Night Buttoners,” directed by Petr Zelenkafrom 7:00 – 9:00pm
September 12, 2013 7pm
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Reception and Symposium for “Collective Action Archive” at Purchase College
September 11, 2013 4pm
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Kool-Aid Wino Walking Tour with Curator Claire Barliant
September 7, 2013 5pm
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Buster Keaton, The General, Outdoor Movie Screening 7:00-9:00pm
September 5, 2013 7pm
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The Excess project comes to Stamford
June 15, 2013 6pm
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Book Binding Workshop with Emily Larned
June 13, 2013 5pm
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An Incomplete Portrait of the Reanimation Library
May 30, 2013 6pm
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Art in the New City: Stephen Zacks
May 23, 2013 6pm
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Honey Locust Tree Relocation
May 4, 2013 10am
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Across Disciplines with Phyllis Sinrich and Ingrid Semaan
April 25, 2013 6pm
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Linda Weintraub talk, April 23, 11:20 – 12:35 at UConn, Stamford campus
April 23, 2013 11am
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Stamford Art Association Reanimation Library Collage Workshop
April 13, 2013 3pm
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Shed Raising with Habitat for Artists founder Simon Draper as part of the exhibition “Strange Invitation”
March 16, 2013 2pm
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A Conversation with Reanimation Library Founder Andrew Beccone at the Ferguson Library Downtown Branch
March 2, 2013 4pm
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Bibbe Hansen and Second Front at Franklin Street Works!
December 15, 2012 2pm
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E.S.P. TV Filming
November 10, 2012 3pm
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KENT EVANS: READING AND MUSIC – A CRASH COURSE ON THE ANATOMY OF ROBOTS
September 20, 2012 5pm
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A Conversation: Recording Realities with Seth Kelly and Karsten Krejcarek
August 30, 2012 6pm
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Pre-screening Reception for Herman and Shelly at Franklin Street Works
June 27, 2012 6pm
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An Evening with Dekit Magazine
June 21, 2012 5pm
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S#!TSTORM: The Art of Data
June 13, 2012 5pm
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Soft Rocks: a Workshop with Artist Elizabeth Demaray
May 24, 2012 6pm
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A Night with the Creatives from the Comedy Network NPeaches
March 29, 2012 6pm
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The bad Sea Rhapsody in an intimate concert
March 29, 2012 5pm
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Documentary on artist Gordon Skinner by Bob Albert
March 22, 2012 6pm
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The Imagined City: A Multimedia Work-in-Progress by Renee Kahn
March 15, 2012 6pm
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Wine and Time: Conversation and Wine Tasting
January 13, 2012 5pm
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Anna Lundh Performance “The Year is a Python that Swallowed an Elephant”
December 3, 2011 4pm
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The MOON: Live Music and Visuals
November 10, 2011 5pm
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“The Garden Party” a Performance by Trisha Baga
October 22, 2011 5pm
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Warhol Grant

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