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Inquire with Corinne Daniel at corinne@blankforms.org.
This fall, Blank Forms will open a new home in downtown Manhattan: an 8,000-square-foot, open-plan loft on the sixth floor of 151 Lafayette Street, which will bring our performance space, gallery, archives, and administrative offices, as well as a new bookstore and bar, under one roof.
Architectural rendering of the new Blank Forms loft, featuring views of the gallery, performance space, and bookstore.
This move is a culmination of the vision that has guided Blank Forms over the last decade. Over those ten years, working out of our intimate home in Clinton Hill—as well as churches, theaters, galleries, and other temporary sites across the city and beyond—we have fostered a wide-ranging international community of artists and audiences who share a commitment to experimental practice and the preservation of cultural history. Now, with an expanded space, we have the opportunity to undertake more ambitious projects here in New York, with and for the community we have built over the past decade.
As we prepare for the move, we’ve been thinking a lot about the downtown loft tradition that inspired Blank Forms from the beginning: artist-centered environments where performance, research, conversation, and social life could coexist, and which helped make New York one of the world’s most vital cities for music and art. Spaces like these have become increasingly rare, and the opportunity to create a new home for experimental art in this tradition feels both heartening and urgent.
Charles Curtis performs at 151 Lafayette Street.
To fully realize our vision for 151 Lafayette, we are launching a $1 million capital campaign to renovate the space for public use. An impressive $600,000 has already been pledged, thanks to major support from the Frankenthaler Foundation, Howard Gilman Foundation, and Blank Forms’ Board of Directors. As we launch the public phase of the campaign, we appeal to the audiences, artists, and friends who share our vision and understand the significance of this move—not only for Blank Forms, but for New York’s arts community. We need your help to make this boldly optimistic initiative possible.
For more information on Blank Forms’ move, or to pledge your support, please inquire with Corinne Daniel at corinne@blankforms.org. We look forward to seeing you this fall.