Blank Forms is a nonprofit organization supporting emerging and historically significant artists who produce work across disciplines, often rooted in traditions of experimental and creative music. We aim to establish new frameworks to preserve, nurture, and present these artists’ work and to build platforms for practices underrepresented in art’s commercial, institutional, and historical fields. Blank Forms collaborates with artists on commissions, exhibitions, publications as well as archival and estate projects within contemporary cultural ecosystems and in perpetuity. In presenting and documenting this work, Blank Forms seeks to foster an artistic community founded upon engaged and equitable conversations across continents, media, and generations.
Artistic & Executive Director
Lawrence Kumpf
Deputy Director of Advancement
Administrative Associate
Programs & Operations Associate
Editor & Communications Associate
Development Assistant
Consultants
Arts FMS | Financial Management Services, Accounting
Ben Manley, Audio Services
Daniel Neumann, Audio Services
Alec Mapes-Frances, Design
Ciarán Finlayson, Editorial
Joe Bucciero, Development & Publication
Akio Suzuki, Logo & Drawings
Blank Forms
468 Grand Ave. 3D and 1D
Brooklyn, NY 11238
347-916-0833
info@blankforms.org
press@blankforms.org
Board of Directors
Andros Zins-Browne, Chair
Arani Bose, Vice Chair
Moriah Evans, Secretary
Walker Carpenter, Treasurer
Angela Goding
David Grubbs
Hannah Hoffman
Lawrence Kumpf
Robbie Lee
Josiah McElheny
Louise Neri
David Nuss
Christian Nyampeta
Marina Rosenfeld
Kim Schnaubert
Jacques Louis Vidal
Curatorial Advisory Board
Charles Curtis
Neneh Cherry
Thulani Davis
Kim Gordon
Shelley Hirsch
Sanya Kantarovsky
Arto Lindsay
Branden W. Joseph
Tommy McCutchon
Ikue Mori
Joe McPhee
Aki Onda
Tony Oursler
Benjamin Piekut
Mónica de la Torre
The Maryanne Amacher Foundation
Bill Dietz
Lawrence Kumpf
Kathy Brew
Kabir Carter
Amy Cimini
Scott Fisher
Keiko Prince
Nora Schultz
Micah Silver
Sergei Tcherepnin
Stefan Tcherepnin
Distribution
Blank Forms Editions books are distributed worldwide by Distributed Art Publishers. In the UK and most of Europe they are available through Public Knowledge Books. In France, Belgium, Switzerland, and Luxemburg they are distributed by Les Presses du Réel. Records are available worldwide through Secretly Distribution.
Blank Forms partners with Art Resources Transfer to distribute our books to public libraries, schools, and prisons, free of charge. Learn more about Art Resources Transfer's work to advance arts and literacy access here.
Blank Forms Publisher's Circle
Desiree & Olivier Berggruen
Gisela Gamper
Abigail Goodman & David Norr
Christian Nyampeta & Mary Wang
Linden Renz
Current Institutional and Individual Support
The Aaron Copland Fund for Music
Agnes Gund
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
Creative Connections Arts Fund
David L. Klein Foundation
The David Howe Foundation
New York City Department of Cultural Affairs
Howard Gilman Foundation
The Jacques Louis Vidal Charitable Fund
Low Road Foundation
mediaThe foundation
Mellon Foundation
New York Community Trust
New York State Council on the Arts
Robert Rauschenberg Foundation
Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia
Blank Forms receives support from the Henry Luce Foundation, the Willem de Kooning Foundation, and Teiger Foundation through Coalition of Small Arts NYC.
Past Institutional Support
AC Southern Fingerlakes
Arts Council Tokyo
The Amphion Foundation
Goethe-Institut New York
Consulate General of Denmark
Council on Library and Information Resources
Danish Arts Foundation
Music Norway
Nordic Culture Fund
Royal Norwegian Consulate General in New York
Snyk
Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival
The Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts
FACE Foundation
The Japan Foundation – Performing Arts Japan
Tin Man Foundation
Wave Farm
