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Hypnotized at Grand Central Station
Today we took an early lunch and headed over to Grand Central to see Nick Cave’s amazing performance piece – Heard NY. This combines all of our favorite art forms – dance, visual art, music, site specific performance art, creative material … Continue reading
Posted in Community Projects, News, Recipient Spotlight, Reuse Art
Tagged art, Creative Time, dance, Grand Central Centennial, Heard NY, masks, MFTA, New York City, Nick Cave, NYC, puppets, reuse, Sculpture, The Ailey School, upcycling
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MFTA hosts No Longer Empty’s Family Day fun
We had an incredible time making sculptures and instruments with No Longer Empty at the Clock Tower in Long Island City on Saturday, March 9. The afternoon of art-making workshops focused on making trophies and instruments with a treasure trove of materials, including … Continue reading
A New Kind of Improv Theater
Seasoned MFTA shoppers know that meandering through our warehouse aisles leaves one susceptible to discovering unexpected treasures, a wandering imagination, and to thinking outside the box. In this particular case, we’re talking about the black box. Nestled amidst the brick … Continue reading
Posted in Community Projects, News, Recipient Spotlight, Reuse Art
Tagged 1920's, Aespo's Fables, art, Atmospheric, black box theater, cinema palace, community garden, creative reuse, Found Objects, Le Petit Versailles, Long Island City, paper, recycling, Sculpture, The Blue Balcony, upcycling
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Third Thursday: Wind Mill Making with Gregory VandeHey
Third Thursday Open Studio Workshop Wind Mill Making with Gregory VandeHey Every third Thursday of the month, Materials for the Arts hosts a free evening of artmaking and cocktails. This month come and make a personalized windmill with unusual supplies … Continue reading
Posted in Education Center, Events
Tagged art, Astoria, creative reuse, free, LIC, Long Island City, MFTA Third Thursdays, Queens, Third Thursday, windmills, workshops
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Farewell to Nat!
It’s almost daylight savings time! While we are happy to usher in spring and more hours of sunlight, we are sad to count down the hours before bidding adieu to our beloved MFTA Education Center Coordinator, Nat Shelness. Nat plans … Continue reading
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Making Room for Creativity
CUP (Center for Urban Pedagogy), an MFTA member since 2005, is known for their “Urban Investigations” — experiential semester-long projects with public high school students, where they give students the tools to investigate their own communities and use art and … Continue reading
Posted in Community Projects, DIY Projects, Education Center, News, Recipient Spotlight, Reuse Art
Tagged adAPT NYC, Center for Urban Pedagogy, city's micro-unit competition, collage, competition, creative reuse, Department of Housing Preservation and Development, New York City, NYC, recycling, reuse art, schools, sustainability, The Academy of Urban Planning
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Olek – The End Is Far
Olek, the artist who crocheted the Charging Bull sculpture in the Financial District, presents The End Is Far, a solo exhibition at Johnathan Levine Gallery opening February 23 and on view for one month. Olek described the exhibition as “my most challenging and involving show…Pink, … Continue reading
Posted in Education Center, News, Reuse Art
Tagged creative reuse, crochet, dress, Johnathan Levine Gallery, Olek
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From Green to Gold… Compost is the Way to Go!
You already know you can donate some of your unwanted items to MFTA, but what do you do with your unwanted and inedible food waste and scrap vegetation? We have one word for you: COMPOST! Let’s face it, to the … Continue reading
Posted in Community Projects, DIY Projects, Education Center, Group Visits, News, Recipient Spotlight
Tagged administrators, compost, ecology, gardening, Golden Apple Awards, NYC Compost Project, NYC Department of Sanitation’s Bureau of Waste Prevention, parent volunteers, Recycle Field Trip, recycling, Reduce, reuse, Reuse and Recycling, teachers, The Brooklyn Botanic Gardens, urban gardening
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Salvaged Sounds – DIY instrument making and jam session at MFTA
Join featured artist and musician Louie Miranda to create salvaged sounds and handmade instruments during this open studio night at Materials for the Arts. Make your own instrument to explore the tones, timbres, and tempos that can be evoked with … Continue reading
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Tagged Louie Miranda, MFTA Third Thursdays, music, musical instruments
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