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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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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
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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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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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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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Trace, Iron, Cut, Repeat
It was just another Thursday night at Materials for the Arts – that is if you consider 17 volunteers sorting, creating iron on patches and preparing 200 donated ski jackets for donation to the Administration for Children’s services, AHRC and … Continue reading
What’s in the clock tower on Queens Plaza?
The clock tower, the former Bank of Manhattan building, will soon be home to an ambitious site-specific exhibition, How Much Do I Owe You? created by MFTA recipient No Longer Empty. The exhibition is a personal and conversational exploration into … Continue reading
Back to work
MFTA is so fortunate to report that our LIC warehouse was unaffected by the storm. We are up and running. Our staff hails from all corners of the tri-state area, including all corners of Queens, Staten Island, The Bronx, Brooklyn, … Continue reading
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Designing a better world
Over the summer we received donations from several world renowned NYC institutions. These included The Frick Collection, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Guggenheim Museum and the MoMA. These renowned institutions also happen to be MFTA recipients! In sync … Continue reading
“Tower Records” at Sculpture Center
We had a great time getting folks at Sculpture Center’s LIC Block Party to contribute to these sculptures, “Tower Records.” Although the wind was wailing, the sculptures, made with re-purposed MFTA materials, stood strong all afternoon. Thanks to all who … Continue reading
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Tagged assemblage, creative reuse, lic block party, reuse, Sculpture Center, scupltures
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Salvaged Scrabble
We’re submitting our proposal “Salvaged Scrabble” for World Maker Faire New York 2012 today! SALVAGED SCRABBLE WITH MFTA Spell your way through NYC’s waste stream. Use paper and fabric collected from the city’s most creative companies to make unique letter … Continue reading
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Tagged CD cases, diy, Scrabble
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