Enjoy the thought of making wearable art pieces but lack confidence in your sewing capabilities? No problem! MFTA’s own Jenny Kraft has found a way to take any old shirt and transform it into a fun scarf without any needle …
Ever think you’d be able to see a puppet show in a cemetery? At Maple Grove Cemetery you can do just that, and more. Earlier this week, Carl Ballenas at Friends of Maple Grove (an MFTA recipient since 2009) in …
This Tuesday we opened up our warehouse to 17 college interns from Macy’s, as a part of their Intern Give Back Day. The day is part of Macy’s Partners in Time program, which coordinates year-round volunteering opportunities for the company’s …
Teachers are hard at work this week creating all kinds of fiber art projects in our Raw Fibers course! They’re weaving on things like CD cases, sequin honey comb, and mesh from the warehouse–they also created their own looms out …
While a lot of people may consider Friday the Thirteenth to be an unlucky day – at MFTA, we don’t subscribe to those superstitions. In fact, last Friday, July 13, was a lucky day as we were joined in Long …
At Materials for the Arts, we are so busy processing donations and working the floor on shopping days that sometimes it is easy to forget that these fabulous donations started out as inventory for someone’s business or useful items from …
At MFTA, donations make our world go round! We received (literally) tons of donations this month. Here are just a few of the generous donors who gave us all kinds of great items in June: We are glad that Patricia …
Lynette from PS 98 in Manhattan sent these wonderful photos of a Rooftop of the World project. She and her students made the project using fabric from our warehouse after taking one of our “P” in-service credit classes. Here is her …
Kate of Calliope Theatre Company sent these photos of the wonderful set made from MFTA materials. The organization used carpet samples, rolls of fabric, and trim to decorate the stage and set the mood for Children of the Future Age, written and …
Paula from Mind The Gap Theatre sent over photos of a carnival they helped produce in collaboration with nonprofit arts organization The Secret City. Over the past few months, Mind the Gap Theatre has taken jewelry, wallpaper, zippers, paper, office items, …
