Clappers aren’t just for sporting events and corporate conventions. Joe Rapp Inc donated over 20 boxes of these noisemakers to MFTA, and they can be reused to bring cheer and applause to your school or organization. With a little bit …
10-hour Professional Development Series for Community-based Educators Learn to make a variety of art projects by creatively reusing items from the recycling bin and free supplies from Materials for the Arts. During this 10-hour professional development series participants create their …
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 …
On June 7, over 50 teachers and staff from New York City public schools joined us at Materials for the Arts and MFTA recipient Frank Sinatra School of the Arts High School to learn how to bring puppetry into their English classes. Check …
Learn to bring literacy to life using shadow puppetry during this hands-on workshop with Joy Suarez at Materials for the Arts. Using items from the recycling bin and free supplies from MFTA, participants will learn techniques to create a variety …
We thank the participants in April’s Third Thursday open studio workshop and Gregory VandeHey of MFTA recipient Free Style Arts Association
These photos were sent by Wynter, an art teacher from Tottenville High School in Staten Island. She used fabric, buttons, and other materials from the warehouse to make bags, accessories, and hand puppets with her students. In her words, her “fashion …
Yesterday students in School of Visual Arts’ art therapy graduate program visited MFTA for a tour and workshop. The students were exposed to MFTA’s particular brand of art making, which incorporates both items from our warehouse and supplies collected from …
Aside from the wonderful donation of holiday ornaments and decorations this year, Macy’s has helped underwrite late-night shopping in 2012. Grants and donations to FOMA help us stay open late every Thursday and the first Monday of each month to …
Over the weekend, MFTA teaching artist Pamela Isaac hosted a puppet making workshop at Society of Illustrators with artist Melissa Sweet. People of all ages attended and learned about how items from the warehouse can be reused to make all different …
