January 2020

JetBlue Valentine’s Day Raffle

by Bliss Green-Morehead
January 31, 2020February 13, 2020

Warm up your winter with some travel. Enter to win a pair of round-trip JetBlue plane tickets! All proceeds support Friends of Materials for the Arts’ education and public programming.

Image of the newspaper clipping of the "Bygone Buttons Fill Hole for Arts Groups" story in the Wall Street Journal. In the clipping there is a photo of a man and a woman looking through the bins at Materials for the Arts for buttons. THere are also upclose pictures of vintage buttons in the Materials for the Arts warehouse.

“Bygone Buttons Fill a Hole for New York Arts Groups” – WSJ

by Bliss Green-Morehead
January 29, 2020March 16, 2020

“When Millicent Safro was shutting down her Upper East Side shop Tender Buttons last summer, she did so thinking she might find a new location for the half-century-old sewing-supply emporium…”

Woman looks at Whitney Oldenburg's sculpture titled Shoe Lace in the MFTA Gallery. The sculpture is made of intertwined ventilation tubing covered in bright orange yarn-like cord.

Explore Whitney Oldenburg’s Exhibition: “Loose Ends” on view in the MFTA Gallery

by Bliss Green-Morehead
January 9, 2020March 16, 2020

“Loose Ends” includes the largest sculpture to ever be on view in the MFTA Gallery. Oldenburg’s work will be on view at MFTA until March 6, 2020.