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September 2021
Junk Kouture Workshop: Live – with Materials for the Arts
As part of Climate Week NYC, Junk Kouture takes over Materials for the Arts for a celebration of creativity, fashion and sustainability.
Find out more »August 2021
Creative Reuse in Fashion: An Interview with Rick Davy, Founder of BK Style Foundation
Join MFTA online for a conversation about creative reuse in fashion with BK Style Foundation, a Brooklyn-based nonprofit, which showcases emerging designers and provides educational programs to young people interested in careers in fashion.
Find out more »From Posters to Podcasts: Social Activism from the 20th Century to Today (Online: Summer 2021)
This course takes place at MFTA and at the NY Historical Society. The purpose of this course is to build teacher content knowledge around 20th and 21st century social activism...
Find out more »July 2021
Paper; Pulp to Fiction (Online: Summer 2021)
This studio class will take a single product, paper, and work out the historical, economic, scientific, social and mathematical properties that are inherent in its use and production; all through hands-on art making...
Find out more »MFTA Gallery – “The Path of Least Resistance” by Elisa Insua
Visit MFTA Gallery for artist Elisa Insua's solo exhibition, "The Path of Least Resistance." As MFTA's Spring 2020 Artist-in-Residence, Insua has transformed buttons, beads, jewelry, electronics, and toys into elaborate large-scale assemblage works that examine excess and consumption in our society. Born in Buenos Aires, Elisa Insua started her practice as a self-taught artist, creating assemblages and sculptures with discarded materials. In her work, Insua often explores concepts related to economics, overconsumption, and human insatiability. Her artwork has been shown…
Find out more »PAPER MAKER- STEAM Across Curriculum Designing and Constructing with Paper (Online: Summer 2021)
MFTA incorporates STEAM into each project based learning workshop designed for implementation across the classroom curriculum, easily modified, easy to turn key, participants will be able to provide a diverse level of learning techniques...
Find out more »July 2021 | Third Thursday
MFTA's Third Thursday programming includes artists talks, interviews, artmaking events, and gallery tours.
Find out more »Gallery Exhibition Opening: “The Path of Least Resistance” by Elisa Insua
Join us in person at the MFTA Gallery for the exhibition opening of "The Path of Least Resistance" by Elisa Insua, MFTA Artist-in-Residence.
Find out more »Protected: Props, Costumes and Set Design for Oral Presentations across the Curriculum (Online: Summer 2021)
This course is designed to enhance oral presentations in the classroom through the use of project-based learning to create props, costumes and set designs made from reusable materials. Through guided art instruction, participants create hands-on art projects...
Find out more »Protected: Creative Infusion: Art and Reuse in the Classroom (Online: Summer 2021)
Creative Infusion is an introduction to a wide range of ideas, techniques and methods used for integrating art made with reusable and recycled materials across the curriculum...
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