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April 2021
Creative Reuse Screen Printing with Lucky Fish Founder, Jann Cheifitz
Join us for a screen print demonstration and conversation with Lucky Fish print shop owner Jann Cheifitz...
Find out more »Project Based Learning; Making Books, Games and Props to Animate for Multi Media Presentations (Online: Spring 2021)
This course is designed for teachers who are interested in offering their students a deeper investigation of STEAM through project-based learning by using reusable materials and technology. Through guided art and technology instruction...
Find out more »March 2021
Guided Tour of Materials for the Arts
Join us for a live tour of Materials for the Arts and learn more about NYC’s premier creative reuse center.
Find out more »Creating Space: An Artist Talk with Konstance Patton
Join us online for a live conversation with NYC-based artist Konstance Patton and MFTA Director of Education John Cloud Kaiser. Patton is an Indigenous American sculptor, illustrator, musician, and animator whose work often explores the relationship between culture, spirituality, and identity.
Find out more »Fashion & Sustainability: A Fashion Show with Materials for the Arts & BK Style Foundation
ReFashion Week NYC Event Join us online for an encore presentation of the Materials for the Arts and BK Style Foundation sustainable fashion show and workshop. BK Style is a Brooklyn-based nonprofit, which showcases emerging designers and provides educational programs to young people interested in careers in fashion. For this special event, BK Style Founder Rick Davy will lead a team of designers in incorporating reusable materials from the MFTA warehouse to create upcycled fashion designs. MFTA presents this event…
Find out more »February 2021
Fashion & Sustainability | A Fashion Workshop with BK Style Foundation
Join MFTA and BK Style Foundation online for a live sustainable fashion show and workshop...
Find out more »Props, Costumes and Set Design for Oral Presentations across the Curriculum (Online: Spring 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 »January 2021
“Archetypes: A Visual Soundtrack” by Dario Mohr – MFTA Gallery Exhibition Opening
Join us for the virtual opening of the solo exhibition by MFTA's Fall 2020 Artist-in-Residence, Dario Mohr. While working at MFTA, Mohr has transformed fabric, furniture, and found objects into twelve shrine-like assemblage works...
Find out more »December 2020
Creative Reuse Holiday Crafts with Pamela Isaac
Join us on Thursday, December 17 to make small creative reuse gifts and ornaments using items from around your home.
Find out more »November 2020
Mapping, Observing & Communicating: A Conversation with John Landewe
Join us for a conversation with John Landewe, an artist who pushes the boundaries of conceptual art with his time-lapse videos, where he captures his intentional dance-like body motions created through his walks, bike rides, boat rides, and daily tasks.
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