FOR EDUCATORS
Learn the Art of Creative Reuse
The MFTA Education Center offers high-impact workshops and classes to teachers, students and the public. Held at MFTA’s Long Island City facility and in schools across NYC, these workshops focus on the Creative Reuse of everyday materials and increase student engagement by showing teachers how to integrate the arts across the curriculum. MFTA’s teaching artists model useful techniques and showcase ideas that support our Creative Reuse philosophy, inspiring teachers to include more art in their schools.
| Important Notice: Due to COVID-19, we have transformed many of our in-person education programs into online classes, videos, and webpages. Visit our professional development page to register for our Fall 2020 live, online P-Credit / CTLE courses. Enter our newly launched MFTA Online Education Center for free lesson plans and art classes for your students. Schedule a virtual field trip to MFTA, so your class can learn about sustainability and creative reuse. |
Back to School 2020
Whether you are at home or in the classroom, bring creative reuse to your students with our online resources, lesson plans, and activities.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Earn P- and CTLE Credits while taking your educational career to the next level.
IN-SCHOOL PROGRAMS
Help students & parents make more meaningful connections between sustainability & art.
FIELD TRIPS
Bring your students to the MFTA warehouse for multimodal arts learning activities.
COMMUNITY WORKSHOPS
Bring Creative Reuse into any community with multi-generational family engagement events.
UPCOMING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMING
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
