In partnership with BK Style Foundation, MFTA is launching its virtual Designer-in-Residence program working to support up-and-coming fashion designers, giving them access to supplies and support they need to gain exposure for their work.
Friends of Materials for the Arts (FOMA) is excited to host the Masked Marvelous Cocktail Party at our warehouse in Long Island City for the first time since 2019! Please join us on Tuesday, October 24th from 6:00-10:00 pm as we celebrate this year’s theme “A Homecoming – Back to the Warehouse.” This celebration will also feature a first look at the exhibition by Machine Dazzle, our current Artist-in-Residence.
Materials for the Arts is pleased to announce its sneak peak of “FORMALITIES,” a solo exhibit by MFTA Artist-in-Residence Machine Dazzle, available in our gallery.
Attend the exhibition opening on Thursday, November 16 from 6:30-8:30pm.
Dates: Wednesday, November 30th
Time: 4:00pm – 6:00pm
Location: Materials for the Arts
33-00 Northern Boulevard, 3rd Floor
Long Island City, NY 11101
Cost: FREE
Come and get creative and earn CTLE credits at this studio workshop at MFTA. Learn a variety of ways that re-used free materials can be added into your curriculum to create more engagement through hands-on projects including puppetry, mosaics, bookmaking, costumery, and more. See examples of the many ways the arts can be integrated into the curriculum and learn and share with fellow teachers about best practices in re-use.
Pop-Up Bookmaking at MFTA
Dates: Tuesday, November 8th
Time: 8:00am – 12:00pm
Location: Materials for the Arts
33-00 Northern Boulevard, 3rd Floor
Long Island City, NY 11101
Cost: $25
Come get creative and earn CTLE credits this Election Day at MFTA. Learn a variety of ways that re-used free materials can be added into your curriculum to create more engagement through hands-on projects like pop-up book making. See examples of the many ways the arts can be integrated into your curriculum and learn and share with fellow teachers about best practices in re-use.
Join us at the Pfizer Building for a celebration of 10 years of our Artist-in-Residence program, which continues to inspire the public to envision how sustainably reclaimed materials can come together in the spirit of “creative reuse” to form innovative and imaginative works of art. We invite you in honor of this program to a gathering and exhibition entitled, The Sustainable Art Show, presenting artwork by our resident artist alumni…
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Materials for the Arts partners with NYC Department of Cultural Affairs to turn trash into treasure
BY LEAH MISHKIN
MAY 13, 2022 / 6:05 PM / CBS NEW YORK
The NYC Department of Correction (DOC) and Materials for the Arts (MFTA) are pleased to present “Gateways to Galleries,” an exhibition of artwork created by people in DOC custody on view in the MFTA Gallery.
DOC has partnered with Materials for the Arts to bring the “Gateways to Galleries” program to Rikers Island, allowing individuals at DOC to participate in an advanced drawing course with wraparound support on how to prepare an artist statement, present a cohesive portfolio of artwork, and market oneself as an artist.
“Gateways to Galleries” is on view Monday through Friday (9:00am to 5:00pm) through March 18 at the MFTA Gallery.
Registration is now open for MFTA’s professional development courses for teachers. Led by MFTA Master Teaching Artist Joy Suarez, these classes support educators across subject areas to create interactive and engaging projects for students at home or in the classroom. Learn the tools to bring art, reuse, and hands-on projects into your lesson plans.
MFTA’s Spring 2022 P-Credit (+30) / A+ / CTLE Courses
Creative Infusion: Art and Reuse in the Classroom (Online: Spring 2022)
Dates: 2/12, 2/19, 3/5, 3/12, 3/19, 3/26 (6 Saturdays)
Credits: 3 P-Credits/45 CTLE hours
Project Based Learning; Making Books, Games and Props to Animate for Multi Media Presentations
(Online: Spring 2022)
Dates: 4/2, 4/9, 4/30, 5/7, 5/14, 5/21 (6 Saturdays)
Credits: 3 P-Credits/45 CTLE hours
Thursday, January 20, 2022, 6-9 pm
Join us at Chashama’s gallery at Union Square for the exhibition opening of “Everything and Nothing at All” by MFTA Artist-in-Residence Barak Chamo. Using supplies from the MFTA warehouse, Chamo has transformed discarded technologies and relics of endless consumption into installations reflecting on the ways technology manifests in our daily lives. Chamo’s practice is informed by his early career in engineering, and his work explores a wide range of topics, from mass surveillance to online misinformation and mechanical automation…