Events
Music: The Sound of Math, Science, and Social Studies (Fall 2024)
Materials for the Arts 33-00 Northern Blvd, 3rd Floor, New York, NY, United StatesThis course is designed for teachers to integrate music into the classroom through fun and simple techniques, learning basic concepts found in music while designing a series of hands-on indigenous inspired instruments made from reusable materials.
CTLE Professional Development: Compose, Create and Play | MFTA & New York Philharmonic
Materials for the Arts 33-00 Northern Blvd, 3rd Floor, New York, NY, United StatesThe orchestra has been a platform for innovation for centuries. Join Materials for the Arts and the New York Philharmonic to broaden your perspective on what orchestral music is and can be. Participants will learn about and create found-sound instruments using items found in MFTA’s warehouse of treasures and compose music using graphic scores / alternative notation.
Paper: Pulp to Fiction (Fall 2024)
Materials for the Arts 33-00 Northern Blvd, 3rd Floor, New York, NY, United StatesThis studio class will take a single product – paper – and explore six themes of hands-on practice: paper making, pen and ink, block prints, stenciling, silkscreen and collage.
Exhibition Opening: “some part of me lived here before” by Amanda hingbodhipakkiya
Materials for the Arts 33-00 Northern Blvd, 3rd Floor, New York, NY, United StatesFresh off her travels to her father’s hometown in Thailand, MFTA Artist-in-Residence Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya began her residency ruminating on a single word: “ผูกพัน,” (pùuk-pan), Thai for “bind/entwine.” The meaning of pùuk-pan is explored both… Read More »Exhibition Opening: “some part of me lived here before” by Amanda hingbodhipakkiya