Materials For The Arts
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Materials for the Arts, NYC helps artists realize their visions, provides students with a richer educational experience, and furnishes businesses with a simple and efficient way to enhance the cultural life of their city while promoting environmental awareness and reuse.


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Recipient Membership

Are you in need of art materials for your non-profit organization or public school?

Could you make use of surplus home, office equipment and furniture, materials, fabric, paint, paper and other industrial cast-offs?

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Donor Membership

Do you want to trade the clutter in your warehouse or even just your closet for a tax deduction?
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Educational Programs

Get ideas for how to use MFTA art materials in your program.

Fall 2008 Daytime Workshops
Fall Afternoon Workshops 2008

New Summer Evening Shopping Hours

August 21, 2008, 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm

When you log in to mfta.org to make your appointments for July and August, only abbreviated Summer hour appoi...

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New Summer Evening Shopping Hours

August 28, 2008, 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm

When you log in to mfta.org to make your appointments for July and August, only abbreviated Summer hour appoi...

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Evening Shopping by Appointment Only

September 4, 2008, 1:30 pm - 5:00 pm

Materials for the Arts has extended evening shopping hours. Please call in advance to schedule an appointment....

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Latest News

Creative Infusion: Art & Reuse in the Classroom

For three one-week sessions in July, MFTA offered P-Credits to NYC educators attending our annual professional development series, Creative Infusion: Art & Reuse in the Classroom.   Led by ...
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Extraordinary work from some extraordinary volunteers - New York Cares Youth Services

Fifteen high school students from New York Cares Youth Services (through the Upward Bound Program at Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology) volunteered their time and effort at Materials ...
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Materials for the Arts receives special recognition from Coler Goldwater

Recipient Member Coler Goldwater Specialty Hospital & Nursing Facility thanks MTFA “for many years of support and donated materials and inspiring expression in our Patients, Residents ...
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Theater on the Cheap

Thank you to everyone who attended our “Theater on the Cheap” workshop series. The reactions and results turned out better than we expected. On both Tuesday and Wednesday the classrooms w...
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