NYAB Events - Materials for the Arts Gallery

Materials for the Arts Gallery - Past Events

Below is a list of all past events for Materials for the Arts Gallery. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.

“MFTA loves NYC: A Retrospective on Creative Reuse” Exhibition
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- Media: Installation
- 2015-04-16 - 2015-06-20
MFTA Loves NYCSince 1978, Materials for the Arts (MFTA) has collected surplus materials and redistributed them, for free, to thousands of nonprofits and government agencies with arts programming. MFTA...More »
Lina Puerta “La Muerte de un Arbol (The Death of a Tree)”
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- Media: Installation
- 2014-12-18 - 2015-02-19
Over the course of the Fall of 2014, Materials for the Arts Artist In Residence Lina Puerta worked inside NYC’s premier reuse facility sorting through the thousands of donated materials, carefully picking...More »
Bernard Klevickas “History of Stuff”
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- Media: Sculpture
- 2014-05-15 - 2014-08-15
MFTA artist-in-residence Bernard Klevickas’ work involves taking apart discarded objects made from plastic, metal, and styrofoam. He then reassembles those materials into large patchwork sculptures composed...More »
“Reuse Remixed: Small Works Show”
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- Media: Painting - Other
- 2014-03-06 - 2014-05-09
Materials for the Arts is hosting its first, small works recipient show. This exhibition will feature any artwork which is small in scale, but large in impact. The theme of the show is “Reuse Remixed.”...More »
“Community Maps: Mosaics of PS 209Q” Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Other - Installation
- 2014-01-27 - 2014-02-28
The mixed-media mosaics of PS 209 Queens were created by the school’s 2nd and 5th grade students during their Materialsfor the Arts residency with Teaching Artist Joy Suarez. Students integrated their...More »
Vadis Turner “Painting with ribbon and fabric”
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- Media: Painting - Installation
- 2013-09-12 - 2013-12-31
Vadis Turner paints with ribbon and fabric donated by NYC’s fashion industries to the MFTA warehouse. By seeing the transformational possibilities of textiles, she uses ribbons as lines, marks, and brushstrokes,...More »
Beth Williams Garrett "Carried Away"
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- Media: Sculpture
- 2012-11-08 - 2013-02-14
Exhibition of sculpture by Beth Williams Garrett, the MFTA's Artist-in-Residence. Beth Williams Garrett lives and works as an artist and fashion designer in Long Island City, New York. For more than...More »
"WasteDiversions Sculpture and Collage from New York’s Waste Stream" Exhibition
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- Media: Other - Sculpture - Installation
- 2012-03-29 - 2012-10-04
Materials for the Arts Gallery presents WasteDiversions: Sculpture and Collage from New York’s Waste Stream, an exhibition of new work by artists from MFTA recipient groups Culture Push and Vaudeville...More »