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Since 2002, MFTA has offered professional development workshops to New York City educators, artists, therapists, after-school teachers, senior care providers and parents. What initially started off as one workshop a month has now grown into a full blown education program with weekly workshops, a cluster of talented teaching artists, a soon-to-be completed Reuse Education Center with two permanent workshop studios and thousands of people educated in the areas of reuse, waste reduction and the arts. MFTA will again offer a summer workshop series entitled- Creative Infusion: Art & Reuse in the Classroom (formerly the Summer Institute). Creative Infusion is a week long course, offered 3 times during the summer. The course presents a series of hands-on workshops taught by Joy Suarez which illustrates how to incorporate arts into established curriculum by creatively addressing the State and NYC Standards as well as multiple Blueprint Strands. Examples of sessions include: Art of Reuse- an introduction to materials and problem solving; Bookmaking- the creation of book structures to complement a multitude of subjects; Theatre Arts (hats, masks & costumes) and Puppetry- a spotlight on the communication of stories through various forms. Participants will utilize reused materials from the MFTA warehouse to create all of their projects. The cost of the course is $125, lunch is provided each day. NYC DOE educators can receive "P-Credits" by registering for this course at http://www.nycenet.edu/aspdp/. For Non-DOE educators you can register using the MFTA event sign up. There are 5 slots open for Non-DOE educators each week. When signing up be sure to select the specific week you are interested in attending. Week 1: July 7-11 Week 2: July 14-18 Week 3: July 21-25 Courses run Monday- Friday, 9:30 AM - 4:30 PM each day Non-DOE educators can sign up at our website, please click here. Materials for the Arts has been a wonderful resource for our school, for the past several years. Our new Arts Teacher went on a "shopping spree" at MFTA and came back excited about the treasures she had acquired. Throughout the year she has used them to develop amazing creative projects support and extend our curriculum. Two and three dimensional projects are hanging from walls and ceilings everywhere, as a testimonial to the benefit of MFTA. Recently, members of our Parents' Association went to the MFTA warehouse on our behalf, to gather supplies to be used during the day and also for special parents and children arts projects after school and in the evening. Thank you, MFTA for providing and maintaining such a wonderful free resource. Thanks, as well, to the generous sponsors and donors who enable MFTA to exist. In these days of ever-tightening budgets, we sincerely appreciate your vital contribution to our school arts program. Many thanks.
-Ronnie Feder (Principal, P.S.101Q "The School in the Gardens") |
