Bring MFTA teaching artists to your site for customized multi-week programs that engage participants and channel their creativity into making art. MFTA residencies bring teaching artists to your site for multiple sessions to lead assembly programs for large groups and art-making workshops for smaller groups. All residencies teach environmentally sustainable ways to make art and address the New York City Blueprint for Teaching and Learning in the Arts (.pdf). MFTA Education staff can create residency sessions to enhance and reinforce your site's curricula in math, science, social studies and language arts. Residency programs are also available for students with special needs. Sample residency sessions:Up-Cycle Classroom: Each week MFTA teaching artists work with a class on a new reuse art project. (Sample projects: musical instruments, game boards, puppets, costumes and weavings) Giant Sculptures: During this team-building program participants work in groups to create giant sculptures while learning the history of found object artists in New York City. The finished sculptures are perfect large-scale art pieces for your site. (Sample projects: Animals, people in history and buildings of New York City) Reuse Art in Math, Science, Social Studies and Language Arts: These programs excite participants about core subjects with art projects that compliment and reinforce classroom lessons. (Sample projects: Manipulatives, game boards, books, costumes, puppets and dioramas) Up-Cycle Your World Assembly Program: Bring NYC children's music performer Louie to your school stage for an interactive performance of songs about environmental awareness and making art. Assemblies enhance residencies by exciting the site about reuse art; they are also the perfect venue to showcase student creations. Residency Workshop Sessions (45 minutes-1 hour) 30 participants with one teaching artist, $95 each with an eight session minimum; additional teaching artist $60 per session.Assembly Program Sessions (45 minute-1 hour) with two performers, $750 each; $1050 for back-to-back assemblies with two performers. Call 718-729-2165 for more information or to book an MFTA residency program. John Cloud Kaiser, Education Director education@mfta.nyc.gov tel: 718-729-2165 - fax: 718-729-2823 33-00 Northern Boulevard, 3rd Floor Long Island City, NY 11101 Educational programming at Materials for the Arts is made possible
by support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Peter and
Carmen Lucia Buck Foundation and the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation.
Support also comes from TD Bank, through the TD Charitable Foundation,
Waste Management of New York and Con Edison. |
