Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Materials for the Arts (MFTA) has been serving New York City arts and cultural organizations since 1978. They are the original recyclers and if you don't know about them you should.

They give away free stuff and here's how it works: Materials are gathered from companies and individuals that no longer need them and Materials for the Arts redistributes the good stuff to the organizations, artists and educators who need it to run their programs.

Find out if you are eligible to receive free stuff from MFTA.

Find out how to become an MFTA donor.

Going to the MFTA warehouse always feels like an adventure and, in my experience, they always have exactly what you need and something you never knew you wanted.

For instance, I was just over on their website poking around and I discovered that they have an education program with a whole roster of teaching artists and cool workshops and everything.

Who knew?

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