Folks, imagine going thrift shopping for art materials in a 35,000-square-foot facility, and everything is free. That’s exactly what happens at Materials for the Arts , a NYC-based organization that gathers leftover materials–wood, paper, fabric, furniture, computers, electronic equipment, you name it–and redistributes them, free of charge, to creatives and creative organizations that need the stuff

Folks, imagine going thrift shopping for art materials in a 35,000-square-foot facility, and everything is free.

That’s exactly what happens at Materials for the Arts, a NYC-based organization that gathers leftover materials–wood, paper, fabric, furniture, computers, electronic equipment, you name it–and redistributes them, free of charge, to creatives and creative organizations that need the stuff. Literally tons of material is thus diverted from landfills, and a city’s worth of creatives are able to get what they need for free. Check it out:

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NYC’s Materials for the Arts. Free supplies!