New Ideas CityHello Museum

Make Visible the Music: Giant Xylophones with Materials for the Arts

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Photo: John Kaiser

Part of the Street Program

Materials for the Arts expands the resources available for creative activities in New York City by promoting reuse. We collect unneeded items from companies and individuals and distribute these donations for free to qualified nonprofit organizations and public schools. Giant Xylophones, our participatory art/music project, will invite the public to explore the invisible detritus of our city’s thriving creative industries by collaborating on the construction of giant xylophones and then playing them. The xylophones will be made by attaching a variety of reused objects to large portable metal frames with the help of the Materials for the Arts team.