Cardboard Sculpture Making | presented by RiverArts

Your young creator will use recycled cardboard in various shapes and textures to create a vibrant and sculptural portrait relief. The projects will inspire them to look at simple objects in a brand-new way. Supplies list includes common household recyclables: corrugated cardboard from boxes, box lids, plain cardboard from pasta or cereal boxes, cardboard tubes from paper towels or toilet paper. Markers or crayons or paint, thick, tacky glue. 

Artist and teacher, Haifa Bint-Kadi, has been teaching art at schools across Westchester and the five boroughs for over 20 years. Although she works in many mediums, all of her work centers around visual archiving or the preservation of people’s lived experiences and memories through art forms. Haifa is classically trained as a mosaicist, but she also does large scale public art sculptures. All art should activate and nurture the creative potential of every individual, particularly children. Her goal when working with young artists is to develop their technical skills, artistic interpretation, and to impart self-confidence in their art-making skills. She currently teaches art as an Adjunct at SUNY Purchase and F.I.T, but throughout the school year, she works with students in the classroom teaching how to use unconventional materials in creative ways.