Haifa Bint-Kadi

Haifa Bint-Kadi is a public mosaic artist and a teaching artist who lives in Yonkers, NY.
Her. M.F.A. was obtained from Instituto d’Arte per il Mosaico di Ravenna in Ravenna, Italy. She is currently a roster artist with the Westchester Arts Council and works with the Pelham Arts Center, Groundwork Yonkers, the Beczak Environmental Education Center and Citylore in Manhattan. Her public art commissions have been installed internationally, but local projects include mosaic murals at the Hudson River Museum, the Peekskill Riverfront Green, Comfort Restaurant in Hastings and Cottage Place Gardens

Ms. Bint-Kadi’s work involves working closely with community in developing public art projects that reflect the community’s interests, history and perspective using a constructivist model to engage the public in the Big Idea of community, making connections to the real world.

She believes public art should be accessible to the public and not simply because it’s installed in a public space, but because the artist has engaged the public through research, history and the dialogue the public art inspires.
To find out more about her work and see a gallery of her work, please visit her website.

WEBSITE: http://artandsoul-studio.com