Kathryn Sclavi is an artist, educator, and arts integration specialist/consultant. Sclavi’s work focuses on creating imaginative installations, events, and participatory experiences through collaboration with diverse communities. She creates socially-engaged projects designed to encourage communication, celebrate spaces, and create new dimensions of shared experiences. She currently runs an art collective based out of Brooklyn called Shadow Traffic, a group of three artists who produce immersive installations within interstitial areas of the urban landscape and works with classroom educators to create arts-in- fused lessons and projects in the tri-state area and is an adjunct professor at Tyler School of Art, Temple University.
Hot Tea Cart was a mobile service bicycle-driven cart that hosted a series of mini-events throughout the neighborhood of Chinatown North from April to September 2013 in order to activate underutilized spaces in the neighborhood, bring attention to needed services, and create a gathering place for exchange among neighborhood residents and workers.
