Tigercandy Arts, Inc
(347) 603-7822 info@tigercandyarts.comAbout Us
TIGERCANDY ARTS, INC is an inventive American company founded by dedicated visual artists and art therapists. We believe that all people have a need to express their inherent creativity regardless of age, experience, or ability. This is reflected in our designs that make the fun, beauty, and sense of joy and accomplishment of art-making accessible to all, while stretching the limits of imagination and fostering the artist within.
OUR GOAL is to design products and workshops that encourage imagination, independence and creativity. Our mission is get people of all ages and especially children excited about arts and crafts and being truly creative. In today's world of accelerated technology and "push button" toys our inner creative selves seem to be overlooked. Art-making fosters individuality, independence, hope and ambition. With art if you can dream it you can create it. What better way for us to learn to reach for the stars?
AS ARTISTS AND ART EDUCATORS we combine the teacher's sensibility with the methodology of art therapy to produce incredible products like Sockett®, The Sockett Kit® and Stick Puppet Party!® By guiding kids through the process of making their own original puppets, our kits put emphasis on the Creative Process and pay tribute to the artist in all of us.
AS DESIGNERS the quality of a concept is equally as important as the quality of the materials we use. It is important to us to make products with purpose. Many toy companies have set trends that marginalize and compromise both art and craft sacrificing imagination and artistic self discovery in the process. Unlike the overly commercialized toys and "paint by numbers" craft kits mass produced by giant toy companies, we focus on facilitating the creative process rather than taking it over.
FOUNDERS
Tiger Kandel: M.S. Art Therapy, B.A. Art History and Child Development. As a multi media artist Tiger has designed and taught numerous art workshops and puppet making techniques for educational, therapeutic and recreational venues. She has successfully utilized art and puppet making to address social issues such as violence prevention and conflict resolution with children from K-12 as well as in a therapeutic capacity with children in short term psychiatric treatment facilities. In addition to working with children, she has extensive experience utilizing art therapeutically with adults and seniors suffering from mild to severe medical and cognitive impairments.
Heather Schloss: M.S. Art therapy, B.A. Costume and Theater Design. Heather is a multi media artist and designer. She has successfully experimented with folk art, costuming, mask making and puppet design and has incorporated her experiences in the theater and her knowledge of design history to create highly detailed and fanciful Sockett puppets. Heather began developing educational art activities for pre-school and Kindergarten children while working in early childhood centers in Vermont and New York. Her primary focus was to create developmentally based pre-art and art therapy activities for children dealing with separation, developmental and medical issues.
OUR GOAL is to design products and workshops that encourage imagination, independence and creativity. Our mission is get people of all ages and especially children excited about arts and crafts and being truly creative. In today's world of accelerated technology and "push button" toys our inner creative selves seem to be overlooked. Art-making fosters individuality, independence, hope and ambition. With art if you can dream it you can create it. What better way for us to learn to reach for the stars?
AS ARTISTS AND ART EDUCATORS we combine the teacher's sensibility with the methodology of art therapy to produce incredible products like Sockett®, The Sockett Kit® and Stick Puppet Party!® By guiding kids through the process of making their own original puppets, our kits put emphasis on the Creative Process and pay tribute to the artist in all of us.
AS DESIGNERS the quality of a concept is equally as important as the quality of the materials we use. It is important to us to make products with purpose. Many toy companies have set trends that marginalize and compromise both art and craft sacrificing imagination and artistic self discovery in the process. Unlike the overly commercialized toys and "paint by numbers" craft kits mass produced by giant toy companies, we focus on facilitating the creative process rather than taking it over.
FOUNDERS
Tiger Kandel: M.S. Art Therapy, B.A. Art History and Child Development. As a multi media artist Tiger has designed and taught numerous art workshops and puppet making techniques for educational, therapeutic and recreational venues. She has successfully utilized art and puppet making to address social issues such as violence prevention and conflict resolution with children from K-12 as well as in a therapeutic capacity with children in short term psychiatric treatment facilities. In addition to working with children, she has extensive experience utilizing art therapeutically with adults and seniors suffering from mild to severe medical and cognitive impairments.
Heather Schloss: M.S. Art therapy, B.A. Costume and Theater Design. Heather is a multi media artist and designer. She has successfully experimented with folk art, costuming, mask making and puppet design and has incorporated her experiences in the theater and her knowledge of design history to create highly detailed and fanciful Sockett puppets. Heather began developing educational art activities for pre-school and Kindergarten children while working in early childhood centers in Vermont and New York. Her primary focus was to create developmentally based pre-art and art therapy activities for children dealing with separation, developmental and medical issues.
