The Puzzle Art Installation & Collaborative Project is a dynamic growing & traveling, group art exhibition. Artists, young & old, have contributed their individual voice collectively with other artists to form this historic puzzle art project. It is a simple way for each of us to tell our own story.
The Puzzle Art Installation & Collaborative Project exists as proof that art is essential to life. The impact of the installation is testament to the fact that art is a powerful form of expression that cannot be denied.
The project is being sustained and maintained by the efforts of the artist Tim Kelly and his cast of artistic helpers...where it continues to evolve and grow into something amazing.
The value and power of the puzzle installation is the cumulative strength of each individual puzzle piece. (click each link to see examples)
Several small sub-projects are currently being created and displayed across the country and around the world. Each will be added to the larger project installation as it grows and evolves into a historic piece of collaborative art and personal artisitic expression.
To learn more or to become part of this collaborative project email: tk@timkellyartist.com or call 646.734.9072
Groups contact Tim Kelly directly to make arrangments. It's easy as pie.
Individuals can pick up a blank puzzle piece for a $10 donation at:
> in Manhattan at Art Connect New York
491 Broadway, 5th Floor
Soho, NYC 10012
www.artconnectsnewyork.org
Gallery Hours:
Tues-Thurs from noon-6pm
646.546.5334 (you may want to call ahead)
> in Brooklyn at CreativeSeven studio in Greenpoint
Pickup/drop off by appointment only
> Puzzle 6-packs are available online at etsy.com
click http://www.etsy.com/listing/55743255/puzzle-piece-6-pack
Return your piece when it is done. It will be included in upcoming art installations and traveling exhibits.
Roger Clark of NY1 visited the installation and interviewed Tim Kelly & Jessie Chism of the puzzle project and Jamie Johnson of ACNY. Click to watch the segment.
Hundreds of artistic puzzle pieces created by hundreds of individual artists, ACNY, In Rivers Art Space, Reaves Gallery, the YMCA, etsy.com, PS16, PS177, The Queens Museum of Art, Inwood House, South Richmond High School, Seaview Academy, as well as others in NYC will be on display at the Spattered Columns until July 27th. Come check it out, it's worth the trip.
Art Connects New York | 491 Broadway | 5th Floor | SoHo | 646.546.5334 | Tues-Thurs noon-6pm
Images on this website may load slowly. Please be patient...a picture is worth a thousand words.
Puzzle Making Workshops
are brought to you by
www.artisgoodclass.com
Please make a donation
which will help to sustain
this project
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Click to watch our quick flick about the puzzle project.
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Art Connects New York
491 Broadway, 5th Floor
Soho, NYC 10012
www.artconnectsnewyork.org
Pickup Your Blank Puzzle Piece!
Stock is Limited
Gallery Hours:
Tues-Thurs
noon-6pm
646.546.5334 (you may want to call ahead)
$10 donation per piece
Return your puzzle piece
when you feel most comfortable
email: tk@timkellyartist.com to arrange pickup or return
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fun workshop pictures:
Monmouth Library
Hazlet Branch
YMCA, Greenpoint
PS16
YMCA, Greenpoint
Harry Van Arsdale H.S.
YMCA, Greenpoint
YMCA, Greenpoint
PS84
links:
Puzzle Project Testimonials
Puzzle Home
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Puzzle Project News & Facts...
check out the blog posting on etsy.com about our project.
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The puzzle project was profiled on CBS during a segment of "Eye on New York".
Click to watch it.
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The Puzzle Installation & Collaborative Project exhibition and reception at Middletown Arts Center on Saturday, Feb. 5th, 2011
Click to see photos
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We are happy to announce that PS177 and South Richmond HS/IS Students @ IS7 asked to rebook puzzle workshops. This makes us happy. Each school is part of Districk 75. They were both fun and we cannot wait to make art together again.
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Prior to our recent opening reception at ACNY for the puzzle exhibition in Soho, I was given a gift from a participating artist. This is a picture of us posing together with the artistic pillow she made for me. This talented young lady has a bright future in art. Receiving this present is one of the sweetest things that I've experience while creating collaborative art with others. Art is good!
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This package containing dozens of puzzle pieces from Slovakia arrived sooner than we thought. Cannot wait to open it and enjoy each new piece that will join our main puzzle installation. Slowly we are gathering all the pieces from across the country and around the world.
Several schools across Europe have been puzzle art making as part of the Comenius Project. Their puzzle pieces will be arriving in NYC by the end of the month. To learn more about the schools from Slovakia, The Czech Republic, England, Germany & Italy
click to see photo's of puzzle art making in Europe.
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The Reaves Gallery
at 526 W26 St., Suite 706
Chelsea, NYC hosted an open puzzle making workshop on Saturday, Dec. 18th & Tuesday, Nov. 30th from 6-9pm.
Click for photos
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An Open Puzzle Making workshop was held on Tuesday, July 27th from 6-9pm at SurfTaco in Belmar.
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Become a Fan of our Puzzle Installation & Collaborative Project Facebook page. Please recommend it to your friends, so that we can spread the word. Click to visit our page.
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Principal Mary Renny stands in front of some of the 300 puzzle pieces installed at PS16 in Williamsburg, Brooklyn
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As of March 2nd, 2011,
there have been 123
Art is Good Puzzle Making Workshops...that's a lot of
puzzle art making!!!
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The Puzzle Project is International!!
The Secondary School of Applied Arts in Kosice in Slovakia is participating in the Puzzle Project, as part of the Comenius Project. The has expanded to schools in the Czech Republic, Germany, Great Britan & Italy. Click to learn more.
The Shanghai Community International School in China is participating and will be working on their puzzle pieces in the Winter
We hope they will send pictures
.
Escola Xin Hua at Macau in Hong Kong have become a part of the puzzle project
Hope they send pictures, too
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The David S. Zocchi Brain Tumor Center booked several puzzle making workshops for 2011. A portion of the funding has been raised through the Text for 10 promotion.
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You need only click through the picture links above to see the impact art makes on artists young and old. Try to count all the smiles and see the looks of pride and happiness on the faces.
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Many of the materials that we use as art supplies are recycled/reusable. We like to think that if we throw something away it will be garbage forever. If we use it for puzzle making then it will be art forever.
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This is the first ever puzzle piece
made for this project. Tim Kelly,
made this prototype in between
food, nap's and football during
Thanksgiving Day 2008.
click to see larger image
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SurfTaco generously paid for the
8'x4' white sheets of 1/4" foamcore
used to make the first 800 puzzle pieces.
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Tim Kelly produced a universal
puzzle piece die out of 1/8" styrene.
Sandy, Pat, Hutch, Tim and
the other kind artists from the
Belmar Arts Council got the project
started by spending an afternoon
tracing and cutting blank puzzle pieces.
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We gave the initial 400 blank puzzle pieces
to high school students, kids, teens,
and adult artists...together the start of
this installation is
what we created.
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We like to use various shells we find at the beach for mixing paint.
