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 (schools in Slovakia, Hong Kong & China are participating). Each will be added to the larger project installation as it grows and evolves into a powerful form of personal artisitic expression.
To learn more or to become part of this historic collaborative project email tk@timkellyartist.com or call 646.734.9072
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Puzzle Making Workshops
are brought to you by
www.artisgoodclass.com
fun workshop pictures:
Monmouth Library
Hazlet Branch
YMCA, Greenpoint
PS16
YMCA, Greenpoint
Harry Van Arsdale H.S.
YMCA, Greenpoint
YMCA, Greenpoint
PS84
links:
Articles about Puzzle Project
Puzzle Project Testimonials
Puzzle Home
Puzzle Project News & Facts...
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An Open Puzzle Making workshop will be held on Tuesday, July 27th from 6-9pm at SurfTaco in Belmar. It is open to anyone and everyone that would like to make a piece. We will provide all of the art supplies and you just need to bring your good ideas. We are asking for a $10 donation. $5 goes to the Jinka Foundation and $5 pays for materials.
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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As of July 20th, there have been 97 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 project may expand 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 Fall.
Escola Xin Hua at Macau in Hong Kong have become a part of the puzzle project.
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The David S. Zocchi Brain Tumor Center has booked several puzzle making workshops for 2010. 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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We are asking for $10 donations in exchange for a blank puzzle piece. $5 will go to the David S. Zocchi Brain Tumor Fund and $5 toward sustaining the puzzle project. The money we raise will be included as part of the Text for 10 promotion. Simply email tk@timkellyartist to get your blank puzzle piece.
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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.
