Program

What happens when strangers commune with puzzles and pie?
World peace, piece by piece!

Sarah Jane Lapp leads participants through exercises using her artisan jigsaw puzzles to explore problem-solving, mindfulness, cultural identity, and other aspects of community-building. This workshop is designed to be an ntergenerational friendship experience - with pie.

An internationally exhibiting artist and puzzle designer, Ms. Lapp has made images for stage, page, screen, and bean, producing essay-films, hand-drawn animations, short plays, music videos, telematic productions, photovoltaic solar installations, anti-fascist greeting cards, and highly personal jigsaw puzzles.

As Rabbi Lawrence Kushner once wrote,

Everyone carries with them at least one and probably

Many pieces to someone else’s puzzle/

Sometimes they know it/

Sometimes they don’t.”

Group puzzle assembly teaches us how to contribute to the greater whole – while simultaneously practicing manual dexterity, spatial relations, and color identification. Puzzleniks experience the calming communion of mindful co-creation – while exploring the intricacies of Sarah Jane’s lyrical images and whimsical puzzle vocabulary.

No batteries required and totally silent, this old-fashioned mode of re-creation/creation occupies active fingers, soothes an anxious mind, and encourages inter-generational bonding.

Optional:
On the wall we project one of Sarah Jane’s digital puzzle collaborations with Ironzog, with software that tabulates speed of assembly. Fastest puzzler wins a prize!