“Everybody starts with a blank piece of canvas, which is 24 inches by 24 inches. Everyone starts with the same art supplies, but as you can see, from there, that’s when everything changes,” artist Tim Kelly said when the project started in 2011.

Sharon Marsh is a teacher for gifted students. She said supplies were purchased from grant money provided by the Clay Education Foundation.

“It was grant money that we used to purchase the blank pieces,” said Marsh. “The puzzle is a collaboration project that was started over a decade ago with the artist Tim Kelly in New York. He started it with a youth group, and then everybody saw it when they put it together, and everybody wanted to participate.”

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