Author: Sarah Jane Lapp

Sarah Jane Lapp, Artist/Inventor/Mischief Maker, is a social practice artist and painter who has served as a filmmaker of documentaries and hand-drawn animations, an editorial cartoonist, a professor, and a solar installation operations wizard. She also enjoys helping people articulate and manifest their dreams; this summer she will serve as a puzzle specialist at Bradley Hospital. She designs jigsaw puzzles and, with Rani MacNeal, produces attendant Puzzical Chairs & Pie with Live Music and other public puzzle events to facilitate world peace, piece by piece. With Michael Ferrier she co-founded Puzlkind Jigsaw Puzzles and Puzzle Together, multiplayer puzzle apps with voice-chat which cozily connect over 1 million puzzlers across the planet. Other long-time collaborators include the musicians Mark Dresser and Skyjelly. Sarah Jane’s work has been supported by grants and fellowships including entities such as the MacDowell Colony, Rockefeller Foundation, Jerome Foundation, Foundation for Contemporary Performance Art, Alpert Award in the Arts, Seattle’s Artist Trust, Massachusetts Cultural Council, Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Arts, Artslink/CEC, and, here in Rhode Island, by 195 District Park 🙂

Small Acts of Democratic Resistance

Valentine for the Planet

June 23, 2025 January 7, 2026

Photo: artwork by Sarah Jane Lapp I reproduce my paintings as jigsaw puzzles to invite dialogue and delight, joy and justice, maybe some jokes, too. My producing partner, Rani MacNeal, and I produce several public art-oriented resistance initiatives under the rubric of Puzlkind Jigsaw Puzzles. Our most popular event, “Puzzical Chairs & Pie with Live Music,” asks strangers to puzzle together despite partisan politics. In a public space we …