Calgary artists enjoy ‘fantastic’ opportunity to have work showcased on puzzles – Calgary | 24CA News
This yr’s Calgary Stampede brings a fantastic probability for some inventive Calgarians to share their skills with a large viewers.
The visible artists are additionally getting an uncommon alternative to showcase their work, piece by puzzling piece.
Calgary firm StumpCraft Puzzles prints the artists’ work onto skinny wooden and makes use of laser equipment to chop it up into puzzle items.
“I’ve never seen puzzle pieces like this before in my life,” artist Cecile Albi stated.
Albi and her fellow Calgary artists Ruolin Shi and Alison Philpotts have had their work of mountain landscapes remodeled into puzzles.
StumpCraft sells a lot of its puzzles on-line to patrons in all types of locations.
“Our puzzles have gone as far as Australia, Germany, across the US and Canada,” StumpCraft’s Jason Robillard stated. “Our puzzles go across the world.”
The artists are trying ahead to the reproductions of the work being shipped off to such faraway spots.
“It’s fantastic,” Albi stated. “As artists, it’s wonderful exposure.”
Having that publicity is a welcome step ahead in advancing their careers.
“It’s great to see people take away part of our western Canadian landscape and see that spread out in the world,” Shi stated.
Philpotts and Albi are additionally showcasing their work on the 2023 Calgary Stampede, as a part of the artwork present within the Western Oasis space on the Stampede.
“It really brings new eyeballs to our work,” Philpotts stated. “so it’s fantastic.”
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