Puzzles of Color, a North Texas family-owned business known for its jigsaw puzzles featuring work by artists of color, is celebrating the holidays with its first Black Joy Market.
The free, daylong event will showcase more than 30 Black-owned vendors along with live performances and family activities. Puzzles of Color co-founder Ericka Jones said the idea is inspired by her family’s long tradition of puzzling together during Christmas.
“One of the things that was hard when we were children was there was not a lot of diversity in the imagery that we saw,” Jones said. “And as we got older and got back into puzzles again as adults, … still, we’re not seeing a lot of diversity.”…