From Broken Pieces, We Create New Beginnings

Honoring Memories Through Art
As a local Los Angeles nonprofit, we have been heartbroken by the staggering loss across our city. As we grieve with friends and businesses that have lost so much, we are here to do what we have always done best: transform broken pieces into unique and meaningful works of art. 

Transforming Loss into Lasting Beauty
In the aftermath of such devastating loss, we are honored to help preserve lasting memories by creating beautiful mosaics that incorporate cherished mementos and fragments of recovered items. Each mosaic we create is more than art—it’s a tribute to resilience. Whether it's pieces of a beloved heirloom, fragments from a cherished space, or items that carry personal significance, we can transform what remains into a one-of-a-kind work of art that tells your story.

Crafted with Purpose, Powered by Healing
At Piece by Piece, your project is brought to life by skilled artisans who have transformed their own lives through art. Piece by Piece supports individuals facing economic insecurity through free mosaic workshops that build confidence, foster creativity, and promote financial stability. Based in the heart of Los Angeles, our artists are honored to be part of your healing journey, creating art that connects lives and stories.

If you have items you'd like to incorporate into meaningful works of art, we are here for you. We are in this together, piece by piece.  

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  • Repurposed a shattered, treasured serving piece into an art piece
  • A nursing school graduation gift created out of mementos and personal items
  • A grandmother's broken china repurposed into a symbolic Judaic mezuzah
  • Small garden pots created out of fragments of a grandmother's china 

An example of including memories in a mosaic

They had washed up on shore—churned by the tides and buried in the sand over the course of more than seven decades. Beautiful but broken chips of dining china that once belonged to a hotel on a bay in Long Island.

Folks have been finding these chips for years—and we did too after we bought an old house that once belonged to the hotel's owner. But more than 70 years after the hotel burned down, what could be done with the broken pieces?

We had never quite figured it out until one day when our cousin, Anne Barnett, saw the china fragments, heard their story, and said she had the solution: the folks at Piece by Piece.

They certainly knew what to do. They took our ragtag assortment of 19th-century china chips and turned them into magnificent works of art. We now have two tabletops—mosaics made from these once-disparate chips, put together in a way that is both artful and loving.

So now, the history of our house has been burnished once again. And how great that an organization like Piece by Piece was able to create this by tapping into an underutilized and underappreciated resource.

Thank you—to the organization and the beautifully creative men and women who fashioned our new tables.

—Bill Ritter and Kathleen Friery